Highlights from Flink Forward Berlin 2024
Flink Forward Berlin 2024 is a wrap, and Ververica is proud to have hosted the 10-year anniversary of Apache Flink® with the community! Flink Forward is the only conference dedicated entirely to Apache Flink and data streaming, and this year it was exciting to welcome speakers, sessions, and attendees from companies like Apple, Alibaba, Intesa Sanpaolo, Mercedes-Benz, Pinterest, Toyota Motor Europe, Uber, and many more! Read on for a recap of the 4-day event.
Flink Forward Berlin 2024 Opening Session
Join us for the highly anticipated 'Opening Session: Past, Present and Future' of Flink Forward Berlin 2024! Kicking off an incredible lineup, this session sets the stage for two action-packed conference days.
Flink Forward Berlin 2024 Closing Session
This closing session brings together highlights from the Flink Forward Berlin 2024 conference, featuring key takeaways and inspiring insights from the Flink community.
Speakers
- Zhenqiu HuangSoftware EngineeerApple
Zhenqiu Huang has been in Apache Flink Community for many years. He has been building Streaming Platform in Uber Technology and Apple Inc for last several years. Recently, he worked with Openlineage community on building data Lineage for Apache Flink applications.
- Mike GualtieriVP, Principal AnalystForrester
Mike's research focuses on AI technologies, platforms, and practices that enable technology professionals to deliver applications that lead to prescient digital experiences and breakthrough operational efficiency. His key technology coverage areas are AI and emerging technologies that make software faster, smarter, and transformative for global enterprises and organizations. He advises business and technology leaders around the world on the intersection of business strategy, AI, and digital transformation.
Mike has authored more than 130 research reports and is a recipient of the Forrester Courage Award for making bold calls that inspire Forrester clients to make great business and technology decisions.
He is a frequent and highly sought-after speaker at industry, corporate, and technology events for his audience-designed, insightful, and energetic speeches.
Mike provides technology vendors with actionable advisory sessions on technology buying trends, strategy advice, messaging, product roadmaps, and buyer personas for the areas he directly covers. He also offers “what-if” investment advisory for clients who wish to invest in or launch new products in the markets he covers. - Yang YangSr Staff Software EngineerUber
Yang is a Sr Staff Software Engineer at Uber, and she leads Uber's Streaming Data (Kafka) and Flink team. She focuses on building a highly scalable and reliable real-time data system at scale for thousands of engineers and data scientists at Uber.
- Lu NiuSr Staff Software EngineerPinterest
Lu Niu is the founding member and current Tech Lead of the Streaming Data Processing team at Pinterest. Prior to joining Pinterest, he played a pivotal role in building Presto as a Service at Uber. Lu is passionate about big data and distributed systems, and has contributed to several prominent projects including Flink, Presto, and Velox
- Ejaskhan SSenior Technical LeadMercedes-Benz
Senior technical lead with 8 years of experience in distributed system design and development.
- Subham RakshitStreaming Solution ArchitectAWS
Subham Rakshit is a Streaming Solutions Architect for Analytics at AWS based in the UK. He works with customers to design and build streaming architectures so that they can get value from analysing their streaming data. His two little daughters keep her occupied most of the time outside work and loves solving jigsaw puzzles with them.
- Stephan EwenCTOVerverica
Stephan Ewen is CTO and co-founder at Ververica where he leads the development of the stream processing platform based on open source Apache Flink. He is also a PMC member and one of the original creators of Apache Flink. Before working on Apache Flink, Stephan worked on in-memory databases, query optimization, and distributed systems. He holds a Ph.D. from the Berlin University of Technology.
- Pawel LeszczynskiOpenlineage contributorAstronomer
Data practitioner with decade long experience, holding PhD in distributed databases. Currently fully involved in Openlineage - an open platform for collection and analysis of data lineage with special focus on automatic lineage extraction.
Agenda
Day 1
Monday, Oct 21
Day 2
Tuesday, Oct 22
Day 3
Wednesday, Oct 23
Day 4
Thursday, Oct 24
Flink Forward is your conference for all things streaming data and Apache Flink!
We’re proud to celebrate Apache Flink's 10-year anniversary and return to where it all began - Berlin!
To celebrate this momentous occasion, the program this year offers 2 optional days of training, followed by an expanded 2-day conference event.
It’s everything you expect from a Flink Forward event, plus more sessions and special commemorative surprises!