Portland Apache DataFusion Meetup

Join us for an evening of talks, community discussions about Apache DataFusion and its growing role in modern data infrastructure.

This meetup will spotlight real-world applications, performance innovations, and evolving integrations. Come and meet your fellow DataFusion community members

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+1 971 533 5587 (Mustafa)

Agenda

17:30 – 18:00 | Welcome, networking

18:00 – 19:30 | Lightning Talks

19:30 – 20:00 | Wrap-up

Speakers

Andrew Lamb, "Introduction to Apache DataFusion"

Mustafa Akur, "Query Plan Optimization for Streaming Executions in DataFusion"

Weston Pace, "Datafusion without Row Groups: How Lance Scans AI Workloads"

Lu Qiu, "Distributed Predicate Pushdown Execution with DataFusion and Lance"

If you would like to give a talk, please send an email to akurmustafa@gmail.com

Discussion Page

https://github.com/apache/datafusion/discussions/19817

Call for Speakers

If you would like to give a ~15-20 minute presentation about DataFusion (or related systems in Database space), we want to hear from you!

Here are some possible topics (not limited):

🔥 Performance testing and optimization magic

🚀 Rolling out a new feature in the core library

🐛 Fixing, discovering a particularly tricky bug

🛠️ Building an application using DataFusion

and more ...