Rows & Columns Summit
At a glance
- Next event
- Not announcedLast: Sep 22, 2026
- Call for papers
- No public call found
- Audience
- 400 expected2026 · organizer estimate
- Tickets
- Free1 price, 2026
- Sponsorship
- Packages not published
- Sponsors
- 12 in 2026No list the year before
- Program freshness
- Not enough talk titles
- Similar conferences
- Current, Data Streaming Summit, OSA CON
- Organizer
- ClickHouse (independent three-person board: Elizabeth Christensen, Shane Glass, Zoe Steinkamp)
- Category
- Vendor & industry
- Website
- rowsandcolumnssummit.com
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Typical place
- San Francisco, United States
- Topics
- Warehouse & lakehouseData engineeringStreaming
Free, single-track, practitioner-focused one-day summit on OLTP/OLAP convergence (hybrid architectures, open table formats, CDC). Site says it is 'organized by a small independent board of three ... Backed by ClickHouse, with an independent program committee and blind CFP review'; Luma event presented by ClickHouse Events, contact email is @clickhouse.com. Categorized as vendor because ClickHouse backs and hosts it. No conference-specific social accounts found; social links are ClickHouse's (as linked from the Luma page). First edition appears to be 2026 (CFP opened 2026-07-01); no earlier edition or 2027 edition found. Also spelled 'Rows and Columns summit' (Sessionize).
Speakers it attracts
The 16 people who spoke at Rows & Columns Summit in 2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.
Most established speakers
- Hannes Mühleisen · DuckDB LabsKeynoted 6 other conferences, spoke at 16: PyData, Coalesce, Forward Data Conference…
- Russell Spitzer · SnowflakeKeynoted 3 other conferences, spoke at 11: Coalesce, Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon), Iceberg Summit…
- Nikita Shamgunov · DatabricksKeynoted 3 other conferences, spoke at 7: Data + AI Summit, Strata Data Conference, Data Council…
- Andy Pavlokeynote here · ClickHouseKeynoted 3 other conferences, spoke at 5: Percona Live, OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference), PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)…
- Fatma Ozcankeynote here · GoogleKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: VLDB (International Conference on Very Large Data Bases), CIDR (Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research)
- Yury Izrailevsky · ClickHouseKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: Data Council, Open House by ClickHouse (ClickHouse User Conference)
- Bonnie Xu · OpenAISpoke at 4 other conferences: QCon, Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon), Data Streaming Summit…
- Ian Cook · ColumnarSpoke at 4 other conferences: Data + AI Summit, posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf), The Data Thread…
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Partial or unverified list
1 of 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2026 | Rows & Columns Summit 2026 | San Francisco, United States | 400 | 12 | 16 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 1 of 1 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
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Sponsors over the years
Top 12 of 12 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Other / unspecified