Conferences / Iceberg Summit
Iceberg Summit 2025
Apr 8–9, 2025 · Hyatt Regency San Francisco Downtown SOMA, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- Iceberg Summit Database
- Dates
- Apr 8, 2025 – Apr 9, 2025
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco Downtown SOMA
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No official figure found. A third-party listing claims 'nearly 500 attendees' (unverified, not recorded).
- Website
- icebergsummit2025.com
- Recorded
- 23 sponsors · 85 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Second Iceberg Summit and first in-person one: day 1 (Apr 8) in person at the Hyatt Regency SF Downtown SOMA, day 2 (Apr 9) global virtual. ASF-sanctioned, overseen by the Iceberg PMC; press release names AWS, Dremio, Microsoft and Snowflake as organizers/sponsors; registration/logistics contact events@dremio.com; registration on Bizzabo (event 700468, now unpublished). Speakers: from the 62 recordings in the Apache Iceberg YouTube playlist 'Iceberg Summit April 2025 Sessions' (speaker names/companies taken from video descriptions); the live agenda (Bizzabo widget) was not archived, so unrecorded sessions and panelists of the two panels (headliner-sponsor panel with AWS, Cloudera, Databricks, Dremio, Microsoft, Snowflake reps; community panel) are missing. Sponsor tiers from the archived home page (logos only, identified from file names and Bizzabo partner list): headliner, gold, entry.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-person (early bird) | $200 | Mar 1, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Virtual | $0 | — | Virtual attendance free (day 2 livestream) | web.archive.org |
| In-person (standard) | $400 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 23
Title / headline 6
- Amazon Web Services · Headliner
- Cloudera · Headliner
- Databricks · Headliner
- Dremio · Headliner
- Microsoft · Headliner
- Snowflake · Headliner
Bronze 6
- e6data · Entry
- Eventual · Entry
- PuppyGraph · Entry
- RisingWave · Entry
- Telmai · Entry
- Wherobots · Entry
Speakers and talks 85
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Blue | Databricks | Keynote | v3 and Beyond: Iceberg's Ongoing Evolution | Video |
| Aihua Xu | Snowflake | Speaker | Unlocking the Power of the Variant Data Type in Apache Iceberg™ | Video |
| Ajantha Bhat U | Dremio | Speaker | Supercharging Apache Iceberg: Strategies for Harnessing Partition Stats | Video |
| Akshat Mathur | Cloudera | Speaker | Hive Tables to Apache Iceberg: A Step-by-Step Migration Blueprint | Video |
| Andrew Fisher | TRM Labs | Speaker | From Zero to One: Building a Petabyte-Scale Data Analytics Platform with Apache Iceberg™ | Video |
| Anitha Matta | Autodesk | Speaker | Implementing Iceberg for Improved Data Management at Autodesk | Video |
| Ankit Singh | Affirm | Speaker | Running Apache Iceberg for Financial Workloads at Affirm | Video |
| Anton Okolnychyi | Databricks | Speaker | Understanding Deletion Vectors in Apache Iceberg | Video |
| Anurag Mantripragada | Apple | Speaker | Learnings from Running Large-scale Apache Iceberg™ Table Management Service | Video |
| Ashvin Agrawal | Microsoft | Speaker | Turbocharge Queries on Iceberg with Next-Gen File Formats | Video |
| Bhavesh Jaisinghani | Autodesk | Speaker | Implementing Iceberg for Improved Data Management at Autodesk | Video |
| Brenna Buuck | MinIO | Speaker | The Case for On-Prem Iceberg: Cost, Control, and Performance | Video |
| Caius Brindescu | Etleap | Speaker | Every Second Counts: Scaling Real-Time Data Ingestion into Apache Iceberg™ for Optimized Analytics | Video |
| Chad Lagore | Affirm | Speaker | Running Apache Iceberg for Financial Workloads at Affirm | Video |
| ChanChan Mao | Eventual | Speaker | Building S3Tables Support In Daft | Video |
| Chao Sun | RedNote | Speaker | Leveraging Iceberg for AI/BI Workloads at RedNote | Video |
| Charles Giardina | Airbyte | Speaker | Navigating the AI & Data Lakehouse Revolution: What’s Changing and What’s Not | Video |
| Christian Thiel | Vakamo | Speaker | Securing Apache Iceberg Tables across Engines with Open Standards | Video |
| Ciro Greco | Bauplan | Speaker | Miracle on Ice(berg): How we Moved Europe’s Largest Broadcaster to Python-on-Iceberg in Days | Video |
| Drew Gallardo | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Multi-Table Multi-Statement Transaction with Apache Iceberg | Video |
| Edgar Rodriguez | Airbnb | Speaker | Airbnb Icehouse: The Journey to Iceberg | Video |
| Eric Hwang | Starburst | Speaker | Unleashing the Power of Iceberg Ingestion: 100GB/s and Beyond | Video |
| Fenil Doshi | Slack | Speaker | Adopting Apache Iceberg at Slack: Challenges, Lessons, and Best Practices | Video |
| Fokko Driesprong | Databricks | Speaker | PyIceberg: Past, Present and the Future | Video |
| Gaurav Saxena | — | Speaker | Build an Enterprise-Grade Real-Time Data Lakehouse Using Ursa and Apache Iceberg | Video |
| Gaurav Sharma | DoorDash | Speaker | Iceberg with Flink at DoorDash | Video |
| Heng Zhang | Speaker | Apache Iceberg as Unified Storage Stack to Power Batch and Stream Processing at Pinterest | Video | |
| Huaxin Gao | Apple | Speaker | Accelerating Spark with Iceberg and DataFusion Comet: Challenges, Performance Insights, and Roadmap | Video |
| Irshad Kandy | ByteDance | Speaker | Optimising Model Training and Data Management | Video |
| Isaac Warren | Bodo.ai | Speaker | Iceberg I/O Optimizations in Compute Engines | Video |
| Jack Ye | — | Speaker | Multi-Table Multi-Statement Transaction with Apache Iceberg | Video |
| Jacopo Tagliabue | Bauplan | Speaker | Miracle on Ice(berg): How we Moved Europe’s Largest Broadcaster to Python-on-Iceberg in Days | Video |
| JB Onofré | Dremio | Moderator | The Future of Apache Iceberg™: A Community Member Panel Discussion | Video |
| Jerry Shao | Gravitino | Speaker | Scaling Iceberg Adoption at Pinterest with Gravitino | Video |
| Jesus Camacho Rodriguez | Microsoft | Speaker | Optimizing Iceberg Table Layouts at Scale: A Multi-Objective Approach | Video |
| Jia Yu | Wherobots | Speaker | Iceberg Geo Type: Transforming Geospatial Data Management at Scale | Video |
| Jinsong Zhou | Tencent | Speaker | Building a Batch-Stream-Unified Lakehouse on Apache Iceberg in Tencent Cloud | Video |
| Julien Le Dem | Datadog | Speaker | The Advent of the Open Data Lake | Video |
| Kanchi Masalia | Speaker | Apache Iceberg as Unified Storage Stack to Power Batch and Stream Processing at Pinterest | Video | |
| Karthic Rao | e6data | Speaker | Decoupling Metadata: Leveraging Queryable Iceberg Tables for Scalable, Cross-Engine Innovation | Video |
| Karuppayya Rajendran | Apple | Speaker | Learnings from Running Large-scale Apache Iceberg™ Table Management Service | Video |
| Kevin Liu | — | Moderator | Shaping the Future of Apache Iceberg: A Panel on Industry Involvement and Open Source Commitment | Video |
| Lawrence Weikum | Slack | Speaker | Adopting Apache Iceberg at Slack: Challenges, Lessons, and Best Practices | Video |
| Levani Kokhreidze | Wise | Speaker | Supercharging Wise’s Data Lake with Apache Iceberg | Video |
| Manish Malhotra | Apple | Speaker | Apache Iceberg: Powering Open Data Lakehouse at Scale | Video |
| Marc Cenac | Datadog | Speaker | Pups on Ice: Lessons Learned Adopting Iceberg at Datadog | Video |
| Matt Topol | Voltron Data | Speaker | Gophers Continuing Up the Iceberg | Video |
| Matthew Schumpert | Redpanda | Speaker | The Streamhouse: A Fully-managed Streaming Data Lake in the Iceberg Lakehouse Ecosystem | Video |
| Na Li | Apple | Speaker | Iceberg Resilience: Building a DR Strategy for the Data Lake | Video |
| Nikita Pestrov | Zello | Speaker | Eliminating Redundancies in ETL With Iceberg Tables on Snowflake | Video |
| Onder Kalacı | Crunchy Data | Speaker | Postgres Meets Iceberg: Bridging Transactions and Analytics | Video |
| Parth Chandra | Apple | Speaker | Accelerating Spark with Iceberg and DataFusion Comet: Challenges, Performance Insights, and Roadmap | Video |
| Pavan Edara | Speaker | Bringing the Power of Google’s Infrastructure to your Apache Iceberg Lakehouse with BigQuery | Video | |
| Pawel Leszczynski | Astronomer | Speaker | Operationalizing Iceberg Metrics with OpenLineage | Video |
| Peter Toth | Snowflake | Speaker | Change Data Capture (CDC) Implementations on Apache Iceberg™ and Where are we Headed | Video |
| Piyush Agarwal | Redpanda | Speaker | The Streamhouse: A Fully-managed Streaming Data Lake in the Iceberg Lakehouse Ecosystem | Video |
| Praveen Sadhu | Apple | Speaker | Iceberg Resilience: Building a DR Strategy for the Data Lake | Video |
| Pucheng Yang | Speaker | Scaling Iceberg Adoption at Pinterest with Gravitino | Video | |
| R. Conner Howell | Eventual | Speaker | Building S3Tables Support In Daft | Video |
| Rajesh Vayyala | PRA Group, Inc | Speaker | Best Practices for Schema Evolution in Apache Iceberg: Making Your Data Future-Proof | Video |
| Remus Lazar | IBM | Speaker | Driving OS Contributions for Faster Innovation with Apache Iceberg at IBM | Video |
| Roy Hasson | Qlik | Speaker | Deep Dive into Iceberg Optimizations and Best Practices for a Scalable and Performant Lakehouse | Video |
| Rushil Shah | Bloomberg | Speaker | Building Bloomberg’s First Incremental Alternative Data Product | Video |
| Russell Spitzer | Snowflake | Speaker | Transactions and Isolation in Apache Iceberg™ | Video |
| Scott Donnelly | Balyasny Asset Management | Speaker | Bringing Apache Iceberg to Low-Latency Workloads: Rapid Queries Through Iceberg-Rust with Cheetah | Video |
| Sida Shen | CelerData | Speaker | Customer-Facing Analytics Without Data Governance Nightmare | Video |
| Sijie Guo | StreamNative | Speaker | Build an Enterprise-Grade Real-Time Data Lakehouse Using Ursa and Apache Iceberg | Video |
| Simon Rosenberger | Taktile | Speaker | Scalable Lakehouse Architecture with Iceberg & Polaris: A Battle-tested Playbook | Video |
| Srinivas Lade | Bodo.ai | Speaker | Iceberg I/O Optimizations in Compute Engines | Video |
| Srinivas Rishindra Pothireddi | Cloudera | Speaker | Hive Tables to Apache Iceberg: A Step-by-Step Migration Blueprint | Video |
| Stephen Horn | Illumina | Speaker | Transforming Manufacturing Data: Illumina's Journey with Apache Iceberg | Video |
| Sumedh Sakdeo | Speaker | Optimizing Iceberg Table Layouts at Scale: A Multi-Objective Approach | Video | |
| Szehon Ho | Databricks | Speaker | Iceberg Geo Type: Transforming Geospatial Data Management at Scale | Video |
| Tasuku Okuda | LY Corporation | Speaker | Real World Case Studies and Challenges of Apache Iceberg™ at LY Corporation | Video |
| Tristan Culp | DoorDash | Speaker | Iceberg with Flink at DoorDash | Video |
| Tucker Harvey | Speaker | Apache Iceberg as Unified Storage Stack to Power Batch and Stream Processing at Pinterest | Video | |
| Vijay Shekhawat | TRM Labs | Speaker | From Zero to One: Building a Petabyte-Scale Data Analytics Platform with Apache Iceberg™ | Video |
| Viktor Gamov | Confluent | Speaker | One Does Not Simply Query a Stream | Video |
| Vinitha Gankidi | Apple | Speaker | Apache Iceberg: Powering Open Data Lakehouse at Scale | Video |
| Weston Pace | LanceDB | Speaker | Turbocharge Queries on Iceberg with Next-Gen File Formats | Video |
| Will Manning | Spiral | Speaker | Turbocharge Queries on Iceberg with Next-Gen File Formats | Video |
| Xianyang Liu | Tencent | Speaker | Efficiently Managing Table With Thousands of Columns Using Iceberg In Tencent | Video |
| Yufei Gu | Snowflake | Speaker | Pioneering the Next Frontier: The REST Revolution in Apache Iceberg Metadata | Video |
| Yujiang Zhong | Xiaomi | Speaker | Leveraging Apache Iceberg to Build Xiaomi's Unified Lakehouse Platform | Video |
| Zoltán Borók-Nagy | Cloudera | Speaker | Extending the One Trillion Row Challenge to Iceberg V2 Tables | Video |
Sources
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250403140203/https://www.icebergsummit2025.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250401000000/https://www.icebergsummit2025.com/faq/
- https://events.bizzabo.com/organizer/event/700468/partners
- https://markets.financialcontent.com/lightport.lightport1/article/gnwcq-2025-2-6-join-us-for-iceberg-summit-2025-in-person-and-virtual-bigger-than-ever
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkifVhhWtccxMcqWlXXFvjJybisFF7ESh