VeloxCon 2026

Advancing AI and SQL analytics through shared and composable infrastructure

April 29–30 · Meta HQ · Menlo Park, CA
Free to attend · Limited capacity

Join us for our 4th annual VeloxCon

VeloxCon is the annual conference for the Velox open-source execution engine.

Velox is a unified, high-performance execution engine powering Presto, Spark, and emerging AI workloads. Built with vectorized processing, adaptive execution, and hardware-aware optimizations, Velox accelerates modern data systems at the execution layer.

VeloxCon brings together the engineers building and running Velox in production. Join deep technical sessions on AI, Spark and Presto integrations, hardware acceleration, roadmap updates, and the future of open execution engines.

Agenda Overview

Day 1 · April 29

  • 8:00–9:00 AM · Check-in & Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM–5:00 PM · Technical Sessions
  • 5:00–7:00 PM · Conference Reception

Day 2 · April 30

  • 8:00–9:00 AM · Check-in & Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM–4:00 PM · Technical Sessions

Past VeloxCon Speakers

Orri Erling

Orri Erling
Co-creator of Velox

Meta

Masha Basmanova

Masha Basmanova
Co-creator of Velox

Meta

Pedro Pedreira

Pedro Pedreira
Velox Lead & Software Engineer

Meta

Deepak Majeti

Deepak Majeti
Velox Contributor & Software Engineer

IBM

Binwei Yang

Binwei Yang
Creator of Apache Gluten

IBM

Felix Loesing

Felix Loesing
Software Engineer

Pinterest

Ying Su

Ying Su
Software Engineer

IBM

Abhishek Modi

Abhishek Modi
Sr. Software Engineer

Google

Sergey Makagonov

Sergey Makagonov
Staff Software Engineer

Uber

Greg Kimball

Greg Kimball
SWE Manager

Nvidia

Xiaoxuan Meng

Xiaoxuan Meng
Software Engineer

Meta

Nathan Fenner

Nathan Fenner
Software Engineer

Chalk

Venue

Join us at Meta HQ in Menlo Park, CA.

1 Meta Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Meta Headquarters

Program Committee

The VeloxCon Program Committee is responsible for driving the conference and shaping an agenda that highlights the latest innovations, use cases, and advancements in the Velox ecosystem.

Pedro Pedreira

Pedro Pedreira
Velox Lead & Software Engineer

Company

KK Pulla

KK Pulla
Software Engineer

Meta

Greg Kimball

Greg Kimball
SWE Manager

Nvidia

Deepak Majeti

Deepak Majeti
Velox Contributor & Software Engineer

IBM

Ali LeClerc

Ali LeClerc
Head of Open Source Strategy

IBM

Aakash Deep

Aakash Deep
Software Engineer

Meta

Suryadev Sahadevan Rajesh

Suryadev Sahadevan Rajesh
Software Engineer

Meta