​Apache Iceberg™ Europe Meetup - live in Madrid!

​​Join us for the Apache Iceberg™ Europe Meetup in Madrid! Our event is hosted in Madrid co-hosted by Ververica, Databricks and Vakamo.

​🎟️ When registering, please select one of the two ticket types:

• ​In-Person Ticket: Join us on-site! Your name will be used to pre-register for venue access.

• ​Remote-Only Ticket: Can’t make it in person? No worries—register to join the live stream, receive event recordings, and stay connected with the community.

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​Livestream on youtube

​Agenda

​6:00 pm – Registration & Networking

​​​🎙️ Viktor Kessler - Apache Iceberg - Governance and Business Continuity 

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​​🎙️ Alex Campos - Apache Iceberg, Make Big Data Great Again

​​🎙️ Robert Pack - How Apache Iceberg integrate with query engines and evolution of catalogs

9:00 pm – Event close

​How to Get to the Venue

​Address:

​C. de Leganitos, 47, 4º, Centro, 28013 Madrid, Spain

​Building Access

​https://maps.app.goo.gl/4VdgZ4twrKxzhHCg7

​🪪 ID Requirements

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​Presentations & Speakers

​​​​​​​​​​🌟 Apache Iceberg - Governance and Business Continuity 

​​​Modern data platforms increasingly behave like software systems — but most organizations still lack safe workflows for changing data. Updating a table in production can easily break downstream pipelines, dashboards, or machine learning models.

​​​In this session, we explore how Write-Audit-Publish (WAP) and Iceberg’s branching and tagging capabilities introduce Git-like workflows to the data lakehouse. Instead of writing directly to production tables, teams can validate changes, test transformations, and audit results before publishing them.

​​​We’ll walk through the core concepts behind WAP, branches, and tags in Apache Iceberg, and explain how they enable safer experimentation, reproducibility, and controlled data releases.

​​​To make this concrete, the session includes a live demo showing how to:

• ​​​write data to a staging branch

• ​​​validate and audit changes

• ​​​publish the result to production

• ​​​use tags to create reproducible data snapshots

​​​If you’re interested in bringing software engineering best practices to data management, this session will show how Iceberg makes it possible.

​​​​Viktor Kessler, is Co-Founder of Vakamo and the creator of Lakekeeper, an Apache Licensed Iceberg REST Catalog. He’s a big believer in open standards like Apache Iceberg, which he sees as the backbone of today’s modern, composable Data & Analytics systems.

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​​​​​​​​​​🌟 Apache Iceberg, Make Big Data Great Again

​Lakehouse is more than just a solution; it's a game-changer in data management practice. Learning the good and the bad from Data Warehouse and Data Lake, brings fundamental shifts in how data is organized, processed, and served to use cases, offering companies a path to redefine their data strategy. Designed for simplicity, modernization, and scalability in the cloud era, Lakehouse is paving the way for a new standard in data management. In this session, the audience will learn the innovation and needs that are driving Lakehouse adoption, as well the frameworks and tools that are setting the basis for modern data architecture. Long live Lakehouse, and welcome to the game.

​Alex Campos Experienced Technical Sales professional with 10+ years of hands-on experience in Data solutions throughout Latam, Caribbean, and Europe regions, knowledgeable on different industries. Combining my technical background and experience with a business-oriented and innovative approach, I help companies identify and bridge technology to business to accelerate Digital Transformation.