# Seattle 2023

> Flink Forward Seattle 2023 (November 6-8 2023). Talks, speakers and agenda of the Apache Flink® and streaming data conference.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/seattle-2023

The Apache Flink® Conference

**Seattle 2023**

November 6-8 2023

- [Watch the Recordings](https://www.ververica.academy/app/courses/f352775b-6c43-475b-84e0-d6070c57b1a7)

## Flink Forward is the conference dedicated to Apache Flink and the stream processing community.

We’re excited to announce the 2023 Flink Forward event will be taking place November 6-8 in Seattle for an in-person event! Following the popular demand for Apache Flink® training sessions, we’re bringing back our 3-day event format; 2-days training followed by a full day of conference! In conclusion of the event, we invite all attendees to join us for Flink Fest! A time to network and celebrate Flink Forward Seattle 2023 together.

[Recordings](https://www.ververica.academy/app/courses/f352775b-6c43-475b-84e0-d6070c57b1a7)

## Sponsors & Partners

- [AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/)
- IBM
- [Streamnative](https://streamnative.io/)

- [View sponsors](https://www.flink-forward.org/seattle-2023/sponsors?hsLang=en)

## Speaker overview

- Hunter Medney — Technical lead for Digital Growth, IBM
- Basar Hamdi Onat — Software Engineer, DoorDash
- Sharon Xie — Founding Engineer and Product Lead, Decodable
- Dan Vinakovsky — Lead Software Engineer, Schonfeld
- Allison Cheng — Software Engineer, DoorDash
- Erik de Nooij — Engineering lead Streaming Data Analytics, ING Bank
- Jark Wu — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Todd McGrath — Principal Streaming Solution Architect, AWS

- [View speakers](https://www.flink-forward.org/seattle-2023/speakers?hsLang=en)

## Schedule overview

- Day 1 Monday, Nov 6/p>: Training | Training
- Day 2 Tuesday, Nov 7: Training | Training
- Day 3 Wenesday, Nov 8: Keynote sessions | Breakout sessions and other activities