| Ruth Suehle | Cloudera | Keynote | Building Resilience: The Next Decade of Open Source | Video |
| Alessandro Benedetti | Sease | Talk | Apache Solr 10: What's Coming up for Vector Search | SlidesVideo |
| Alessio Vertemati | — | Talk | Ultraviolet: Turn Hidden Document Data into an AI Advantage | SlidesVideo |
| Álvaro Rodríguez | StreamNative | Talk | Dynamic Broker-Side Filtering for Kafka | SlidesVideo |
| Amine GANI | Adelean | Talk | Beyond Grep: Search for Reliable Coding Agents | SlidesVideo |
| André Charton | Kleinanzeigen | Talk | From Legacy Search to Vespa: What a Real PoC Taught Us | SlidesVideo |
| Andrey Abramov | SereneDB | Talk | C++ Search for Database Kernels: Built In, Not Bolted On | SlidesVideo |
| Ankit Jain | Amazon Web Services | Talk | From Inverted Index to Columnar Vectorized Execution Search | — |
| Anna Ruggero | Sease | Talk | Apache Solr 10: What's Coming up for Vector Search | SlidesVideo |
| Apurva Misra | Sentick | Talk | How to Tell If Your Agent Used the Right Stuff | SlidesVideo |
| Atita Arora | — | Panelist | AI is here – time to throw away our search engines? | Video |
| Bartosz Mikulski | Start.io | Talk | The Failures That Don't Crash: MLOps for AI Agents | SlidesVideo |
| Busayo Ojo | — | Talk | Mentoring In Open Source in the Age of AI | SlidesVideo |
| Carles Onielfa | Progress | Talk | How to Survive the Vortex of LLM Change | SlidesVideo |
| Carles Onielfa | Progress | Talk | Towards Chunk-less RAG | SlidesVideo |
| Carlos Rolo | NetApp | Talk | OpenSearch Software Foundation: 1 Year of Open Governance | Video |
| Carmen Iniesta | Progress | Talk | How to Survive the Vortex of LLM Change | SlidesVideo |
| Celeste Horgan | Snowflake | Talk | Writes, 3 ways: Postgres, Apache Kafka® and Apache Iceberg™ | Video |
| Charlie Hull | The Search Juggler | Panelist | AI is here – time to throw away our search engines? | Video |
| Danica Fine | Snowflake | Panelist | The Agent Era: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Data Platforms | Video |
| Danica Fine | Snowflake | Talk | Herding Cat(alogue)s: The Apache Iceberg™ Catalog Landscape | Video |
| Daniel Seybold | benchANT | Talk | From OLTP to OLAP: Is PostgreSQL Eating Analytics Too? | SlidesVideo |
| David Kjerrumgaard | StreamNative | Talk | Dynamic Broker-Side Filtering for Kafka | SlidesVideo |
| David Louis Hollembaek | Veeva Systems | Talk | Search is Back: Solving the "Context Crisis" for AI Agents | SlidesVideo |
| Diana Todea | VictoriaMetrics | Talk | Observability’s Sixth Sense: Detecting Anomalies in Metrics | SlidesVideo |
| Dmitriy Kostunin | DESY | Talk | AI in the physical world: from observation to discovery | SlidesVideo |
| Dmitry Kan | Aiven | Panelist | AI is here – time to throw away our search engines? | Video |
| Emilie Ma | University of Washington | Talk | Correctness Too Cheap To Meter: Formal Verification and LLMs | SlidesVideo |
| Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya | Qdrant | Panelist | AI is here – time to throw away our search engines? | Video |
| Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya | Qdrant | Talk | Relevance Feedback Inside the Search Engine | Video |
| Filip Makraduli | Superlinked | Talk | One GPU, Four Retrieval Modes: Multi-Model Search Serving | Video |
| Frank Munz | Databricks | Talk | Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines in Action | SlidesVideo |
| Geetha Anne | Cloudera | Talk | How Apache Iceberg Enables Multi-Engine Data Platforms | Video |
| Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek | Xata | Talk | What you should know about constraints in PostgreSQL 18 | SlidesVideo |
| Hajer Bouafif | Amazon Web Services | Talk | Personalize Search Results with OpenSearch Agentic Memory | Video |
| Haralampos Gavriilidis | Technische Universität Berlin | Talk | Why Choose One: Multi-Engine Analytics with Apache Wayang | SlidesVideo |
| Hartmut Armbruster | — | Talk | What If We've Been Scaling Stream Processing Wrong All Along | Video |
| Hugo Jimenez | RavenPack | Talk | Text-to-Struct: Fine-tuning SLMs for Query Intent | SlidesVideo |
| Ilaria Petreti | Sease | Talk | Apache Solr 10: What's Coming up for Vector Search | SlidesVideo |
| Jan Lehnardt | Apache CouchDB, Neighbourhoodie Software | Talk | 10x CouchDB Performance Gains for a AAA Game Launch | Video |
| Jarek Potiuk | — | Talk | Empowering OSS maintainers in the age of AI | Video |
| Jason Gerlowski | — | Talk | OSS Security: Lessons from 10+ Years at Apache Solr | Video |
| Jo Kristian Bergum | Hornet.dev | Panelist | AI is here – time to throw away our search engines? | Video |
| Jo Kristian Bergum | Hornet.dev | Talk | Agentic Retrieval: Building Self-Optimizing Search Systems | SlidesVideo |
| Joao Gilberto Magalhaes | — | Talk | GitOps for n8n: Treating Workflows as Code | SlidesVideo |
| Johannes Kolbe | TEQYARD GmbH | Talk | Escaping the Cloud: High-Performance AI in your Browser | SlidesVideo |
| Julian von Hoerschelmann-Schliwinski | DESY | Talk | AI in the physical world: from observation to discovery | SlidesVideo |
| Julien Nioche | DigitalPebble | Talk | SPRUCE it up! Open Source GreenOps at scale | SlidesVideo |
| Kris Freedain | OpenSearch | Talk | OpenSearch Software Foundation: 1 Year of Open Governance | Video |
| Leo Visser | OGD ICT-Diensten | Talk | No 0-day required, just target the AI coding assistant! | SlidesVideo |
| Lester Solbakken | Hornet.dev | Talk | When better retrieval makes agents worse | Video |
| Marcel Dokters | NOZ Digital | Talk | Building a Local News RAG: The Quest for Trustworthiness | SlidesVideo |
| Matthias Niehoff | codecentric | Talk | DuckDB beyond the notebook | SlidesVideo |
| Monica Sarbu | Xata | Panelist | The Agent Era: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Data Platforms | Video |
| Naci Simsek | Ververica | Talk | Beyond the Hype: When Apache Flink Solves Real Problems | SlidesVideo |
| Neelesh Salian | — | Talk | Floe: Policy-Based Table Maintenance for Apache Iceberg | SlidesVideo |
| Nick Burch | Saible | Talk | Barcamp | — |
| Olena Kutsenko | Confluent | Talk | Keeping data private in real-time pipelines | Video |
| Paul Berschick | Plain Schwarz | Talk | Opening Session | — |
| Paul Berschick | Plain Schwarz | Talk | Closing Session | — |
| Philipp Krenn | Elastic | Panelist | The Agent Era: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Data Platforms | Video |
| Pietro Mele | Adelean | Talk | Reviving phonetic algorithms for better search relevance | SlidesVideo |
| Piotr Kobziakowski | Vespa.ai | Talk | Tensor arithmetics in search and ranking for Ecommerce. | Video |
| Priscilla Lola Adenuga | — | Talk | Low-Resource Languages as Stress Tests for NLP Data | Video |
| Radu Gheorghe | Vespa.ai | Talk | Circular Dependency Fixes when Bootstrapping a Golden Set | Video |
| Radu Pop | Adelean | Talk | Reviving phonetic algorithms for better search relevance | SlidesVideo |
| Rafael Aguiar | Goldsky | Talk | Streamling: Lightweight, Extensible Streaming on DataFusion | SlidesVideo |
| Rafał Kuć | Authologic | Talk | Circular Dependency Fixes when Bootstrapping a Golden Set | Video |
| Rahul Goswami | Commvault | Talk | Zero downtime index upgrade in Apache Solr | Video |
| Ralph Matthias Debusmann | Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund | Talk | Kafi Streams: Complex Stream Processing Made Simple | SlidesVideo |
| Ravindra Harige | Searchplex | Talk | The Three-Body Problem of Inverse Hybrid Search | Video |
| Rishav Sagar | Amazon India | Talk | Context-Aware Segments: Solving the "Scatter-Read" Problem | SlidesVideo |
| Roman Kolesnev | Streambased | Talk | Turning the database inside out again | SlidesVideo |
| Roudy Khoury | Adelean | Talk | Beyond Grep: Search for Reliable Coding Agents | SlidesVideo |
| Sandra Bullón | RavenPack | Talk | Text-to-Struct: Fine-tuning SLMs for Query Intent | SlidesVideo |
| Shailesh Kumar Singh | Amazon Web Services | Talk | Constant-Time Aggregations with Star-Tree in OpenSearch | Video |
| Stas Don | eBay | Talk | Detecting Hidden Bias in Datasets Before Models Fail | SlidesVideo |
| Stefano Fiorucci | deepset | Talk | Let LLMs Wander: Engineering RL Environments | SlidesVideo |
| Steffen Hoellinger | Confluent | Talk | Event-driven Agents with Complex Event Processing in Flink | Video |
| Tejas Shah | Amazon Web Services | Talk | Context-Aware Segments: Solving the "Scatter-Read" Problem | SlidesVideo |
| Tilda Udufo | — | Talk | Mentoring In Open Source in the Age of AI | SlidesVideo |
| Till Döhmen | MotherDuck | Panelist | The Agent Era: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Data Platforms | Video |
| Tom Scott | Streambased | Talk | Turning the database inside out again | SlidesVideo |
| Uwe Schindler | PANGAEA, MARUM, University of Bremen | Talk | Scientific Data Under Threat in Today’s America | SlidesVideo |
| Valeriia Platonova | Kleinanzeigen | Talk | From Legacy Search to Vespa: What a Real PoC Taught Us | SlidesVideo |
| Varant Zanoyan | Zipline AI | Talk | Real-Time ML Pipelines: Feature Chaining with Chronon | Video |
| Vincent Pistor | Cognee | Talk | Search is Back: Solving the "Context Crisis" for AI Agents | SlidesVideo |
| William Benton | NVIDIA | Talk | Sunset for the Wild West: Making ML disciplined by default | SlidesVideo |
| Xiao Meng | Goldsky | Talk | Streamling: Lightweight, Extensible Streaming on DataFusion | SlidesVideo |
| Zoi Kaoudi | IT University of Copenhagen | Talk | Why Choose One: Multi-Engine Analytics with Apache Wayang | SlidesVideo |