Name: IN PERSON! Brisbane Apache Kafka® Meetup (Nov 2025)
Start: 2025-11-13T17:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-11-13T19:30:00+10:00
Location: Mantel

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on **Nov 13th** **from 5:30pm**, hosted by Mantel in Brisbane!

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

**📍Venue**:
Mantel Group Office
8/133 Mary St, Brisbane City

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**🗓 Agenda:**

* 5:30pm: Doors open
* 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
* 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Kat Grigg, Technical Support Engineer, Confluent
* 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Jaehyeon Kim, Developer Experience Engineer, Factor House
* 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

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**💡 Speaker:**
Kat Grigg, Technical Support Engineer, Confluent

**Talk:**
Kafka 101

**Abstract:**
Kafka 101 is an introduction to Apache Kafka - discussing why and when you would use Kafka and what Kafka actually is. This will cover topics such as brokers, producers, consumers and the Kafka ecosystem.

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**💡 Speaker:**
Jaehyeon Kim, Developer Experience Engineer, Factor House

**Talk:**
Hands-On Local Development: Kafka, Flink, Docker, and more.

**Abstract:**
Jae will present an introduction to a collection of open-source Docker environments designed to help you build and learn about modern data platforms.
This session is perfect for engineers interested in getting hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, Iceberg, and Pinot, along with tools for management and observability.
We will also introduce a series of hands-on tutorials designed to guide you through building a complete, end-to-end data pipeline—from data ingestion with Kafka to real-time analytics and visualization.

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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@[confluent.io](http://confluent.io/)

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