Hi Robin and all, My apologies, I thought this had already been sent.
The Selection Committee was appointed on November 22 and held a kickoff meeting on December 17. The committee members are: - Christian Thiel - JB Onofré - John Zhuge - Kevin Liu - Matt Topol - Maximilian Michels - Russell Spitzer - Ryan Blue - Sung Yun - Talat Uyarer - Xinli Shang The committee will meet again this Friday. As a reminder, the CFP is currently open here: https://sessionize.com/iceberg-summit-2026 ( https://sessionize.com/iceberg-summit-2026). The deadline to submit your talks is January 18. Regards, JB On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 11:13 AM Robin Moffatt via dev < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi JB, > When will the selection committee for Iceberg Summit 2026 be announced? > > thanks, Robin. > > On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 at 04:28, 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. >> > > > -- > *Robin Moffatt* > *Sr. Principal Advisor, Streaming Data Technologies* >
