Charlotte Data & AI is a free, vendor-neutral user group for anyone in the Charlotte area who works with data — engineering, analytics, platform, governance, data science, and the AI work built on top of all of it. Beginners are welcome, and that is deliberate: a room where nobody asks a basic question has stopped teaching anyone anything.
This is a restart. Charlotte has had data user groups before, and each ended the same way — one organizer, one sponsor, one venue, then nothing. We are rebuilding with a bench of organizers so no single person going quiet can stop it.
Three commitments, in writing: no vendor's name in ours, and sponsors rotate; your details are never sold or handed to sponsors, who get audience numbers, never people; and it is free to attend, always.
Our first meetings are online. In-person nights follow, rotating around the metro.
We want to hear from anyone who works with data or AI, on any topic, in any stack. There is no house technology here: a talk about Postgres internals, a Databricks pipeline, a spreadsheet that quietly runs half a business, data governance, a model you shipped, or one you decided not to ship are all equally welcome. What we ask is that you teach something real — what you built, what broke, and what you would do differently. First-time speakers are especially encouraged; our early meetings are online, so you can present from wherever you are, and a well-told story about one hard problem beats a survey of everything. Talks are about ideas and experience rather than products: sponsors have their own slot, and a pitch dressed as a session is not one. Everyone who speaks agrees to our Code of Conduct at clt-data.org/code-of-conduct.
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