Sydney Data Engineering Meetup - April Edition

• What we'll do
Canva have kindly invited us down to host the Sydney Data Engineering Meetup at their wonderful offices

• What to bring
Enthusiam and some great questions

• Important to know
There will be a small fee for the night to keep the audience relevant to the meetup, we will be donating proceeds to charity.

Doors open at 6pm.

6.30pm - we will kick off with a welcome and intro to Canva from Francisco Morales - he will briefly talk about Canva's growth in the Data Engineering space.
6.40pm - Our first speakers for the night are from Klarrio: https://www.klarrio.com/
Giselle van Dongen is a Data Scientist at Klarrio specialising in real-time data analysis, processing and visualisation. Concurrently she is a PhD researcher at Ghent University, teaching and benchmarking real-time distributed processing systems such as Spark Streaming, Flink, Kafka Streams and Storm.
Vincent Quigley has over 30 years of professional experience in telecommunications and IT technologies, management and learning and development, both professional and academic, with companies and institutions like Klarrio, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems and UTS. Building on his experience with networks, his focus now is real-time data architectures and their implementation.

7.20pm - Our second speaker for the night is from Sajari: https://www.sajari.com/
Hamish Ogilvy will talk us through how Sajari has built an innovative in site search platform on GCP and take us through the data engineering patterns his team has been using as well as the reasons he chose GCP over AWS.