ClickHouse Meetup in Sydney

Mark your calendars and get ready for an immersive dive into the world of ClickHouse! We are thrilled to announce the ClickHouse Meetup taking place in the vibrant city of Sydney. Join us as we gather to explore the latest trends, advancements, and best practices in the realm of ClickHouse, the open-source, columnar database management system designed for high-performance analytics.

🚀 This event promises to be a unique opportunity for data enthusiasts, engineers, and business professionals to connect, share insights, and learn from industry experts. Whether you're a seasoned ClickHouse user or just getting started with columnar databases, our lineup of engaging presentations, hands-on workshops, and networking sessions will cater to all levels of expertise. Come be a part of this collaborative community, and let's unlock the full potential of ClickHouse together!

🎟️ Save your spot now and stay tuned for more details on speakers, agenda, and exciting surprises. Don't miss out on this chance to deepen your understanding of ClickHouse, exchange ideas with like-minded individuals, and build valuable connections. Get ready for a day filled with knowledge, inspiration, and the shared passion for data. Get there early so you can get the right size tee shirt. We look forward to welcoming you to the ClickHouse Meetup in Sydney!

And a special thank you to AWS for hosting this event!

🏠 Location: AWS Office, Level 8, 2 Market St, Sydney NSW 200

Schedule:
- 5pm: Doors Open
- 5.30pm: Announcements and Welcome
- 5.40pm: 1st Talk (25 mins)
- 6.05pm: 2nd Talk (25 mins)
- 6.30pm: 3rd Talk (25 mins)
- 6.55pm: 4th Talk (10 mins)
- 7.05pm: Networking
- 7.30pm: Doors Close

Session Details:
🎤 Tom Watson, Senior Software Engineer @ FL0
Talk: Supercharging Billing Efficiency with ClickHouse
Summary: How FL0 leverages Clickhouse to power its billing pipelines, and how we did so with minimum pain and cost, without compromising on correctness!
Speaker Bio: Tom is a Sydney based Rust developer at FL0, with a background in maths and statistics. He has previously worked as a data scientist and engineer in Investment, Advertising and Legal Tech. Outside of work he enjoys skiing, electronic music and being bad at Soulslike games.

🎤 Johnny Mirza, Staff Solutions Engineer @ Confluent
Talk: Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Data: A Journey through Command vs Event Driven Architectures
Summary: This talk will take you through a journey to explore the differences between Command vs Event Driven Architectures.
Speaker Bio: Johnny is a Staff Solutions Engineer at Confluent, specialising in data analytics and building stream-based event-driven architectures. With a background in solutions engineering, he’s experienced in architecting and enabling solutions for enterprise clients in the telecommunications, media, insurance, and financial services sectors.
Johnny has a high level of expertise of integration between both public cloud and on-premise infrastructure, while focussing on service assurance, monitoring platforms, and open-source technologies. Johnny is dedicated to enabling clients to extract valuable insights from big data sources in near real-time.

🎤 Ananth Gundabattula, Co-founder @ Darwinium
Talk: Darwinium and Clickhouse: Building an Analytical System of Record to Unify Digital Security with Fraud Prevention
Summary: This talk will summarize various design patterns that were adopted while building Darwinium’s data stack using Clickhouse. In particular, it will cover solving problems related to unifying intelligence related to multiple use cases, latencies at scale, emerging patterns for offline feature engineering and how to build a cost optimized and a privacy aware solution using Clickhouse.
Speaker Bio: Ananth is a cofounder of Darwinium, a next generation continuous customer protection platform. Darwinium brings security, fraud and customer experience into harmony. Darwinium is a new approach to customer interaction, designed to delight not insult, detect not disable and automate not overload. It is security and protection at scale, with low-touch integration and immediate control. He is currently building the data platform catering to search, machine learning training and analytics at Darwinium.

🎤 San Tran, Application Security Engineer @ ClickHouse
Talk: Security in ClickHouse Cloud
Summary: A quick walk through on security features in ClickHouse Cloud and how we protect customers' data so you can build things with confidence.
Bio: Application Security Engineer at ClickHouse who previously spent 10+ years in penetration testing in government, banking and startups before spending the last 5 years securing SaaS platforms.

If you are interested in speaking at this, or a future, meetup please reach out to tyler@clickhouse.com or join our ClickHouse Community Slack.