IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup - December 2023

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Dec 14th from 5:30pm, hosted by Microsoft Reactor in Sydney!

The address, agenda, and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

📍Venue:

Microsoft Reactor Sydney

Level 10, 11-33 York Street Sydney

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🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Chris Arthur, Staff Customer Success Technical Architect
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Simon Aubury serves as an Associate Director of Data Platforms, Simple Machines
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Networking

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💡 Speaker:
Chris Arthur, Staff Customer Success Technical Architect

Bio:
Chris is a Staff Customer Success Technical Architect at Confluent. His job involves discussing technical and business challenges with many large organisations, and determining the role that event streaming can play in meeting these challenges. Chris is particularly interested in data governance, how it can ensure applications communicate effectively, and how this all relates to data mesh.

Talk:
Data Contracts: How to ensure the consistency, reliability, and quality of streaming data

Abstract:
In today's dynamic digital landscape, the proliferation of event streaming has become the lifeblood of real-time data processing, providing organisations with the ability to harness instantaneous insights. However, the deluge of data flowing through these event streams brings forth a critical challenge: maintaining data quality amidst the rapid torrent of information.

This session will delve into the identification of data anomalies to the implementation of robust quality control mechanisms, it will equip attendees with practical strategies and best practices to fortify their event streaming pipelines.

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💡 Speaker:
Simon Aubury, Associate Director of Data Platforms, Simple Machines.

Bio:
Simon Aubury serves as an Associate Director of Data Platforms at Simple Machines. Simon describes his job to his children as being a “data geek”. Although it doesn’t impress his kids, he is proud to have worked around the globe building highly available distributed data systems for finance, transport, health care, insurance and telecommunications clients. Simon’s current passion is working with streaming technologies and data mesh architectures.

Talk:
Koala Counting (and other things) With Kafka

Abstract:
Wildlife monitoring is essential for keeping track of animal movement patterns & understanding their population change. The tricky part however can be finding & identifying Koalas, Kangaroos and other species in the real world. Let's see how we can analyze population trends in the real-world with a demonstration combining a Raspberry Pi and camera, Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect to identify and classify animals. Stream transformation performed using ksqlDB processes the individual animal observations to generate dashboards to understand population trends over time.

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DISCLAIMER

BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT IN PERSON, you acknowledge that risk includes possible exposure to and illness from infectious diseases including COVID-19, and accept responsibility for this, if it occurs.

NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.

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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io