IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® Meetup - July 2025

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® meetup on July 22nd from 5:30pm, hosted by Mantel in Sydney!

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

📍Venue:
Mantel
Level 21, 580 George St, Sydney NSW 2000

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🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Olena Kutsenko, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Simon Aubry, Principal Data Engineer
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Networking

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💡 Speaker:
Olena Kutsenko, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent

Talk:
The Art of Structuring Real-time Data Streams into Actionable Insights

Abstract:
Real-time data can be messy, unpredictable, and hard to manage. To unlock its full potential, you need a way to turn raw streams into clean, structured data. In this talk, we'll show you how to use Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Apache Iceberg to organize real-time data streams efficiently and prepare them for advanced use cases, including AI applications. We'll start by explaining how Kafka handles high-speed data streams and how Flink processes these streams in real time. You'll learn how to use Flink to transform raw data into structured formats, ensuring it's ready for storage and analysis. Then, we'll dive into Iceberg, demonstrating how it stores and organizes structured data for easy querying and visualizing. Through clear examples, we'll walk you through building a practical pipeline that turns chaotic data streams into organized structure. We'll also look how to use Model Context Protocol to use an LLM chatbot to talk directly to your data. By the end of the session, you'll know how to manage real-time data effectively and set the stage for downstream AI and analytics. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this talk will give you the tools to simplify and enhance your data pipelines!

Bio:
Olena is a Staff Developer Advocate at Confluent and a recognized expert in data streaming and analytics. With two decades of experience in software engineering, she has built mission-critical applications, led high-performing teams, and driven large-scale technology adoption at industry leaders like Nokia, HERE Technologies, AWS, and Aiven.
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💡 Speaker:
Simon Aubry, Principal Data Engineer

Bio:
Simon Aubury is a principal data engineer at a major airline, with extensive experience building streaming applications and complex distributed data systems

Talk:
When plans change at 500 feet: Complex event processing of ADS-B aviation data with Apache Flink

Abstract:
Using open-source Apache Flink stream processing to process real time aviation data to find missed approaches and paired runway landings. Combing complex event processing with Flink SQL with custom functions it’s possible to spot those rare times when planes pair in the sky or abort a landing at the last moment.

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