Hi JB! Thanks for starting this thread and looking forward to iceberg summit 2026 I would like to volunteer my time to serve on the selection committee, if I can be of any help.
Best, PF On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 05:28 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
