Entrepreneur at a big company && Writing Stream Processors in Kotlin (+Kafka)

In July, we will be sponsored by trivago (https://www.trivago.com/) and do an evening with two talks:

• How to succeed (and fail) as an entrepreneur at a big company (by Calvin Hawkes)
• Writing Stream Processors in Kotlin (by Mario Müller)

+++ Agenda +++
• 18:00 - 19:00: Arrival, get a drink, office tour and socialise
• 19:15 - ~19:55: Talk #1 + Q&A
• 20:10 - ~20:50: Talk #2 + Q&A
• 20:50 - Open End: Socialising

+++ How to succeed (and fail) as an entrepreneur at a big company (by Calvin Hawkes) +++

I went from free-wheeling founder at a 3-person company to a product owner at a 1,500 person company. Needless to say, there was a bit of a transition period. In this presentation, I’ll take an honest look back at my last year and analyze what went well, and what wrong.

Calvin Hawkes is an entrepreneur from Los Gatos, California. After spending 2 years of his life working for a giant corporation, he joined the start-up life and vowed never to work for “the man” again. Whoops…

+++ Writing Stream Processors in Kotlin (by Mario Müller) +++

Kotlin skyrocket'ed in the past year and especially since Google adopted it as first-class citizen on the Android platform. But Kotlin does not only rock the mobile scene, it also takes the server side development in a storm. I will talk about home automation, Kafka and it's related frameworks and why I think Kotlin is the superior choice for writing Stream Processors.
This talk gives a short and basic introduction into Kafka and Kafka Streams in on a conceptual level, in order to enable the audience without any Kafka experience to follow along.

Mario is a software engineer, former team lead and database architect. He seeks his destiny in streaming and reactive systems while working for Breuninger's Curated Shopping Division in Duesseldorf.