# Agenda

> Agenda for Flink Forward Berlin 2024 (October 21-24 2024): the sessions, talks and schedule of the Apache Flink® conference.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/berlin-2024/agenda

Apache Flink® & everything streaming data

**Agenda**

Berlin 2024

## Schedule

This year, Ververica and the Apache Flink Community have a lot to celebrate, including the 10 year anniversary of Apache Flink.

By popular demand, **Flink Forward Berlin 2024** has been extended to a 4-day program to accommodate the festivities!

Optionally, join the expert-led, 2 days of in-person Apache Flink Bootcamp or the Deep Dive Masterclass Program, followed by 2 full conference days.

There are **four Masterclass Deep Dives** ; they are broken into **two tracks** and participants will be randomly assigned a track to follow ensuring you don’t miss a thing! They are:

1. Apache Flink: From Data to Intelligence
2. Flink SQL Origins and Future: Insights from the Original Creator
3. Bridging Data Silos with Flink CDC
4. Evolving to a Streaming Lakehouse with Apache Flink

Check the agenda for full details.

The main event includes 2 days packed with exciting content, including sessions selected by the Program Committee and presented by Apache Flink community members in-person from around the world.

## Agenda

### October 21, 2024-10-21

- 08:00–09:00 Breakfast
- 08:00–09:00 Breakfast
- 08:00–09:00 Breakfast
- 09:00–12:30 Apache Flink: From Data to Intelligence (Xintong Song, Jun Qin, Ben Gamble)
- 09:00–12:30 Bridging Data Silos with Flink CDC (Leonard Xu, Alexey Novakov, Muhammet Orazov)
- 10:15–10:30 Break
- 10:30–12:30 Real-Time Stream Analytics - Part Two (Ken Krugler)
- 12:30–13:30 Lunch
- 12:30–13:30 Lunch
- 12:30–13:30 Lunch
- 13:30–17:00 Flink SQL Origins and Future: Insights from the Original Creator (Lincoln Lee, Lorenzo Affetti, Ahmed Hamdy, Jeyhun Karimov)
- 13:30–15:00 Optimizing In-Flight and Stateful Data (Ken Krugler)
- 13:30–17:00 Evolving to a Streaming Lakehouse with Apache Flink (Jingsong Li, Giannis Polyzos)
- 15:00–15:15 Break
- 15:15–17:00 Exactly-Once and Failure Handling (Ken Krugler)
- 09:00–10:15 Real-Time Stream Analytics - Part One (Ken Krugler)

### October 22, 2024-10-22

- 08:00–09:00 Breakfast
- 08:00–09:00 Breakfast
- 08:00–09:00 Breakfast
- 10:15–10:30 Break
- 10:30–11:00 Enrichment and Scalability - Lab (Ken Krugler)
- 11:00–12:30 Flink SQL & Table API (Ken Krugler)
- 12:30–13:30 Lunch
- 12:30–13:30 Lunch
- 12:30–13:30 Lunch
- 13:30–17:00 Evolving to a Streaming Lakehouse with Apache Flink (Jingsong Li, Giannis Polyzos)
- 13:30–15:00 Workflow Design & Paimon (Ken Krugler)
- 13:30–17:00 Flink SQL Origins and Future: Insights from the Original Creator (Lorenzo Affetti, Ahmed Hamdy, Jeyhun Karimov)
- 15:00–15:15 Break
- 15:15–16:00 Wrap-up & Next Steps (Ken Krugler)
- 09:00–12:30 Bridging Data Silos with Flink CDC (Leonard Xu, Alexey Novakov, Muhammet Orazov)
- 09:00–10:15 Enrichment and Scalability (Ken Krugler)
- 09:00–12:30 Apache Flink: From Data to Intelligence (Xintong Song, Jun Qin, Ben Gamble)

### October 23, 2024-10-23

- 08:00–09:00 Registration and breakfast
- 08:00–09:00 Registration and breakfast
- 08:00–09:00 Registration and breakfast
- 09:00–11:30 Opening Session & Keynotes
- 11:30–13:00 Lunch break
- 11:30–13:00 Lunch break
- 11:30–13:00 Lunch break
- 12:00–12:10 Vector Database Ingestion with PyFlink on Decodable (Hans-Peter Grahsl)
- 12:15–12:25 Cloudera Gold sponsor session
- 12:30–12:40 WarpStream Gold sponsor session
- 13:00–13:30 Spoiler Alert: Revealing the Secrets of Apache Flink 2.0 (Xintong Song)
- 13:00–13:30 Customize Flink for Pinterest User Cases at Scale (Lu Niu, Chen Qin, Tucker Harvey)
- 13:00–13:30 Transforming Your APIs Into Business Gold – Architecting a Real-Time API Usage Analytics Platform (Dunith Dhanushka)
- 13:30–13:45 Break
- 13:30–13:45 Break
- 13:30–13:45 Break
- 13:45–14:15 Automate Apache Flink Tuning for Highly Elastic Scaling (Giannis Polyzos, Ioannis Stavrakantonakis)
- 13:45–14:15 Building a Streaming-First Platform: Tools and Lessons from Our Flink Migration Journey (Mohsin Niazi, Robin Stephenson)
- 13:45–14:15 Flink Autoscaling: A Year in Review - Performance, Challenges, and Innovations (Maximilian Michels)
- 14:15–14:30 Break
- 14:15–14:30 Break
- 14:15–14:30 Break
- 14:30–15:00 ‘State’ the obvious: Using Apache Flink’s State Processor API to deal with nutty issues (JinYun Soo)
- 14:30–15:00 Scaling Flink in the Real World: Insights from Running Flink for five Years at Stripe (Ben Augarten, Pratyush Sharma)
- 14:30–15:00 Is Kafka the Best Storage for Streaming Analytics? (Jark Wu)
- 15:00–15:30 Tea break
- 15:00–15:30 Tea break
- 15:00–15:30 Tea break
- 15:30–16:00 Visually Diagnosing Operator State Problems (Alex Balfur, Colten Pilgreen)
- 15:30–16:00 Streamlining Real-Time Data Processing at Uber with Protobuf Integration (Sai Sharath Dandi, Yang Yang)
- 15:30–16:00 Real-Time, Real Simple: Getting Started with Flink CDC (Dominik Žnidaršič)
- 16:00–16:15 Break
- 16:00–16:15 Break
- 16:00–16:15 Break
- 16:15–16:45 Zero Interference and Resource Congestion in Flink Clusters with Kafka Data Sources (Aratz Manterola Lasa)
- 16:15–16:45 Flink & Metered Billing - a reprocessing story (Pedro Mázala)
- 16:15–16:45 Exploring Scenarios of Flink CDC in Streaming Data Integration (Leonard Xu)
- 16:45–17:00 Break
- 16:45–17:00 Break
- 16:45–17:00 Break
- 17:00–17:30 The Zeitgeist of AI Requires Streaming Data Platforms (Mike Gualtieri)
- 17:30–18:00 AI and Apache Flink: Expert Panel (Mike Gualtieri, David Anderson, Ben Gamble, Gunnar Morling, Karin Landers)
- 18:00–20:00 Sponsor's Cocktail - Be the guest of Ververica and sponsors for a refreshing cocktail after the first day of Flink Forward Berlin!

### October 24, 2024-10-24

- 08:00–09:00 "Coffee-talk" and breakfast with PMCs
- 09:00–09:45 Apache Flink PMCs panel
- 09:45–10:00 Break
- 09:45–10:00 Break
- 09:45–10:00 Break
- 10:00–10:30 From Apache Flink to Restate - Event processing for analytics and Transactions (Stephan Ewen)
- 10:00–10:30 Flink Is All You Need (for Digital Bank) (Maciej Bryński)
- 10:00–10:30 Apache Paimon + Flink: Build Streaming Pipeline on Lakehouse (Jingsong Li)
- 10:30–10:45 Break
- 10:30–10:45 Break
- 10:30–10:45 Break
- 10:45–11:15 VERA: The Engine Revolutionizing Apache Flink (Karin Landers, Ben Gamble)
- 10:45–11:15 Driving the Future: Leveraging Apache Pulsar and Flink for Real-Time Vehicle Profile Management (Christos Anagnostakis, Sijie Guo)
- 10:45–11:15 Cost-Effective Streaming Pipelines with Apache Paimon (Antón Rodríguez, Ramesh Motaparthy)
- 11:15–11:30 Break
- 11:15–11:30 Break
- 11:15–11:30 Break
- 11:30–12:00 Enabling Flink's Cloud-Native Future: Introducing ForSt DB in Flink 2.0 (Yuan Mei)
- 11:30–12:00 Real-Time Incident Monitoring for Smart Access Devices: An IoT Use Case (Alireza Moosavi, Alper Basaran, Medi van Broekhoven)
- 11:30–12:00 Low latency Change Data Capture (CDC) to your data lake, using Apache Flink and Apache Paimon (Ali Alemi, Subham Rakshit)
- 12:00–13:00 Lunch
- 12:00–13:00 Lunch
- 12:00–13:00 Lunch
- 12:30–12:40 Evoura Gold sponsor session
- 13:00–13:30 Testing Flink SQL Scripts: Simplifying Development for Non-Developers (Flaviu Cicio, Robin Fehr)
- 13:00–13:30 From the Pitch to the Pub - Lessons Learned from Distributing Streaming Data in the Sports Industry (Samuel von Baussnern)
- 13:00–13:30 Unleashing Potential: Promoted.ai's Complete Adoption of Apache Flink (Xingcan Cui)
- 13:30–13:45 Break
- 13:30–13:45 Break
- 13:30–13:45 Break
- 13:45–14:15 Building Copilots with Flink SQL, LLMs and vector databases (Steffen Hoellinger)
- 13:45–14:15 Streaming Up the River: Leveraging Flink to Prevent Ship Groundings in Rivers and Ports (Roee Hasson)
- 13:45–14:15 Intesa Sanpaolo’s Journey to Cloud – is Batch processing still relevant? (Raffaele Saggino, Fulvio Pascotto)
- 14:15–14:30 Break
- 14:15–14:30 Break
- 14:15–14:30 Break
- 14:30–15:00 The Lineage Flink Really Needs: Debugging Real-Time Policy Violations (Colten Pilgreen, Shai Somekh)
- 14:30–15:00 Flink for Energy and Commodities trading business (Oleksii Pominovskyi, Sudha Ramraj)
- 14:30–15:00 Flink at Intesa Sanpaolo: Streamlining Customer Data Integration with Change Data Capture (Andrea Fonti, Rozarta Caka)
- 15:00–15:30 Tea break
- 15:00–15:30 Tea break
- 15:00–15:30 Tea break
- 15:30–16:00 Materialized Table - Making Your Data Pipeline Easier (Lincoln Lee)
- 15:30–16:00 Data-centric AI with Flink SQL (Hao Li, Mayank Juneja)
- 15:30–16:00 Comparing Apache Flink and Spark for Modern Stream Data Processing (Sharon Xie, Eric Xiao)
- 16:00–16:15 Break
- 16:00–16:15 Break
- 16:00–16:15 Break
- 16:15–16:45 Data Lineage for Apache Flink with OpenLineage (Zhenqiu Huang, Pawel Leszczynski)
- 16:15–16:45 Implementing Event Tracing in Flink Applications (Ejas Khan)
- 16:15–16:45 Leveraging ML Forecast Models for Predictive Resource Provisioning in Flink Applications (Nhat Nguyen, Duy Canh Tran, Ng Shi Kai)
- 16:45–17:00 Break
- 16:45–17:00 Break
- 16:45–17:00 Break
- 17:00–17:30 Closing Session
- 17:30–21:00 Opening of Flink Fest

## Deep Dive Masterclass

- Day 1 Morning session: Apache Flink: From Data to Intelligence Trainers: Xintong Song, Jun Qin, Ben Gamble | Bridging Data Silos with Flink CDC Trainers: Leonard Xu, Alexey Novakov, Muhammet Orazov
- Day 1 Afternoon session: Flink SQL Origins and Future Trainers: Lincoln Lee, Lorenzo Affetti, Ahmed Hamdy, Jeyhun Karimov | Evolving to a Streaming Lakehouse with Apache Flink Trainers: Jingsong Li, Giannis Polyzos
- Day 2 Morning session: Bridging Data Silos with Flink CDC Trainers: Leonard Xu, Alexey Novakov, Muhammet Orazov | Apache Flink: From Data to Intelligence Trainers: Xintong Song, Jun Qin, Ben Gamble
- Day 2 Afternoon session: Evolving to a Streaming Lakehouse with Apache Flink Trainers: Jingsong Li, Giannis Polyzos | Flink SQL Origins and Future Trainers: Jark Wu, Lorenzo Affetti, Ahmed Hamdy, Jeyhun Karimov

## Deep Dive Masterclass Trainers

- Leonard Xu — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Xintong Song — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Lincoln Lee — Staff Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Jingsong Li — PMC Chair of Apache Paimon, PMC member of Apache Flink, Head of Alibaba Open-source Data Lake Platform team, Alibaba Group
- Jun Qin — Head of Solutions Architecture, Ververica
- Giannis Polyzos — Staff Streaming Architect, Ververica
- Alexey Novakov — Solution Architect, Ververica
- Ben Gamble — Field CTO, Ververica
- Muhammet Orazov — Senior Software Engineer, Ververica
- Lorenzo Affetti — Staff Software Engineer, Ververica
- Ahmed Hamdy — Senior software engineer
- Jeyhun Karimov — Researcher, DFKI GmbH
- Ken Krugler — President at Scale Unlimited