Danica Fine
Danica began her career as a software engineer in financial services and pivoted to developer relations, where she focussed primarily on open source technologies under the Apache Software Foundation umbrella such as Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. She now leads the open source advocacy efforts at Snowflake, supporting Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris (incubating). She can be found on X (Bluesky and Mastodon), talking about tech, plants, and baking @TheDanicaFine.
Snowflake
Sessions
AI agents have quietly become some of the most demanding users of modern data platforms and most weren't built with them in mind. In this panel, leaders from Snowflake, Elastic, MotherDuck, and Xata share what agentic workloads actually look like in production: what broke, what had to be rebuilt, and where the architecture is heading.
Apache Iceberg™ relies on catalogs, but with many options available, choosing the right one is challenging. This session explores the Iceberg catalog landscape, covering core functions, the impact of REST catalogs, and comparisons of Hive, JDBC, Snowflake, and Apache Polaris™ to help you select the best fit for your needs.