Apache Iceberg™ Bay Area Meetup #2
❄️ Cool Tech. 🔥 Hot Takes. 🍱 Unforgettable Bites.
Join us for a night of deep dives and cool vibes at the Apache Iceberg™ Meetup — co-hosted by PuppyGraph, Snowflake, AWS, Databricks, CelerData, and DataStrato. We’re bringing together the engineers and builders shaping the future of data. Expect real talk on open table formats, production-scale Iceberg™ use cases, and modern data infra — straight from the teams building it.
This isn’t your typical meetup.
We’ve got expert insights, sharp minds, cold drinks, and… a seriously epic food lineup.
Spots are limited — register now before it melts away.
🍜🔥 This Iceberg’s Got Flavor
May is AAPI Heritage Month – and we’re celebrating with flavor. To honor Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re serving a spread inspired by Southeast and East Asian cuisine — including Banh Mi sandwiches, Ube waffles, Spam Musubi, chicken satay, Pad Thai, green papaya salad, pineapple fried rice, Ube cheese tarts, matcha daifuku, and more.
Come for the Apache Iceberg™. Stay for the culture, the conversation, and the community.
🗂 Agenda Overview
The Apache Iceberg Bay Area Meetup features a packed lineup of insightful talks and networking opportunities:
Doors open at 12:00 PM (noon)
Main Track (1:00 PM - 1:30 PM): Opening remarks and keynote presentation
Parallel Tracks (1:30 PM - 6:00 PM): Choose from two tracks featuring technical deep dives and practical use cases.
Dinner & Happy Hour at 6:00-8:00 PM
Full Agenda
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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 Datastrato
Datastrato is the Open Data Fabric Platform to accelerate trusted AI. Powered by Apache Gravitino™, Datastrato helps organizations supercharge their data foundation for analytics and AI—no matter where their data lives. With built-in query federation, unified governance, and cross-format metadata virtualization, Datastrato enables seamless, secure access to data across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Enterprises use Datastrato to power AI-ready data operations across structured, unstructured, and streaming sources.
📚 Learn more about Apache Gravitino, the open source project behind Datastrato.
📲 Follow Datastrato on LinkedIn.
🖥️ Explore demos and talks on Datastrato’s YouTube channel.
💬 Join the Gravitino Community Slack and connect with data infrastructure engineers.
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 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 Datastrato
Datastrato is building the open data fabric platform to accelerate trusted AI. Powered by Apache Gravitino, we supercharge your data foundation for analytics and AI in any cloud environment- including integrated federation, end to end governance, and enterprise-worthy AI.
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