Data Mesh Live 2027 - Call for Proposals -

Call for Proposals

Submit your session

Conference (May 31 - June 1)

Submission deadline: January 16, 2027. For workshops, the deadline is November 30, 2026

Are you applying Data Mesh principles within your data organisation? Have an idea or thesis you want to share with other data leaders and practitioners? Then submit to our Call for Papers for Data Mesh Live. DML attracts senior data leaders, data product managers and architects designing and building modern data and AI systems. We are interested in talks and hands-on labs that reveal practical tips and tactics for managing data in large complex environments.

Data Mesh draws on thinking from various fields, so we welcome talks and sessions that challenge a curious and smart audience.

Please submit one of the following:

  • A talk (25 minutes or 50 minutes)
  • A hands-on lab (2 hours)
  • A 1 or 2 day post-conference workshop

An inexhaustive list of topics for inspiration:

  • Data as a Product
  • AI readiness
  • Data Contracts
  • Federated data systems and governance
  • Data Mesh vs. other data management approaches
  • Case studies, experience reports, and post-mortems of Data Mesh projects
  • Systems Thinking, complexity theory
  • Strategy, organisation, bridging technology and business together
  • Visualisation and collaboration techniques
  • Distributed systems
  • Ideas which challenge Data Mesh.

Spoken language

All sessions are in English.

Submission Process

  • Send us as many proposals as you’d like.
  • Even before the deadline, we might start accepting proposals, so being early helps.
  • We might ask you to have a short conference call with us. Sometimes we like to ask for clarifications or suggest changes to the contents or the format. If we contact you for such a call, it is not a guarantee that your proposal will be accepted.
  • We’ll notify you at the latest 60 days after the submission deadline whether your idea is accepted or not. We'll ask for a final confirmation before announcing you.
  • Even after you've been accepted, we'd like to help you make the most of your presentation or workshop. That's why we offer presentation support. We'll put you in touch with other speakers to help you develop your material, be your sounding board, and give you feedback. We might also ask you to do the same for others. We've found that even for experienced speakers, a bit of back and forth can greatly improve the presentation or workshop.

We'll pay for travel, accommodation, and professional child care, as well as access to the conference. If you have other requirements, please let us know.

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