Data & Drinks: How is data driving the automotive industry forward?

Our next Data & Dinks event is taking place on Thursday, March 30th at 17:30 at Xomnia's HQ. It will focus on the roles of data engineering and data science in the automotive industry.

Our first guest is Data Platform Solution Architect Floris Smit, who will give a presentation about using streaming data to support DAF Used Trucks' e-commerce sales platform. Our second speaker is Lead Data Scientist at Pon Kevin Haver, who will talk about using AI to detect car damages and optimize bicycle manufacturing.

The event includes dinner, drinks and a lot of networking opportunities with data professionals from Amsterdam and beyond.

Short summary of the talks:

• Talk #1 by Floris Smit: PACCAR Financial has many customers that lease DAF trucks and later return them upon the end of the contracts. In an effort to modernize and streamline the selling of these used trucks, DAF hired Xomnia to assist in the design and implementation of a data platform. Floris will discuss in his talk how he ensured that various data sources are available in a real-time manner using Confluent for Kafka, AWS, Kafka Connect, Debezium, and EKS.
• Talk #2 by Kevin Haver: While most people in the Netherlands know Pon as a car importer, Pon is also one of the world's largest bicycle manufacturers. Kevin will demonstrate how his team developed a computer vision model to detect car damages in real-time and how they leveraged AI to improve bicycle production and distribution.

Get to know our speakers:

• Floris Smit is a data platform solution architect specialized in streaming data. From design to implementation and deployment, Floris has worked on real time applications using Apache Kafka, Confluent and Kubernetes.
• Kevin Haver After completing his studies in energy physics, Kevin pursued a career in data science at Pon. He enjoys turning ideas into reality and transforming data into business value. Kevin and his team, the Pon Datalab, are on a mission to make Pon the smartest trading and service company in the world.

Agenda:

• 17:30-18.30: Walk-ins & dinner
• 18.30-18.35: Introduction to Xomnia
• 18:35-19:05: Using streaming data to support DAF Used Trucks' sales e-commerce platform by Floris Smit
• 19:05-19:15: Break
• 19.15-19.45: Using AI to detect car damages and optimize bicycle manufacturing by Kevin Haver
• 19.45-20.30: Borrel