Data Engineers Meetup Launch & Data Lakehouses!

Join us at Excella for the in-person launch of the Data Engineers DC Meetup!

Formerly Data Wranglers DC, we're rebranding to focus on modern data engineering and looking at the state of the art in data management!

We'll spend this first session talking about our 2025 programming, and discussing the state of data engineering and how we're adapting to AI.
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Data Engineers DC is a professional group that meets monthly to discuss topics including all things related to Data Engineering such as open data, data gathering, data munging, and the creation, storage and maintenance of datasets. We combine presentations with hands-on workshops, always seeking to make our data munging lives easier.

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Location: Excella Consulting - 2300 Wilson Blvd, #600, Arlington, VA, 22209

Come up to the 6th floor! Excella is across the street from the Courthouse metro, and there is a paid street parking and a paid garage on N Adam's st.

Agenda:
5:30-6:30pm: Food & Networking
6:30-6:45pm: Introductions
6:45-7:00pm: Relaunch of the community & 2025 programming
7:00-7:15pm: Discussion: What is data engineering?
7:15-7:45pm: Data Lakehouses: Where Structure Meets Flexibility - Sean Youn
7:45pm-8:00pm: Micro-presentations!
- Real-time Sports Betting Analytics - Sanchit Vijay

Sign up to give a 5 minute micro-presentation! https://forms.gle/8YSBJr5LGsfr3qKMA

Talk: Data Lakehouses: Where Structure Meets Flexibility

This presentation introduces key data management systems, including transactional databases (OLTP), data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouses. It explains the purpose and functionality of each system, highlighting how they address different data needs. It will also explore how open table formats such as Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Apache Hudi enable the lakehouse model, combining the strengths of data warehouses and data lakes.

Sean Youn is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Databricks. He has been working in the Data Engineering/Architecture space for 4 years focused on building data engineering use cases and cloud data platforms to enable analytics and other data use cases.

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Data Engineers DC is a program of DC2. Learn more at www.dc2.org