IN-PERSON: Share Data across clusters, regions, and clouds with Apache Kafka®

Hello Streamers!

Join us for an on-site Apache Kafka® Meetup on Tuesday, August 30th from 6:00 pm at WeWork in Cologne. The address,
agenda and speaker information can be found below.

***Please register at Reception Desk on Floor 6 first upon arrival

***DISCLAIMER****
BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT IN PERSON, you acknowledge that risk includes possible exposure to and illness from infectious diseases including COVID-19, and accept responsibility for this, if it occurs.

Agenda:
6:00pm: Doors open

6:00pm-6:30pm: Pizza, Drinks & Networking

6:30pm-7:10pm: Link different clusters with Confluent Cluster Linking, Maik Schumacher, Solutions Engineer Consultant, Confluent

7:10pm-7:40pm: Delighting your marketing team and your customers: Building a real-time end-to-end data product for Real-Time Bidding, Horst Mundt, Director Field Engineering, Databricks

7:40pm-8:00pm: Q&A and networking
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Speaker One:
Maik Schumacher, Solutions Engineer Consultant, Confluent

Title of Talk:
Share Data across clusters, regions, and clouds with Apache Kafka:
Link different clusters with Confluent Cluster Linking

Abstract:
Cluster Linking enables you to directly connect clusters and mirror topics from one Confluent cluster to another. Cluster Linking makes it easy to build multi-datacenter, multi-region, and hybrid cloud deployments. It is secure, performant, tolerant of network latency, and built into Confluent Server and Confluent Cloud. Cluster Linking is a powerful geo-replication technology for:

• Multi-cloud and global architectures powered by real-time data in motion
• Data sharing between different teams, lines of business, or organizations
• High Availability (HA)/Disaster Recovery (DR) during an outage of a cloud provider’s region
• Data and workload migration from a Apache Kafka® cluster to Confluent Cloud or Confluent Platform cluster to Confluent Cloud
• Protect Tier 1, customer-facing applications and workloads from disruption by creating a read-replica cluster for lower-priority applications and workloads
• Hybrid cloud architectures that supply real-time data to applications across on-premises data centers and the cloud
• Syncing data between production environments and staging or development environments

In this Meetup, Maik will present Cluster Linking and live demo some of its capabilities.

Bio:
Maik Schumacher is a Solutions Engineer at Confluent, the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka. Maik helps customers better understand how Confluent’s product and solution portfolio fits in with the partner ecosystem. His career has always revolved around software architecture and distributed systems for enterprises across all industries. Prior to Confluent, Maik held a variety of technical roles at IBM and Adobe.
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Speaker Two:
Horst Mundt, Director Field Engineering, Databricks

Title of Talk:
Delighting your marketing team and your customers: Building a real-time end-to-end data product for Real-Time Bidding

Abstract:
Real-time bidding (RTB) is a subcategory of programmatic media buying. RTB firms established the technology of buying and selling ads in real time (~ 10ms ) in an instant auction, on a per-impression basis. Transactions happen on a marketplace platform. Advertisers want to know the “viewability” metric of an ad - whether or not it was actually seen by users. This gives marketers a more precise measurement about whether or not their messaging and campaigns resonate with their customers.

In this Databricks demo, a walkthrough of a process utilising Kafka streams hosted on Confluent Cloud for data ingestion and Databricks to build models and real-time inference to predict ad viewability using bid data will be given.

Bio:
Horst Mundt joined Databricks 2 years ago. He is leading the specialist solution architect and professional services team for CEMEA, working with customers on projects in the area of large scale data engineering, streaming, data science and data warehouse.

Holding a university degree in mathematics, Horst has been in the IT industry for 25 years in consulting and tech manager roles in the areas of infrastructure, data and cloud.

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NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.