Keynote
The Evolution of Structured Streaming: How Apache Spark Innovated on Throughput, Latency, and Flexibility
Indrajit Roy // Director of Engineering at Databricks
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Data Engineering Open Forum 2026
The third edition of Data Engineering Open Forum brought the data engineering community together at The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
// Thursday, April 16, 2026
Keynote
The Data Odyssey: A 15-Year Voyage from Pipelines to Sovereignty across Big Tech
Jerry Wang // Head of Data Development Infrastructure at Airbnb
Keynote
Frontiers of Data: The Future of Data Engineering in an AI World
Paul Ellwood // Head of Data Engineering at OpenAI
Vikram Koka // Chief Strategy Officer & Apache Airflow PMC at Astronomer
Laura Pruitt // Senior Director, Data Science & Engineering at Netflix
Michelle Ufford // Distinguished Architect, Data & AI
Panel
Panel: Data, Perspective, Action: Why Most Data Engineering Teams Fail at the 'Perspective' Part
Mick Dreeling // Director, Games Data Science and Engineering at Netflix
Shridhar Iyer // Director, Data Engineering at Meta
Monisha Kanoth // Head of Siri User Experience Metrics at Apple
Goutham Budati // VP, Data Strategy and Insights at The Farmer's Dog
Full Talk
Column storage for the AI era
Julien Le Dem // Principal Engineer at Datadog
Full Talk
Apache Spark: Structured Streaming Real-Time Mode
Jerry Peng // Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Lightning Talk
Lightning Talks: From Manual to Magical: Building AI Agents for ETL Automation
Himanshi Manglunia // Senior Data Engineer at Amazon Web Services
Lightning Talk
Lightning Talks: SparkMedic: First Aid for Failing Jobs
Drasko Profirovic // Staff Engineer at Pinterest
Full Talk
Beyond Vectors: How Apache Doris Brings Hybrid Search and Real-Time Analytics to Context Engineering
Yuankai Shen // Principal Product Manager at VeloDB
Lightning Talk
Lightning Talks: MinervaSQL - Lessons Building a Full-fledged SQL interface for a Semantic Layer
Barak Alon // Senior Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Full Talk
Powering Netflix’s Multimodal Feature Engineering at Scale
Jack Ye // Software Engineer at LanceDB
Pablo Delgado // Machine Learning Engineer at Netflix
Full Talk
Orchestrating LLM Inference with Apache Airflow
Volker Janz // Senior Developer Advocate at Astronomer
Lightning Talk
Lightning Talks: Lessons from building a data observability product with OpenLineage
Harel Shein // Senior Engineering Manager at Datadog
Full Talk
Inside OpenAI’s Internal AI Data Agent
Bonnie Xu // Staff Software Engineer at OpenAI
Full Talk
From Repetition to Reuse: The Evolution of Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines
Andreas Neumann // Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Other Sessions
These sessions were part of the event, but recordings are not available.
Lightning Talks: From Idea to Production: E2E Traceability for ML Innovation
Booker Gong // Senior Staff Data Engineer at Meta
Lightning Talks: Data Lineage in 2026: From Compliance Checkbox to Critical Platform Investment
Dan Shetty // Product Manager at Spotify
Breaking Down Data Silos: Building Federated Knowledge Infrastructure for Enterprise Agentic AI
Dinesh Thangaraju // Head of AWS Data Platform at Amazon Web Services
2026 Sponsors
- PLATINUM PLUS
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- GOLD
- SILVER
- HAPPY HOUR
// Data Engineering Open Forum
// Organized by Data Engineer Things (DET)