Open Lakehouse + AI Meetup - Munich
Open Lakehouse + AI Meetup - Tuesday, November 3, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM CET | Munich, DE
We're bringing together the open source and data engineering community for an evening focused on the latest in open lakehouse and AI architectures!
Whether you work on data infrastructure, contribute to open source, or want to dive into the future of AI and interoperable lakehouse systems, you’ll fit right in.
Don't miss this opportunity to accelerate your data journey and contribute to shaping the future of data and AI!
Agenda
5:00 - 6:00PM - Drinks & mingling
6:00 - Welcome remarks
🎙️ Viktor Kessler (Vakamo): Agentic Readiness Starts in the Catalog
🎙️ Helge Aufderheide (NVIDIA) : Accelerated Data Processing with NVIDIA
Networking / Break
🎙️ Robert Pack (Databricks): tba
🎙️ tba (LangFuse): tba
8:30 - 9:00 PM - Closing Remarks & Networking & bite
Presentations and Abstracts
🌟Agentic Readiness Starts in the Catalog
AI agents get smarter by learning from each other: one agent writes a memory or drafts a skill, and the whole fleet reuses it. That reciprocity is also the risk. A single poisoned email can turn into a “helpful” skill that every agent follows the next day, with no record of who wrote it or who approved it. That’s why most agent projects stall at the CISO.
We will talk how to make agents CISO-ready with the same lakehouse machinery that already governs your data. Lakekeeper, the open-source Apache Iceberg REST catalog, gives every agent its own identity, OpenFGA grants and short-lived vended credentials scoped to its own datasets. Agents can propose skills but hold no key to publish them. A governance agent triages proposals with versioned rules it can’t change, a human approves, and every decision lands in an audit log and an Iceberg decision log.
Live demo included: three agents, one human, and a catalog that keeps saying no.
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.
🌟Accelerated Data Processing with NVIDIA
When we hear the word "GPU", do you think Data Processing? In this talk you will learn why you should. You will see how accelerated Compute changes the economics and opens new possibilities to work with data in many of your standard tools, from pandas to databases.
Helge is a tinkerer at heart and passionate about innovation in traditional industries driven by new technologies. At NVIDIA, he focuses on the possibilities that open when bringing AI and big data to railway and factory environments.
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