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Upcoming events
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IN PERSON! Brisbane Apache Kafka® Meetup (Nov 2025)
Mantel, 8/133 Mary St, Brisbane City, AUHello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Nov 13th from 5:30pm, hosted by Mantel in Brisbane!
The address, agenda, and speaker information can be found below. See you there!
📍Venue:
Mantel Group Office
8/133 Mary St, Brisbane City***
🗓 Agenda:- 5:30pm: Doors open
 - 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
 - 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Kat Grigg, Technical Support Engineer, Confluent
 - 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Jaehyeon Kim, Developer Experience Engineer, Factor House
 - 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking
 
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💡 Speaker:
Kat Grigg, Technical Support Engineer, ConfluentTalk:
Kafka 101Abstract:
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💡 Speaker:
Jaehyeon Kim, Developer Experience Engineer, Factor HouseTalk:
Hands-On Local Development: Kafka, Flink, Docker, and more.Abstract:
Jae will present an introduction to a collection of open-source Docker environments designed to help you build and learn about modern data platforms.
This session is perfect for engineers interested in getting hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, Iceberg, and Pinot, along with tools for management and observability.
We will also introduce a series of hands-on tutorials designed to guide you through building a complete, end-to-end data pipeline—from data ingestion with Kafka to real-time analytics and visualization.***
If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io12 attendees
Past events
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