DISCUSSION: San Francisco DataFusion Meetup (February 19, 2026)

[divs1101-maker]

We’re excited to bring the DataFusion community together in San Francisco for a local meetup!

📅 Thursday, Feb 19, 2026
📍 Chroma - 660 Alabama St, San Francisco
🔗 RSVP via https://luma.com/p7r6fp2z

Tentative Agenda
5:30–6:30 - Food, drinks, and hellos
6:30–8:00 - DataFusion talks
8:00–8:30 - Wrap-up & conversations

We’d love your ideas on topics - and we’re especially interested in hearing from DataFusion users in the Bay Area who’d like to share what they’re building. If you’re curious about presenting, reach out!

Organizer Contact Info
Divya Ranganathan divya@hotdata.dev
Eddie A Tejeda eddie@hotdata.dev
Andrew Lamb alamb@influxdata.com

[zfarrell]

The recordings from the meetup are now up! Here's the full playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL42Ljm2tTt5peGUWMBN7WFkASq73j8PoU

Speaker Lineup:

• Xiangpeng Hao (Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison) — LiquidCache: Pushdown Caching for DataFusion
• Bev Turnbaugh (Customer Engineer, MotherDuck) — DuckLake: Lakehouses 2.0
• Zac Farrell (Co-Founder, Hotdata) — DuckLake without DuckDB?
• Shehab Amin (CEO, LakeSail) — Native Iceberg + Delta Lake support, Sail's distributed processing architecture
• Camuel Gilyadov & Sergei Turukin (Founders, Embucket) — Leveraging DataFusion to run unmodified Snowflake workloads on AWS Lambdas

Thanks to everyone who came out and to all the speakers for the great talks.

We have room for speakers at the next event in May. If you're interested in presenting, reach out to divya@hotdata.dev or eddie@hotdata.dev.

[alamb]

This is amazing -- thank you @zfarrell