Apache Flink® & everything streaming data
Agenda
Berlin 2024
Schedule
This year, Ververica and the Apache Flink Community have a lot to celebrate, including the 10 year anniversary of Apache Flink.
By popular demand, Flink Forward Berlin 2024 has been extended to a 4-day program to accommodate the festivities!
Optionally, join the expert-led, 2 days of in-person Apache Flink Bootcamp or the Deep Dive Masterclass Program, followed by 2 full conference days.
There are four Masterclass Deep Dives ; they are broken into two tracks and participants will be randomly assigned a track to follow ensuring you don’t miss a thing! They are:
- Apache Flink: From Data to Intelligence
- Flink SQL Origins and Future: Insights from the Original Creator
- Bridging Data Silos with Flink CDC
- Evolving to a Streaming Lakehouse with Apache Flink
Check the agenda for full details.
The main event includes 2 days packed with exciting content, including sessions selected by the Program Committee and presented by Apache Flink community members in-person from around the world.
MONDAY October 21
Deep Dive Masterclass
Day 1
Morning session
Day 1
Afternoon session
Day 2
Morning session
Day 2
Afternoon session
Deep Dive Masterclass Trainers
- Leonard XuStaff Software EngineerAlibaba Cloud
Apache Flink PMC Member & Committer, Flink CDC Lead, Staff Software Engineer@Alibaba
- Xintong SongStaff Software EngineerAlibaba Cloud
Xintong is an Apache Flink PMC member. He is also a Staff Software Engineer and leads the Flink Java Engine Team at Alibaba. Prior to that, he received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Peking University.
- Lincoln LeeStaff EngineerAlibaba Cloud
Lincoln is a Committer and PMC member of Apache Flink. He is a staff engineer from Alibaba Cloud and has been focused on Flink SQL and stream-batch unification for many years.
- Jingsong LiPMC Chair of Apache Paimon, PMC member of Apache Flink, Head of Alibaba Open-source Data Lake Platform teamAlibaba Group
Since 2014, he has focused on the research and development of streaming computing within Alibaba. Since 2017, he has focused on the development of Alibaba Blink, and also contributed Apache Flink community actively. Recently, he mainly focuses on Apache Paimon, a unifying streaming and batch lake storage.
- Jun QinHead of Solutions ArchitectureVerverica
Jun Qin is Head of Solutions Architecture at Ververica. Previously, he worked a Solutions Architect & Technical Account Manager at Ververica, as a Technical Account Manager in MapR and as a senior system support programmer/analyst in Amadeus. He has a Ph.D. in computer science and specializes in distributed computing and system architecture.
- Giannis PolyzosStaff Streaming ArchitectVerverica
Giannis is a Streaming Data Engineer & Architect experienced in event streaming and stream processing systems. He helps companies modernize their data infrastructure by leveraging streaming technologies and enabling them to build fast and scalable data pipelines, streaming data flows, and deliver real-time analytics. He is passionate about event streaming systems, stateful stream processing, and real-time analytics.
- Alexey NovakovSolution ArchitectVerverica
I am a Solution Architect working for last the last 6 years on data solutions and products. At Ververica I am focusing on supporting clients to solve their challenges in adopting data stream processing with Apache Flink. Among my previous project and companies I developed different systems such as Data Lakes, Data Integration and Data Virtualization Layers. In my spare time, I contribute to various open-source projects or start my own for fun. Apart from programming I have some hobbies like astronomy, playing music and gym.
- Ben GambleField CTOVerverica
Ben Gamble serves as Field CTO at Ververica. In his role, he focuses on developing messaging and materials to engage with key stakeholders, including clients, prospects, and industry analysts.
With a background primarily in engineering leadership and entrepreneurship, Ben has extensive experience building and managing engineering teams across various sectors, including logistics, gaming, and mobile applications. His expertise lies in developing solutions centered around real-world interactions, particularly in areas such as GPS-based technologies, augmented reality, and multi-user collaboration.
Outside of his professional life, Ben is an avid technology enthusiast. He enjoys playing and creating video games and trading cards. Ben balances his career with family life, being a father to two young children and a caretaker to three pet ducks. - Muhammet OrazovSenior Software EngineerVerverica
Muhammet is Software Engineer at Ververica, the original creators of Apache Flink®. He is member of the Engine team that develops various Flink engines for different platforms. He is experienced in databases, distributed systems and started his journey in streaming systems at Ververica.
- Lorenzo AffettiStaff Software EngineerVerverica
Lorenzo Affetti works as a Software Engineer at Ververica enhancing its product offering to enable users to run and manage their data streaming jobs seamlessly. After obtaining his PhD in Computer Science in the field of stream processing at Politecnico di Milano, Lorenzo worked at InfluxData developing languages and runtimes for processing time series data, and at Huawei Technologies as a research engineer in object storage cloud services. His main interest is distributed systems for data processing, storage, and retrieval.
- Ahmed HamdySenior software engineer
Software Engineer at Flink Engine team in Ververica taking part in providing core Flink and Connectors features to Ververica Cloud and Ververica Platform users, previously at AWS Managed service for Flink.
- Jeyhun KarimovResearcherDFKI GmbH
I am a PhD student at TU Berlin and researcher at DFKI.
- Ken KruglerPresident at Scale Unlimited
Ken is a long-time developer, trainer, and open source enthusiast. He is president of Scale Unlimited, a big data consulting company, and he was the Founder & CTO of Krugle, a code search startup. Ken’s open source involvement includes being an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) member and a committer on the Apache Tika project. Most recently he’s presented on Apache Pinot and is a Startree All-Star. Ken lives in California and is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).