Open Lakehouse + AI Meetup - Wednesday, October 7, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT | Bellevue, WA

​We're bringing together the open source and data engineering community for an evening focused on the latest in open lakehouse and AI architectures! 🚀 Whether you work on data infrastructure, contribute to open source, or want to dive into the future of AI and interoperable lakehouse systems, you’ll fit right in.

​Don't miss this opportunity to accelerate your data journey and contribute to shaping the future of data and AI! ​🌟

• ​5:00 - 6:00 PM: Registration / Mingling

• ​6:00 - 6:05 PM: Welcome Remarks / Housekeeping

• ​6:10 - 6:40 PM: Session #1 - Modern Analytics at GPU Speed: Accelerating Spark, Delta Lake, Iceberg, and Spark Connect - Felix Cheung, NVIDIA

• ​6:45 - 7:15 PM: Session #2 - A Unified Future for Delta and Apache Iceberg - Micah Kornfield, Databricks

• ​7:20 - 8:00 PM: Panel Discussion - Connecting the Open Lakehouse and AI Ecosystem

  • ​Panelists: Luke Kim (Spice AI), Shawn Chang (AWS), Haoyan Geng (Databricks)

• ​8:00 - 9:00 PM: Networking / Light Bites