NYC Apache Iceberg™ Community Meetup
🧊 Apache Iceberg Meetup is coming to the Big Apple! 🗽
Join us in NYC for an afternoon of ideas, innovation, and Iceberg. Whether you're building lakehouses at scale or just getting started with Apache Iceberg™, this is your chance to connect with the community, hear from industry leaders, and dive into the latest in open data architectures.
Expect a packed agenda of technical talks, real-world case studies, and plenty of hallway conversations with fellow engineers, contributors, and data infrastructure folks.
Date: Thursday, July 10th
Location: Amazon JFK27 - Hank
Call For Presentations
We’re looking for engineers, practitioners, and open-source contributors to share real-world experiences, technical deep dives, and lessons learned with Apache Iceberg.
Talks should be technical, practical, and 30 minutes in length.
Submit your CFP here: https://bit.ly/NYC-Iceberg
Ends on Jun 27 (Friday). We are looking for approximately 5 speakers.
Agenda
3:00 – 4:00 PM: Doors open, refreshments, and casual networking 💬
4:00 – 5:30 PM: Welcome + speaker sessions 🎤
5:30 – 6:00 PM: Break & networking 🕺💃
6:00 – 7:00 PM: More technical talks 🎤
7:00 – 9:00 PM: Happy hour, dinner, and more networking 🥂
The event will focus on innovations in Apache Iceberg (https://iceberg.apache.org/)
We will discuss topics around Open-Source Data Analytics, Open Table Formats (OTF), software concepts like Transactional Data Lakes or Lakehouse, advancements in AI/ML including generative AI, and many more topics of mutual interest that leverage Apache Iceberg.
During the sessions, we will provide you tips to get involved within the community, you will learn more about how the community is collaborating to grow the technology, and software/solutions that ease problem solving and improve user experiences.
About PuppyGraph
PuppyGraph is the first and only real time, zero-ETL graph query engine in the market, empowering companies to transform existing relational data stores into a unified graph model in under 10 minutes, bypassing traditional graph databases' cost, latency, and maintenance hurdles.
💬 Join PuppyGraph Community Slack
📚 Check out PuppyGraph Engineering Blog
📲 Follow PuppyGraph on LinkedIn & Twitter
🖥️ Subscribe to PuppyGraph YouTube
💾 Download PuppyGraph Forever Free Developer Edition (no form & no payment required)
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Block, Comcast, Condé Nast, Rivian, Shell and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to take control of their data and put it to work with AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe, and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse and Apache Spark™.
📚 Check out Tabular has joined Databricks towards a joint vision of the open lakehouse.
📲 Follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, and Facebook.
🖥️ Subscribe to Databricks YouTube.
💾 Sign up for Databricks Express Setup and get $400 free credits when using your work email.
About AWS
Whether you're looking for generative AI, compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has the services to help you build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability, and reliability. AWS is the world's largest Cloud Services provider. https://aws.amazon.com/
At AWS, Apache Iceberg is an open-source table format that simplifies table management while improving performance. AWS analytics services such as Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, Amazon S3Tables, Amazon EMR, Amazon Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon Redshift include native support for Apache Iceberg, so you can easily build transactional data lakes on top of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) on AWS.
Additional Resources and Information:
📚 Workshop: Running Apache Iceberg on AWS
📚 Blogs: Apache Iceberg on AWS
📚 AWS Prescriptive Guidance: Using Apache Iceberg on AWS
🖥️ Subscribe to AWS Events and AWS Developers
💜 We’re hiring, join our team
About Snowflake
Snowflake makes enterprise AI easy, efficient and trusted. More than 10,000 companies around the globe, including hundreds of the world’s largest, use Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud to share data, build applications, and power their business with AI. Snowflake provides native support for Apache Iceberg™ and Apache Polaris™ (incubating).
📚 Check out how Snowflake can power your open data lakehouse
📲 Follow Snowflake on LinkedIn & X
🖥 Subscribe to Snowflake Developers YouTube
❄️ Start your 30-day free Snowflake trial which includes $400 worth of free usage
About RisingWave
RisingWave Labs, founded in 2021 in San Francisco, develops RisingWave, a cloud-native SQL streaming database that simplifies real-time data processing. The company's technology combines PostgreSQL compatibility with modern streaming architecture, offered both as an open-source solution and as RisingWave Cloud, a fully-managed platform.
📚 Visit RisingWave website
📚 Try RisingWave Cloud
💬 Join RisingWave Slack Community
📲 Follow RisingWave on LinkedIn and Twitter
🖥️ Subscribe to RisingWave YouTube channel
About Dremio
Dremio is the intelligent lakehouse platform that accelerates AI and analytics with AI-ready data products, unified access, and automated performance optimization. Built on Apache Iceberg, Arrow, and Polaris, Dremio combines a business-friendly semantic layer, a high-speed SQL engine, and an enterprise-grade catalog to deliver fast, governed, and discoverable data across cloud and on-prem environment
🖥️ Get Started with Dremio for Free
About Celerdata
CelerData (powered by StarRocks) is the fastest query engine for customer-facing and AI-driven analytics at petabyte scale. With native Apache Iceberg integration, it delivers low-latency, high-concurrency queries directly on open data—without ingestion delays or costly pipelines.
Trusted by industry leaders like Pinterest, Tencent, and Expedia, CelerData powers the next generation of analytics on the Lakehouse.
💬 Join the StarRocks Slack Channel
🖥️ Subscribe to CelerData's YouTube channel
📚 Follow CelerData on LinkedIn
☁️ Try CelerData Cloud and claim your 30-day free trial
💜 We’re hiring, join our team!
About ClickHouse
Established in 2009, ClickHouse leads the industry with its open-source column-oriented database system, driven by the vision of becoming the fastest OLAP database globally. The company empowers users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, emphasizing speed in managing escalating data volumes.
📚 Get started on ClickHouse Github
💬 Join the ClickHouse Slack Channel