📍 Venue: Google Munich – Safety Engineering Center
📅 Date & Time: Tuesday, June 17 | 18:30–21:00
📌 Address: Erika-Mann-Straße 33, 80636 München

After a packed May session, we're back in June with another deep dive into the Iceberg lakehouse ecosystem, featuring two speakers and practical insights into building high-performance real-time analytics.

Yingjun Wu – Founder & CEO at RisingWave Labs

Yingjun Wu is the founder and CEO of RisingWave Labs, a company developing a distributed SQL database designed for stream processing and real-time analytics. With over a decade of experience in the field, Yingjun has previously worked as a software engineer on the Amazon Redshift team at AWS and as a researcher at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the National University of Singapore and was a visiting Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University.

Talk: Building a Real-Time Lakehouse on Iceberg (Without Losing Your Mind)

Abstract:
Everyone makes streaming sound simple - until you try bolting it onto your batch pipeline and it blows up. This talk skips the marketing gloss and gets into the real work: how to make batch and streaming actually play nice. I'll walk through the essentials, then get into the messy parts - compaction, primary key updates, exactly-once delivery, and keeping your compute bill from spiraling. You'll learn how to plug RisingWave into your existing stack and get real-time results without rewriting everything. It's based on what we've seen in production - real problems, real fixes, no buzzwords.

Georg Kreuzmayr – Software Engineer at Firebolt

Georg Kreuzmayr is a software engineer at Firebolt, focusing on high-performance data processing and distributed systems. He is also the founder of TUMuchData. Georg pursued his bachelor's and master's degrees at TUM, where he specialized in database systems.

Talk: The Story of When Fire(bolt) Meets Ice(berg)

Abstract:
In this talk, we take a look under the hood of Firebolt and dive into the challenges we had to solve to bring a free-to-use production-grade data warehouse to the market. Furthermore, you will learn about our efforts to support high-performance, low-latency analytics on the lakehouse architecture.

🗓 Agenda:

• 18:30 Doors Open
• 18:40 Welcome
• 18:45 Talk #1: Georg Kreuzmayr & Friends
• 19:30 Pizza & Networking 🍕
• 20:00 Talk #2: Yingjun Wu
• 21:00 End