Apache Arrow Summit

The day after the PyData Paris conference, we’re excited to host the first-ever Apache Arrow Summit - a gathering dedicated to fostering collaboration and innovation within the Apache Arrow community.

What is Apache Arrow?

Apache Arrow is a powerful, open-source, in-memory columnar data format designed to supercharge analytics and data processing across modern big data ecosystems. This summit is your opportunity to connect with experts, contributors, and enthusiasts who are shaping the future of data interoperability.

What to Expect

While the summit will feature insightful talks, the focus is on interactive sessions that encourage lively discussions and knowledge-sharing among participants. Whether you’re a developer, data scientist, or engineer, this event is for you—regardless of your programming language or Arrow implementation.

Schedule

9:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:30 Welcome from the Selection Committee
10:30 - 11:00 Arrow Turns 10 (Neal Richardson)
11:05 - 11:35 Where we’re going, we don’t need rows: The future of ADBC (David Li)
11:40 - 12:10 FaaS and Furious: an Arrow backed, multi-language cache for a FaaS lakehouse (Jacopo Tagliabue & Colin Marc)
12:10 - 13:50 Lunch break
13:50 - 14:20 GeoArrow: Performant geospatial vector data in Arrow (Kyle Barron)
14:25 - 14:55 Apache Arrow, the Hostage Negotiator: Revisiting the Case For Client Protocol Redesign (Ian Cook)
15:00 - 15:30 Unified Analytics with Arrow Flight RPC: Building OLAP Engines with a Single Data Interface (Jan Soubusta)
15:35 - 16:05 Building on Flight: Real-World Lessons from the DuckDB Airport Extension (Rusty Conover)
16:10 - 16:40 Where does Apache Arrow fit into modern web development? (Zeynep Tezduyar & Andrey Shandybin)
16:45 - 17:45 Birds of a feather session