Compass Tech Summit 2023
2023-10-05..2023-10-06
Budapest, Hungary
as the organisers put it
Compass is built around what actually matters when you want to create real products. No buzzwords, no shortcuts just the people, knowledge and formats that help you build better. Here’s what you can expect...
who it's for
product managers, data engineers, analytics engineers, engineering managers, machine learning engineers, design leads, ux researchers
topics
analytics engineering with dbt; event sequence analytics; AutoML with H2O; modern data warehouse cost optimization; feature store and definitions; MLOps culture and tooling; trustworthy generative AI products; next best action recommendation systems; engineering velocity and OKRs; designing for trust and reliability; remote product management rituals; metrics platform and observability
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Proficiency + Creativity = Happy Data Practitioners | Caitlin Moorman | 41m |
Argues that data teams must hold proficiency and creativity in balance and gives concrete practices: adopt analytics-engineering standards like testing and… | ||
| Designing for Trust | Adam Tillner-Smith | 35m |
Walks through concrete fixes: reliability wins over low price, shown by a suspended international payment that delays a launch by a week and adds shipping… | ||
| Do You Have A Strategy That No One Uses? | Adam Thomas | 41m |
Claims 90% of strategies fail and teams hit objectives ~48% of the time; use Rumelt’s strategy kernel: diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent action to anchor a… | ||
| The Key To High-Performing Teams Based On Trust | Benjamin Taylor | 39m |
Claims that organizational performance tracks a balance of four dynamics — segment, blend, empower, harmonize — and offers concrete diagnostics and fixes… | ||
| Next Best Action: Maximizing Customer Value | Sergei Bulaev | 40m |
Claims a pipeline of lookalike/response/uplift classification models plus hybrid recommendation and ranking reduces manual campaign work and speeds time to… | ||
| Teams That Propel People Forward | Aviv Ben-Yosef | 44m |
Argues teams can triple impact per engineer by changing coaching, handoffs and permission to experiment; gives concrete wins — one product org ships 3–4x… | ||
| How to Connect the Dots from Inputs to Outcomes | Esther Trapadoux | 43m |
Built a vendor‑led product community for Amplitude users and nonusers, launched seven months ago on a dedicated space, focused on practitioners who share… | ||
| Auto ML | Zoltán Bálint Biczó | 39m |
Claims that AutoML speeds prototyping, demonstrated by using H2O AutoML to build a distortion estimator for industrial metal 3D printing, producing a working… | ||
| Unleashing the Power of Analytics Engineering | Kelly Burdine | 38m |
Analytics engineering converts a messy modern data stack into reliable, decision-ready reporting: missing/incorrect data largely disappear, refresh cadence… | ||
| How Users Improvise Tomorrow's Experiences ... | Mustafa Kurtuldu | 41m |
Shows concrete cases where users repurpose features and that becomes product direction: Gmail drafts becoming Gmail drafts as cloud storage, founder discovery… | ||
| Perspectives on Effective Product Development Culture | Jason C. Yip | 43m |
Background includes 14 years at ThoughtWorks and eight years at Spotify and the claim is that effective product culture rests on three core beliefs — We're In… | ||
| Introduction to Sequence Analytics | Sean J. Taylor | 44m |
Argues that event logs should be a native data model rather than pre-aggregated tables, and demonstrates concrete tooling: state machines to classify users… | ||
| Impactful Product Leadership | Anjali D Leon, Nadezhda Belousova | 45m |
Presents a concrete model of six stances for product leadership (Visionary, Strategist, Systems Thinker, Value Navigator, Customer Advocate, Storyteller) and… | ||
| The Power of Saying ‘No’ | Benaz Irani | 38m |
A personal roadmap for stopping burnout: prioritize weekly with the Eisenhower Matrix, block Focus Time on the calendar, and practice the micro-script let me… | ||
| Motherduck: Data Analytics in the Post Big-Data Era | Jordan Tigani | 51m |
Claim: Big data is dead — most queries touch <1GB and recent data, so design shifts from massive scale-out clusters to local-first analytics. Demonstrations… | ||
| The Four Tenets of Remote Product Management | Viktor Nagy | 34m |
Four practical rules for remote product teams backed by examples from GitLab: require company scheduling that favours other time zones so Europeans can catch… | ||
| 3 Steps to Create Trustworthy Generative AI Products | Sohini Roychowdhury | 43m |
Three concrete stages for finance chatbots: a Prototype that enforces intent classification, data chunking and custom prompts plus a patent-pending quality… | ||
| Standing Up for the Unmeasurable in The Design Process | Tobias Bjerrome Ahlin | 48m |
Argues that blindly optimizing measurable metrics causes harm, citing Stockholm ambulance data showing 1.44% higher mortality under private performance targets… | ||
| Set Your Teams Up for Improved and Enduring Velocity | Tyler Miller | 59m |
Prescribes an explicit percent of engineering capacity for maintenance work (author uses an 80/20 capacity split), then aligns the entire org into two product… | ||
| Building Responsible AI in the Age of GPT | Susannah Shattuck | 38m |
Claims that responsible AI requires integrating six risk tenants into every development stage and that early checks save cost compared with late retraining… | ||
| The Translation Gap | Zsófia Hajnik | 39m |
Company builds a simulated cell technology that runs billions of in silico simulations to predict which patients respond to which drugs, producing terabytes of… | ||
| The Tools Empowering 5000 Employees | Jean-Mathieu Saponaro | 40m |
Built a self-serve stack that scales from 200 to 5,000 employees: automated connectors and a bring-your-own-data intake UI, ELT on Airbyte into the warehouse… | ||
| 7 Ways to Save Your Sanity and Stop Burning Your Toast | Glenn Anderson | 46m |
Seven practical tactics promise to cut burnout: create white space via strategic pauses and insert a white space wedge between meetings or impulses; spot four… | ||
| The Culture, Architecture and Technology of MLOps | Bas Geerdink | 45m |
Argues that putting models into production is mostly culture and process not magic, equating MLOps to DevOps plus machine learning and insisting teams share… | ||
| Design at the Speed of the News | Chen Wu, Jay Guillermo | 49m |
The New York Times redesigns the homepage to handle volume and speed: ~180+ articles publish daily but only ~80 slots show, so a modular Spotlight 2.0 system… | ||
| Design for Cognitive Bias | David Dylan Thomas | 41m |
Design choices change behavior: anonymizing resumes (Philadelphia prints and redacts, plus a Chrome plugin whose code is on GitHub) cuts gender/race signals… | ||
| Do the Magic with All-Remote Data Teams... | Radovan Bacovic | 40m |
All-remote GitLab Data runs on GitLab itself and balances cost with speed: 600+ people across 65+ countries, 30M users, monthly releases on the first Thursday… | ||
| AI Introduction in the Light of Organizational ... | Gergely Szertics | 01h 00m |
Presents a practical organizational AI maturity model with six stages and eight dimensions, claims companies typically sit in one stage (example: a client with… | ||
| Engineering Velocity at Ramp | Samay Shamdasani | 30m |
Ramp claims it ships new finance products rapidly—five major product areas in 4.5 years—and cites concrete practices: small single‑threaded pods, embedding… | ||
| How to Relate OKRs to Your Technical Real-Estate | Marijn Huizendveld | 43m |
Claims that linking Objectives & Key Results to a visual Wardley map surfaces the technical constraints blocking goals and shifts work from output to outcome… | ||
| Design for Government | Christian Bason | 56m |
Design work claims designers can change government outcomes by combining user interviews and audio playback with co‑creation, prototyping and policymaker… | ||
| Empowering Individuals with Transforming Performance Reviews | Kadri Pirn | 42m |
Describes a concrete overhaul: performance reviews become a rhythm of self-reflection questionnaire then manager reflection, with peer feedback and team… | ||
| Unlocking the Power of Futures: Designing for the Unknown | Alicia Shao | 38m |
Argues that future literacy is a learnable skill and shows three practical tools: storytelling to surface emotions and four scenario quadrants, speculative… | ||
| Killer Context: How AI Will Impact Security & Business | Daniel Miessler | 38m |
Claim: AI is the largest tech impact yet because it replaces human intelligence not just manual tasks. Proposes SPQA (State, Policy, Questions, Actions) as the… | ||
| Building a Modern Data Warehouse Without Breaking the Bank | Marek Suppa | 39m |
Company builds a usable data warehouse on $500/month, replacing Sunday manual extracts and spreadsheet reports with an Athena + S3 catalog, Airflow… | ||
| 10 Problems Airbnb Solved By Building A Metrics Platform | Philip Weiss | 40m |
Minerva is a metrics platform built to make Airbnb’s analytics single source of truth by turning raw events into owned measure and dimension sources, enforcing… | ||
| Beyond Estimates | Allen Holub | 45m |
Argues that upfront estimates create waste, slow feedback and false predictability, and urges frequent delivery and experiments instead of reestimating… | ||
| Wild West's End | George Tilesch, Levente Szabados | 53m |
Argues that Responsible AI shifts from Wild West to enforceable practice with concrete measures: EU‑style AI auditors and pre‑market audits, mandated incident… | ||
| Product Oops: Common mistakes in Product Operations | Antonia Landi | 39m |
Explains five repeatable mistakes and concrete fixes: assuming Ops will happen without assignment, copying one process across divergent teams (the eucalyptus… | ||
| Truly Informed UX Using Actionable Insight | Veronica Naguib | 42m |
A global study of 1,000 research buyers and practitioners across nine markets finds only 15% actionable insights overall and 12% for experience teams, with 75%… | ||
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