2026 sessions

2026 Speakers

Lisa Cao
Getting Your Agents to Write (Good) Pipelines on Apache Spark

Lisa Cao

Staff Developer Relations
Databricks
David Morrison
10 Useful Dashboards You Can’t Make With Grafana

David Morrison

Research Scientist, Founder
Applied Computing Research Labs
Wei-Chin Call
Who Watches the Watcher: Benchmarking AI Agents That Debug Your Dashboards

Wei-Chin Call

Staff Emerging Products Manager
Grafana Labs
Jun Ding
Who Watches the Watcher: Benchmarking AI Agents That Debug Your Dashboards

Jun Ding

Staff Emerging Products Manager
Grafana Labs
Matthew Topol
ADBC in Production: From Zero-Copy promise to Reality

Matthew Topol

Co-Founder
Columnar, ASF Member
Brandon Wilcox
Gaming Analytics for the Agentic Era

Brandon Wilcox

Director of Engineering
Gamebeast
Alex Merced
The Open Agentic Lakehouse: Building an Open Data and AI Ecosystem

Alex Merced

Head of Developer Relations
Dremio
Patrick McFadin
Paying Rent on Your Own Data

Patrick McFadin

Founder and Principal Advisor
McFadin Data and AI Advisory
Aditi Pandit
Presto C++ Engine in 2026

Aditi Pandit

Principal Engineer
IBM
Felicitas Pojtinger
Legacy-Free, Zero-Maintenance RISC-V Kubernetes Clusters With Immutable Linux and ClickHouse

Felicitas Pojtinger

Head of Research and Development
Loophole Labs
Jason (Jay) Smith
Serverless Eventing: Simplifying Message Delivery

Jason (Jay) Smith

Cloud Alchemist
Google
Heather Meeker
Whose Code Is It Anyway? (Panel discussion)

Heather Meeker

Co-Founder
Chinstrap Community
Roman Shaposhnik
Whose Code Is It Anyway? (Panel discussion)

Roman Shaposhnik

CTO
AIFoundry.org
Perla Gámez
Your Observability Stack Is Messing Up Your Agents

Perla Gámez

Founder & CEO
Foam
Your Observability Stack Is Messing Up Your Agents

Co-Founder & COO
Foam
Robert Hodges
How AI Is Changing Database Architecture: It's Not What You Think

Robert Hodges

CEO
Altinity
Max Beauchemin
From Data Modeling to Agent Modeling

Max Beauchemin

Founder & CEO
Preset
Siddharth Arun
What Breaks When Open Source Data Platforms Become Agent Infrastructure?

Siddharth Arun

Senior Software Engineer
Salesforce
Clay Smith
The Biggest Dataset Nobody Modeled: Building an Open Semantic Layer for Telemetry with DuckDB and DataFusion

Clay Smith

Member of Technical Staff
Tero
Benjamin Wagner
Presenter

Benjamin Wagner

CEO
Firebolt

Watch this space for sessions after the event in November.

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