Brisbane Data Eng meetup, April 2025

Join us for another instalment of the Data Eng meetup in Brisbane! 🌟 Join us for an engaging in-person session filled with exciting discussions and networking opportunities.

Don't miss out—RSVP to secure your spot. A big shout-out to Cloud Shuttle for providing us with the venue and Catering! 🎉

🏠 Location: The Stair Stadium, The Precinct, Level 2 TC Beirne Building
🍕 Catering: CloudShuttle 😊
💬 Join our Slack Group here: Data Engineers Slack Channel

Schedule:
5:00 pm: Doors Open
5:30 pm: Announcements and Welcome
5:40 pm: 1st Talk
6:10 pm: 2nd Talk
6:40 pm: Networking
7:30 pm: Doors Close

Speakers:
🎤 Anup Sethuram, Senior Data Engineer @ Foxtel Group
Talk Title: Intro to Streaming with Flink
Talk Summary: The talk is intended to provide an introduction to the exciting world of stream processing using Apache Flink. The session would be designed as an entry point for data engineers/enthusiasts who are interested to try out real-time use cases, covering the following:
- Fundamentals of Stream Processing
- Flink's Architecture
- Sample Project to play with ..
- Real World Applications
By the end of the talk, participants will have a good understanding of streaming basics, appreciate Flink’s robustness, and have confidence to start experimenting with real-time data projects.
Speaker Bio: I’m a Data professional and passionate ML/AI advocate with 18 years of diverse industry experience. Throughout my career, I’ve worn multiple hats - ranging from being a software engineer, platform lead to a Senior ML-Data-Ops engineer, anything that fuels my enthusiasm for data and programming.

🎤 Francesco Puppini, Business Intelligence R&D, Francesco Puppini Consulting
Talk Title: Self Service Analytics for business users and AI
Talk Summary: This talk will talk about the Unified Star Schema (USS), a special data model that turns complex data models into a single star schema, very easy to use. The presentation will also show how the USS is built.
Speaker Bio: Francesco Puppini is an Italian freelance consultant in business intelligence and data warehousing. He is the inventor of the Unified Star Schema, which is also the title of a book that he wrote with Bill Inmon. He was always focusing on the “last mile challenge”: how to deliver information to business users. He is currently focusing on algorithms of graph theory applied to data modeling. He is also working on a framework of communication between LLMs and semantic layers. His ultimate goal is to put the foundations of a full experience of self-service access to information.

If you'd like to present at future meetups, please submit your talk here!

Together let's kick off our exciting Brisbane Meetup series for 2025. See you there for a night of knowledge and connections. ✨