Hey JB, Thanks for kicking this off! I'd love to volunteer for the selection committee for NA (as well as the EU event when that time comes) and/or be involved in any way I can.
Definitely looking forward to us all making this event happen! Best, Danica On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM Roy Hasson <[email protected]> wrote: > This is really exciting and on behalf of Microsoft, I volunteer to also be > on the selection committee for both NA and EMEA evets. > > Thanks > Roy > > ------------------------------ > > You don't often get email from [email protected]. Learn why this is > important <https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> > Hey JB, > > Thanks for incepting this. I would love to volunteer if there’s scope. > > Best, > Dipankar > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM Talat Uyarer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi JB, > > Thanks for organizing the Apache Iceberg Summit 2026. I would like to > volunteer to be part of the selection committee. > > Thanks, > Talat > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM Yuval Yogev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great! > I'm happy to volunteer as well! This is exciting > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks JB, for kicking this off! > > I'm happy to volunteer! Looking forward to the 2026 summit. > Let's see if we can beat the 200+ CFP submissions for the 2025 summit :) > > Best, > Kevin Liu > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM huaxin gao <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi JB, > Thanks for organizing! I'd love to volunteer for the selection committee. > > Best, > Huaxin > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM Matt Topol <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey JB, > > I'd also like to volunteer for the selection committee. For prior > experience, I was on the selection committee for the Arrow summit and > helped run a track (including selection) for Community over Code last > month. > > Thanks! > > --Matt > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025, 8:59 AM Sung Yun <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi JB, > > Thank you for organizing. I'd like to volunteer to be a part of the > Selection Committee for the next Iceberg Summit. > > Sung > > On 2025/10/06 03:28:19 Jean-Baptiste Onofré 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. > > > >
