Another Beam Summit has come to an end, and what an incredible few days it was. To everyone who joined us in person, spoke on stage, sponsored, or helped make the event possible, thank you. Beam Summit 2026 was a celebration of everything that makes this community special: technical excellence, curiosity, collaboration, and the people who continue pushing Apache Beam forward.
This year, we welcomed attendees from around the world, bringing together engineers, data practitioners, contributors, and organizations from every corner of the Beam ecosystem. From first-time participants to longtime community members, the conversations throughout the venue reminded us that the best part of Beam Summit isn’t just the talks, it’s the people behind them. Networking was one of the highlights of the event. Whether over coffee, during breaks, at sponsor booths, or throughout the evening reception, attendees shared ideas, exchanged experiences, started new collaborations, and connected with others facing similar data challenges. It was inspiring to see so many meaningful conversations happening throughout the conference.
Our welcome reception brought another layer of fun to the event. With football-themed activities, games, great conversations, and plenty of laughter, attendees had the chance to unwind while meeting new people from across the community. Beam Summit swag was also a crowd favorite, and it was wonderful seeing so many attendees proudly wearing and using it throughout the event. A special thank you goes to Google for serving as our Platinum Sponsor and helping make Beam Summit 2026 possible. Their continued support of the Apache Beam community enables events like this to bring together practitioners from across industries to share knowledge and shape the future of unified data processing.
One of the standout moments of the conference was Joey Raso’s keynote, “Dataflow in Self-Driving: A Look at Waymo’s Stateful Time-Series Processing.” Joey offered attendees an inside look at how Waymo leverages Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow to process massive volumes of real-time telemetry for autonomous vehicles. As Waymo continues scaling its fleet across new cities, stateful time-series processing has become essential for delivering the low-latency observability required to keep riders safe and provide a reliable experience. The session demonstrated Beam operating at remarkable scale in one of today’s most demanding real-world applications and sparked countless conversations throughout the event.
One of the most rewarding stories from this year’s Summit came from our own community. Speakers who presented in 2026 first discovered Apache Beam while attending Beam Summit 2025. After learning about Beam for the first time at last year’s event, they began adopting it within their own organizations, building production workloads, and ultimately returning this year, not as attendees, but as speakers sharing their own success stories.
A perfect example is “From Raw Logs to Model Inference: Building a DGA Detection ML Pipeline with Beam,” where the speakers demonstrated how Apache Beam became a key part of their machine learning and cybersecurity workflow. Seeing the community come full circle like this perfectly captures what Beam Summit is all about: learning, experimenting, building, and giving back. If you couldn’t make every session, or if you’d like to revisit your favorites, we have good news. Session recordings, presentation materials, and the official event photo gallery will be available soon. We’re currently putting everything together, so stay tuned over the coming days as we begin publishing the content.
Beam Summit 2026 reminded us that Apache Beam continues to grow not only as a technology but as a global community. Every year brings new contributors, new use cases, and new organizations discovering what’s possible with unified batch and streaming data processing. Thank you for being part of this journey.
We can’t wait to see what you’ll build next, and we hope to see you again at the next Beam Summit.