Conferences
Action at Tableau Conference 2026 | Full Coverage
Welcome to Action’s coverage of TC26, May 4-7, 2026.
Actionauts Keith Helfrich and Jonathan Drummey will be in San Diego next week, joining thousands of others from across the data and analytics world for one of the industry’s longest-running, most influential gatherings.
Even for people not attending, Tableau Conference still creates a moment where the entire data world pauses, looks around, and recalibrates. The conversations that happen there, both on-stage and off, in-person and remotely, ripple outward for months afterward.
Here’s what we’re seeing and why it matters…
What to Look For at Tableau Conference 2026
Last year’s pre-conference episode of The Sensemakers unexpectedly became one of our biggest TC moments, pulling in more than 11,000 views and sparking conversations online and on the conference floor.
Keith Helfrich, Jonathan Drummey, Robert Rouse, and Stephen Price wrestle with what may be the biggest question facing Tableau right now: can it evolve into an AI-ready platform, or are agents and code-native tools pulling the industry somewhere else?
This fascinating, far-ranging conversation covers AI agents, governance, ontology, APIs, dashboards, metadata, and the growing “augment vs. replace” tension happening inside analytics teams everywhere. It’s part strategy discussion, part future-casting session, and part live processing of an industry that suddenly feels very different than it did even a year ago.
Data+Women Pre-Game TC26
Action is proud to be a sponsor of The Moxy Foundation’s Data+Women Pre-Game TC26 on Monday, May 4, at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Center, 7pm – 9pm.
“The Data+Women Pre-Game is a joyful, community-led, annual tradition that kicks off Tableau Conference with heart. Over 200 data professionals gather to (re)connect and celebrate the women shaping the future of data. It’s an evening for laughter, inspiration, and treasured face-to-face moments. It’s joyful. It’s affirming. And it matters”
