Lisa Cao
Employers on the program
- 2026Databricks1 talk
- 2025Datastrato3 talks
Appearances by year
- Airflow Summit
- Data Day Texas
- OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference)
- Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2026 | OSA CON 2026 | OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) | speaker | Getting Your Agents to Write (Good) Pipelines on Apache Spark as Databricks Agents are writing a ton of Spark code these days. Most of it is error ridden, and the errors are the boring kind: a column that doesn’t exist, a table nothing…Show lessAgents are writing a ton of Spark code these days. Most of it is error ridden, and the errors are the boring kind: a column that doesn’t exist, a table nothing upstream declares, a session config invented from thin air. | SlidesVideo |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Airflow Summit 2026 | Airflow Summit | talk | A Decade of Spark + Airflow: How Two Communities Built the De Facto Standard for Data Engineering No two open source projects have shaped modern data engineering more than Apache Spark and Apache Airflow. But their partnership wasn't designed- it was earned. | |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Airflow Summit 2026 | Airflow Summit | talk | Declarative Pipelines Meet Declarative Orchestration: Spark Declarative Pipelines + Airflow 3 Apache Spark's new Declarative Pipelines (SDP) let engineers define WHAT their data should look like, not HOW to build it. | Video |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Postgres Conference 2025 | Postgres Conference (PostgresConf) | speaker | Streamlining metadata management with PostgreSQL and Apache Gravitino as Datastrato Managing metadata efficiently is critical for modern applications, and databases like PostgreSQL provide an excellent foundation. | Video |
| Jan 25, 2025 | Data Day Texas + AI 2025 | Data Day Texas | speaker | Fundamentals of DataOps as Datastrato While building pipeline after pipeline- we might wonder, what comes next? Automation and Data Quality, of course! | |
| Jan 25, 2025 | Data Day Texas + AI 2025 | Data Day Texas | speaker | History and Future of Iceberg REST Catalogs as Datastrato While Iceberg primarily concentrates on its role as an open data format for lakehouse implementation, it needs to heavily leverage its catalog for tracking…Show lessWhile Iceberg primarily concentrates on its role as an open data format for lakehouse implementation, it needs to heavily leverage its catalog for tracking tables and allowing external tools to interface with the metadata. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maxime Beauchemin | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Patrick McFadin | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Andreas Neumann | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Jarek Potiuk | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
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.