Apache Flink 1.0: A new era for Real-World Streaming Analytics

Please join us for an exciting evening to learn more about Apache Flink (http://flink.apache.org)1.0.0 from Slim Baltagi, 6 days after his talk (http://hadoopsummit.org/dublin/agenda/) at the Hadoop Summit in Dublin, Ireland.

Sponsor: Capital One (http://www.capitalone.com)

Schedule: 5:30 pm - 5:55 pm : Networking, pizza and drinks

5:55 pm - 6:00 pm : Welcome by Prashant Mehrotra

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Talk on Apache Flink 1.0.0

Talk description: This talk explains how Apache Flink 1.0 announced on March 8th, 2016 by the Apache Software Foundation, marks a new era of Big Data analytics and in particular Real-World streaming analytics. The talk will map Flink's capabilities to real-world use cases that span multiples verticals such as: Financial Services, Healthcare, Advertisement, Oil and Gas, Retail and Telecommunications.

In this talk, you learn more about:

1. Apache Flink 1.0 primer

2. Key differentiations of Apache Flink for Streaming Analytics

3. Real-World Use Cases with Flink for Streaming Analytics

4. Where do you go from here?

Bio:

• Slim Baltagi is currently a director of Big Data engineering at Capital One in Chicago.

• He is internationally recognized as a Thought Leader in the Big Data space and known for public presentations and lectures at conferences and universities.

• He is evangelizing Apache Flink by running the New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, Dallas/Fort Worth and Seattle Apache Flink meetups and co-organizing the Paris, Madrid, Sao Paulo Flink meetups.

• He enjoys evangelizing about Big Data technologies and maintaining his Big Data Knowledge Base: http://www.SparkBigData.com with over 6,000 categorized web resources about Hadoop, Spark and Flink.