LA BEAM KICKOFF: Event-Driven; Tasks; Schemas; in Beam

Join us at Luma Pictures for our LA kick-off event featuring 3 key talks. You’ll hear from Brain Hulette, an Apache Beam Committer and Googler, and two software engineers at Luma—a leading visual effects studio leveraging Beam in novel ways.

Schedule:
6 - 6:30 PM: Arrival. Drinks & Nibbles
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM: Talks
8:00 PM: Q&A, Mix & Mingle

Talks:
Brian Hulette (Google):Relational Processing in Apache Beam: Past, Present, Future
DESCRIPTION: When it started, Apache Beam had no concept of relational (SQL-style) processing. Over time, elements of relational processing have been added to the Java SDK - SQL support, and then schemas, and then relational transforms - all now make up a powerful ecosystem of relational processing tools available to Beam Java users. Now there is interest in taking this concept further: making it part of the Beam model, and bringing it to more SDKs. In this talk I will review how relational processing has developed in Apache Beam, I will show you what users can do with these features today, and I will discuss the exciting future made possible by integrating relational processing into the Beam model.

Chad Dombrova (Luma Pictures): Event-driven Movie Magic
Chad will discuss how Luma uses Apache Beam to automate the creation of VFX on films like Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Viola Lyu (Luma Pictures): Task-based Workers for Portable Pipelines
Viola will discuss Luma's in-house modifications to Apache Beam and how they enable us to bridge the gap between stream processing and traditional task-based schedulers.

Bios:
Brian Hulette
Brian is a software engineer at Google and an Apache Beam committer focusing on making Beam schemas portable. Prior to joining Google, he worked on a wide array of projects, ranging from distributed software-defined radio systems to high-performance data visualization tools built with Apache Arrow in Javascript. He occasionally writes short things on twitter @BrianHulette and longer things on http://theneuralbit.com.

Luma Pictures
Luma is an award-winning creative studio known for its visual effects work on over 100 films, including
Oscar-winning and nominated films like Black Panther, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, True Grit and Doctor Strange, to blockbusters like Birds of Prey, Godzilla vs Kong and Spider-Man: Far From Home. Luma is based in Santa Monica, CA and opened their second studio in Melbourne, Australia in 2014.

Chad Dombrova
Chad is Head of Software at Luma Pictures, where his focus is automating the creation of computer-generated images (CGI) for feature films. Chad has 16 years of Python development experience, is a contributor to dozens of open source projects, and has recently contributed features to Apache Beam, most notably in the areas of cross-language transforms and python static typing.

Viola Lyu
Viola is a software engineer with degrees in both Computer Science and Fine Arts. As a technical artist, she specializes in computer simulations of natural phenomena, such as volumetrics, rigid bodies, and particulates, and as an engineer, she is an expert at the distribution and automation of simulations.

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Please feel free to park in Santa Monica Parking Structure 7 which is located at 320 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA.

The structure is free for the first 90 minutes, as are all numbered Santa Monica parking structures, in case another one is more convenient to you.

Once you exit the structure onto Broadway, cross the street onto the 3rd Street Promenade, walking North. You will see Steak n' Shake on your right and the entrance to Promenade Gateway. Head back to the elevators on your right and someone from the Culture team will meet you and bring you upstairs. Please note, someone will be available for check-in from 6-6:30PM. If you're arriving late, please call our business phone number (310) 888-8738 and someone will come down to bring you up.