Danica Fine - Practical Pipelines with ksqlDB (cross-promotion event)

Cross-promotion event with Twin Cities Apache Kafka Meetup!

Agenda (time below is CDT):
6:00pm-6:25pm: Doors open/networking/snacks and drinks
6:25pm-6:30pm: Introduction and Welcome - Badri Pidatala, Global IT Director- Integration Services at Medtronic & Maz Chaudhri, Sr. Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics, Medtronic
6:30pm-6:50pm- Navigating the Patient Data Journey - Corey Weisser, Sr. Principal Information/Data Architect, Medtronic & Daren Stundhal, IT Architect, Medtronic
6:50pm-7:10pm: Integrating Kafka with Terraform & AWS Secrets - Mitch Giannini, Sr. Software Developer, Medtronic
7:10pm-8:00pm- Practical Pipelines: A Houseplant Soil Alerting System with ksqlDB, Danica Fine, Sr. Developer Advocate, Confluent
8:00pm-8:30pm- Q&A/Meetup adjourns

Speakers One and Two:
Corey Weisser, Sr. Principal Information/Data Architect, Medtronic & Daren Stundhal, IT Architect, Medtronic
Title of Talk:
Navigating the Patient Data Journey
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Speaker Three:
Mitch Giannini, Sr. Software Developer, Medtronic
Title of Talk:
Integrating Kafka with Terraform & AWS Secrets
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Speaker Four:
Danica Fine, Sr. Developer Advocate, Confluent

Title of Talk:
Practical Pipelines: A Houseplant Soil Alerting System with ksqlDB

Abstract:
Houseplants can be hard – in many cases, over- and under-watering can have the same symptoms. Take away the guesswork involved in caring for your houseplants while also gaining valuable experience in building a practical, event-driven pipeline in your own home! This talk explores the process of building a houseplant monitoring and alerting system using a Raspberry Pi and Apache Kafka®.

Moisture and temperature readings are captured from sensors in the soil and streamed into Kafka. From here, we’ll use stream processing to transform the data, creating a summary view of the current state and driving real-time push alerts to your phone through Telegram. In this session, I’ll talk about how I ingest the data, followed by a look at the tools, including ksqlDB and Kafka Connect, that will help transform the raw data into useful information.

By the end of the talk, you’ll have everything you need to start building practical streaming pipelines in your own home. Roll up your sleeves – let’s get our hands dirty!

Bio:
Danica Fine is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent where she helps others get the most out of their event-driven pipelines. Prior to this role, she served as a software engineer on a streaming infrastructure team at Bloomberg where she predominantly worked on Kafka Streams- and Kafka Connect-based projects. Her expertise in streaming systems has taken her to a number of conferences and speaking engagements over the years, giving her the chance to express her love of Kafka to anyone who will listen. Danica is committed to increasing diversity in the technical community and actively serves as a mentor to a number of women in tech. She can be found on Twitter, tweeting about tech, plants, and baking @TheDanicaFine.

This is an in-person event so make sure to register over at the Twin Cities Apache Kafka Meetup by Confluent meetup page - https://www.meetup.com/twincities-apache-kafka/events/286761181/