San Francisco Apache DataFusion Meetup
Join us for an evening of talks and community discussion about Apache DataFusion and its growing role in modern data infrastructure. This meetup will spotlight real-world applications, performance innovations, and evolving integrations 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. Agenda 5:30 – 6:30 PM | Welcome, food, and networking 6:30 – 8:00 PM | Talks (Expect 10-15 minutes talks, with an opportunity to ask questions afterwards) 8:00 – 8:30 PM | Wrap-up and mingling Speaker Lineup Alexander Bianchi (Software Engineer, Datadog)Adaptive Query Execution in DataFusion Distributed Shehab Amin (CEO, LakeSail)Inside Sail: Rebuilding The Spark Lakehouse Ecosystem in Rust Ankush Gola (CTO & Co-Founder, LangChain)Building SmithDB: The Database for Agent Observability Divya Ranganathan (CEO & Co-Founder, Hotdata)Provisioning Millions of Databases with DataFusion and DuckLake Emil Sadek (Sr. Technical Account Manager, Columnar)Arrow End-to-End: Integrating DataFusion and ADBC We have room for speakers at the next event in December. Please contact the organizers if you would like to speak. Location SOMA — address provided upon approval. We can only admit guests with approved registrations. Organizer Contact Info Divya Ranganathan [contact redacted] Eddie A Tejeda [contact redacted] Andrew Lamb [contact redacted] Amada Echeverría [contact redacted]
Talks & recordings
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Ankush Gola, LangChain — Interview with Alexy
Alexy Khrabrov talks with LangChain co-founder and CTO Ankush Gola about SmithDB, the Rust and Apache DataFusion-powered data layer behind LangSmith. They discuss agent-observability workloads, database extensibility, production performance, and where Rust fits into modern AI infrastructure.
DataFusion at LangChain: Meet the Speakers — with Alexy Khrabrov
Alexy Khrabrov walks through the new LangChain office before the San Francisco Apache DataFusion Meetup and checks in with organizers and speakers. Divya Ranganathan, Emil Sadek, Shehab Amin, and Alexander Bianchi preview talks spanning ADBC, LakeSail, distributed query execution, and the growing DataFusion community.
Romain Priour, AI Infra at LangChain — Interview with Alexy
Alexy Khrabrov talks with Romain Priour of LangChain’s AI infrastructure team about deploying LangSmith for enterprise customers. They discuss Kubernetes, a hybrid SaaS and self-hosted model on AWS, customer-facing infrastructure, and expanding the platform across clouds.
Zac Farrell, Hotdata — Interview with Alexy
Alexy Khrabrov talks with Hotdata co-founder and principal engineer Zac Farrell about building cloud databases for AI agents. They discuss Hotdata’s Rust and Apache DataFusion foundation, isolated database workspaces, SQL, performance engineering, and choosing Rust-native infrastructure over legacy stacks.
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