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What is Data4?

Data4 Conference exists to bring the Tampa Bay data community together to connect, collaborate and learn. We’re breaking the barriers between industries and creating a space where data professionals can network, share ideas, and discuss solutions to problems we all face.

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This Isn’t Your Average Tech Conference

Who Attends

Data professionals, startup founders, industry leaders, & investors in and around Tampa Bay.

Tampa, FL | Embarc Collective

February 26, 2025

You won’t be sitting down all day listening to speaker after speaker. Discussions won’t be focused on only one industry.

Data4 was designed to create a fun and friendly environment for all data professionals, no matter the industry, to meet and grow through shared contributions, interests, and mutual discovery.
You’ll hear from data thought leaders, make connections across the tech ecosystem, and expand your network.

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Featured Speakers

Julianne Jochym

Senior Director, Strategy and Analytics - Orlando City SC

Julianne Jochym

Senior Director, Strategy and Analytics - Orlando City SC

Tanya Cashorali

Founder & CEO - TCB Analytics

Tanya Cashorali

Founder & CEO - TCB Analytics

Alex Merced

Senior Tech Evangelist - Dremio

Alex Merced

Senior Tech Evangelist - Dremio

Alex Merced is a senior technical evangelist at Dremio with experience as a developer and instructor. His professional journey includes roles at GenEd Systems, Crossfield Digital, CampusGuard, and General Assembly. He co-authored "Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide" published by O'Reilly and has spoken at notable events such as Data Day Texas and Data Council. Alex is passionate about technology, sharing his expertise through blogs, videos, podcasts like Datanation and Web Dev 101, and contributions to the JavaScript and Python communities with libraries like SencilloDB and CoquitoJS.

John Licato

Founder & CEO - Actualization.ai

John Licato

Founder & CEO - Actualization.ai

PhD Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, USF Director, Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning Lab

John Licato is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at USF, Director of the USF Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning (AMHR) Lab, and founder of startup Actualization AI. He designed and teaches the natural language processing course (the field that created ChatGPT) at USF, and his lab’s mission is to not only make AI smarter, but to use those advances to make people reason better as well. His research expertise lies in AI, NLP, human reasoning, cognitive modeling, and legal/regulatory reasoning.

Jared Lander

CEO - Lander Analytics

Jared Lander

CEO - Lander Analytics

Jim Smith

Former Acquisition Executive for the United States Special Operations Command

Jim Smith

Former Acquisition Executive for the United States Special Operations Command

Mr. Jim Smith, former Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command, managed support for global operations and has over 30 years of government acquisition experience. Committed to strengthening the industrial base and technology sector for national defense, he served as an infantry officer before transitioning to Army acquisition, where he led the development, procurement, and fielding of state-of-the-art technologies. After 27 years as an Army officer, he served 10 more years as a Senior Executive in Special Operations Command.

Pradnya Chavan

VP of Data Science - Chase

Pradnya Chavan

VP of Data Science - Chase

Tim Toohill

CTO & Co-Founder - Certus Core

Tim Toohill

CTO & Co-Founder - Certus Core

Casey Johnson

VP of Business Development - Certus Core

Casey Johnson

VP of Business Development - Certus Core

Casey Johnson is the VP of Business Development at Certus Core. He is a 20 year veteran of the Navy, with experience across Special Operations and Navy intelligence, linguistics and cryptology. He has led sales and client success teams across a multitude of startups, in various stages, to include Palantir, Dataminr & Govini. He served as Digital Services Expert at Defense Digital Service (DDS), directly supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) where he assisted and led programs in the technical transformation of the Department of Defense.

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The Team Behind Data4

Certus Core is a Tampa based software company founded in 2021 by veterans Jake Dyal, Tim Toohill, and Joe Blankenship. On a mission to improve the way people and machines interact with data, Certus Core develops and builds knowledge systems that solve impactful human problems. Their flagship software, sKG, cuts through noise, integrates data, measures value and enables action - quickly.

Passionate about bringing the tech and data community together, the team is excited to launch Data4 Conference - a gathering of technologists, innovators, creatives, and developers to share ideas, discuss challenges, and expand their networks.

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