GenAI Bootcamp: Master AI with Kafka and Flink

***NOTE: This bootcamp will be happening in central London.***

Join our GenAI Bootcamp for an intensive, hands-on experience to elevate your skills in Generative AI and real-time data processing with Kafka and Flink. Perfect for data enthusiasts, AI, and tech practitioners looking to stay ahead and get certified.

Please join us for our special IN-PERSON meetup where you will learn the fundamentals of Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink® along with building real-time Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines!

Event Details

🗓Date: 18 June 2024 (Tuesday)

🗓Time: 10 AM - 2 PM

📍Location: WeWork | 1 Waterhouse Square, London, EC1N 2ST, United Kingdom

Directions to reach Meeting Room 7C once you reach WeWork:
1. Enter Building 1 of Waterhouse WeWork.
2. Register as a guest hosted by Varsha Nagele.
3. Take the lift to the Lower Ground floor.

Someone will help you there, but here's a quick guide:
-Take the right at the end of the community hall and pass through two doors.
-Then take the lift to reach the 4th floor.
-Once you reach the 4th floor look for the ancient door with a stairway.
-Take the ancient stairway to the Meeting Room 7C (At the top).

Feel free to ask WeWork staff for assistance if needed

Price: Free
*Please note: space is limited. Please RSVP to confirm your presence.*

🗓 Agenda:

• 10:00am - 10:30am: Welcome Session
• 10:30am - 11:15am: Kafka and Flink Fundamentals by Danica Fine
• 11:30am - 12:30pm: Gen AI Hands-on Workshop by Shivanshu Dubey
• 12:45pm - 1:00pm: Certification Exam Details
• 1:00 pm - 2:00pm: Winner announcements, Food & Drinks and Networking

Workshop Abstract:
* Bring your laptop device for the hands-on session.
This hands-on workshop dives deep into building a real-time sentiment analysis pipeline leveraging the power of FlinkSQL, vector databases, and Large Language Models (LLMs). We'll explore how to:

• Harness FlinkSQL for data enrichment: Aggregate real-time financial data and market news analysis, enriching prompts with context retrieved from a vector database using FlinkSQL's powerful JOIN capabilities.
• Connect to the AI ecosystem: Seamlessly integrate embedding models, LLMs, and external APIs through Kafka Connectors, simplifying communication and data flow.
• Build scalable pipelines with Confluent Cloud: Leverage the robustness of Confluent Cloud Kafka clusters and Flink compute pools for real-time processing and analysis.

Real-World Application: We'll apply these techniques to build a sentiment analysis pipeline, demonstrating how to extract insights from financial data and market news in real-time.

Key Takeaways: Participants will gain practical experience with Confluent's "Connect, Process, Stream" paradigm, enabling them to build and deploy their real-time RAG pipelines using any context search vector database and LLM HTTP endpoint.

This workshop provides a stepping stone toward Confluent certification and unlocks new possibilities for real-time data analysis and decision-making.

About the speakers:
Danica Fine is a Staff 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.

Shivanshu Dubey is an Advisory Solutions Engineer at Confluent with over 5 years of experience focused on software engineering and cloud-native systems. He brings cross-industry experience supporting data science and data systems. As a solutions engineer at Confluent, he helps companies build innovative, next-gen real-time solutions for global enterprises using a high-performing streaming platform with Kafka and Flink at its core.

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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.

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