Apache Iceberg™ Community Meetup 💙🧊🏔

## ​Seattle Apache Iceberg™ Community Meetup! 🧊❄️🍦

Connect with fellow enthusiasts, share insights, and dive into the latest developments in the Apache Iceberg™ ecosystem! Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to Apache Iceberg, this meetup is the perfect place to exchange ideas and spark innovation.

♥️ This meetup group is run by 100% volunteers who support the Seattle open source community. ✨ We’re a committed team, pouring our hearts into every event, made possible by the incredible generosity of our sponsors and their in-kind donations.🎗Our meetup group exclusively welcomes in-kind donations and does not accept monetary contributions. Despite our very limited resources, we’re always striving to make each event better than the last! 🥳

🌷Your reviews truly mean so much—they help us keep uplifting the incredible open source community and secure more in-kind donations!"

## ​​Agenda

​​4:30p - 5:30p: Doors Open & Networking 💃
​​5:30p - 6:30p: Welcome Remarks & Presentations!
​​6:30p - 7:30p: 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.

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​Abstract | Speaker | Speaker bio

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## 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!

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## ​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.

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## ​​​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

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## ​​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
🚨 Attention

• Due to restrictions at our venue, strictly no children allowed.

💟 WiFi: Industrious Guest

We recommend to arrive early as seats are limited and are first come first serve 🌷🌸🌼

Parking options:

• There is paid parking at the building.
• Bellevue Place, Lincoln Square parking and Hyatt Bellevue are complimentary with validation from Bellevue Place and Lincoln Square retail, restaurants and entertainment. After 8:00 p.m. – No validation is necessary.

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Apache Spark is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters.

Spark has a thriving open source community, with contributors from around the globe building features, documentation and assisting other users.