Speakers — Northbound Data Summit 2026

Helena Brandt

Head of Data Platform, Tidewater

Helena Brandt runs the data platform group at Tidewater and has rebuilt the same warehouse three times, each time for better reasons.

1 session

Oscar Lindqvist

Analytics Engineer, Merrow

Oscar Lindqvist is an analytics engineer at Merrow focused on semantic layers and the politics of metric definitions.

2 sessions

Julia Moreau

Principal Engineer, Ardent Systems

Julia Moreau is a principal engineer working on streaming ingestion and exactly-once semantics that survive contact with reality.

1 session

Lena Ortiz

Principal Engineer, Northwind Labs

Lena Ortiz is a Principal Engineer at Northwind Labs. She argues, loudly and with data, that internal platforms should be run as products with real users and real churn metrics.

1 session

Peter Osei

Director of Analytics, Brightline

Peter Osei directs analytics at Brightline and has strong, well-evidenced opinions about dashboard sprawl.

2 sessions

Nadia Rahman

Staff Software Engineer, Hexboard

Nadia Rahman is a Staff Software Engineer at Hexboard, where she owns the monorepo tooling used by four thousand engineers. She previously built observability pipelines at a paymen…

Nadia Rahman is a Staff Software Engineer at Hexboard, where she owns the monorepo tooling used by four thousand engineers. She previously built observability pipelines at a payments company.

1 session

Fatima Zahra

Staff Data Engineer, Kestrel Health

Fatima Zahra builds regulated-data pipelines at Kestrel Health, where "just backfill it" is never an option.

1 session