Conferences / Rows & Columns Summit
Rows & Columns Summit 2026
Sep 22, 2026 · Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- Rows & Columns Summit Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Sep 22, 2026
- Venue
- Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 400Official site: '400+ curated practitioners' in a 400-seat auditorium (pre-event wording). Luma page shows '972 people went' and the Mimetic listing '942 attending'; these are Luma registration/approval counts, not confirmed headcount.
- Website
- rowsandcolumnssummit.com
- Recorded
- 12 sponsors · 16 speaker appearances
- Notes
- First edition. Free, application-only (Luma), single track 10am-7pm. Agenda from official site: lightning-talk block advertised as six talks but only five speakers named, no titles. 'Opening keynote'/'Closing keynote' are placeholders, not published talk titles. Earlier Luma agenda had Shalaka Borker's company as 'Rooftsock' (typo for Roofstock) and different slot times. Sponsor logos shown in two untiered rows ('CG' logo = CloudGeometry per text extraction). struct.fm recorded interviews at the summit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV3bj6NeToA); no talk recordings or slides found. CFP on Sessionize ran 2026-07-01 to 2026-08-08. Wayback helper was unreachable during research.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General admission (free, application-only) | $0 | — | Free; registration via Luma requires approval | luma.com |
Sponsors 12
Other 12
- Amazon Web Services · Our Sponsors (row 1, untiered)
- Artie · Our Sponsors (row 2, untiered)
- ClickHouse · Our Sponsors (row 1, untiered)
- CloudGeometry · Our Sponsors (row 2, untiered)
- Columnar · Our Sponsors (row 2, untiered)
- Estuary · Our Sponsors (row 2, untiered)
- Firebolt · Our Sponsors (row 1, untiered)
- Google · Our Sponsors (row 1, untiered)
- Olake · Our Sponsors (row 2, untiered)
- PuppyGraph · Our Sponsors (row 2, untiered)
- Striim · Our Sponsors (row 1, untiered)
- Tinybird · Our Sponsors (row 2, untiered)
Speakers and talks 16
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Pavlo | ClickHouse | Keynote | Opening keynote | — |
| Fatma Ozcan | Keynote | Closing keynote | — | |
| Bonnie Xu | OpenAI | Speaker | Diving Through Data at OpenAI: How a Data Agent Navigates 70,000 Datasets | — |
| Hannes Mühleisen | DuckDB Labs | Speaker | Nobody Knows What OLTP Is: DuckDB Moves to the Middle | — |
| Harry Bairstow | inference.net | Lightning | — | — |
| Ian Cook | Columnar | Lightning | — | — |
| James Sutton | ShipScience | Speaker | From CDC Pipeline to Recovered Dollars: Agentic Parcel Auditing at 3B Row Updates a Month | — |
| Ling Zeng | Palo Alto Networks | Lightning | — | — |
| Nikita Shamgunov | Databricks | Panelist | The Convergence Debate | — |
| Raunak Kumar | Fin by Intercom | Lightning | — | — |
| Russell Spitzer | Snowflake | Speaker | Apache Iceberg: The Interoperability layer between OLTP and OLAP | — |
| Saarthak Gupta | Neuralink | Lightning | — | — |
| Sailesh Krishnamurthy | Panelist | The Convergence Debate | — | |
| Shalaka Borker | Roofstock | Speaker | Beyond Query Tuning: Rethinking Application Reporting | — |
| William Haw | Artie | Speaker | From CDC Pipeline to Recovered Dollars: Agentic Parcel Auditing at 3B Row Updates a Month | — |
| Yury Izrailevsky | ClickHouse | Panelist | The Convergence Debate | — |
Sources
- https://rowsandcolumnssummit.com/
- https://luma.com/clickh-wavw
- https://sessionize.com/rows-and-columns-summit/
- https://events.trymimetic.com/events/sf/rows-and-columns-summit-sep-2026
- https://x.com/duckdb/status/2102427210095489406
- https://devreal.ai/t/260922-notes-rows-columns-summit-2026-rows-and-columns-summit