Last week marked an Apache Iceberg milestone with the 1st Iceberg Summit. It was an astounding success for a first-time event. Here are some of the key stats from the Summit, plus the most popular talks.
- 32 keynotes, sessions and panels
- 3,291 registrants
- 2,271 attendees
- 69% attendance rate (folks, this just doesn’t happen)!!!!
- 6 hrs 25 mins average engagement
The top talks in terms of attendance were
- Opening Keynote: The Quiet Revolution by Ryan Blue, Iceberg PMC Chair and Tabular (now part of Databricks) CEO (869)
- Leveraging Iceberg in Netflix Studio and Creative Production (591)
- Building an EB-Scale Feature Store at ByteDance (559)
- Glacial Growth: Data Platform for Foundation Models, IBM (507)
- Enforcing Fine Grained Access Control with Spark and Iceberg, AWS (505)
- Toward Optimizing EB Iceberg Lakes, TenCent (488)
- Day 2 Keynote: Iceberg Development at Apple (445)
The 45 minute sessions that engaged people with the most were:
- Leveraging Iceberg Puffin Files to Accelerate Queries, Bodo (67 mins)
- Unleashing Analytical Productivity at Pinterest with Apache (67)
- Historical Data Archive at Bloomberg using Iceberg 366 (65)
- From Legacy Mart to Data Product Excellence, Syngenta (64)
- Toward Optimizing EB Iceberg Lakes, TenCent (57)
We encourage you to watch as many of the recordings as you have time for, and we’ll see you at the next Summit!
