Sydney Data Eng meetup, April Edition

Hey all, please join us for our April 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 Optiver for the catering, we are looking for a venue host! 🎉

🏠 Location: Optiver
🍕 Catering: Optiver 😊
💬 Join our Slack Group here: Data Engineers Slack Channel

Schedule:
- 6.00pm: Doors Open
- 6.30pm: Announcements and Welcome
- 6.40pm: 1st Talk
- 7.10pm: 2nd Talk
- 7.40pm: Networking
- 8.00pm: Doors Close

Speakers:
🎤 Zac Davies, ANZ Field CTO - Lead Solution Architect
Talk – Open Data Sharing in the Lakehouse Era: Data sharing has evolved from SFTP drops and static data portals to open, interoperable architectures. With lakehouse table formats becoming the standard for structured data, new sharing patterns are possible. This session explores how Delta Sharing enables secure, cross-platform access to Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg tables across engines and tools.

🎤 Peter Flook, Principal Software Engineer, Audax
Data Contracts That Actually Work Peter is the founder of Data Caterer and a contributor to the Open Data Contract Standard. His talk will go beyond schemas and documentation, exploring how data contracts can be embedded into CI/CD, governance, and validation workflows to prevent breaking changes and silent downstream failures. It's a practical, intermediate-level session — exactly the kind of content our community loves.

If you'd like to present at future meetups, please submit your talk here!

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