Data Mishaps Night

Data Mishaps Night 2025

The 5th Annual Data Mishaps Night (DaMN) is happening IRL at Club Hex at Snowflake Summit—still hosted by Caitlin Hudon and Laura Ellis!

This will be a cathartic evening of lessons learned the hard way. No recordings, just your stories about what went wrong, how it happened, and what you learned.

Got a story? Submit your story before May 7 for a chance to be a DaMN speaker

Want to watch live? You don’t need a submission to be part of the fun. Register to attend.

Press

Data Mishaps Night Co-Organizers, Caitlin Hudon and Laura Ellis were interviewed by Builtin.com about the benefits of sharing your mistakes and learnings with a community. Read the article here.

Randy Au, who spoke at the event in 2021, featured the event in his Counting Stuff newsletter. You can read it here.

Twitter Testimonials

Really cathartic #DataMishapsNight for me!! A bunch of fun stories (when told years later..), valuable lessons and cherry-picked memes.

Thank you @LittleMissData, @beeonaposy, and all the brave speakers 🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/iNlw7zSMsL
— Matteo Larrode · Data Analytics (@matteoStats) February 24, 2023

Attending #datamishapsnight is cathartic – there's something powerful in people sharing their data mishaps and mistakes, and in knowing that we are all in this together 🥲
— Grishma Jena (@DebateLover) February 24, 2023

"Don't let someone else's vanity become your scoreboard" 🔥 quote from @bennstancil kicking off #datamishapsnight , one of my favorite community data events of the year
— Maura C (@outoftheverse) February 24, 2023

Big shout out to anyone who managed a public facing COVID dashboard #datamishapsnight pic.twitter.com/2YTQG1VhEv
— Richard Bamattre – @bamattre.bsky.social (@rbamattre) February 24, 2023