Name: Platform Engineering MeetUp (+ BBQ & Beers 🔥🍗🍔🥙🍻) - "The Talking Heads"
Start: 2024-05-29T15:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-29T20:00:00.000Z
Location: Delirium Cafe Amsterdam

Dear Platform Engineering Community,

One thing is clear...when Brent Kastner, Kevin Boots, Benedikt Iltisberger and Renato Mefi + team all get together..... [The Talking Heads](https://open.spotify.com/album/5eqcF7pWzHgWpGdEmHgeSN?si=Sh5m1WoBTwiwd7RQGd-rCA) are in town!! 😜

Are you ready for another iteration of our Platform Engineering MeetUp?!?!! **WE ARE!!** 🤩 This time prepare yourselves for a **live Kubernetes** **hacking session** alongside 3 super interesting talks **on the 29th of May** (doors open at 17.00 this time!)!! And please have all your fingers crossed for some nice weather **🤞☀️** as we are **opening the terrace for BBQ & Beers at the Delirium Café AKA Waterfront!!** 🍔🍺🍗🍟🍴🔥

As always, all you need to do is bring you++ (please keep spreading the word of our lovely community here as much as you can!!), pack some good vibes & talking points (we MIGHT have room for some lightning talks again!!) and be ready for a night of learning, laughter, and connecting. Just come and enjoy the evening! 🙂

Cheers to another unforgettable gathering! 🎉
Hosted by mogenius and Tarmac.io

**LOCATION**
[Delirium Café Amsterdam (soon: Waterfront)](https://maps.app.goo.gl/iopmAridFmzjvj1d9)
Piet Heinkade 4
1019 BR Amsterdam
**what3words Address:** [///players.mulls.fades](https://w3w.co/players.mulls.fades)

**HOW TO GET THERE**
🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️: 13Min. walk from Centraal Station
🚋: One stop with tram no. 26 from 'Centraal Station' to 'Amsterdam, Muziekgeb. Bimhuis'
🚗 🅿️: And if you do come by car, the parking garage '[Parkeergarage IJ-oever Centrum](https://parkereninijoever.nl/)' is close by & allows for pre-booking a spot (EUR 9,-- for evening parking from 18:00 - 1:00)

**AGENDA**
**17.00 - 18.00 Doors Open, Welcome Drinks & Snacks/Appetizers**
**18.00 Official Welcome**
**18.10 - 18.30** **"Enterprise Data and LLMs: I promise this is not another meaningless AI talk"**
[Brent Kastner](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentkastner/), CTO @ Tarmac.io

* Safe data exploration using LLMs
* The art of the possible - what's new, what's changing
* Real working infrastructure and code to demo

**18.30 - 18.50 "How I learned to stop worrying and love IT controls again (by putting them into a platform)"**
[Kevin Boots](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevops-engineer/), Senior DevOps Consultant @ DevOn

* Why automate IT controls/compliance?
* Strategies and examples of building IT controls into your dev platform, like BDD tests or reactive architectures
* Spinoffs into developer enablement + examples, embracing innersourcing

**18.50 - 19.20** **"Building a Platform team @Gorgias - Practical Examples"**
by Gorgias Team: [Renato Mefi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/renatomefi/) (VP of Engineering), [Moustapha Mahfoud](https://www.linkedin.com/in/moustaphamahfoud/) (Data Engineer) & [Abdelhakim Bendjabeur](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdelhakimbendjabeur/) (Senior Software Engineer)

* Starting a platform from scratch, from weekly outages to adopting new paradigms
* Democratizing Data Streaming stack - from Debezium to 30 Kafka Connect use cases
* Empowering multiple teams to launch their own Analytics dashboards on top of a platform

**19:20 Kubernetes Live Hacking Session (Breakout Group)**
[Benedikt Iltisberger](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedikt-iltisberger-057b5555/), Co-Founder (Focus: Software Dev & DevOps) @ mogenius

**19:20 - 22.00** **Get-together with BBQ & Drinks**
(Time for Lightning Talks)

Platform Engineering Amsterdam

Darko Klincarski

Gerrit

Michaela

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