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.
Sponsors
Decodable radically simplifies real-time ETL with a powerful, easy-to-use real-time ETL platform. By removing the challenges of building and maintaining infrastructure and pipelines, Decodable enables data teams to eliminate overhead, easily connect sources, perform real-time transformations, and reliably deliver data to any destination.
Build, troubleshoot, and deploy data applications faster with Apache Flink®. Datorios' observability console delivers the data and tools to address the unseen, providing context and relationships between metrics, logs, and traces to diagnose and fix issues effectively.
Evoura is dedicated to empowering businesses by harnessing the power of real-time data and advanced AI technologies. We specialise in designing resilient data pipelines, particularly for Apache Flink, to help our clients achieve faster, more efficient decision-making. Our expert engineers work closely with our clients on short-term projects to operationalise data solutions, ensuring that they can fully leverage the potential of their data. We stay at the forefront of the real-time software market, making AI a key focus in driving strategic initiatives.
At Evoura, we understand the challenges businesses face in mobilising and utilising their data effectively. Our approach is centred on collaboration and innovation, offering tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of each client. From enhancing data accessibility to enabling powerful AI-driven insights, our goal is to help businesses achieve their objectives quickly and successfully.
Please feel free to visit us at Evoura booth to explore how we can support your data initiatives and drive meaningful outcomes for your organisation.
WarpStream is an Apache Kafka® compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage: no inter-AZ bandwidth costs, no disks to manage, and infinitely scalable, all within your VPC.
At Cloudera, we believe data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We empower people to transform data anywhere into trusted enterprise AI so they can reduce costs and risks, increase productivity, and accelerate business performance. Our open data lakehouse enables secure data management and portable cloud-native data analytics, helping organizations manage and analyze data of all types, on any cloud, public or private. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we’re the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Cloudera has guided the world on the value and future of data, and continues to lead a vibrant ecosystem powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community.
Speakers
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'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.
Before that, he was the one of the original creators and of Apache Flink and founder / CTO of dataArtisans/Ververica. Stephan holds a Ph.D. in database systems.
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.
Partners
Agenda
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Day 1
Monday, Oct 21
Training
Training
Day 2
Tuesday, Oct 22
Training
Training
Day 3
Wednesday, Oct 23
Keynote sessions
Conference
Day 4
Thursday, Oct 24
Conference
Conference
Flink Fest
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!