ClickHouse Melbourne Meetup

We’re bringing a special treat to Melbourne’s data community! 🚀 Alexey Milovidov, co-founder and CTO of ClickHouse, will be stopping by your city in September as part of his Asia-Pacific tour. Join us for an evening of expertise from world-class database experts, lively discussions with the ClickHouse community, and plenty of delicious food and drinks.

🗓️ AGENDA:

• 5:30 PM: Registration, Dinner & Chitchat
• 6:00 PM: Welcome and Introductions
• 6:10 PM: The Data Engine Behind AI: Powering Language Models at Scale by Alexey Milovidov, Co-Founder & CTO @ ClickHouse
• 6:40 PM: Buildkite's ClickHouse journey: 6 months later by Gordon Chan, Staff Engineer @ Buildkite
• 7:00 PM: Q&A
• 8:00 PM: Networking & Close

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🎤 Session Details: The Data Engine Behind AI: Powering Language Models at Scale
Behind every AI breakthrough is a mountain of data — and the real challenge is moving, shaping, and querying it fast enough to keep up. In this session, Alexey will take a deep dive into how large language models are trained, fine-tuned, and served, with a focus on the data pipelines and architectures that make it all work. You’ll see live demos of ClickHouse tackling massive AI-scale datasets in real time, along with performance benchmarks that reveal just how far you can push the engine. Expect actionable tips, architectural patterns, and a few ClickHouse tricks that data engineers, architects, and AI enthusiasts can bring straight into their own projects.

Speaker: Alexey Milovidov, Co-Founder & CTO of ClickHouse
Alexey Milovidov is the Co-founder and CTO of ClickHouse, Inc., with 16 years of experience in data-intensive applications. He began developing ClickHouse in 2009 and released it as open source in 2016. Before ClickHouse, Alexey developed the data processing engine for the world's second-largest web analytics system. In 2021, Alexey came together with two co-founders to build ClickHouse and is focused daily on expanding its capabilities and optimizing performance. His expertise lies in data processing algorithms and high-performance technologies, driving his passion for data and innovation in the field. Ask him about speed, or CI, go on... we dare you!

🎤 Session Details: Buildkite's ClickHouse journey: 6 months later
Join us for the sequel to our ClickHouse adoption story. Six months after our initial exploration, I'll share how Buildkite's Test Engine product has evolved into a more powerful test analytics platform by leveraging ClickHouse. We will dive into the next chapter of our journey: unlocking new analytical capabilities for our customers and achieving significant cost savings. You will leave the talk with real-world insights from our continued (and still early) adventure.

Speaker: Gordon Chan, Staff Engineer @ Buildkite
Gordon is a Staff Engineer at Buildkite, where he leads technical initiatives for the Test Engine platform which helps engineering teams gain valuable insights into their test suites. He spent 2024 rebuilding Test Engine's high-throughput ingestion system from the ground up powered by Apache Kafka & Flink and is currently working on the platform's evolution with ClickHouse to enable advanced test analytics capabilities.