Celebrating lessons learned and triumphant moments in our open source journey ✨🚀

Event program:

5:00 PM: Registration & Mingling ♥️ Food: Hamburgers, Fried Chicken, Tamales, Tacos, Cuban Sandwich, Vietnamese Sandwich, Mochi Donuts, and many more surprises! - Donated by Databricks and Delta Lake 🍿🍔 Swag: Google 👩‍🚀💙🚀 💕🌷 🧁🍩

​​5:30 PM: Announcements + Welcome Remarks by:

Mae LaPresta, Software Engineer at Google + PyLadies Seattle Organizer

​​6:00 PM ➡️ Session #1: Managing Healthy OSS Projects: Insights from Apache Spark™, Apache Iceberg™, Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog, and more!

Denny Lee Apache Spark and MLflow contributor; Developer Relations at Databricks

​​6:30 PM ➡️ Session #2: Multi-year exabyte-scale lakehouse migration from one open source data management stack (Apache Spark on Iceberg and Parquet) to another nascent open source data management stack (Ray on DeltaCAT and Arrow).

Patrick Ames Principal Engineer working on data management and optimization for big data technologies

7:00 PM ➡️ Keynote: "May the --force Be With You," celebrates lessons learned and triumphant moments in your startup's journey.

Saurabh Sarkar Chicory - Co-Founder. Chicory automates data preprocessing and ML workflows with AI agents, enhancing productivity 100x on your existing tech stack.

​​7:55 PM: Closing Remarks by:

Mae LaPresta, Software Engineer at Google + PyLadies Seattle Organizer

​​8:00 PM: Good night