OSA Con 2026 - The Anti-Hype Conference for Open Source Analytics and AI

Hosted by Open Source Analytics Community & 4 others

AWS Builder Loft

San Francisco, CA

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About Event

IMPORTANT: For in-person attendees: Because this event takes place in the AWS Builder Loft, please register here: https://events.builder.aws.com/ReRbol

All guests must be 18+ and present a valid government-issued physical photo ID at check-in (digital IDs will not be accepted). Scooters and bikes are not permitted in any Amazon building with no on-site parking available.

STREAM LINKS: For online registrations, check your registration email (it should be coming from "Altinity"). There will be our live stream links! We are also listing them here

Room 1: Watch on YouTube

Room 2: Watch on YouTube

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Description:

2026 is the year agentic AI finally works, and it’s changing open source analytics.

OSA Con 2026 brings together engineers, architects, and builders working at the intersection of open source data infrastructure and AI. No vendor pitches or 10x AI miracles. Just deep technical talks from great engineers building stuff that works.

We’ll get into AI workloads and data management, agents building and operating analytic platforms, and analytics powering autonomous actions, alongside what’s happening in real-time analytics, shared data lakes, and emerging open-source architectures.

📍 Nov 2 · AWS Builder Loft, San Francisco + Online · [Free to attend / Limited in-person capacity]

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Sessions

All times Pacific (PST). Two tracks run simultaneously.

10:00–10:25 AM
- From Data Modeling to Agent Modeling — Max Beauchemin (Preset)
- How AI Is Changing Database Architecture: It's Not What You Think — Robert Hodges (Altinity)
10:35–11:00 AM
- Getting Your Agents to Write (Good) Pipelines on Apache Spark — Lisa Cao (Databricks)
- Observability is Broken and Open-Source (will be) the Solution — Josh Lee (Altinity)
11:10–11:35 AM
- Who Watches the Watcher: Benchmarking AI Agents That Debug Your Dashboards — Wei-Chin Call & Jun Ding (Grafana Labs)
- ADBC in Production: From Zero-Copy Promise to Reality — Matthew Topol (Columnar)
11:45 AM–12:10 PM
- Gaming Analytics for the Agentic Era — Brandon Wilcox (Gamebeast)
- Paying Rent on Your Own Data — Patrick McFadin
12:20–12:45 PM
- The Open Agentic Lakehouse — Alex Merced (Dremio)
- Building an Open Semantic Layer for Telemetry with DuckDB and DataFusion — Clay Smith (Tero)
2:15–2:40 PM
- Panel: Whose Code Is It Anyway? — Heather Meeker, Roman Shaposhnik & Robert Hodges
- 10 Useful Dashboards You Can't Make with Grafana — David Morrison
2:50–3:15 PM
- What Breaks When Open Source Data Platforms Become Agent Infrastructure? — Siddharth Arun (Salesforce)
2:50–3:50 PM
- Panel: What Should Be Open in the Age of AI? — Industry experts from Plotly, Maxim AI, Deeptrail, GrowthBook & Aerospike
3:25–3:50 PM
- Serverless Eventing: Simplifying Message Delivery — Jason Smith (Google Cloud)
4:00–4:25 PM
- Your Observability Stack Is Messing Up Your Agents — Perla Gámez (Foam)
- Your Next Power User is an AI Agent — Pranay Prateek (SigNoz)
4:35–5:00 PM
- Measuring Agents, Not Vibes — Rafael Aviles (ObsessionDB)
- Closing the Loop with Open Source: Streaming SQL from Agent Telemetry to Agent Action — Gang Tao (Timeplus)