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Apache Iceberg & open lakehouses
Table formats, catalogs, interoperability, architecture, and practical choices for production data platforms.
Speaking & Events
Ideas worth sharing, explained clearly.
Alex Merced is Head of Developer Relations at Dremio and an author and educator on open data architecture. He speaks with data teams, developers, and business audiences about building useful systems and helping people understand them.
Topics
What Alex can speak about
Talks can be tailored for technical practitioners, leaders, or a mixed audience.
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Agentic AI & analytics
How governed data, context, and semantic layers help make AI systems more useful and dependable.
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Open source & developer communities
Why community-driven projects become standards and how to teach complex ideas without losing the audience.
Sample talks
Talks from Alex's Sessionize profile
IceFrame: A Python Toolkit for Building and Operating Iceberg Data Pipelines
Practical Python workflows for Iceberg pipelines.
See talk details ↗Why Open, Community-Driven Projects Become the Standards
A look at how open projects gain adoption and lasting relevance.
See talk details ↗Lakehouse Catalogs 101
Governing and transporting Iceberg, Delta, and Hudi tables.
See talk details ↗Events
Where Alex has spoken
Data Day Texas · Dremio Subsurface · SQLBits · OSA Con · DataEngBytes · ODSC AI East · Nerdearla · Øredev · Confluent Currents
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