IN-PERSON: Oslo Apache Kafka® Meetup - November

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Wednesday, November 8th from 4:00pm hosted by Telenor. The talks will be presented in English.

📍Venue:
Telenor Expo, Building D
Snarøyveien 30, 1360 Fornebu

Please see the document here for the directions

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🗓 Agenda:

• 4:00pm: Doors open
• 4:00pm - 4:30pm: Snack, drinks and networking
• 4:30pm - 5:15pm: Vaibhav Bansal, Lead Platform Engineer, Telenor & Binny Mathew, Platform Engineer, Telenor
• 5:15pm - 5:45pm: Eldar Sveinung, Team Lead and Coach Big Data Analytics, Telenor & Marius Holm, Data Engineer, Telenor
• 5:45pm - 6:15pm: Mic Hussey, Principal Solutions Engineer, Confluent
• 6:15pm-7:00pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

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💡 Speaker:

• Vaibhav Bansal (Lead Platform Engineer)
• Binny Mathew (Platform Engineer)

Talk:
Empowering Autonomous Teams: Enabling Kafka with automation and governance in Telenor

Abstract:
Telenor’s Kafka platform is pivotal in our modernisation journey. Our vision of scalability demands automation, governance and self-service. In this talk we will delve into our journey of enabling Kafka platform including the adopted tools.

Bio:
Vaibhav is working as a Lead Platform Engineer in Telenor Norway where he is responsible for building and enabling Cloud platforms. He started his journey as a backend developer and has been working primarily with devops, cloud-native and Public Cloud (AWS, Azure) in the last decade. He has a burning interest for cloud native architectures.

Binny is as a Platform Engineer in Telenor Norway. Since 2008, he has been on an exhilarating tech journey, wearing the hats of a Solution Architect and now a Platform Engineer.

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💡 Speakers:

• Eldar Sveinung, Team Lead and Coach Big Data Analytics, Telenor
• Marius Holm, Data Engineer, Telenor

Talk:
The Road Less Taken: Kafka for Big Data Streaming and Unorthodox Solutions for Events

Abstract:
Kafka was acquired in 2020 to stream signalling data from the mobile network into our big data Analytics platform for analysis. We talk about how it was solved, and use cases that subsequently emerged.
Real applications should often cover many different needs, but above all it must work. Such requirements in combination with time constraints, external technology constraints, etc. can result in "creative" and rather unorthodox solution designs. In the last part of the presentation, we will present an unorthodox but functional Big Data solution in which Kafka is an important component. It has probably become a "best-practice" nightmare, but perhaps it became a product owner's dream...? "

Bio:
Eldar Sveinung has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry as a line manager, consultant, and project manager. He is now heading the Big Data Platform Team within the IT division in Telenor Norway. The team provides a platform for streaming (Kafka) of billions of events from our network and devices, and a big data platform for analytics of the events.

Marius Holm is a Data Engineer at Telenor Norway where he focuses on Streaming and Big Data solutions supporting Network Engineers in improving the Telenor network based on analytics and insight. His first 2 years at Telenor were spent as a Data Scientist within the same domain, before making the switch to Data Engineering and data platform operations a year ago.

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💡 Speaker:
Mic Hussey, Principal Solutions Engineer, Confluent

Talk:
The Latest on Apache Kafka, On The Horizon and Future Ideas

Abstract:
In the session we will discuss highlights of the recent contributions, upcoming project improvements, and future innovation ideas that are being discussed

Bio:
TBC

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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.
NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.
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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io