Conferences / Cassandra Summit
Cassandra Summit 2023
Dec 12–13, 2023 · McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA, United States
- Conference
- Cassandra Summit Database
- Dates
- Dec 12, 2023 – Dec 13, 2023
- Venue
- McEnery Convention Center
- Place
- San Jose, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 744LF post-event report for the combined AI.dev + Cassandra Summit: 744 attendees, 367 organizations, 138 talks; 31.3% said they primarily attended for Cassandra Summit (68.7% AI.dev).
- Website
- events.linuxfoundation.org
- Recorded
- 29 sponsors · 98 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Revived by the Linux Foundation with the Apache Cassandra PMC (first Cassandra Summit since DataStax's 2016 edition). Originally announced for March 13-14, 2023 in San Jose, then postponed to December and co-located with AI.dev (one registration covered both); DataStax ran the online 'Cassandra Forward' in March instead. Pre-event AxonOps training workshop on Dec 11. Speakers: all Cassandra Summit track sessions plus all joint keynotes (keynotes were shared with AI.dev, so several are AI-focused). Sponsor list is the joint AI.dev/Cassandra Summit sponsor wall. Recordings: LF YouTube playlist PLbzoR-pLrL6rgDn-2Yo-d5liFEnuCCi85; slides on the sched pages. Hobbyist tickets were also 199 USD.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-person (early bird) | $499 | Nov 21, 2023 | Includes AI.dev | web.archive.org |
| In-person (standard) | $649 | Dec 7, 2023 | web.archive.org | |
| In-person (late) | $799 | Dec 13, 2023 | web.archive.org | |
| Academic | $199 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 29
Title / headline 2
- Amazon Web Services · Diamond
- DataStax · Diamond
Platinum 2
Community 14
- Apache Software Foundation · Community Partners
- Blacks In Technology · Community Partners
- Girl Develop It · Community Partners
- It's FOSS · Community Partners
- kube.events · Community Partners
- Latinas in Tech · Community Partners
- LWN.net · Community Partners
- OASIS Open · Community Partners
- Open Source Initiative · Community Partners
- prpl Foundation · Community Partners
- TFiR · Community Partners
- The New Stack · Community Partners
- TLDR · Community Partners
- Women Who Code · Community Partners
Speakers and talks 98
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ankit Patel | NVIDIA | Keynote | Build Accelerated LLM Applications with Open Source Tools from NVIDIA | — |
| Anthony J. Annunziata | IBM | Keynote | The Open Source AI Alliance | — |
| Brian Granger | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | Accelerating AI/ML Development with Open Source Software | — |
| Charles Srisuwananukorn | Together AI | Keynote | Scaling Open Source Large Language Models | — |
| Chet Kapoor | DataStax | Keynote | Data = AI: Leading the Future of Gen AI with Apache Cassandra | — |
| Chip Huyen | Claypot AI | Keynote | Learnings from Studying 800 Generative AI Open Source Repos | — |
| Ekaterina Dimitrova | DataStax | Keynote | Introducing Apache Cassandra® 5! | — |
| Eve Phillips | Keynote | What's New in AI | — | |
| Gourab De | Weights & Biases | Keynote | Enterprise Value with Generative AI | — |
| Jeff Boudier | Hugging Face | Keynote | Building AI with Open Source and Hugging Face | — |
| Jerry Liu | LlamaIndex | Keynote | Unlocking Corporate Data with Retrieval-Augmented Generation | — |
| Jim Zemlin | The Linux Foundation | Keynote | State of Open GenAI | — |
| Jorge Castro | Cloud Native Computing Foundation | Keynote | Enabling AI with Cloud Native | — |
| Patrick McFadin | DataStax | Keynote | Introducing Apache Cassandra® 5! | — |
| Robert Nishihara | Anyscale | Keynote | How LLMs Have Changed the Way Organizations Do AI | — |
| Scott Andreas | Apple | Keynote | Introducing Apache Cassandra® 5! | — |
| Sharon Zhou | Lamini | Keynote | Teaching LLMs New Knowledge | — |
| Victor Dibia | Microsoft | Keynote | Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation | — |
| Aaron Morton | DataStax | Talk | Fast and Flexible JSON Retrieval in Cassandra Using SAI | — |
| Aaron Ploetz | DataStax | Talk | Guerilla Tactics for Building Scalable E-Commerce Services with Apache Cassandra, Apache Pulsar, and Vector Search | — |
| Aaron Ploetz | DataStax | Talk | Complex Event Processing Made Easy with Cassandra and Quine Streaming Graph | — |
| Alan Ho | DataStax | Talk | Leveraging Cassandra to Provide Generative AI That Powers Enterprise Analytics | — |
| Alex Berkoff | Azul | Sponsored talk | Cassandra on Steroids | — |
| Alex Petrov | Apple | Talk | Importance of Transactional Metadata (Or How We’re Improving Upon Gossip) | — |
| Allison Nokes | Anant Corporation | Talk | Designing Modern Data Platforms with Apache Cassandra and Beyond | — |
| Andrew Weaver | Walmart | Talk | Embracing Multi-Cloud Cassandra at Walmart | — |
| Arun Gupta | Intel | Sponsored talk | Intel and Open Source: Bringing AI Everywhere | — |
| Bassam Chahine | NetApp | Sponsored talk | AI-Powered Semantic Search with Cassandra: Today and Tomorrow | — |
| Branimir Lambov | DataStax | Talk | Memtable Pluggability and Alternate Memtables (CEP-11 and CEP-19) | — |
| Bret McGuire | DataStax | Talk | Enhancing Apache Cassandra Drivers with Vector Support | — |
| Chandi Datta | Verizon | Talk | The What and Why of Cassandra Datamodelling at Scale | — |
| Charles D. Herring | WitFoo | Talk | Building a Global CyberGrid on Cassandra | — |
| Cheng Wang | Netflix | Talk | Improving Bad Partition Handling in Apache Cassandra | — |
| Christian Mauduit | Datadog | Talk | Operating Cassandra in Kubernetes with Temporal | — |
| Colleen Velo | SmartThings | Talk | SmartThings First 8 Years with Cassandra | — |
| David Paulk | Datadog | Talk | Observability and Debuggability in Cassandra | — |
| Denson Pokta | Intuit | Talk | Scale Your Application to Infinity | — |
| Dinesh A. Joshi | Apple | Talk | Apache Cassandra Analytics: A Recipe to Move Petabytes of Data | — |
| Ekta Sachan | Amazon Web Services | Talk | Unleash the Power of Apache Cassandra: Scalable Recommendation Systems, Real-time Fraud Detection | — |
| Ethan Bell | thatDot | Talk | Complex Event Processing Made Easy with Cassandra and Quine Streaming Graph | — |
| Francisco Guerrero Hernandez | Apple | Talk | Apache Cassandra Sidecar: The Companion for Use Cases in Cassandra | — |
| Gopal Mor | Uber | Talk | How Uber Uses Cassandra to Power Core Applications at Scale? | — |
| Hayato Shimizu | AxonOps | Talk | Scraping Your Cassandra Metrics - the Right Way, and the Dirty Way | — |
| Hayato Shimizu | AxonOps | Sponsored talk | Cassandra One-Stop Operations with AxonOps | — |
| Himanshu Jindal | Amazon Web Services | Talk | Unleash the Power of Apache Cassandra: Scalable Recommendation Systems, Real-time Fraud Detection | — |
| Isaac Reath | Bloomberg | Talk | Deciphering Cassandra’s Prophecy: Preventing the Fall of Your Application | — |
| Jake Luciani | DataStax | Talk | Bringing Apache Cassandra Closer to Kubernetes | — |
| Jakub Żytka | DataStax | Talk | Testing in Production – Mirroring CQL Traffic to a Shadow Cassandra Deployment | — |
| Jaydeepkumar Chovatia | Uber | Talk | How Uber Uses Cassandra to Power Core Applications at Scale? | — |
| Jeff Beck | SmartThings | Talk | SmartThings First 8 Years with Cassandra | — |
| Jeffrey Carpenter | DataStax | Talk | Making Cassandra Easier for AI Developers | — |
| Jeremy Hanna | DataStax | Talk | Migrating Applications Between Cassandra Clusters with No Downtime | — |
| Jiong Liu | Wiz | Talk | Securing Multi-Cluster Cassandra and GenAI Deployments | — |
| Johnny Miller | AxonOps | Sponsored talk | Cassandra One-Stop Operations with AxonOps | — |
| Jon Haddad | Rustyrazorblade Consulting | Talk | Cassandra Performance Tuning Like You've Been Doing It for Ten Years | — |
| Jonathan Shook | DataStax | Talk | Introduction to NoSQLBench | — |
| Jordan West | Netflix | Talk | Improving Bad Partition Handling in Apache Cassandra | — |
| Joseph Lynch | Netflix | Talk | How Netflix Delivers Key-Value and Time-Series Storage at Any Scale | — |
| Joshua A McKenzie | Apple | Talk | The State of the Cassandra Development Community | — |
| Karin Wolok | Project Elevate | Talk | Building a ChatGPT Data Pipeline with RisingWave Stream Processor and Cassandra Vector Search | — |
| Kirsten Hunter | DataStax | Talk | Enabling Advanced AI Queries with Apache Cassandra and Amazon Bedrock | — |
| Lindsey Zurovchak | Bloomberg | Talk | Deciphering Cassandra’s Prophecy: Preventing the Fall of Your Application | — |
| Lorina Poland | DataStax | Talk | Compaction for All! Unified Compaction Strategy in Cassandra 5.0 (CEP-26) | — |
| Mary Grygleski | DataStax | Talk | Building a ChatGPT Data Pipeline with RisingWave Stream Processor and Cassandra Vector Search | — |
| Michael Semb Wever | Apache Software Foundation | Talk | Popular Apache Cassandra Problems and How to Fix 'Em | — |
| Murilo Miranda | NetApp | Sponsored talk | AI-Powered Semantic Search with Cassandra: Today and Tomorrow | — |
| Nathan Jackels | OpenAI | Talk | 70 TB Servers – How and Why We Use Cassandra | — |
| Neha Maheshwari | Amazon Web Services | Talk | Database Native Support for CDC Streaming Pipeline | — |
| Nikolai Kolesnikov | Amazon Web Services | Talk | Anti-Patterns with Apache Cassandra | — |
| Patrick Lee | Walmart | Talk | Embracing Multi-Cloud Cassandra at Walmart | — |
| Patrick McFadin | DataStax | Sponsored talk | Building a Production Open Source RAG Application using LlamaIndex and Cassandra | — |
| Patrick McFadin | DataStax | Talk | Cassandra on ACID: This Changes Everything | — |
| Philip Moore | Voltron Data | Talk | OLAP on Your Cassandra Data with Arrow, Flight SQL, ADBC, and DuckDB | — |
| Piotr Kołaczkowski | DataStax | Talk | Testing in Production – Mirroring CQL Traffic to a Shadow Cassandra Deployment | — |
| Piotr Kołaczkowski | DataStax | Talk | Storage Attached Indexes for Cassandra (CEP-7) | — |
| Praveen Kuruvadi | Amazon Web Services | Talk | Anti-Patterns with Apache Cassandra | — |
| Praveen Viswanath | Alpha Ori Technologies | Talk | Navigating Green Waters: A Journey with Cassandra | — |
| Pushkala Pattabhiraman | DataStax | Talk | Operatoration Testing of Cluster | — |
| Rahul Singh | Anant Corporation | Talk | Designing Modern Data Platforms with Apache Cassandra and Beyond | — |
| Rashmi Krishnaiah Setty | Amazon Web Services | Sponsored talk | How is Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) Architected to Deliver Performance at Any Scale? | — |
| Robert Czupiol | MeWe - The Next-Gen Social Network | Talk | How Cassandra 4.X Help in Cutting Cost Mission | — |
| Rohan Gupta | Amazon Web Services | Sponsored talk | How is Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) Architected to Deliver Performance at Any Scale? | — |
| Saranya Krishnakumar | Apple | Talk | Apache Cassandra Sidecar: The Companion for Use Cases in Cassandra | — |
| Scott Andreas | Apple | Talk | Apache Cassandra: What’s New and What’s Next | — |
| Serban Teodorescu | Adobe | Talk | Stories of Cassandra in Adobe Audience Manager | — |
| Seshu Guddanti | U.S. Bank | Talk | Migrating Workloads from Mainframes to Cassandra - Problems, Experience and Learnings | — |
| Shylaja Kokoori | Intel | Talk | Memtable Pluggability and Alternate Memtables (CEP-11 and CEP-19) | — |
| Stefan Gusa | Adobe | Talk | Stories of Cassandra in Adobe Audience Manager | — |
| Stefano Lottini | DataStax | Talk | Bring Cassandra to the GenAI Crowd: Meet the Low-Friction CassIO Library | — |
| Steven Seidman | Datadog | Talk | Operating Cassandra in Kubernetes with Temporal | — |
| Sunil Dabre | Verizon | Talk | The What and Why of Cassandra Datamodelling at Scale | — |
| Timothy Tran | Alpha Ori Technologies | Talk | Navigating Green Waters: A Journey with Cassandra | — |
| Venkat Mopuri | U.S. Bank | Talk | Migrating Workloads from Mainframes to Cassandra - Problems, Experience and Learnings | — |
| Vidhya Arvind | Netflix | Talk | How Netflix Delivers Key-Value and Time-Series Storage at Any Scale | — |
| Vinit Gupta | Amazon Web Services | Talk | Database Native Support for CDC Streaming Pipeline | — |
| Wei Deng | DataStax | Talk | Migrating Applications Between Cassandra Clusters with No Downtime | — |
| Yi Ding | LlamaIndex | Sponsored talk | Building a Production Open Source RAG Application using LlamaIndex and Cassandra | — |
| Yuki Morishita | DataStax | Talk | OpenTelemetry and Apache Cassandra | — |
Sources
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/sponsor/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20231201001227/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/register/
- https://aidevcass23.sched.com/
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/aidev-cassandra-23-event-report
- https://cassandra.apache.org/_/blog/Cassandra-Summit-Returns-in-2023.html
- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/cassandra-summit-returns-in-2023
- https://cassandra.apache.org/_/events.html