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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>) or a PMC > member, we will route and include in the Organization Committee. >
