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Apache Flink® & everything streaming data

Berlin 2024

October 21-24 2024

Berlin

Flink Forward Berlin 2024 tickets are on sale now!

Elevate your streaming game, connect with Flink experts, and drive your career forward. Choose either to attend 2 days of conference only or add-on exclusive training sessions for a total of 4 days

Bootcamp Training

The Bootcamp Program is a 2-day fast-moving, hands-on training course for developers who are new to Flink and who want to learn what Flink offers for developing streaming applications. We will cover all of the core concepts and hard-to-pick-up-on-your-own topics from our Apache Flink course materials.

Deep Dive Masterclass

Already familiar with Flink? Unlock the full potential of real time stream processing during an exclusive 2 day masterclass that includes 4 half-day sessions, each a deep dive into a different topic. Each of the four sessions is moderated by Apache Flink PMC Members and Flink experts from Ververica.

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Sponsors & Partners

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Decodable radically simplifies real-time ETL with a powerful, easy-to-use real-time ETL platform. By removing the challenges of building and maintaining infrastructure and pipelines, Decodable enables data teams to eliminate overhead, easily connect sources, perform real-time transformations, and reliably deliver data to any destination.

 

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Build, troubleshoot, and deploy data applications faster with Apache Flink®. Datorios' observability console delivers the data and tools to address the unseen, providing context and relationships between metrics, logs, and traces to diagnose and fix issues effectively.

 

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Evoura is dedicated to empowering businesses by harnessing the power of real-time data and advanced AI technologies. We specialise in designing resilient data pipelines, particularly for Apache Flink, to help our clients achieve faster, more efficient decision-making. Our expert engineers work closely with our clients on short-term projects to operationalise data solutions, ensuring that they can fully leverage the potential of their data. We stay at the forefront of the real-time software market, making AI a key focus in driving strategic initiatives.

At Evoura, we understand the challenges businesses face in mobilising and utilising their data effectively. Our approach is centred on collaboration and innovation, offering tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of each client. From enhancing data accessibility to enabling powerful AI-driven insights, our goal is to help businesses achieve their objectives quickly and successfully.

Please feel free to visit us at Evoura booth to explore how we can support your data initiatives and drive meaningful outcomes for your organisation.

 

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WarpStream is an Apache Kafka® compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage: no inter-AZ bandwidth costs, no disks to manage, and infinitely scalable, all within your VPC.

 

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At Cloudera, we believe data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We empower people to transform data anywhere into trusted enterprise AI so they can reduce costs and risks, increase productivity, and accelerate business performance. Our open data lakehouse enables secure data management and portable cloud-native data analytics, helping organizations manage and analyze data of all types, on any cloud, public or private. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we’re the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry.  Cloudera has guided the world on the value and future of data, and continues to lead a vibrant ecosystem powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community.

 

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Speakers

Zhenqiu Huang Software Engineeer Apple
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Zhenqiu Huang has been in Apache Flink Community for many years. He has been building Streaming Platform in Uber Technology and Apple Inc for last several years. Recently, he worked with Openlineage community on building data Lineage for Apache Flink applications.

Mike Gualtieri VP, Principal Analyst Forrester
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Mike's research focuses on AI technologies, platforms, and practices that enable technology professionals to deliver applications that lead to prescient digital experiences and breakthrough operational efficiency. His key technology coverage areas are AI and emerging technologies that make software faster, smarter, and transformative for global enterprises and organizations. He advises business and technology leaders around the world on the intersection of business strategy, AI, and digital transformation.
Mike has authored more than 130 research reports and is a recipient of the Forrester Courage Award for making bold calls that inspire Forrester clients to make great business and technology decisions.
He is a frequent and highly sought-after speaker at industry, corporate, and technology events for his audience-designed, insightful, and energetic speeches.
Mike provides technology vendors with actionable advisory sessions on technology buying trends, strategy advice, messaging, product roadmaps, and buyer personas for the areas he directly covers. He also offers “what-if” investment advisory for clients who wish to invest in or launch new products in the markets he covers.

Yang Yang Sr Staff Software Engineer Uber
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Yang is a Sr Staff Software Engineer at Uber, and she leads Uber's Streaming Data (Kafka) and Flink team. She focuses on building a highly scalable and reliable real-time data system at scale for thousands of engineers and data scientists at Uber.
Lu Niu Sr Staff Software Engineer Pinterest
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Lu Niu is the founding member and current Tech Lead of the Streaming Data Processing team at Pinterest. Prior to joining Pinterest, he played a pivotal role in building Presto as a Service at Uber. Lu is passionate about big data and distributed systems, and has contributed to several prominent projects including Flink, Presto, and Velox. 
Ejaskhan S Senior Technical Lead Mercedes-Benz
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Senior technical lead with 8 years of experience in distributed system design and development.
Subham Rakshit Streaming Solution Architect AWS
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Subham Rakshit is a Streaming Solutions Architect for Analytics at AWS based in the UK. He works with customers to design and build streaming architectures so that they can get value from analysing their streaming data. His two little daughters keep her occupied most of the time outside work and loves solving jigsaw puzzles with them.
Stephan Ewen Founder Restate
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Stephan co-founded 'Restate' (https://restate.dev/) with the goal to simplify building distributed applications and microservice architectures.
Before that, he was the one of the original creators and of Apache Flink and founder / CTO of dataArtisans/Ververica. Stephan holds a Ph.D. in database systems.
Pawel Leszczynski Openlineage contributor Astronomer
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Data practitioner with decade long experience, holding PhD in distributed databases. Currently fully involved in Openlineage - an open platform for collection and analysis of data lineage with special focus on automatic lineage extraction.

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Agenda

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

Day 1

Monday, Oct 21

Training
Training

Day 2

Tuesday, Oct 22

Training
Training

Day 3

Wednesday, Oct 23

Keynote sessions
Conference

Day 4

Thursday, Oct 24

Conference
Conference
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Flink Forward is your conference for all things streaming data and Apache Flink!

We’re proud to celebrate Apache Flink's 10-year anniversary and return to where it all began - Berlin!

To celebrate this momentous occasion, the program this year offers 2 optional days of training, followed by an expanded 2-day conference event.

It’s everything you expect from a Flink Forward event, plus more sessions and special commemorative surprises!

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