IN PERSON Apache Kafka® Meetup Chennai - May 2025

Hello everyone! Join us for an IN PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on May 31st from 9:30 am.

📍 Venue:
Saama Technologies, OLYMPIA TECH PARK, Chennai

Agenda:

• 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Registration and Welcome
• 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | KAN: Making Neural Networks Interpretable and Adaptable
• 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Break & Networking
• 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Vector embeddings and similarity search with Flink SQL
• 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | Kafka - MCP - AI agents
• 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM | Lunch & Networking

Session 01:
💡 Speaker :
Selvakumar Murugan, Senior Principal Research Engineer, Saama

Talk:
KAN: Making Neural Networks Interpretable and Adaptable

Abstract:
TBC

Session 02:

💡 Speaker :
Diptiman Raichaudhuri, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent

Talk:
Vector embeddings and similarity search with Flink SQL

Abstract:
Vector embeddings and similarity search on embeddings have unlocked AI use cases which were previously not used to derive insights from unstructured data.

This has opened up new frontiers around RAG and with modern techniques, such similarity searches could also be performed on real-time streaming data.In this session, an introduction to vector embeddings would be presented. Taking the audience through different intuitions based on which modern embedding models are created. The evolution of embedding techniques from TF-IDF to word2vec to Transformers.

The last section of this session would introduce how embeddings are changing the real-time streaming landscape.
This would be demonstrated with Flink invoking a remote LLM and introducing similarity search with a Kafka-Flink data streaming pipeline.

Session 03:
💡 Speaker :
Lakshmi Narasimhan Parthasarathy, Principal Engineer, Platformatory

Talk:
Kafka - MCP - AI agents

Abstract:
TBC

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