Hi JB, I’d like to volunteer to join the Selection Committee for the Iceberg Summit 2026. I’m excited about the opportunity to help shape the agenda and contribute to making the summit a great experience for the community.
Please include me in the list of volunteers for consideration by the PMC. Thank you, Hang On 2025/10/07 00:31:46 Ron Ortloff wrote: > Hi JB, > > I'd like to volunteer for the selection committee for NA and EU events or > be involved anywhere help is needed. > > Thanks! > Ron > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM Danica Fine > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > >> > > >> > >> >
