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) + Paul Copplestone (Co-founder & CEO, Supabase) — "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
Want the mic for 5 minutes? We're opening up a handful of lightning talk slots on the day — details and the application link are coming soon.
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 mentorship slot coming soon.
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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