OSA Con 2026 - The Anti-Hype Conference for Open Source Analytics and AI

For in-person attendees: ​Because this event takes place in the AWS builders loft, please also register HERE. ID REQUIRED FOR ENTRY! 2026 is the year agentic AI finally works, and it’s changing open source analytics. OSA Con 2026 brings together engineers, architects, and builders working at the intersection of open source data infrastructure and AI. No vendor pitches or 10x AI miracles. Just deep technical talks from great engineers building stuff that works. We’ll get into AI workloads and data management, agents building and operating analytic platforms, and analytics powering autonomous actions, alongside what’s happening in real-time analytics, shared data lakes, and emerging open-source architectures. 📍 Nov 2 · AWS Builder Loft, San Francisco + Online · [Free to attend / Limited in-person capacity] Speakers See their abstracts at osacon.io Lisa Cao — Databricks: Getting AI agents to write better Apache Spark pipelines Wei-Chin Call — Grafana Labs: Benchmarking AI agents that debug your dashboards Jason “Jay” Smith — Google: Serverless eventing for simpler, scalable AI data pipelines Aditi Pandit — IBM: Inside the Presto C++ engine: production experience, performance & the 2026 roadmap Alex Merced — Dremio: Building the Open Agentic Lakehouse for data + AI Heather Meeker, Roman Shaposhnik (Panel discussion): Whose Code Is It Anyway?