Name: Kafka and Big Data
Start: 2024-05-20T21:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-20T23:00:00.000Z
Location: 6671 Beta Dr

**\*\*\*IMPORTANT: Registration will be closed on this page. Please RSVP with the following link:**[ https://www.meetup.com/thinkport-cloud-solutions/events/300589716/](https://www.meetup.com/thinkport-cloud-solutions/events/300589716/)**\*\*\***

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**Details**

***Location***:
**Thinkport GmbH**
Arnsburger Straße 74,
60385 Frankfurt am Main (Deutschland)

***Agenda***

* 5:30pm-6:00pm: Welcome & Networking
* **6:00pm-6:30pm: Introduction to Apache Flink (Thomas Iffland, Thinkport)**
* **6:30pm-7:00pm: Fast aggregation & insights on IoT data using Kafka and Druid (Robert Sauer, Thing-it)**
* 7:00pm-8:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, & Networking

***Sessions***:
**Introduction to Apache Flink**
This session will cover the **basics of Apache Flink** and provide hands-on demo of stream processing leveraging SQL
**Speaker: Thomas Iffland**, Thinkport - Senior Cloud Engineer, Thinkport
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**Fast aggregation & insights on IoT data using Kafka and Druid**
This session provides an **overview of how Thing-it adopted Druid** for their IoT analytics to provide smart building solutions
**Speaker: Robert Sauer**, Software Architect, Thing-it

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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 21.

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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! [community@confluent.io](http://community@confluent.io/)

Frankfurt Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent

Alice Richardson

Smart Building IoT Analytics with Druid & Kafka at Thing-it

Thinkport GmbH

Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Tuesday, May 14th from 6:30pm in Lyon hosted by CGI! Talk will be presented in French.

📍**Venue:**
CGI Immeuble Docksite
CS 20218 47-49 Rue des Docks
69009 Lyon France

**\*\*IMPORTANT:** **Please fill out [THIS FORM](https://forms.gle/b8TnG3VCpbGWe9bB6) for security purposes ONLY, 48 HOURS BEFORE the event, if you are attending the event on May 14th. Thank you!\*\***
*The information collected in this form will only be used for security purposes during the Apache Kafka® Meetup which will be hosted at* *CGI* *on May 14th.*

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🗓 **Agenda:**

* 6:30pm: Doors open
* 6:30pm - 7:15pm: Pizza, Drinks and Networking
* 7:15pm - 8:00pm: Frédérik Rouleau, Sr Customer Success Technical Architect, Confluent
* 8:00pm - 8:30pm Additional Q&A & Networking

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💡 **Speaker:**
Frédérik Rouleau, Sr Customer Success Technical Architect, Confluent

**Title of Talk:**
Kafka 3.7 arrive, Kafka 4.0 en vue

**Abstract:**
Kafka 3.7 arrive bientôt, une étape de plus vers la version 4 et l’abandon de Zookeeper. C’est l’occasion de faire le point sur les ajouts de la lignée 3.x et des nouveautés en préparation avant la tant attendue version 4.0.

**Bio:**
Fred a commencé sa carrière dans les télécoms, participant au balbutiement de l’Internet mobile, puis au développement de nombreux services pour les opérateurs mobiles et fixes. Il a ensuite travaillé en tant que Solution Architect pour une des sociétés majeures dans le traitement des demandes de visa. Il a ensuite rejoint Confluent en tant que Customer Success Technical Architect il y a 3 ans.

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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](http://community@confluent.io/)

Lyon Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent

Frédérik Rouleau

Guillaume Vauvert

IN PERSON: Apache Kafka® Meetup Lyon - May 2024

Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Wednesday, May 15th from 5:30pm hosted by Austrian Post AG!

**☀️🌱 Not an official dress code, but if you're in the mood to welcome the Spring season, feel free to show up in something colourful!**

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📍**Venue:**
Austrian Post AG
Rochusplatz 1
1030 Vienna

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🗓 **Agenda:**

* 5:30pm: Doors open
* 5:30pm – 6:00pm: Drinks and networking
* 6:00pm - 6:45pm: Mathias Frey, Head of Platform Architecture, Erste Group
* 6:45pm - 7:30pm: Hannes Bösch, CEO, Posedio & Damjan Gjurovski, CEO/CTO, Posedio
* 7:30pm - 9:00pm: Additional Q&A, Snacks and Networking

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💡 **Speaker One**:
Mathias Frey, Head of Platform Architecture, Erste Group

**Title of Talk:**
Kafka beyond the obvious. An architect’s look at how we stream about our future

**Abstract:**
With hundreds of projects using Kafka in production, streaming is a successfully proven technology for exchanging data within, or between solutions. Yet, there is much more to Kafka and the ecosystem than “just” real-time data – be it the convergence of transactions and analytics, portability of data across environments, or the fostering of reuse across the organization. The talk will showcase lessons learned, some where Kafka truly shines, some where we still struggle.

**Bio:**
More than twenty years of experience in software development and related functions, both in small companies as well as large enterprises. As Head of Platform Architecture at Erste Group responsible for tech strategy of everything that eventually faces our customers. Intrigued by reactive programming.

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💡**Speaker Two**:
Hannes Bösch, CEO, Posedio & Damjan Gjurovski, CEO/CTO, Posedio

**Title of Talk:**
Key Insights from Using Kafka in Large-Scale Projects

**Abstract:**
This presentation distills critical insights and lessons from using Kafka in a large-scale project involving 100 developers. We will delve into common misunderstandings and pitfalls that teams encounter when integrating Kafka into their workflows, highlighting practical examples and solutions. The focus will be on the most important learnings garnered from our experiences, offering attendees a roadmap to navigate the complexities of using Kafka effectively in big projects

**Bios:**
**Hannes** is the CEO of Posedio, a company specializing in cloud-native development, with a solid foundation in software engineering. He is deeply passionate about cloud-native computing, distributed systems, and software architecture patterns. In his current consulting role, Hannes worked as the solution architect on a large-scale project involving 11 development teams. During this time, he gained valuable insights into the complexities and pitfalls of building intricate choreographies with microservices.

**Damjan** is the CEO/CTO of Posedio and has worked with some of the biggest Austrian companies and service providers in the retail, education and finance sector. He enjoys working with new, open- source cloud technologies with focus on security and scalability.

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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 21.

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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! [community@confluent.io](community@confluent.io)

Vienna Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent

Michael 

Philipp Graf

IN-PERSON: Real Life Kafka Experiences

Austrian Post

Hello Streamers!

Please join us for an exciting **IN-PERSON** Apache Kafka® meetup and book signing on Wednesday, May 15th from 5:30pm hosted by our friends at SmartThings, with food and beverage sponsored by KineticEdge and books sponsored by Confluent.

First 40 registered attendees *to **arrive*** receive a free copy of Bill Bejeck's new book, *Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition*!
Please note: Books *are* limited.

📍**Venue:**
Riverplace Building Complex
1 SE Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414

**Meetup Location Details:**
Kafka Meetup will be held in the Garamond Conference Room located inside the Main Hall Building within the Riverplace Complex.

\*Parking is available on the street or in the Riverplace Parking Ramp on 2nd St SE
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🗓 **Agenda:**

* 5:00pm: Doors Open
* 5:15pm-6:00pm: Book signing
* 5:30pm-onward: Food and drink
* 6:00pm-6:45pm: Maintaining Parallelism and Ordering with Reactive Kafka, Mark Eyberg, Staff Engineer, SmartThings
* 6:45pm - 7:30pm: Windowing in Kafka Streams and Flink SQL, Bill Bejeck, Developer Experience Engineer, Confluent

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💡 **Speaker One:**
Mark Eyberg, Staff Software Engineer, SmartThings

**Title of Talk:**
Maintaining Parallelism and Ordering with Reactive Kafka

**Abstract:**
Coming soon!

**Bio:**
Coming soon!

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💡 **Speaker Two:**
Bill Bejeck, Developer Experience Engineer, Confluent

**Title of Talk:**
Windowing in Kafka Streams and Flink SQL

**Abstract:**
Stream processing has become the standard way to work with event data with Apache Kafka®, Kafka Streams, and Apache Flink® being the top choices for implementing an event streaming application. In many cases, an individual event isn't the focus of the streaming applications. Instead, it's a series of events within a given period––a discrete window of time––that commands attention. But with the different windowing options available and the time semantics around them, windowing can be tricky to get right.

In this presentation, Bill will cover the following topics for windowing in Kafka Streams and Flink SQL:
\- Different types of windows \(hopping\, tumbling\, sliding\, etc\.\) and their application
\- The semantics of time advancement\, window closing\, and emitting results
\- Analyzing windowed results
Developers who attend this talk will understand what windowing is in these two streaming technologies, the different types available to them, and guidelines on when to apply which window type.

**Bio:**
Bill has been a software engineer for over 18 years. Currently, he is working at Confluent as a Staff DevX Engineer. Previously, Bill was an engineer on the Kafka Streams team for three-plus years. Before Confluent, he worked on various ingest applications as a U.S. Government contractor using distributed software such as Apache Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop. Bill has also written a book about Kafka Streams titled "Kafka Streams in Action" and the second edition just release April 2024 ([https://www.manning.com/books/kafka-streams-in-action-second-edition](https://www.manning.com/books/kafka-streams-in-action-second-edition)).

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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 21.

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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@[confluent.io](http://confluent.io/)

Twin Cities Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent

Neil Buesing

Matt Schroeder

IN-PERSON: Reactive Kafka/Windowing in Kafka Streams and Flink SQL/Book signing!

1 SE Main St

Hello Streamers!

You are invited to attend a meetup on Monday, May 20th starting at 5:00pm ET hosted by our friends at Cleveland Big Data user group!

**\*\*\*PLEASE NOTE, VERY IMPORTANT\*\*\***: If you are interested to attend this meetup, please register[ here.](https://www.meetup.com/cleveland-hadoop/events/298350087/) **Registration for this meetup will not be open on this page, please visit the link below:**
[https://www.meetup.com/cleveland-hadoop/events/298350087/ ](https://www.meetup.com/cleveland-hadoop/events/298350087/)

**Venue:**
6671 Beta Drive, Mayfield, OH
Note: the entrance is in the BACK of the building.

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**Agenda:**

* 5:00pm: Doors Open/Pizza and Networking
* 5:30pm: Community announcements, recruiting shout-outs
* 6:00pm-6:20pm: Kafka talk, Chris Chapman, Solutions Engineer, Confluent
* 6:20pm-6:40pm: Speaker from Google
* 6:40pm - 7:00pm: Speaker from Progressive

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