​​Welcome to the New York City Apache DataFusion Meetup!

​Join us for an evening of talks, panel discussion, and community discussion celebrating 50 releases of Apache DataFusion and its growing role in modern data infrastructure. This year’s meetup will spotlight real-world applications, performance innovations, and evolving integrations — from Distributed DataFusion, geospatial extensions, to Dynamic predicate pushdown, and more!

​​NOTE: due to venue requirements, it is required to register with your actual name. We will provide the front desk with the names and you will need to show ID to get in.

​Event is on the 45th floor cafe.

​Agenda

​5:30 – 6:30 PM | Welcome, food, and networking

​6:30 – 8:15 PM | Lightning Talks & Panel Discussion

​8:15 – 8:30 PM | Wrap-up and mingling

​Speaker Lineup

​Distributed DataFusion Library - Rob Tandy, Staff Engineer, and Gabriel Musat Mestre, Senior Engineer, Datadog

​Scaling Datadog Functions and Formulas with DataFusion DataFrames - Nga Tran, Staff Engineer, Datadog

​Dynamic predicate pushdown - Adrian Garcia Badaracco, Founding Engineer, Pydantic

​VegaFusion: Vega Visualization Acceleration with DataFusion - Jon Mease, Visualization Engineer, Hex Technologies

​Vortex: Bootstrapping a New File Format with DataFusion - Will Manning, Co-founder/CEO, Spiral

​Geospatial support for DataFusion - Kyle Barron, Cloud Engineer, Development Seed

​Panelist Discussion: Reflecting upon the 50 releases of DataFusion

• ​Andrew Lamb, Staff Engineer, InfluxData; Apache DataFusion PMC Chair

• ​Tim Saucer, Software Engineer, Rerun; Apache DataFusion PMC

• ​Adrian Garcia Badaracco, Founding Engineer, Pydantic; Apache DataFusion Committer

• ​Panel Host: Rob Tandy, Staff Engineer, Datadog