Sydney Data Eng meetup, January 2025

Hey all, please join us for our January Sydney Data Eng meetup. Join us for an engaging session filled with exciting discussions and networking opportunities.

Don't miss out—RSVP to secure your spot. A big shout-out to MSFT Reactor for providing us with the venue! 🎉

🏠 Location: MSFT Reactor, Level 10/11 York St, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia
🍕 Catering: TBC 😊
💬 Join our Slack Group here: Data Engineers Slack Channel

Schedule:
- 5.00pm: Doors Open
- 5.30pm: Announcements and Welcome
- 5.40pm: 1st Talk
- 6.10pm: 2nd Talk
- 6.40pm: Networking
- 7.10pm: Doors Close

Speakers:
🎤 Justin Mclean, Community Manager, Datastrato
Talk Title: Apache Gravitino: A multi-regional, geo-distributed meta datalake
Talk Summary: Managing metadata can be complex, but Apache Gravitino simplifies it all. As a single source of truth for multi-regional, geo-distributed data, Gravitino ensures secure, centralized management with global accessibility. Its unified platform streamlines data and AI asset management while enhancing security and ease of use. Key benefits include:
- Secure, centralized metadata management
- Anytime, anywhere access
- Intuitive, streamlined data handling
Gravitino is an ASF project, so it's open-source, free, and designed to make metadata management effortless.
Speaker Bio: Justin Mclean is a highly experienced professional with over 30 years in web application development, education, and community work, and he is an active contributor to open-source software. Justin is a renowned speaker at conferences worldwide and currently serves as the Community Manager at Datastrato. He mentors projects in the Apache Software Foundation, and is curretnly the VP of the ASF Incubator, and an ASF board member.

🎤 Minni Walia, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
🎤 Francesco Fava, Data and AI Technology Specialist, Microsoft
Talk Title: Unlock Real-Time Insights and Take Instant Action with MS Fabric Real-Time Intelligence
Talk Summary: This session will cover an overview of Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, highlighting how it helps with the ingestion, processing, visualization, and real-time action on high-volume, high-velocity data. It will also include use cases and reference architectures, followed by a live demo of an end-to-end streaming use case.
Speaker Bio: Minni is a Principal Program Manager with the Microsoft Fabric Customer Advisory Team (CAT), specializing in Real-Time Intelligence capabilities within Fabric. With over 20 years in tech, she has extensive experience in developing applications and data platforms. She spent more than a decade as an Enterprise Architect before transitioning into data analytics and engineering roles at Microsoft.
Francesco is a Data & AI Technology Specialist at Microsoft Australia. Over the years, he has helped Enterprise organizations across various industries use data-driven insights and artificial intelligence to create effective business strategies. When the workday ends, it's all about family and enjoying a good cup of coffee. You'll find them at the playground with their kids, coffee in hand, savoring life's little moments.

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Remember to bring along some great questions! See you all there...