Apache Kafka@ meetup in Columbus

Details:
Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on October 15th from 5:15 pm, kindly hosted by our friends at Navigator Management Partners, LLC in Columbus!

**** Together with our friends from the MODUG: Mid-Ohio Data User Group Meetup group we are delighted to invite you to this event. In order to avoid double booking please RSVP in only 1 of the 2 groups so we can keep accurate numbers for catering etc. Thank you!****
https://www.meetup.com/MODUG-Mid-Ohio-Data-User-Group/events/265149919/

5:15 PM Members arrive - Pizza, soft drinks and beer
6:00 PM Announcements & Recruiting Shoutouts
6:15 PM Speakers

Seeking speakers and sponsors: Contact us if you would like to speak at future events!

Meeting will be sponsored by Bitwise. https://www.bitwiseglobal.com/

Agenda

1. Featured Speaker: Kafka & KSQL
   Jay Long, Project Architect, Nationwide
   Jay will walk through a sample integration use case that he tackled. He'll discuss challenges, how he overcame them, walk through his proof of concept with Kafka, review KSQL code and review lessons learned throughout the project. You won't want to miss this!

2. Plane Spotting - Hacking the ADS-B Stream
   Ted Coyle, Navigator Management Partners
   ADS-B is key to the FAA’s NextGen air traffic Control system. Tapping into local aircraft broadcasts is an easy way to begin experimenting with time-series and streaming events. In this rapid-fire talk, we’ll walk through the receiver setup, stream ingest, and custom alerting using some popular streaming and time-series technology.

3. Point of Sale Order Processing
   Shahab Kamal, Executive Vice President–Solution Engineering and Customer Management, Bitwise

Speaker Bios

1. Jay Long is a Project Architect aligned with the Enterprise Chief Technology Office of Nationwide in Columbus, Ohio who primarily works on integration technologies.

2. Ted Coyle is a full-stack solution architect at Navigator Management Partners, with a passion for cloud, automation and data privacy. Ted’s twenty years plus as a technology innovator spans all commercial and government sectors including sales and consulting roles at Oracle, Cloudera, Project Management Institute, and Silicon Valley startups to name a few.

3. Shahab Kamal of Bitwise works with client executives on IT strategy for business intelligence, Big Data, data warehousing and enterprise applications. He has advised clients in a wide range of industries, including finance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, media, publishing, insurance and ecommerce, assembling and managing onshore and offshore teams to execute their strategic goals. Shahab has extensive experience managing large project teams working across continents and time zones, aligning them around the common goal of delivering value to the client. Prior to joining Bitwise, he worked at Ford Motors, Aon Hewitt and Tribune Company. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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