Conferences / OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference)
OSA CON 2026
Nov 2, 2026 · AWS Builder Loft, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Nov 2, 2026
- Venue
- AWS Builder Loft
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 200Recap: '1,370+ registrants', '200+ in-person attendees', 26 speakers, 19 talks across 2 tracks, 9 sponsors.
- Website
- osacon.io
- Recorded
- 9 sponsors · 28 speaker appearances
- Notes
- First in-person edition after five years fully virtual; one day at the AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco with a livestream. Free (Luma registration).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-person or livestream | $0 | — | Free | osacon.io |
Sponsors 9
Title / headline 1
- Reo.dev · Diamond
Media 2
- Airflow Summit · Media partners
- InHand Studio · Media partners
Speakers and talks 28
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Merced | Dremio | Speaker | The Open Agentic Lakehouse: Building an Open Data and AI Ecosystem | SlidesVideo |
| Ashley Stirrup | GrowthBook | Panelist | Panel: What Should Be Open in the Age of AI? | Video |
| Brandon Wilcox | Gamebeast | Speaker | Gaming Analytics for the Agentic Era | SlidesVideo |
| Chris Parmer | Plotly | Panelist | Panel: What Should Be Open in the Age of AI? | Video |
| Clay Smith | Tero | Speaker | The Biggest Dataset Nobody Modeled: Building an Open Semantic Layer for Telemetry with DuckDB and DataFusion | — |
| David Morrison | Applied Computing Research Labs | Speaker | 10 Useful Dashboards You Can’t Make with Grafana | SlidesVideo |
| Gang Tao | Timeplus | Speaker | Closing the Loop with Open Source: Streaming SQL from Agent Telemetry to Agent Action | SlidesVideo |
| Heather Meeker | Chinstrap Community | Panelist | Panel: Whose Code Is It Anyway? | Video |
| Jason Smith | Speaker | Serverless Eventing: Simplifying Message Delivery | SlidesVideo | |
| Josh Lee | Altinity | Speaker | Observability is Broken and Open-Source (will be) the Solution | Slides |
| Jun Ding | Grafana Labs | Speaker | Who Watches the Watcher: Benchmarking AI Agents That Debug Your Dashboards | SlidesVideo |
| Kirti Dewan | — | Moderator | Panel: What Should Be Open in the Age of AI? | Video |
| Lisa Cao | Databricks | Speaker | Getting Your Agents to Write (Good) Pipelines on Apache Spark | SlidesVideo |
| Luke Mercado | Foam | Speaker | Your Observability Stack Is Messing Up Your Agents | — |
| Mahendra Kutare | Deeptrail | Panelist | Panel: What Should Be Open in the Age of AI? | Video |
| Matt Sansone | Aerospike | Panelist | Panel: What Should Be Open in the Age of AI? | Video |
| Matthew Topol | Columnar | Speaker | ADBC in Production: From Zero-Copy Promise to Reality | — |
| Max Beauchemin | Preset | Speaker | From Data Modeling to Agent Modeling | — |
| Patrick McFadin | McFadin Data and AI Advisory | Speaker | Paying Rent on Your Own Data | Slides |
| Perla Gámez | Foam | Speaker | Your Observability Stack Is Messing Up Your Agents | — |
| Pranay Prateek | SigNoz | Speaker | Your Next Power User is an AI Agent | — |
| Rafael Aviles | ObsessionDB | Speaker | Measuring Agents, Not Vibes | — |
| Robert Hodges | Altinity | Speaker | How AI Is Changing Database Architecture: It’s Not What You Think | SlidesVideo |
| Robert Hodges | Altinity | Panelist | Panel: Whose Code Is It Anyway? | Video |
| Roman Shaposhnik | AIFoundry.org | Panelist | Panel: Whose Code Is It Anyway? | Video |
| Siddharth Arun | Salesforce | Speaker | What Breaks When Open Source Data Platforms Become Agent Infrastructure? | — |
| Vaibhavi Gangwar | Maxim AI | Panelist | Panel: What Should Be Open in the Age of AI? | Video |
| Wei-Chin Call | Grafana Labs | Speaker | Who Watches the Watcher: Benchmarking AI Agents That Debug Your Dashboards | SlidesVideo |