Name: Real Time Data Lakes / Open Lakehouse ft ClickHouse®, DuckDB, StarRocks, and S3
Start: 2025-10-02T18:00:00.000-04:00
End: 2025-10-02T21:00:00.000-04:00
Location: 307 W 38th St #1505

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 is proud to present an evening of insights and networking in New York City, featuring experts from ClickHouse®, StarRocks, Snowflake, and AWS.

Real-time databases are integrating with data lakes to reduce storage costs and share data with AI and data science. Please join us to hear from a range of experts as they share current problems and solutions while navigating the transition from closed storage models to open table formats like Apache Iceberg. 

 for an evening with experts from ClickHouse, StarRocks, Snowflake, and AWS. Learn how to build high-performance real-time data lake systems. Networking to follow presentations. Food and drink provided!

P.S. The OSA Community is also hosting the online OSA Conference on November 4–5. 

Adapting ClickHouse to use Apache Iceberg Storage 

Real-Time Customer-Facing Analytics: From Pain to Production 

- Ron Kapoor, Developer Advocate @ CelerData

Elizabeth Christensen, Developer Advocate @ Snowflake

Managing Apache Iceberg Tables with Amazon S3: High Performance and Interoperability at Scale - 

David Zhang, Sr. Analytics Solutions Architect @ AWS

Robert is the CEO of Altinity, an enterprise provider for ClickHouse data warehouse. He's also a database geek with experience on at least 20 DBMS types. Robert caught the Kubernetes bug at VMware in 2018.

Ron is a Developer Advocate at CelerData, where he helps bridge the gap between high-performance analytics technology and the data engineering community. Before joining CelerData, Ron worked at Jefferies, where he engineered real-time streaming systems and electronic trading infrastructure for fixed income products. His work focused on ultra-low-latency performance, reliability, and data integrity in capital markets environments. He’s especially interested in modern data architecture. Particularly streaming analytics, lakehouse ecosystems, and how simplicity and performance intersect in developer-centric systems.

- Elizabeth is a Postgres contributor and technical writer at Snowflake from Lawrence, Kansas. She is on the board of the US PostgreSQL Association, hosts Postgres Meetup for All, and the annual PostGIS Day. Elizabeth is passionate about open source technology and diversity in tech through education. 

 - David is a Sr. Analytics Solutions Architect at AWS specializing in designing and implementing large-scale data infrastructure, ETL processes, and extensive data management systems. He helps customer modernize data platforms on AWS. He has "productionized" petabyte-scale data lakes in the past. 