SPEAKER

Brian
Likosar

Brian Likosar
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Sr. Specialist Solution Architect, Databricks

Brian Likosar (“liko” pronounced lick-OH, preferred pronouns he/him) is an open source geek with a passion for working at the intersection of people and technology. Throughout his career, he's been involved in open source - whether that was with Linux, Ansible, and OpenShift/Kubernetes while at Red Hat, Apache Kafka while at Confluent, Apache Flink while at AWS, or Apache Iceberg while at Tabular/Databricks. He’s based in the Chicago area and enjoys horror, sports, live music, and theme parks.

Brian's sessions

Brian will be contributing to these sessions at Data + AI Summit 2026: