IN-PERSON: Apache Flink® Meetup

Join us for an Apache Flink® meetup on Thursday, July 3rd from 6:00pm hosted by Ness!

IF YOU RSVP HERE: you don't need to also RSVP @ London Real-Time Data Meetup

🗓 Agenda:

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Food/Drinks and networking
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Sven Erik Knop, Staff Technical Instructor, Confluent
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Oded Nahum – Global Head of Cloud & Data Streaming Practice, Ness & Laurentiu Bita – Sr. Data Streaming Architect, Ness
• 7:30pm - 8:30pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

💡Speaker One:
Sven Erik Knop, Staff Technical Instructor, Confluent
Title of Talk:
Spinning up an Event Streaming Environment from Scratch Confluent Cloud, Terraform, Connectors and Flink in Action
Abstract:
According to Wikipedia, Infrastructure as Code is the process of managing and provisioning computer data center resources through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. This also applies to resources and reference data, connector plugins, connector configurations, and stream processes to clean up the data.

In this talk, we are going to discuss the use cases based on the Network Rail Data Feeds, the scripts used to spin up the environment and cluster in the Confluent Cloud as well as the different components required for the ingress and processing of the data.

This particular environment is used as a teaching tool for Event Stream Processing for Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, and Flink. Some examples of further processing and visualisation will also be provided.

Bio:
Sven Erik is a Staff Technical Instructor at Confluent, the enterprise event-streaming platform pioneer. Previously, he worked as Lead Consultant, Trainer and Evangelist at Perforce, deploying and maintaining large configuration management installations at various customer from leading gaming developers, financial institutions to chip manufacturers. He is a regular presenter at meetups and contributes to various open-source projects around Apache Kafka. In his spare time find him on a mountain hiking with his family and his dog, or sitting down playing board games with friends and family.

💡Speaker Two:
Oded Nahum – Global Head of Cloud & Data Streaming Practice, Ness
Laurentiu Bita – Sr. Data Streaming Architect, Ness

Title of Talk:
Real-Time Manufacturing Insights with Apache Flink and Kafka

Abstract:
In this session, we’ll walk through how Apache Flink was used to enable near real-time operational insights using manufacturing IIoT Data sets.
The goal: deliver actionable KPIs to production teams with sub-30-second latency, using streaming data pipelines built Kafka, Flink and Grafana.
We’ll cover the key architectural patterns that made this possible, including handling structured data joins, managing out-of-order events, and integrating with downstream systems like PostgreSQL and Grafana. We’ll also share real-world performance benchmarks, lessons learned from scaling tests, and practical considerations for deploying Flink in a production-grade, low-latency analytics pipeline.
The session will also include a live demo

If you're building Flink-based solutions for time-sensitive operations—whether in manufacturing, IoT, or other domains—this talk will provide proven insights from the field.
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DISCLAIMER
We don't cater to attendees under the age of 18.
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