Database Seminar - Ian Cook October 20, 2025 4:30pm — 5:30pm Location: Virtual Presentation - ET - Remote Access - Zoom Speaker: IAN COOK , Co-founder and Chief Executive OfficerColumnar, andApache Arrow PMC member https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianmcook/ Where We're Going, We Don't Need Rows: Columnar Data Connectivity with ADBC ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) is Apache Arrow’s answer to ODBC and JDBC: It’s a database access API and driver standard that delivers data in Arrow columnar format instead of a row-oriented format. ADBC is on a roll, speeding and simplifying data access for dbt, Databricks, DuckDB, Microsoft, Snowflake, and more. This talk presents the architecture of ADBC (APIs, drivers, driver managers, and other tools) and discusses its role in accelerating current and future data systems.—Ian Cook is an Apache Arrow PMC member and the co-founder and CEO of Columnar, a company building fast universal data connectivity infrastructure powered by Arrow and ADBC. This talk is part of the Future Data Systems Seminar Series.Zoom Participation. See announcement. For More Information: db-www@cs.cmu.edu Add event to Google Add event to iCal
