Bay Area Apache Spark ™ Meetup: Upcoming Apache Spark 4.0 Release

​Please join us for this important webinar discussion of the upcoming Apache Spark™ 4.0.0 release. 

​The upcoming Apache Spark™ 4.0.0 has many new features for data practitioners, analysts, and machine learning practitioners. To cover all the features comprehensively in this webinar, we’ll have to hold you captive for a few hours, which is impossible given time constraints. In our subsequent webinar sessions, we will extensively cover Spark 4.0.0 salient features.

​For this session, we’ll provide an overview of:

• ​New feature functionalities

• ​New Extensions for DataSources

• ​Custom Python and SQL functions and procedures 

​Please join us and learn more about the upcoming Apache Spark™ 4.0.0  🤝

​📅 Date: April 22,  2025

​⏰ Time: 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM PST

​📍 Location: online

​Agenda:

​Talk 1: Upcoming Apache Spark™ 4.0.0 Release 

​Abstract: This session will cover new features and enhancements in the upcoming Apache Spark™ 4.0 release. For this session, We’ll do an overview of the following features:

• ​Spark Connect: The future of Spark extensibility

• ​ANSI Mode: For better ANSI SQL compatibility 

• ​Variant data types for semi-structured data

• ​String collation support 

• ​Python UDTF functions

• ​SQL and UDTF functions

• ​PySpark UDF Unified Profiler

​Speakers:
Daniel Tenedorio is a Senior Staff Engineer at Databricks