Sydney Data Engineering Meetup — Make Your AI Scream 🎤
Join us for a low-key evening at Talk Shop — the bar at Caption by Hyatt Central Sydney in Haymarket — with Jean-Georges "jgp" Perrin, chair of the Linux Foundation's Bitol project and one of the most well-travelled voices in the data world.
The talk: Make Your AI Scream — Use Data Contracts and Data Products
Your AI is screaming. Right now. You're feeding it cryptic columns, no ownership, no quality rules — and somehow expecting it not to hallucinate. In this 20-minute session, jgp explores why AI consistently fails without proper context, and how two open standards governed by the Linux Foundation — the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) and the Open Data Product Standard (ODPS) — can turn that scream of horror into a scream of joy.
A live demo will show the difference in real time: same AI, same question, radically better answer.
You'll leave with concrete steps you can start on Monday morning — and possibly a new soft spot for YAML.
According to BARC (2026), teams using data contracts are 3.4× more likely to get their AI projects into production.
About jgp
Jean-Georges Perrin is a data engineering legend who's spoken at over 190 international conferences. As chair of the Linux Foundation's Bitol project, he leads global standards work on ODCS and ODPS. He's authored books on data mesh, Apache Spark, and architecture modernisation (O'Reilly, Manning), is currently writing Building Data Products (O'Reilly), and blogs at jgp.ai. Currently at Actian, and a Lifetime IBM Champion.
Programme
6:00 PM — Doors open, drinks & chat 6:30 PM — Talk: Make Your AI Scream (20 min + Q&A) 7:00 PM — Open networking 8:00 PM — Wrap up
Venue
Talk Shop Bar — Caption by Hyatt Central Sydney 1/13 Parker Street, Haymarket, Sydney NSW 2000 Part café, part bar, part community hub — exactly the right vibe for a practitioner evening.