# Agenda

> Agenda for Flink Forward Global 2021 (October 26-27 2021): the sessions, talks and schedule of the Apache Flink® conference.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/global-2021/agenda

Apache Flink® & everything streaming data

**Agenda**

Global 2021

## Schedule

Flink Forward Global 2021 is kicking off on October 18 with four days of Flink Forward Training Camp featuring brand-new training sessions on the topics of Apache Flink® Development (4 days), Troubleshooting & Operations (2 days), Stateful Functions (1 day), and Advanced Flink Debugging and Performance Tuning (1 day).

Join one of the four online instructor-led sessions below.

The schedule on October 18-21 is displayed in Pacific Time (UTC -7).

The training starts at 18:00 in Central European Time (UTC +1) and 24:00 in Mainland China (UTC+8).

## Agenda

### October 18, 2021-10-18

- 09:00–12:00 Apache Flink Troubleshooting & Operations Training or Apache Flink Developer Training - SOLD OUT
- 09:00–12:00 Apache Flink Troubleshooting & Operations Training or Apache Flink Developer Training - SOLD OUT
- 09:00–12:00 Apache Flink Troubleshooting & Operations Training or Apache Flink Developer Training - SOLD OUT
- 09:00–12:00 Apache Flink Troubleshooting & Operations Training or Apache Flink Developer Training - SOLD OUT

### October 26, 2021-10-26

- 10:40–11:20 Batching Was Yesterday: Real-Time Tracking & Analysis For 100+ Million Visitors (Felix Gessert, Wolfram Wingerath)
- 10:40–11:20 Only SQL: Empower data analysts end-to-end with Flink SQL (Martijn Visser)
- 10:40–11:20 A Year in Flink: The most important changes of the last versions (Till Rohrmann)
- 10:40–11:20 Introduction to Flink in 30 minutes (David Anderson, Johannes Moser)
- 10:40–11:20 Dataflow Engines for Executing Cloud Applications: a Maslow's Hammer or Natural Outcome? (Asterios Katsifodimos)
- 11:20–12:00 Real Time Fraud Detection with Stateful Functions (Jan Brusch, Joscha Cepok, Levin von Hollen)
- 11:20–12:00 Networks! project - real-time analytics that controls 50% of mobile network in Poland (Maciek Bryński, Rafał Małanij)
- 11:20–12:00 A Debuggers Guide to Apache Flink Streaming Applications (Alexander Fedulov)
- 11:20–12:00 SPONSORED Interactive Session: Flink on Autopilot with Splunk (Maximilian Michels)
- 11:20–12:00 XStream: Stream Processing Platform at Facebook (Aniket Mokashi, Shuyi Chen)
- 12:00–12:10 Break
- 12:10–12:50 Building payment processing engine with Stateful Functions and Spring Boot (Tymur Yarosh)
- 12:10–12:50 Using Flink SQL on Ververica Platform (Ingo Bürk)
- 12:10–12:50 Building an open-source ML feature store with Apache Flink (Roman Grebennikov)
- 12:10–12:50 Getting into Low-Latency Gears with Apache Flink (Jun Qin, Nico Kruber)
- 12:10–12:50 SPONSORED Interactive Session: From concept to production; the fastest way to develop and deploy Apache Flink jobs (Danny Cranmer, Steffen Hausmann)
- 12:50–13:30 Real-time bot mitigation with machine learning in Flink (Gaël Renoux, Konstantina Kontoudi)
- 12:50–13:30 PyFlink: Building Flink applications with Python language (Dian Fu, Xingbo Huang)
- 12:50–13:30 Keeping Redditors safe in real-time with Flink Stateful Functions (Frédérique Mittelstaedt, Bhavani Balasubramanyam, Vignesh Raja)
- 12:50–13:30 Change Data Streaming Patterns in Distributed Systems (Gunnar Morling, Hans-Peter Grahsl)
- 12:50–13:30 SPONSORED Interactive Session: Running Flink SQL jobs in production (Gyula Fora, Erik Beebe, Marton Balassi, Matyas Orhidi)
- 13:30–14:10 Integrating Flink into your ecosystem - How to build a Flink connector from scratch (Arvid Heise)
- 13:30–14:10 SPONSORED Interactive Session: Optimising data streaming pipelines on Flink and Kafka (Olena Babenko, Francesco Tisiot, Gyula Fora, Lorna Mitchell)
- 09:00–09:10 Welcome Message
- 09:10–09:50 KEYNOTE: Apache Flink in the Cloud-native Era (Stephan Ewen)
- 09:50–10:30 KEYNOTE: Flink architecture and automation in ISP (Raffaele Saggino, Federica Pizzato)

### October 27, 2021-10-27

- 09:00–09:10 Welcome Message
- 09:10–09:50 KEYNOTE: Sharing what we love: The Apache Flink story at Pinterest (Chen Qin)
- 09:50–10:30 KEYNOTE | Expert Panel: Current & Future State of the Art in Real-Time Data Infrastructure (Aniket Mokashi, Vasiliki Kalavri, Kym Hines, Eric Sammer, Stephan Ewen, Konstantin Knauf)
- 10:30–10:40 Break
- 10:40–11:20 Big Data Processing : Where do we go next ? (Roshan Naik)
- 10:40–11:20 Sources, Sinks, and Operators: A Performance Deep Dive (Brent Davis)
- 10:40–11:20 Data Pipeline Lifecycle: SQL Everywhere (Olena Babenko)
- 10:40–11:20 Stateful Functions: Flexible like a Microservice, Consistent like a Monolith (Seth Wiesman)
- 10:40–11:20 SPONSORED Interactive Session: Beam and Beam on Flink general roadmap discussion and AMA (Kyle Weaver, Kenneth Knowles, Yifan Mai)
- 11:20–12:00 Jump start large window computations with Hybrid Source (Thomas Weise)
- 11:20–12:00 Polyglot Actor Model on Flink Stateful Functions (Timothy Bess)
- 11:20–12:00 NRTG: Fast, Systematic & Scalable Flink Application Development at Pinterest (Divye Kapoor, Heng Zhang)
- 11:20–12:00 Demystifying Deployments: Applications or Clusters, Active and Reactive Scaling - What is it about? (David Moravek)
- 11:20–12:00 SPONSORED Talk: The easy way to build and run Flink SQL jobs using Cloudera SQL Stream Builder (Kenny Gorman)
- 12:00–12:10 Break
- 12:10–12:50 Building Presto SQL experience on Flink (Peter Huang, Zhongting Hu)
- 12:10–12:50 Fitting Stateful Functions into a streaming platform (Dylan Meissner)
- 12:10–12:50 Storing State Forever: Why It Can Be Good For Your Analytics (Yaroslav Tkachenko)
- 12:10–12:50 Fault Tree Analysis Applied to Apache Flink (Andrey Falko)
- 12:10–12:50 SPONSORED Talk: ML Inference at scale, with Apache Beam and the Apache Flink runner: Easy as learning your 5 times tables. (Reza Rokni, Robert Crowe)
- 12:50–13:30 Backfill Flink Data Pipelines with Iceberg Connector (Sundaram Ananthanarayanan, Xinran Waibel)
- 12:50–13:30 Paper Moon: A Comparison of Stateful Functions and Pulsar Functions (Jowanza Joseph)
- 12:50–13:30 Advancing Data Mesh: Building A Stream Processing EcoSystem of Reusable Processors and Datasets (Andrew Nguonly, Kasturi Chatterjee, Wei Liu)
- 12:50–13:30 Rundown of Flink's Checkpoints (Dawid Wysakowicz)
- 12:50–13:30 SPONSORED Interactive Session: AMA | Pulsar and Flink for Unified Data Processing (Neng Lu, Sijie Guo, Addison Higham, Tim Spann)
- 13:30–14:10 DrSquirrel - A self-service diagnosis tool for Flink jobs (Fanshu Jiang, Lu Niu)
- 13:30–14:10 Flink's Table & DataStream API: A Perfect Symbiosis (Timo Walther)
- 13:30–14:10 SPONSORED Talk: Continuous Queries on Apache Pulsar using Flink SQL (Neng Lu)
- 13:30–14:10 Birds of a Feather Session - Stateful Functions (Seth Wiesman, Stephan Ewen, Igal Shilman)
- 13:30–14:10 SPONSORED Talk: Maintaining highly available Flink applications at scale (Nagesh Honnalli, Brian Likosar)