Keynote: Data Lakehouse: Country Club or Community Center? – Steven Mih, Co-founder & CEO, Ahana

Over the last two decades, we’ve seen the birth and emergence of the data lake systems–from the internal walls of Google to modern Lakehouses at Meta/Facebook, which promise the best of both data lake and data warehouse worlds. Equally important is the role open source–and more broadly, openness–has played and will play in this journey. In this talk, Steven will draw his experience with open source distributed systems (Couchbase, Mesosphere, Alluxio, Linux Foundation Presto) to explore the significance of the “5 shades of openness” with respect to the composable open data lakehouse ecosystem.