A live media platform for the people building AI.
Original reporting, live shows, in-person events, and the broadcasts we stream from them. That's Data Phoenix today, for AI and data practitioners.
I started Data Phoenix as a weekly digest of AI and data news and articles. It grew into a media outlet with its own events. Now it's a live platform: shows, broadcasts, and in-person events.
There are a lot of newsletters and outlets now, and most stop at the news. We came from there and kept going, into technical substance. Tech Talks, running now, goes under the hood: architectures, use cases, best practices, and lessons learned. Demo Stage, coming in October 2026, is new products and real workflows, run by the person who built them. You walk away ready to use what you just saw. Research Talks, launching at the end of 2026, gets paper authors to explain their own work, something usually reserved for conferences.
This is for engineers who want depth, not headlines, and for builders who'd rather show their tool than pitch it.
This is a community-driven platform, and it works best built together. If you want in, get in touch.
- Dmytro Spodarets, Founder & Editor-in-Chief
A community built on substance.
- 80,000+AI & data professionals
- 100+Events organized
- 3Live shows
- 30+Streams from events in the San Francisco Bay Area
More than a decade of steadily building one thing.
GeeksLab, Odesa
Under GeeksLab, Dmytro Spodarets grew Ukraine's AI and data community and ran some of the country's largest AI and data conferences.
DataScience Digest
DataScience Digest carried that community into writing, covering AI and data science research and practice.
Data Phoenix founded
Dmytro founded Data Phoenix as a continuation of DataScience Digest, and the first issue of the upgraded digest went out on July 1, 2021.
Move to the Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area became Dmytro's home next.
Data Phoenix Events begin
Data Phoenix Events began as webinars and in-person events in the San Francisco Bay Area. Speakers included Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, AWS, HPE, Qdrant, UC Berkeley, Spotify, CodeRabbit, and others.
Press coverage begins
Dmytro began covering the industry as press at conferences and expos in the Bay Area and beyond, including TechCrunch Disrupt, CES, the PyTorch Conference, Ray Summit, and the AI Infra Summit, recording interviews along the way. Data Phoenix also stepped up support for local AI communities across San Francisco.
AIC media production
At AIC, the AI Collective, Dmytro became head of media production, recording video and running streams there. That work gave rise to Data Phoenix's own streaming and video production.
A new platform
Data Phoenix is launching the new version of the site and the platform on September 18, 2026. Tech Talks is live now, Demo Stage arrives in October 2026, and Research Talks follows at the end of 2026, alongside 80,000+ AI & data professionals and 200+ practitioners on the speaker roster.
Three principles, applied to everything.
- Practitioner-first
Every talk, every article, every demo is for the people who write the code and run the systems. If a piece won't change how someone ships, it doesn't run.
- Earned, not bought
Speakers are picked on technical merit. Sponsors fund the production but don't get stage time. Coverage is editorial, not sponsored.
- Earnest, not cynical
We cover the field with the assumption that the people building it are doing serious work. Snark and hot-takes don't live here.
A small team, AI agents, and a community.
Data Phoenix is founded and run by Dmytro Spodarets, with 75 AI agents and community contributors. The team stays small on purpose. The agents and the community are how it covers this much ground anyway.
Ways to get involved
- Come on a show
As an engineer on Tech Talks, a tool maker on Demo Stage, or a paper author on Research Talks.
- Write for us
Technical articles and analysis for the site.
- Help run events
In the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Submit an event
To the AI & Data Events Calendar.
- Suggest a speaker, a tool, or a paper
Worth covering on the platform.
- Send a correction
When we get something wrong.
Want to build something with us?
Show sponsorship, co-produced webinars, in-person events, or your own branded show. Six formats to reach 80,000+ AI professionals.
One platform. Live shows. 80,000+ practitioners.