AI Lakehouse Meetup - Bay Area

Join us at the Cloudera San Jose Office for an evening of talks and networking! We are bringing the Data+AI Community to talk about open table formats such as Apache Iceberg and Lance, along with emerging AI infrastructure topics & the primitives powering agentic systems. Agenda 5:00 – 5:30 PM: Registration & Networking 5:30 – 7:30 PM: Four technical talks 7:30 – 8:00 PM: Networking & Snacks Talk 1: Building the Multimodal Lakehouse for AI with LanceDB The next wave of AI applications demands seamless, scalable access to text, images, embeddings, and other complex modalities—but current lakehouse solutions still force teams into closed systems for vector search, full-text search, or feature engineering, reintroducing data silos. In this talk, we introduce Lance , a next-generation columnar data format optimized for AI, and LanceDB , the multimodal lakehouse built on top of it. Together, they provide low-latency access, unified vector, full-text, and SQL search, and flexible schema evolution across the entire multimodal AI lifecycle. From application serving to feature engineering…