Kenneth Kang
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- QCon
- Snowflake Summit
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2026 | Snowflake Summit 26 | Snowflake Summit | speaker | GEICO's Journey to Unified Enterprise Lakehouse Governance with Horizon, Polaris as GEICO GEICO, a leading insurer, struggled with data fragmentation across its multi-engine open-source lakehouse (Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Trino) and its EDW. Managing…Show lessGEICO, a leading insurer, struggled with data fragmentation across its multi-engine open-source lakehouse (Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Trino) and its EDW. Managing consistent security and governance across these disparate systems where Polaris served as the lakehouse catalog and Horizon governed the EDW created complexity. We'll showcase GEICO’s implementation of new Horizon features: full embedding of Polaris and support for IRC. This provides a single, universal governance layer, enforcing consistent FGAC, tagging and lineage across all data assets (OSS or Snowflake) achieving a true enterprise lakehouse, ensuring secure, multi-engine Iceberg access for AI-ready data discovery, without vendor lock-in. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 | QCon New York 2019 | QCon | speaker | Scaling DB Access for Billions of Queries Per Day @PayPal as PayPal |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Asta | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Petrica Voicu | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.