SPEAKER
Jacques
Nadeau

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Founder, colony2.org
Jacques has spent the last 25+ years building data infrastructure, focused on decomposable data systems. He is the co-creator of Apache Arrow, Substrait, Apache Drill, Project Nessie and co-founded Dremio. He was also an active early member of the Apache Iceberg, Apache Parquet and Apache Calcite communities. He is now focused on bringing the same OSS-forward decomposable patterns of the Lakehouse to agent orchestration as Founder at colony2.org.
Jacques's sessions
Jacques will be contributing to these sessions at Data + AI Summit 2026:
Artificial Intelligence & Agents
From Babysitting Bots to Open Source Attention Routing: The Colony2 Agent-Cell Model
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