Celeste Horgan

Celeste is a Sr. OSS Developer Advocate at Snowflake, focusing on open source data communities. She is a previous member of Kubernetes SIG Docs, founded the Inclusive Naming Committee at the Linux Foundation, and is a regular speaker on open source data topics for the past 3 years. Her work on inclusive language in tech has been featured in the New York Times. She currently resides in London, UK.

Sessions for 2026

Writes, 3 ways: Postgres, Apache Kafka® and Apache Iceberg™

Postgres, Kafka and Iceberg: all three of them are data services, but "data services" is a broad term. In this talk we'll go through the write paths for all 3 to compare and contrast, learning more about the different priorities they're designed for.