Hi everyone, As you probably know, we've been having discussions about the Iceberg Summit 2026.
The Iceberg PMC pre-approved the Iceberg Summit proposal, and one of the first steps is to put together a Selection Committee. The Selection Committee is represented by Russell Spitzer as the main PMC contact for Apache Iceberg who has agreed to solely wear the Apache hat. There are a total of 3 members from the Apache Iceberg PMC in the Selection Committee.The affiliations of all members of the Selection Committee will be clearly listed in the final version of the proposal. The Selection Committee will have 11 members. The main responsibility of the Selection Committee is to coordinate on the agenda, define the tracks, and choose all the sessions that will be featured at the 2026 Iceberg Summit NA. Once we have the committee, I will complete the proposal for the ASF and the Iceberg PMC to request the ability to use the name Iceberg/Apache Iceberg. If you'd like to help and be part of the selection committee, please volunteer in a reply to this thread. Since we likely can't include everyone that volunteers, I propose that the PMC should choose the final committee from the set of people that volunteer. We'll leave this open up to Oct 24th. NB: I'd like to help in the Selection Committee, so I'm volunteer :) Thanks ! Regards JB NB: if your company wants to sponsor and/or help the organization, please send a message to me directly ([email protected]) or a PMC member, we will route and include in the Organization Committee.
