Conferences / Iceberg Summit
Iceberg Summit 2026
Apr 8–9, 2026 · San Francisco Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- Iceberg Summit Database
- Dates
- Apr 8, 2026 – Apr 9, 2026
- Venue
- San Francisco Marriott Marquis
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 600Official site post-event recap: '600+ in-person attendees', '80+ sessions', '100+ speakers', '30+ sponsors'.
- Website
- icebergsummit.org
- Recorded
- 33 sponsors · 127 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Third Iceberg Summit; two full in-person days, keynote plus one breakout track livestreamed free for virtual attendees. ASF-sanctioned with Iceberg PMC oversight; registration on Bizzabo (event 796372). Speakers: full list from the Bizzabo agenda API (book signings and meal slots skipped). 'keynote' role = opening 9:00/9:40 Keynote Hall slots each day; panel roles kept as moderator/panelist. One keynote co-speaker (Day 1 opener) is missing from Bizzabo's public speaker list. Affiliations as on Bizzabo; 'Apache Iceberg (PMC)' etc. are community members who listed the project instead of an employer. Videos from Apache Iceberg YouTube playlist 'Apache Iceberg Summit 2026'. Sponsor tiers from the official site (matching Bizzabo tier numbers 1-4).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-person (early bird) | $700 | Feb 15, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| Virtual | $0 | — | Livestream of keynote and one breakout track | web.archive.org |
| In-person (standard) | $760 | — | From February 16, 2026 | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 33
Speakers and talks 127
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julien Le Dem | Apache Software Foundation | Keynote | Column Storage for the AI Era | Video |
| Russell Spitzer | Snowflake | Keynote | From Batch to Streaming and AI, Iceberg for Everyone by Everyone | Video |
| Abhishek Das | Speaker | Live Storage Rebalancing of Iceberg Tables at Exabyte Scale | Video | |
| Abhishek Jain | Picarro Inc | Speaker | PyIceberg Deep Dive: Understanding Read and Write Paths | — |
| Aditya Gupta | Speaker | The Invisible Switch: Zero-Downtime Hive to Iceberg Migrations via Views | Video | |
| Ahmet Altay | Panelist | Engineering the Global Lakehouse: Architecting for Interoperability at Cloud Scale | Video | |
| Ajay Yadav | Speaker | Accelerating Patabyte-Scale Iceberg Tables Using Multi-threaded I/O | Video | |
| Alex Merced | Dremio | Speaker | The Easy Button for Apache Iceberg: Migrate Less, Manage Better, Build Agentic Analytics | Video |
| Alex Stephen | Speaker | Provisioning Your Iceberg Data Infrastructure with the Iceberg Terraform Provider | Video | |
| Amogh Jahagirdar | Apache Software Foundation | Speaker | Breaking the Mold: Re-thinking Iceberg Metadata Structure in v4 | Video |
| Andrew Fisher | TRM Labs | Speaker | Taming the Heavy Tail: Buckets + Rewrites for Fast Iceberg Serving | Video |
| Andrew Madson | Fivetran | Speaker | You Deserve a REST - How the Iceberg REST Spec Unlocks Lakehouse | Video |
| Anton Okolnychyi | Apache Software Foundation | Speaker | Iceberg + Spark DSV2: Growing Up Fast | Video |
| Anurag Mantripragada | Apache Software Foundation | Speaker | Why Sort Again? Leverage Iceberg's Sort Metadata for Query Optimizations | Video |
| Archibald Menzies | Etleap | Speaker | Streaming Updates in Iceberg: A Practical Approach to Position Deletes at Scale | Video |
| Arun Shanmugam | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | The Evolution of Semi-Structured Data: Moving from JSON Strings to Iceberg V3 Variants | Video |
| Ashvin Agrawal | Microsoft | Speaker | Unlocking Fast, Flexible, and Future-Ready Vector Search in Iceberg with ANN Indexing | Video |
| Ashvin Agrawal | Microsoft | Speaker | From Drift to Drive: Slicing Through Data with Iceberg and Vortex | Video |
| Benjamin Wagner | Firebolt | Speaker | Enabling Agentic Workflows on Iceberg | Video |
| Bill Zhang | Cloudera | Speaker | From Data Chaos to Control: How a Global Telco Tamed Petabyte-Scale Challenges with Apache Iceberg | Video |
| Brenna Buuck | MinIO | Speaker | The Storage Layer You're Ignoring: How Object Storage Performance Shapes Iceberg Query Times | Video |
| Brenna Buuck | MinIO | Speaker | Iceberg Agent Lab: Let’s Stop Talking About "Agents + Iceberg" and Build One | — |
| Brian DeWilde | Speaker | Live Storage Rebalancing of Iceberg Tables at Exabyte Scale | Video | |
| Cezara Dragoi | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Correctness Techniques for Apache Iceberg™ Compaction | Video |
| Chinmay Soman | StarTree | Speaker | Beyond the Forklift: Unlocking Revenue-Critical Workloads on Iceberg | Video |
| Christian Romming | Etleap | Panelist | Bridging Open Source Innovation with Customer Value: A Product Perspective | Video |
| Christian Thiel | Vakamo | Speaker | Building a Secure Open‑Source Lakehouse | — |
| Danica Fine | Apache Software Foundation | Speaker | Apache Polaris: Getting Started with this Open Source Iceberg Catalog | Video |
| Daniel Weeks | Apache Software Foundation | Speaker | Relatively Speaking: Paths Are Getting an Update in v4 | Video |
| Daniel Weeks | Apache Software Foundation | Panelist | Future of Iceberg Security | Video |
| David Kjerrumgaard | StreamNative | Speaker | From Topics to Tables: Cataloging Streaming Data in the Iceberg Ecosystem | Video |
| Diego García García | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Performance Tuning for Streaming Ingestion Into Apache Iceberg | — |
| Dipankar Mazumdar | Cloudera | Speaker | Debugging Iceberg in Production: OOMs, Conflicts, and NotFoundExceptions | Video |
| Douglas Young | Aiven | Speaker | From Black Box to Breakpoints: Debugging the Kafka Connect Iceberg Connector | Video |
| Drew Gallardo | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | PyIceberg: Onwards and Upwards | Video |
| Drew Gallardo | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Fine-Grained Metadata Commits in Apache Iceberg | Video |
| Eduard Tudenhöfner | Databricks | Speaker | Understanding Column Statistics in v4 | Video |
| Emir Efe Erez | Trendyol | Speaker | Escaping the Data Warehouse: Trendyol’s Journey to an Iceberg Lakehouse | Video |
| Endi Caushi | Akamai | Speaker | Building Egnatia at Akamai: How Iceberg Is Saving Us Millions | Video |
| Francisco Morillo | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Performance Tuning for Streaming Ingestion Into Apache Iceberg | — |
| Gábor Kaszab | Microsoft | Speaker | Column Families in Iceberg: Enabling Efficient Feature Updates for Wide Tables | Video |
| Gábor Kaszab | Microsoft | Speaker | Freshness-Aware Table Loading on the Client-Side of the REST Catalog | Video |
| Gang Wu | Singdata | Speaker | Unleashing Native Performance: The Architecture and Roadmap of Apache Iceberg-cpp | Video |
| Gaurav Saxena | Global Automotive Manufacturer | Speaker | From Topics to Tables: Cataloging Streaming Data in the Iceberg Ecosystem | Video |
| Gidon Gershinsky | Apple | Speaker | Launching Iceberg Table Encryption | Video |
| Giovanni Matteo Fumarola | Amazon Web Services | Panelist | Engineering the Global Lakehouse: Architecting for Interoperability at Cloud Scale | Video |
| Gokul Soundararajan | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Correctness Techniques for Apache Iceberg™ Compaction | Video |
| Grace Chen | Bloomberg | Speaker | Architecting a Secure Managed Iceberg Platform with Apache Polaris & OPA | Video |
| Harsh Sharma | Carbon Arc | Speaker | Branch-First Backfills: Updating 200 Iceberg Tables Without Breaking Live APIs | Video |
| Hsiu-Fan Wang | Speaker | Accelerating Patabyte-Scale Iceberg Tables Using Multi-threaded I/O | Video | |
| Huaxin Gao | Snowflake | Speaker | Iceberg UDF Spec: Portable SQL Functions Across Engines | Video |
| Huaxin Gao | Snowflake | Speaker | Advancing Query Performance with Iceberg Secondary Indexes | Video |
| Huaxin Gao | Snowflake | Panelist | Innovations in Apache Iceberg and the Data Ecosystem | Video |
| James Rowland-Jones | Snowflake | Panelist | Bridging Open Source Innovation with Customer Value: A Product Perspective | Video |
| Jan Kadlec | Bloomberg | Speaker | Scaling Bloomberg's Portfolio Analytics Data Lake with Apache Iceberg and Trino | Video |
| Jan Kaul | Dashbook | Speaker | Materialized Views in Iceberg: Towards a Portable, Engine-Agnostic Specification | Video |
| Jason Reid | Databricks | Panelist | Bridging Open Source Innovation with Customer Value: A Product Perspective | Video |
| JB Onofré | Apache Software Foundation | Speaker | Apache Polaris: Getting Started with this Open Source Iceberg Catalog | Video |
| JB Onofré | Apache Software Foundation | Panelist | Innovations in Apache Iceberg and the Data Ecosystem | Video |
| Josh Yeh | Apple | Speaker | Reaching Warehouse-Class Performance: Optimizing Spark + Iceberg at Scale | Video |
| Keith Chapman | Dremio | Panelist | Bridging Open Source Innovation with Customer Value: A Product Perspective | Video |
| Kevin Liu | Apache Software Foundation | Speaker | Driving Iceberg Adoption with Open Catalog and Open Datasets | Video |
| Kevin Liu | Apache Software Foundation | Speaker | PyIceberg: Onwards and Upwards | Video |
| Kevin Liu | Apache Software Foundation | Panelist | Future of Iceberg Security | Video |
| Kevin Liu | Apache Software Foundation | Panelist | Innovations in Apache Iceberg and the Data Ecosystem | Video |
| Kevin Liu | Apache Software Foundation | Moderator | Bridging Open Source Innovation with Customer Value: A Product Perspective | Video |
| Laurent Goujon | Dremio | Panelist | Future of Iceberg Security | Video |
| Lawrence Weikum | Slack | Speaker | Maintaining Iceberg at Scale: Lessons from Slack | Video |
| Lu Niu | Speaker | Expanding Iceberg Engine Support: Storage Partitioned Joins (SPJ) for Flink Batch at Pinterest | Video | |
| Manak Pandey | Speaker | What Actually Breaks in Zero-Copy Iceberg Migrations (and How We Operated Through It) | Video | |
| Matthew Hicks | Microsoft | Speaker | Designing a Shared‑Storage Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg, Snowflake, and OneLake | — |
| Matthew Topol | Columnar | Moderator | Innovations in Apache Iceberg and the Data Ecosystem | Video |
| Maximilian Michels | Apple | Speaker | Schema-Flexible Ingestion with Flink SQL Variant, and Dynamic Iceberg Sink | Video |
| Melvyn Peignon | ClickHouse | Speaker | Iceberg with ClickHouse: A One-Year Development Retrospective | Video |
| Michelle Leon | Databricks | Speaker | Unifying the Open Lakehouse: Open Storage, Open Access & Governance with Iceberg | Video |
| Mosha Pasumansky | Firebolt | Speaker | What Breaks at Trillion Rows: Eliminating Iceberg Bottlenecks in Firebolt | Video |
| Na Li | Apple | Speaker | Reaching Warehouse-Class Performance: Optimizing Spark + Iceberg at Scale | Video |
| Parth Desai | Speaker | Build an Open, Interoperable and High-Performant Lakehouse With Apache Iceberg on Google Cloud | Video | |
| Peter Vary | Microsoft | Speaker | Column Families in Iceberg: Enabling Efficient Feature Updates for Wide Tables | Video |
| Peter Vary | Microsoft | Speaker | Advancing Query Performance with Iceberg Secondary Indexes | Video |
| Prakash Natarajan | Iterable | Speaker | From Proprietary Storage to Open Lakehouse: Lessons from a High-Throughput Iceberg Migration | Video |
| Prashant Singh | Apache Software Foundation | Speaker | Iceberg’s Iron Wall: Open Governance via IRC for Enforcing Row and Column Security | Video |
| Prashant Singh | Apache Software Foundation | Panelist | Future of Iceberg Security | Video |
| Prateek Agarwal | Speaker | The Invisible Switch: Zero-Downtime Hive to Iceberg Migrations via Views | Video | |
| Prateek Gaur | Snowflake | Speaker | The Decompression Bottleneck: Evolving Parquet with PFOR and ALP | Video |
| Praveen Sinha | Cisco | Speaker | Beyond the Forklift: Unlocking Revenue-Critical Workloads on Iceberg | Video |
| Rachael Creager | Iterable | Speaker | From Proprietary Storage to Open Lakehouse: Lessons from a High-Throughput Iceberg Migration | Video |
| Raghvendra Yadav | StarTree | Speaker | High-Performance Full Text Search Directly on Iceberg via Lucene-Integrated Indexing | Video |
| Roy Hasson | Microsoft | Speaker | Designing a Shared‑Storage Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg, Snowflake, and OneLake | — |
| Roy Hasson | Microsoft | Panelist | Engineering the Global Lakehouse: Architecting for Interoperability at Cloud Scale | Video |
| Russell Spitzer | Snowflake | Speaker | Snowflake’s Embrace of Open Source Software | Video |
| Russell Spitzer | Snowflake | Panelist | Innovations in Apache Iceberg and the Data Ecosystem | Video |
| Ryan Blue | Databricks | Panelist | Innovations in Apache Iceberg and the Data Ecosystem | Video |
| Ryan Blue | Databricks | Speaker | Contributing to Iceberg 101 | Video |
| Ryan Blue | Databricks | Moderator | Future of Iceberg Security | Video |
| Salih Göktuğ Köse | Trendyol | Speaker | Escaping the Data Warehouse: Trendyol’s Journey to an Iceberg Lakehouse | Video |
| Scott Haines | Databricks | Speaker | Unifying the Open Lakehouse: Open Storage, Open Access & Governance with Iceberg | Video |
| Shaleen Arora | Autodesk | Speaker | Multi-Engine Access with Apache Iceberg: One Table, Multiple Tools | Video |
| Shawn Chang | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | A Rusty Future: Bringing Iceberg to the Rust Data Ecosystem | Video |
| Sida Shen | CelerData | Speaker | Fresher Metrics at Lower Cost with Incremental Materialized Views on Apache Iceberg | Video |
| Stephen Horn | Illumina | Speaker | 2+ Years on Iceberg: Transforming Manufacturing Data and Looking Ahead | Video |
| Steve Herbert | Snowflake | Speaker | Snowflake’s Embrace of Open Source Software | Video |
| Steven Wu | Snowflake | Speaker | Breaking the Mold: Re-thinking Iceberg Metadata Structure in v4 | Video |
| Suhas Jayaram Subramanya | Microsoft | Speaker | Unlocking Fast, Flexible, and Future-Ready Vector Search in Iceberg with ANN Indexing | Video |
| Sung Yun | Bloomberg | Speaker | Architecting a Secure Managed Iceberg Platform with Apache Polaris & OPA | Video |
| Sung Yun | Bloomberg | Moderator | Engineering the Global Lakehouse: Architecting for Interoperability at Cloud Scale | Video |
| Suthan Phillips | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | The Evolution of Semi-Structured Data: Moving from JSON Strings to Iceberg V3 Variants | Video |
| Swapna Marru | Apple | Speaker | Schema-Flexible Ingestion with Flink SQL Variant, and Dynamic Iceberg Sink | Video |
| Szehon Ho | Databricks | Speaker | Iceberg + Spark DSV2: Growing Up Fast | Video |
| Talat Uyarer | Speaker | Relatively Speaking: Paths Are Getting an Update in v4 | Video | |
| Talat Uyarer | Panelist | Future of Iceberg Security | Video | |
| Talat Uyarer | Speaker | Completing the CDC Puzzle: Adding Merge-on-Read Support to Iceberg Changelog Scans | Video | |
| Tom Ebergen | DuckDB Labs | Speaker | Building DuckDB-Iceberg: Exploring the Iceberg Ecosystem | Video |
| Tucker Harvey | Speaker | Expanding Iceberg Engine Support: Storage Partitioned Joins (SPJ) for Flink Batch at Pinterest | Video | |
| Uday Vallamsetty | StarTree | Speaker | Beyond the Forklift: Unlocking Revenue-Critical Workloads on Iceberg | Video |
| Vineel Arekapudi | Wells Fargo | Speaker | Backing Up Apache Iceberg Tables Across Environments Using Project Nessie | Video |
| Vinod Ramachandran | Speaker | Build an Open, Interoperable and High-Performant Lakehouse With Apache Iceberg on Google Cloud | Video | |
| Vipin Kataria | Picarro Inc | Speaker | PyIceberg Deep Dive: Understanding Read and Write Paths | — |
| Vladislav Sidorovich | Speaker | Zero-Copy, Zero Stress, Migrating Delta Lake to Iceberg Spec v3 Without Moving a Byte | Video | |
| Walaa Moustafa | Speaker | Materialized Views in Iceberg: Towards a Portable, Engine-Agnostic Specification | Video | |
| Weimo Liu | PuppyGraph | Speaker | Apache Iceberg: the Answer to Observability for AI Agents | Video |
| Will Manning | Spiral | Speaker | From Drift to Drive: Slicing Through Data with Iceberg and Vortex | Video |
| Xiang Fu | StarTree | Speaker | High-Performance Full Text Search Directly on Iceberg via Lucene-Integrated Indexing | Video |
| Xinghai Zhang | Taxbit | Speaker | Iceberg v3: Deletion Vectors and Roaring Bitmaps | Video |
| Yufei Gu | Snowflake | Speaker | Iceberg UDF Spec: Portable SQL Functions Across Engines | Video |
| Yuval Yogev | Ryft | Speaker | Implementing Intelligent Snapshot Management | Video |
| Yuval Yogev | Ryft | Panelist | Bridging Open Source Innovation with Customer Value: A Product Perspective | Video |
Sources
- https://www.icebergsummit.org/
- https://iceberg.apache.org/blog/announcing-iceberg-summit-2026/
- https://events.bizzabo.com/796372/agenda
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260415023624/http://www.icebergsummit.org/faq/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260421130842/http://www.icebergsummit.org/speakers/
- https://events.bizzabo.com/organizer/event/796372/partners
- https://sessionize.com/iceberg-summit-2026
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkifVhhWtccxSA6VskdKdLnIwCJevOqFL