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KCDC 2025: What’s a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?
CONFERENCE TALK
KCDC 2025: What’s a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?
August 13 – August 15 Kansas City Convention Center, Kansas City, USA
Our CEO, Robert Hodges, is presenting the talk What’s a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack? at the Kansas City Developer Conference. The 2025 conference will be held August 13-15, with a pre-conference workshop day and two full conference days.
Data lakes on open table formats like Iceberg are a popular way to manage large datasets for analytics, data science, and AI. This talk explains how data lakes work and how to adapt open-source analytic stacks to use them. First, we’ll tour projects like Arrow, Iceberg, and Unity Catalog that make data lakes possible. Next, we’ll see how analytics engines like DuckDB, ClickHouse, and Spark are adapting. Finally, we’ll survey a few projects that enable applications written in Python, Golang, or Rust to deliver fast queries. You’ll have to build the app yourself, but this talk will show you a path to use data lakes and open source successfully.
About the Presenter
Robert Hodges – CEO at Altinity
Robert Hodges serves as CEO at Altinity, a leading software and services provider for ClickHouse. Robert has more than 30 years of experience with database systems and applications, including pre-relational databases such as M204, online SQL transaction processing, Hadoop, and analytics. In the last few years, his work has focused on analytical databases, Kubernetes, and open source.
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