Data Engineering Open Forum
- Organizer
- Data Engineer Things (DET), with Netflix data engineers (inaugural edition hosted by Netflix)
- Category
- Vendor & industry
- Website
- dataengineeringopenforum.com
- Social
- —
- Typical place
- Los Gatos, United States
- Topics
- Data engineeringStreamingWarehouse & lakehouseGenerative AI
Free one-day data engineering conference in the SF Bay Area. Inaugural edition April 2024 at Netflix's Los Gatos office (Netflix Tech Blog recap credits Netflix organizers Chris Colburn, Xinran Waibel, Jai Balani, Rashmi Shamprasad, Patricia Ho); 2025 again at Netflix Los Gatos; 2026 moved to San Francisco with sponsors; 2027 announced for South San Francisco. The official site credits Data Engineer Things (DET), a data-engineering community, as organizer for all editions. Category 'vendor' follows the batch default for company-/community-run events. No dedicated social accounts found.
At a glance
- Next event
- Apr 20, 2027South San Francisco, United States
- Call for papers
- No public call found
- Audience
- 500 attendees2026
- Tickets
- Not published
- Sponsorship
- Packages not published
- Sponsors
- 14 in 2026No list the year before
- Program freshness
- 92#80 of 127 · 6% reruns
- Similar conferences
- Iceberg Summit, Data Streaming Summit, OpenXData
Speakers it attracts
The 53 people who spoke at Data Engineering Open Forum in 2024–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.
Most established speakers
- Julien Le Dem · DatadogKeynoted 4 other conferences, spoke at 11: Iceberg Summit, Subsurface, The Dive…
- Ryan Blue · DatabricksKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 12: Iceberg Summit, Data + AI Summit, AWS re:Invent…
- Dipankar Mazumdar · OnehouseSpoke at 10 other conferences: AWS re:Invent, Current (formerly Kafka Summit), Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)…
- Jules Damji · DatabricksSpoke at 8 other conferences: PyData, Data + AI Summit, QCon…
- Vikram Kokakeynote here · AstronomerKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: Airflow Summit, Data + AI Summit
- Bonnie Xu · OpenAISpoke at 4 other conferences: QCon, Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon), Data Streaming Summit…
- Jack Ye · LanceDBSpoke at 4 other conferences: PyData, Data + AI Summit, AWS re:Invent…
- Andreas Neumann · DatabricksSpoke at 3 other conferences: Data + AI Summit, Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon), Airflow Summit
- Binwei Yang · IBMSpoke at 3 other conferences: Data Innovation Summit, VeloxCon, OpenXData
- Harel Shein · DatadogSpoke at 3 other conferences: AWS re:Invent, Data Council, Airflow Summit
- Jerry Peng · DatabricksSpoke at 3 other conferences: Data + AI Summit, QCon, Data Streaming Summit
- Volker Janz · AstronomerSpoke at 3 other conferences: Snowflake Summit, Airflow Summit, DataWorks Summit
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Complete list
- No sponsor list
2 of 3 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 2027 | Data Engineering Open Forum 2027 | South San Francisco, United States | Announced | — | — | — |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Data Engineering Open Forum 2026 | San Francisco, United States | 500 | 14 | 25 | |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Data Engineering Open Forum 2025 | Los Gatos, United States | — | — | 21 | |
| Apr 18, 2024 | Data Engineering Open Forum 2024 | Los Gatos, United States | — | — | 9 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 1 of 4 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- Iceberg Summit0.22
- Data Streaming Summit0.18
- OpenXData0.18
- Cassandra Summit0.17
- Current0.15
Sponsors over the years
Top 14 of 14 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Other / unspecified
Sources
- https://www.dataengineeringopenforum.com/
- https://www.dataengineeringopenforum.com/past/2024
- https://www.dataengineeringopenforum.com/past/2025
- https://www.dataengineeringopenforum.com/past/2026
- https://noise.getoto.net/2024/06/20/a-recap-of-the-data-engineering-open-forum-at-netflix/
- https://luma.com/deof2026