Roy Hasson
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026Microsoft6 talks
- 2025Qlik1 talk
- 2022–2024Upsolver5 talks
- 2019–2021Amazon Web Services4 talks
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
- PrestoCon
- Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)
- Iceberg Summit
- AWS re:Invent
- Chill Data Summit
- Data Day Texas
- DATACON Seattle
- OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2026 | FabCon Europe 2026 | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) | speaker | Untitled as Microsoft | |
| Aug 24, 2026 | DATACON Seattle 2026 (with TechCon 365 & PWRCON) | DATACON Seattle | speaker | Iceberg Everywhere: Federating Your Data Estate with OneLake and the Iceberg REST Catalog as Microsoft Enterprise data is fragmented, and AI pays the price. See how Microsoft OneLake makes Apache Iceberg a first-class citizen, letting Fabric, Databricks,…Show lessEnterprise data is fragmented, and AI pays the price. See how Microsoft OneLake makes Apache Iceberg a first-class citizen, letting Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, Clickhouse, Spark, and Trino read and write the same tables with no copies or ETL. | |
| Apr 8, 2026 | Iceberg Summit 2026 | Iceberg Summit | speaker | Designing a Shared‑Storage Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg, Snowflake, and OneLake as Microsoft This hands on workshop walks through building a modern data architecture with shared storage, based on Iceberg. As data volumes increase and AI workloads…Show lessThis hands on workshop walks through building a modern data architecture with shared storage, based on Iceberg. As data volumes increase and AI workloads proliferate, copying and ETL’ing data across systems is no longer sustainable. | |
| Apr 8, 2026 | Iceberg Summit 2026 | Iceberg Summit | panelist | Engineering the Global Lakehouse: Architecting for Interoperability at Cloud Scale as Microsoft While the industry has converged on Apache Iceberg as the standard for the open lakehouse, the engineering reality of building a high-scale Iceberg offering is…Show lessWhile the industry has converged on Apache Iceberg as the standard for the open lakehouse, the engineering reality of building a high-scale Iceberg offering is fraught with complex trade-offs. This panel brings together engineering leaders to discuss the technical hurdles of supporting a truly open ecosystem. | Video |
| Mar 16, 2026 | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) | speaker | Fabric Native MDM: AI and Analytics Ready Data in Minutes as Microsoft Most Microsoft Fabric initiatives don’t fail because of dashboards or models, they stall when the underlying data isn’t trusted.Join us for building a…Show lessMost Microsoft Fabric initiatives don’t fail because of dashboards or models, they stall when the underlying data isn’t trusted.Join us for building a production-ready master data management (MDM) solution natively in Microsoft Fabric. | |
| Sep 15, 2025 | European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Europe 2025) | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) | speaker | Innovate, Integrate, and Scale: Winning with Microsoft Fabric and the Workload Hub as Microsoft Microsoft Fabric is the platform of choice for developers, engineers and ISV partners building the future with data and AI. While Fabric offers a range of…Show lessMicrosoft Fabric is the platform of choice for developers, engineers and ISV partners building the future with data and AI. While Fabric offers a range of native workloads like PowerBI, Spark, data warehousing and more, the Fabric Workload Hub additionally offers many new experiences like data cleansing, data wrangling, data quality and more. | |
| Apr 8, 2025 | Iceberg Summit 2025 | Iceberg Summit | speaker | Deep Dive into Iceberg Optimizations and Best Practices for a Scalable and Performant Lakehouse as Qlik | Video |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Chill Data Summit On Tour: London 2024 | Chill Data Summit | speaker | Untitled as Upsolver | |
| Jun 25, 2024 | PrestoCon Day 2024 | PrestoCon | speaker | How we accelerated our Iceberg queries for CDC with MoR and Equality Deletes as Upsolver | |
| Jan 27, 2024 | Data Day Texas + AI 2024 | Data Day Texas | speaker | Battle of the warehouses, lakehouses and streaming DBs, choose your platform wisely as Upsolver | |
| Jan 27, 2024 | Data Day Texas + AI 2024 | Data Day Texas | speaker | ELT and ETL are not products, technologies, or features. If someone says otherwise, they are selling you something as Upsolver Building a data platform is hard. You wade through hundreds of blogs, videos and whitepapers by vendors, engineers and social media influencers, and at the end…Show lessBuilding a data platform is hard. You wade through hundreds of blogs, videos and whitepapers by vendors, engineers and social media influencers, and at the end you’re paralyzed, not sure where to start or what to build. | |
| Dec 7, 2022 | PrestoCon 2022 | PrestoCon | speaker | Ending DAG Distress: Building Self-Orchestrating Pipelines for Presto as Upsolver dbt and Airflow is a popular combination for creating and scheduling batch data modeling and transformation jobs that execute in a data warehouse like…Show lessdbt and Airflow is a popular combination for creating and scheduling batch data modeling and transformation jobs that execute in a data warehouse like Snowflake. Presto users querying the data lake need a similar solution that is simple to use and makes it easy to ingest, model, transform and mainta | |
| Dec 9, 2021 | PrestoCon 2021 | PrestoCon | speaker | Authorizing Presto with AWS Lake Formation as Amazon AWS Lake Formation is a service that allows data platform users to set up a secure data lake in days. Creating a data lake with Presto and Lake Formation is as…Show lessAWS Lake Formation is a service that allows data platform users to set up a secure data lake in days. Creating a data lake with Presto and Lake Formation is as simple as defining data sources and what data access and security policies you want to apply. At Ahana and Amazon, engineers are working on | |
| Nov 2, 2021 | OSA CON 2021 | OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) | panelist | Open Data Lakes with Presto, Apache Hudi & AWS Glue and S3 – The Next Generation of Analytics as AWS | |
| Sep 24, 2020 | PrestoCon 2020 | PrestoCon | speaker | How Agari Replaced their Custom ETL and Data Analytics Pipelines with Serverless Presto using Amazon Athena as Amazon Amazon Athena is a fully managed serverless service for querying and analyzing data in Amazon S3 using the power of Apache Presto. In this session you will be…Show lessAmazon Athena is a fully managed serverless service for querying and analyzing data in Amazon S3 using the power of Apache Presto. In this session you will be introduced to Athena and learn how Agari, an email threat prevention and protection service, built a data processing and analytics platform | |
| Dec 2, 2019 | AWS re:Invent 2019 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Access control for Amazon Athena with AWS Lake Formation as Amazon Web Services In this chalk talk, we discuss Amazon Athena’s support in enforcing AWS Lake Formation–based policies. Lake Formation¬¬–based policies enforce fine-grained…Show lessIn this chalk talk, we discuss Amazon Athena’s support in enforcing AWS Lake Formation–based policies. Lake Formation¬¬–based policies enforce fine-grained access control on new or existing databases, tables, and columns defined in the AWS Glue Data Catalog for data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). | Slides |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dipti Borkar | 6 | 1 | 2026 |
| Matthew Hicks | 4 | 2 | 2026 |
| Bob Ward | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Erin Stellato | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Rie Merritt | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Shireesh Thota | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Zoe Douglas | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Beinan Wang | 4 | — | 2024 |
| Chunxu Tang | 4 | — | 2024 |
| Tim Meehan | 4 | — | 2024 |
| Eric Melcher | 3 | 1 | 2026 |
| Vinoth Chandar | 3 | 1 | 2021 |
| Aaron Merrill | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Alex Rostan | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Amir Jafari | 3 | — | 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.