Viktor Kessler
Viktor Kessler, is Co-Founder of Vakamo and the creator of Lakekeeper, an Apache Licensed Iceberg REST Catalog. He’s a big believer in open standards like Apache Iceberg, which he sees as the backbone of today’s modern, composable Data & Analytics systems.
Session
Modern lakehouse architectures promise flexibility and scale — but governance is often an afterthought. While we version data and evolve schemas, we rarely version or test access policies.
This talk explores how to implement governance-as-code in a lakehouse using the REST Catalog from Apache Iceberg, applying Zero Trust principles and enforcing fine-grained policies with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Cedar.
Attendees will learn how to move from static IAM and implicit trust to centralized, engine-agnostic, policy-driven governance.