Apache Iceberg™ Meetup Bay Area

Apache Iceberg™ Meetup Bay Area! 🧊❄️ Join the Iceberg community on Monday, November 2nd at Google's Sunnyvale office for an evening of Apache Iceberg talks, co-hosted by Google, VeloDB, and Datastrato. Connect with fellow enthusiasts, share insights, and dive into the latest developments in the Apache Iceberg™ ecosystem. Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to Apache Iceberg, this meetup is the perfect place to exchange ideas and spark innovation. Agenda 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM: Doors open, networking, and food 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM: Welcome remarks and presentations 7:15 PM - 8:00 PM: More networking The event will focus on use cases around and innovations in Apache Iceberg (https://iceberg.apache.org/). Call for presentations Want to speak? Submit a talk through our CFP: https://forms.gle/CgPVtpR93XMxVjrX8 Talks are 30 minutes plus Q&A and should be vendor-neutral: real use cases, lessons from production, and new work in the Iceberg ecosystem (catalogs, engines, interoperability, tooling). The CFP closes Monday, October 19th at 11:59 PM PT. The speaker lineup will be posted here as talks are confirmed. Getting there Building entrance, parking, and check-in details will be posted here closer to the event. Please have a valid, government-issued ID ready at the front desk. About Google Cloud Google Cloud is committed to an open Data Cloud built on open source, open standards, and open formats like Apache Iceberg. BigQuery and BigLake give data teams an AI-ready lakehouse on Iceberg: BigLake tables for Apache Iceberg on Cloud Storage, BigLake Metastore with an Iceberg REST catalog, and Iceberg tables that are as easy to query as native BigQuery tables, whichever platform created them. 📚 Read about Google Cloud's commitment to Apache Iceberg 🖥️ Get started with BigQuery About VeloDB VeloDB is a commercial data warehouse powered by Apache Doris, an open-source real-time analytics database. Founded in May 2023 by original contributors to Apache Doris, VeloDB provides enterprise-grade real-time analytics products and solutions to global customers. The team is composed of 70% R&D personnel and is led by long-time contributors to the Apache Doris project, including engineers with deep expertise in database systems and cloud computing. 📚 Learn more about Apache Doris 🖥️ More at velodb.io About Datastrato Datastrato is the original creator of Apache Gravitino, the open-source metadata lake that federates the catalogs you already run, including Iceberg tables through its Iceberg REST Catalog, under one namespace with shared access control and lineage. Datastrato also hosts the Data for AI meetup series in the Bay Area. 📚 Learn more about Apache Gravitino 💬 Join the Gravitino community on Discord 📲 Follow Datastrato on LinkedIn 🖥️ Explore demos and talks on Datastrato's YouTube channel 🌐 More at datastrato.ai