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Open Source Analytics Conference 2026

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SA Con is a community-driven conference for engineers and architects building modern analytics and AI systems. Organized by the Open Source Analytics (OSA) community, the conference brings together practitioners, project maintainers, and data leaders to share real-world architectures, lessons from production systems, and updates from the open-source tools p…

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39Voices
2Underwriters
0Exhibitors
29On the bill · sessions
32Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at Open, in alphabetical order.
Alkin Tezuysal
Director of Services · Altinity Inc
Anastasiia Zvenigorodskaia
Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer · Epicmax
Anurag Pandey
Co-Founder · Incerto Technologies
Avi Press
Founder and CEO · Scarf
Boris Tyshkevich
Altinity
Chris Crane
Co-Founder/ Product · Fiveonefour
Chris Dabatos
Developer Relations · TiDB
Christopher Bergh
CEO, Head Chef · DataKitchen
David Stokes
Community Manager · MySQL
Evan Rusackas
Preset Developer Advocate / Apache Superset PMC · Preset
Fatih Degirmenci
Senior Manager, Core Platforms QE · SUSE
Georg Heiler
Solving problems with data
Heather Meeker
Co-Founder, Chinstrap Community · Chinstrap Community
Jayesh Asrani
Principal Solutions Architect · StarTree
Josh Lee
Karthickram Vailraj
Anna University, Tamil Nadu, India
Lorenzo Mangani
Co-Founder and Dreamweaver · qxip
Marc Antoine Desroches
Technical Architect at Ubisoft · Ubisoft
Maxime Beauchemin
CEO & Founder at Preset · Preset
Michael Molina
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb / Apache Superset PMC · Airbnb
Mingyu Chen
Apache Doris PMC Chair & VPE · VeloDB
Mya Jaye
Founder • Talented Generalist • Volunteer · C8 Labs

— and 17 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AltinityPlatinum
PresetPlatinum
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The Programme

Selected from 29 sessions on the bill.
  • 11:00 - 11:30

    Open Source’s Massive Unfair Advantage in the AI Era

    As AI transforms how we build, scale, and interact with software, one thing is becoming clear: open source isn’t just keeping up—it’s leading. In this keynote, Max Beauchemin, crea…

  • 11:20 - 11:45

    Don't Fire Your Developers and Other Lessons for the AI Revolution

    AI is going to alter the world. Will it lead to a golden age, human extinction, or just one more technical advance? History tells us that the winners in the race will be those who …

  • 11:35 - 12:10

    How Open Source Businesses Will Thrive in the Age of AI

    Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) is a burgeoning business sector. This talk will focus on how the demand for COSS will be driven by the advance of LLM and AI.

  • 11:50 - 12:25

    Panel: Sustaining Open-Source Success

    Open source thrives on passion — but it also takes more. This panel brings together leaders from across the ecosystem to explore how open-source projects can stay healthy, grow con…

  • 12:15 - 12:25

    The Open Source Hero's Journey

    Joseph Cambell’s story-circle describes the journeys of epic heroes from the known into the unknown in search of rewards. Maybe it’s not so different from the Gartner Hype Cycle th…

  • 12:30 - 13:00

    ClickHouse® Chronicles: Real-World War Rooms with Human and AI Agents

    Distributed systems are full of surprises—and ClickHouse® is no exception. In this talk, Shivji (Nutanix) and Anurag (Incerto) share real-world war room stories from designing, tes…

  • 12:30 - 13:00

    Garbage Data = Garbage AI: An Open Source Data Quality Framework for Teams With No Time

    Data teams continue to face long-standing challenges: their customers often distrust their results, data providers frequently ignore their existence, and teams spend more time fire…

  • 12:30 - 13:00

    OLAP in your App: Integrating realtime & agentic analytics into your app

    Modern analytics experiences demand “conversation-fast” backends—systems that serve the requests of an agent or LLM in real time at the speed of a natural conversation. In this tal…

  • 12:30 - 13:00

    Streaming Analytics in Action: Real-World Case Studies from Uber, Razorpay, and Stripe

    Discover the transformative power of streaming analytics featuring groundbreaking case studies from some of the most innovative companies in the world. Explore how Uber, Razorpay, …

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 32 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

32 companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
2All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
30Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Altinity·Preset

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

38% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite615%
  • Founder / Owner718%
  • Director / Head of25%
  • Manager / Lead821%
  • Engineer · IC923%
  • Marketing / Brand13%
  • Other roles615%

Of 39 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01AltinitySp·P3V
  2. 02PresetSp·P2V
  3. 03Airbnb1V
  4. 04Amazon1V
  5. 05Anna University, Tamil Nadu, India1V
  6. 06Apple1V
  7. 07AWS1V
  8. 08C8 Labs1V
  9. 09CelerData1V
  10. 10Chinstrap Community1V
  11. 11DataKitchen1V
  12. 12Deloitte Consulting LLP1V
  13. 13Epicmax1V
  14. 14Fiveonefour1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum2
100% of 2

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