IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup Bangalore- July 2025

Hello everyone! Join us for an IN PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on July 26th from 11:00AM, hosted by Giniminds in Bangalore!

📍 Venue:
Giniminds Solutions Private Limited
738, Sumo Sapphire,
3rd Floor, 15th Cross Road,
J P Nagar 6th Phase,
Bangalore - 560078

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Agenda:

• 11:00 - 11:10: Welcome
• 11:10 - 11:50: Manohar Reddy, Senior Data Streaming Solution Specialist, Giniminds
• 11:50 - 12:30: Anchal Sharma, Support Engineer, Elastic
• 12:30 - 12:40: Break
• 12:40 - 13:20: Abhishek Raviprasad, Advisory Solutions Engineer, Confluent & Vaibhav Kulkarni, Solutions Engineer, Confluent
• 13:20 - 14:30: Lunch

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💡 Speaker:
Manohar Reddy, Senior Data Streaming Solution Specialist, Giniminds

Talk:
Kafka: The Digital Nervous System – From Data Streams to Actionable Insights

Abstract:
In today’s world of microservices, distributed systems, and big data, applications must communicate quickly, reliably, and at a scale. Traditional messaging systems often evolve into an unmanageable "spaghetti mess," hindering agility and innovation. Enter Apache Kafka an open-source distributed event streaming platform that serves as the central nervous system for your data-driven architecture.

In this session, we’ll explore how Kafka, when paired with powerful open-source tools like Apache Flink for stream processing and real-time analytics, enables organizations to make data-driven decisions instantly. Using real-world use cases and practical demos, we’ll show how to move from raw data streams to meaningful actions and insights in real time.

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💡 Speaker:
Anchal Sharma, Support Engineer, Elastic

Talk:
From Real-time Kafka events to Elasticsearch insights.

Abstract:
In the era of real-time systems, collecting, processing, and analyzing data instantly is crucial for decision-making and user experience. This talk explores how Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch can be combined to build scalable, real-time data pipelines. We'll cover architecture, design patterns, with seamless visualization and analysis in Kibana, ready to adapt to more complex requirements in the future.
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💡 Speaker:

• Abhishek Raviprasad, Advisory Solutions Engineer, Confluent
• Vaibhav Kulkarni, Solutions Engineer, Confluent

Talk:
The Instant Connection: Revolutionizing Hospitality Marketing with Real-Time AI

Abstract:
The world of hospitality demands immediacy and personalization. If your marketing is still stuck in the past with batch processing, you're missing out. This talk will reveal how to construct a real-time, AI-driven marketing pipeline that fundamentally changes how hospitality businesses connect with their guests.

Using the example of our fictional River Hotels, we'll walk through the complete journey: from a customer's first interaction to a perfectly personalized campaign, all happening in the blink of an eye. You'll see how we capture live guest behavior with Kafka CDC connectors, process that constant stream of data with Apache Flink SQL, amplified by large language models, and then store these invaluable, real-time insights in Delta Lake for powerful AI analytics. Get ready to see how data in motion can drive truly personalized guest experiences