Rows & Columns Summit

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🌉 The Great OLTP–OLAP Convergence

OLTP and OLAP are colliding, and nobody agrees on the right way to build for it. We got the people actually shipping these systems into one room to argue it out.

Who's talking

• Andy Pavlo (Head of ClickHouse Labs, ClickHouse) — opening keynote, setting the stage for the day

• Fatma Ozcan (Principal Software Engineer & Systems Research, Google) — closing keynote, wrapping up the day

• Nikita Shamgunov (VP, Engineering, Databricks) + more to come — "The Convergence Debate," a fireside panel on where OLTP/OLAP is headed

• Hannes Mühleisen (Co-founder & Creator, DuckDB) — talk, details TBA

• Bonnie Xu (Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI) — talk, details TBA

• Russell Spitzer (Principal Engineer & Apache Iceberg PMC, Snowflake) — "Apache Iceberg: The Interoperability Layer Between OLTP and OLAP"

• James Sutton (CTO, ShipScience) — "From CDC Pipeline to Recovered Dollars: Agentic Parcel Auditing at 3B Row Updates a Month"

• Shalaka Borker (Director of Data Engineering, Rooftsock) — "Beyond Query Tuning: Rethinking Application Reporting"

The day

• 9:00 — Doors open, registration & coffee

• 10:00 — Opening Keynote — Andy Pavlo

• 10:45 — The Convergence Debate (fireside panel)

• 12:00 — Lunch on the outdoor terrace

• 1:00 — Talk — Hannes Mühleisen

• 1:30 — Case Study — ShipScience

• 2:00 — Case Study — Rooftsock

• 2:30 — Talk — Speaker TBA

• 3:15 — Afternoon break

• 4:00 — Talk — Russell Spitzer

• 4:30 — Talk — Bonnie Xu

• 5:00 — Closing Keynote — Fatma Ozcan

• 5:30 — Happy hour

DET Community Booth — the DET community will have a booth open all day at the Blue Cube, with 1:1 mentorship sessions and small-group networking for fellow practitioners. Links for booking a networking slot.

Free to attend. Application-only. 400+ curated practitioners, one room, one track — no parallel sessions competing for your time.

📍 Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street, San Francisco
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