Wellington Data Eng meetup, June 2025

Hey all, please join us for our next Wellington 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. Thank you Cloud Shuttle for the venue and Catering! 🎉
🏠 Location: Silver Linings room, Two/Fifty Seven
🍕 Catering: Cloud Shuttle 😊
💬 Join our Slack Group here: Data Engineers Slack Channel

Schedule:
- 5.00pm: Doors Open
- 5.30pm: Announcements and Welcome
- 5.40pm: 1st Talk (25 mins + 5 min Q/A)
- 6.10pm: 2nd Talk (25 mins + 5 min Q/A)
- 6.40pm: 3rd Talk (25 mins + 5 min Q/A)
- 7.10pm: Networking
- 8.00pm: Doors Close

Speakers:
🎤 Shane Gibson, Agile Data Coach & Co-Founder, AgileData
Talk Title: The Info Product Canvas
Talk Summary: Shane will provide an overview of the info product canvas - a book he has just released and is available on Amazon.
Speaker Bio: Shane is known for my practical, no-nonsense approach to solving complex data challenges. With over 30 years of experience, he has dedicated his career to helping organisations design, deliver, and scale their data practices by adopting innovative patterns that simplify how data teams work.Drawing on his experience as a consultant, architect, agile coach, and product manager, he iterates and publishes patterns and pattern templates to bridge the gap between technical data teams and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment in delivering valuable outcomes.

🎤 Todd Hunter, Lead Consultant, Mantel Group
Talk Title: Go with the Openflow
Talk Summary: Announced at the Snowflake summit at the start of the month, Openflow generated a lot of attention. As a launch partner with Snowflake we have taken a good look at it and are interested in what it is and what it can do. Im going to give an overview of what it is, how it works and we will explore how to leverage Apache NiFi for complex data ingestion and transformation by walking through a live demonstration where we will read a stream of data and load it directly into Snowflake.
Speaker Bio: Todd is an IT professional with over 25 years experience. Currently a Data Engineer focused on building data platforms with AWS and Snowflake. He lives in Wellington and love coffee and craft beer.

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...