Open Data Infrastructure | SF Meetup 001

​Open Data Infrastructure is a new community for people building around the open lakehouse: data stored once in open formats, storage separate from compute, and every workload running on the engine that fits it.

​Our first meetup is December 9 in San Francisco.

​The talks cover the stack end to end, from ingestion to query engines to how apps and agents access data. Speakers will cover what open infrastructure unlocks, how the pieces fit together, and what it takes to get there. Come for the talks, meet others working through the same problems, and bring your questions.

​Who should come?

​Data engineers, platform engineers, and anyone building with—or curious about—open table formats, lakehouses, and multiple query engines. Whether you’re already running this stack or figuring out where to start, you’re welcome!

​Talks

​The access layer: it's real and it's spectacular
Ian Cook, Cofounder & CEO, Columnar

​We talk a lot about storage, table formats, and query engines. But what about the layer sitting right up front? Ian takes us from 1976 to 2026 and beyond to explore how the access layer developed—and why it deserves more attention now than ever.

​Cross-Engine Observability (working title)
Willy & Peter, Cofounders, CEO & CTO

​Details coming soon.

​A talk from Bruin
Topic and speaker to be announced.

​We are looking for one more speaker! Please reach out to kyle@greybeam.ai

​Sponsors

​Bruin
Bruin brings data ingestion, SQL and Python transformations, orchestration, and data quality into one platform, with an open-source core.

​Columnar
Columnar builds fast, open database connectivity powered by Apache Arrow and ADBC, helping applications and agents access data efficiently across databases and query engines.

​Host

​Greybeam
Greybeam runs Snowflake workloads on DuckDB without a migration, handling SQL translation, query routing, and compute so teams can use the right engine for each workload.