Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: March 16 – April 2, 2026

The past two and a half weeks have been defined by one looming event: the Iceberg Summit on April 8–9 in San Francisco. As the community counts down to its largest-ever gathering, the dev lists across all four projects have reflected a mix of final-push stabilization, governance maturation, and forward-looking technical proposals. A cross-project debate on AI contribution policies reached its most active phase, Nvidia's GTC conference reshaped the hardware landscape underneath the lakehouse stack, and Polaris continued settling into life as a graduated Apache top-level project. Apache Iceberg The Iceberg community spent these weeks in full summit preparation mode. The Iceberg Summit 2026 on April 8–9 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco is now days away, and logistics threads accelerated as the selection committee finalized the speaker lineup and agenda. Bloomberg's Sung Yun organized a Pre-Summit Community Meetup for April 7 at Bloomberg's San Francisco office, with lightning talk