Voltron Data, focused on advancing the Apache Arrow ecosystem, has announced the speaker line-up for The Data Thread, a virtual conference it is hosting on June 23. The Data Thread will feature an opening keynote by Apache Arrow co-creators Wes McKinney, Co-Founder and CTO of Voltron Data, and Jacques Nadeau, Co-Founder and CEO of Sundeck.

Attendees will learn about the latest developments across the data ecosystem and hear from practitioners who have built products using Apache Arrow.

There will be more than 40 talks given by speakers from Anaconda, AnyScale, Carnegie Mellon University, ClearCode, Databricks, Dreamio, InfluxData, innobi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Meta, Microsoft, MinIO, Munin Data, Princeton University, RStudio, Snorkel AI, Streamlit, Tenzir, Tradewell Technologies, Two Sigma, University at Buffalo, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Liverpool, Voltron Data and WorldQuant.

Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory computing. It has become the de facto standard for seamless interoperability between computing engines, modern computing hardware and programming languages. Arrow has been adopted globally by companies to accelerate data access and analytical processing.