Subsurface | The Open Lakehouse Community

THE OPEN DATA AND AI CONFERENCE

September 30 to October 2, 2026
8:00 to 11:00 AM PT daily / VIRTUAL

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About us

Where open data meets agentic AI.

Subsurface LIVE is the industry’s premier cloud data lakehouse conference, showcasing the latest innovations in open data and agentic AI. It brings together leading practitioners, customers, and open source projects that are shaping the future of the cloud data lake ecosystem.

Over three mornings, you’ll hear how the world’s most ambitious data and AI teams are designing open, interoperable architectures and putting them into production. From Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris to autonomous agents reasoning over governed lakehouse data, Subsurface is where the people building this future come to share what they’ve learned.

Check out some of our past speakers!

Call for papers: now open

Got a story the data community needs to hear?

We’re looking for talks from engineers, architects, data leaders, and open source maintainers working at the edges of open data and agentic AI. Real architectures, real lessons, real numbers.

Topics we’re especially excited about:

Apache Iceberg, Apache Polaris, and the open lakehouse stack in production
Agentic AI systems grounded on lakehouse data
Migrating off proprietary warehouses to open formats
Governance, lineage, and trust for AI-ready data
Cost, performance, and operability at petabyte scale
Open source project deep dives across Arrow, Iceberg, Polaris, Nessie, Parquet, and friends

Sponsorships Available

For more information on sponsorship at Subsurface LIVE 2026, please contact our Sponsorship Management Team.

Why attend

The Subsurface Community

More than 18,000 data engineers, architects, and data scientists have joined Subsurface since launch. Past speakers include leaders from Apple, Netflix, Lyft, LinkedIn, TransUnion, Uber, Marsh McLennan, Adobe, AWS, Microsoft, Shell, Wayfair, TD Securities, and Regeneron, alongside the original creators of Apache Arrow, Apache Iceberg, Apache Parquet, Project Nessie, Pandas, and more.

What’s next

In 2026, we’re bringing that same community together for a tighter, fully virtual experience: three focused mornings dedicated to where open data and agentic AI go next.