Conferences / Apache DataFusion Meetup
Boston Apache DataFusion Meetup (VLDB, September 2026)
Sep 3, 2026 · Datadog Boston Office, 225 Franklin St, 24th floor, Boston, MA, United States
- Conference
- Apache DataFusion Meetup Database
- Dates
- Sep 3, 2026
- Venue
- Datadog Boston Office, 225 Franklin St, 24th floor
- Place
- Boston, MA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Luma showed 131 registered guests.
- Website
- luma.com
- Recorded
- 0 sponsors · 7 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Timed to coincide with VLDB 2026 in Boston; organized by Pratibha Rana and Nga Tran (Datadog) with Andrew Lamb, at Datadog's Boston office (venue host). Speakers, titles, slides and recordings from the discussion recap. Andrew Lamb was on the Luma line-up but is not in the recap.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free registration | $0 | — | Luma 'Standard' ticket, free | luma.com |
Sponsors 0
No sponsors recorded
Speakers and talks 7
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Gutglick | Spiral | Speaker | Integrating Vortex and its type system into DataFusion | SlidesVideo |
| Albert Lockett | F5 | Speaker | Using DataFusion in the otel-arrow project | SlidesVideo |
| Clinton Robinson | Parable | Speaker | A data lake as a pure function of schema | SlidesVideo |
| Jacopo Tagliabue | Bauplan | Speaker | "DataFusion makes (query) plans, AI laughs": experiments in LLM-based query optimization | SlidesVideo |
| Nga Tran | Datadog | Speaker | Welcome and Apache DataFusion Intro | SlidesVideo |
| Nga Tran | Datadog | Speaker | Scaling Queries with Distributed DataFusion | SlidesVideo |
| Nuno Faria | INESC TEC | Speaker | Improving point queries in DataFusion | SlidesVideo |