A 90-minute breakfast for data leaders evaluating whether their current platform architecture is cost-effective, the right long-term bet against AI and Data Sovereignty, and whether the accumulated complexity tax is still necessary.
Reserve Your Seat | 20 August
Free to attend for DND Members. Limited seats. Hosted by Den Norske Dataforeningen in sponsorship with IBM.
Most data organisations run complex platforms with three to five separate databases and a lot of data movement: transactional database, data warehouse, streaming layer, vector store, maybe a feature store for AI. Each with its own budget, its own team, and its own renewal negotiation. The conventional wisdom is that this is necessary. The technology has moved past that assumption, and the economics have moved with it. Big Tech knows it but it's still not prevalent in many enterprises. Compound this with Sovereignty concerns and it becomes difficult to see the simple solution.
This is a 90-minute breakfast session for data leaders who want to understand what's changed, what's now easy, and what it means for their next platform decision.
What you'll see
A live demo of a single open-source platform handling transactional, analytical, and AI workloads on the same dataset. No data duplication. No ETL pipelines. Strict ACID consistency across the entire platform. The same architecture foundations used in production by companies at Apple, Netflix, and Uber's scale: built entirely from Apache-licensed open-source components.
Cost comparison
How this approach runs 80%+ cheaper at petabyte scale than a Postgres + ETL + Snowflake or Databricks stack, with the cost model documented and auditable. Every enterprise has different architectural needs and we'll demonstrate how to model costs comparisons against your needs.
What you'll take away
A clear picture of what open-source data infrastructure can do in 2026 that it couldn't three years ago, and a framework for evaluating whether your current platform architecture is the right long-term bet, or whether you're paying a complexity tax that's no longer necessary. Whether you're committed to Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery, this session gives you the context to pressure-test that commitment with real numbers.
Who this is for
Arrive, connect with peers, and grab a coffee. This is a room of data leaders. Expect good conversation before the session even starts.
Saleem Pothiwala will walk you through what a modern open source HTAP architecture looks like and show it working live. Handling real transactional and analytical workloads simultaneously.
Mick Semb Wever will present this for the architects and technical leads in the room, we go deeper. How does this actually work under the hood? What does migration look like? What are the real trade-offs? Honest answers, no sales pitch.
Arrive, connect with peers, and grab a coffee. This is a room of data leaders. Expect good conversation before the session even starts.
Saleem Pothiwala will walk you through what a modern open source HTAP architecture looks like and show it working live. Handling real transactional and analytical workloads simultaneously.
Mick Semb Wever will present this for the architects and technical leads in the room, we go deeper. How does this actually work under the hood? What does migration look like? What are the real trade-offs? Honest answers, no sales pitch.
This is the start of a journey, not a one-off event.
Two weeks after the breakfast: A technical deep-dive for architects and engineers. We go deep on internals, deployment patterns, and performance benchmarks.
Following that: A hands-on workshop where you and your team build this yourself using open source tools. You leave with a working environment, not just a slide deck.
We designed this as a three-part path: understand, evaluate, build. Come to the breakfast and see if it's worth your team's time to go further.
"We're already committed to Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery." Good. Bring that context. This session is not about switching overnight. It's about making an informed decision on whether your current architecture is the right long-term bet. Many organisations are running a hybrid. Come and see the numbers.
"Is open source really enterprise-ready?" It can be. The platform runs in production at scale today. And if your organisation needs commercial support, enterprise SLAs, or a fully managed offering, there are enterprise options available that build on the same open source foundation.
"We don't have time to evaluate another platform." This session is 90 minutes over breakfast. If the answer is no, you've lost one morning. If the answer is yes, you could change the economics of your data platform for years.
The question is not whether to simplify. It's whether you do it before or after your next renewal.
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Hosted by Dataforeningen Date: 21 May 2026 Time: 08:30 to 10:00 Location: Grev Wedels plass 9, 0151 Oslo.
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