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Partner Solution Architect, Neo4j

David Allen

Partner Solution Architect, Neo4j

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Kafka Summit Europe 2021 - Speakers
April 
28
 - 
29
, 
2021
8:00AM
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5:00PM

Clear your calendar - It's going down! You're invited to take part in the festivities. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

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Anvesh Samineni

Senior Software Engineer, Discover Financial Services

Arpit Dubey

Vice President, Head of Platform Engineering and Streaming Services,DBS Bank

Barbara Eckman

Senior Principal Software Architect, Comcast

Ben Stopford

Lead Technologist, Office of the CTO, Confluent

Bernd Rücker

Co-Founder and Chief Technologist, Camunda

Bobby Calderwood

Founder, Evident Systems

Boyang Chen

Software Engineer, Confluent

Bruno Cadonna

Software Engineer, Confluent 

Can Cecen

Senior Software Engineer, Lyft

Chirag Dadia

Director of Engineering, Nuuly, Urban Outfitters

Christopher Beard

Software Engineer, Bloomberg L.P

Cody Irwin

Stream Analytics Solutions Manager, Google Cloud

Daniel Jagielski

Software Development Manager, VirtusLab/Tesco

Danica Fine

Software Engineer, Bloomberg LP

Dave Klein

Software Developer, Centene

Dhruba Borthakur

CTO, Rockset

Ehfaj Khan

Principal Software Engineer, Discover Financial Services

Elad Leev

Platform Engineer, AppsFlyer

Emma Humber

Software Engineer, IBM

Fadhili Juma

Senior Software Engineer, Remitly Inc 

Gantigmaa Selenge

IBM Event Streams - Software Engineer, IBM

Gerard Klijs

Senior Software Engineer, Open Web

Grace Jansen

Developer Advocate, IBM

Guido Schmutz

Platform Architect, Trivadis

Gunnar Morling

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Guozhang Wang

Software Engineer, Confluent

Igor Buzatović

Senior Software Architect, Inovativni trendovi d.o.o

Israel Ekpo

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Microsoft

Jac Noel

Security Solutions Architect, Intel

Jeff Ferguson

Global Business Development Manager,, Confluent

John Roesler

Software Engineer, Confluent

Josh Treichel

Partner Solution Architect, Confluent

Joy Nag

Senior Software Engineer, Zendesk

Julian Stampfli

Software Engineer, Spoud

Justin Murray

Technical Marketing Architect, VMware 

Kai Wähner

Technology Evangelist, Confluent

Katherine Stanley

Software Engineer, IBM

Masih Derkani

Principal Architect, SolarWinds

Matthias J. Sax

Software Engineer, Confluent

Maulin Vasavada

Kafka Architect at PayPal

Michael Noll

Principal Technologist, Office of the CTO, Confluent

Mickael Maison

Software Engineer, IBM

Mitchell Henderson

Sr. Technical Account Manager, Confluent

Navinder Pal Singh Brar

Senior Software Engineer, Walmart Labs

Neha Pawar

Founding Engineer at Stealth Mode Startup

Neil Buesing

VP Streaming Technologies, Object Partners, Inc.

Nikolay Izhikov

Apache Ignite committer, Apache Kafka contributor, Sberbank

Nishchay Sinha

Senior Engineer, Bloomberg

Oguz Kayral

Engineering Manager, Unity Technologies

Rachel Pedreschi

VP, Community, Imply

Ravi Singh

Engineering Lead, PayPal

Ricardo Ferreira

Developer Advocate, Confluent

Rob Brown

CTO, US Citizenship and Immigration Services

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Hugo Guerrero

Chief Software Architect, APIs & Integration Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Jeff Morris

VP Product & Solutions Marketing, Couchbase

John Neal

Senior Solution Architect, Qlik

Jonathan Schabowsky

Sr. Architect in the Office of the CTO, Solace

Kiran Matty

Director of Product Management, Aerospike

Rick Jacobs

Technical Product Marketing Manager, Couchbase

Robert Walters

Senior Product Manager,  MongoDB

Sandeep Togrikar

Sr. Solutions Architect, Intel

Sarung Tripathi

Principal Solutions Consultant, MemSQL

Simon Elliston Ball

Product Manager, Cloudera

Spiros Economakis

Senior DevOps Engineer, Lenses.io

Vik Walia

Advisor, Slower

William McLane

Product Evangelist, TIBCO

Call For Papers


Speaking at Kafka Summit Europe 2021 is a great way to connect with your peers, become more involved in the Kafka community, and have a global, public platform for you to share your story of the future of streaming platforms.

 

We are looking for your most interesting, most informative, most advanced, and most generally applicable talks on Apache Kafka® and the tools, technologies, and techniques in the Kafka ecosystem.


The Call for Papers is open until January 17, 2021 so submit your abstract now!


Looking for real-time feedback on your submission? 


Join the #summit-office-hours channel in our Community Slack community workspace at one of these two times:


- January 12, 2021 at 8:00 am PST / 4:00 pm GMT  
- January 13, 2021 at 9:00 pm PST / 5:00 am GMT 



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Speaking at Kafka Summit Europe 2021 is a great way to connect with your peers, become more involved in the Kafka community, and have a global, public platform for you to share your story of the future of streaming platforms.

 

We are looking for your most interesting, most informative, most advanced, and most generally applicable talks on Apache Kafka® and the tools, technologies, and techniques in the Kafka ecosystem.


The Call for Papers is open until January 17, 2021 so submit your abstract now!


Looking for real-time feedback on your submission? 


Join the #summit-office-hours channel in our Community Slack community workspace at one of these two times:


- January 12, 2021 at 8:00 am PST / 4:00 pm GMT  
- January 13, 2021 at 9:00 pm PST / 5:00 am GMT 



Call for Papers is now open!


Speaking at Kafka Summit Europe 2021 is a great way to connect with your peers, become more involved in the Kafka community, and have a global, public platform for you to share your story of the future of streaming platforms.

 

We are looking for your most interesting, most informative, most advanced, and most generally applicable talks on Apache Kafka® and the tools, technologies, and techniques in the Kafka ecosystem.


The Call for Papers is open until January 17, 2021 so submit your abstract now!


Looking for real-time feedback on your submission? 


Join the #summit-office-hours channel in our Community Slack community workspace at one of these two times:


- January 12, 2021 at 8:00 am PST / 4:00 pm GMT  
- January 13, 2021 at 9:00 pm PST / 5:00 am GMT 



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Discover The World Of Streaming Data


 

This revolution is transforming industries.

 

What started at companies like LinkedIn, Uber, Netflix and Yelp has made its way to countless others in a variety of sectors. Today, thousands of companies across the globe build their businesses on top of Apache Kafka®. The developers responsible for this revolution need a place to share their experiences on this journey.

 

Kafka Summit is the premier event for data architects, engineers, devops professionals, and developers who want to learn about streaming data. It brings the Apache Kafka community together to share best practices, write code, and discuss the future of streaming technologies.

 


 

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Copyright © Confluent, Inc. 2016 - 2020

Confluent

Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. With Confluent, organizations benefit from the first event streaming platform built for the enterprise with the ease-of-use, scalability, security and flexibility required by the most discerning global companies to run their business in real time. Companies leading their respective industries have realized success with this new platform paradigm to transform their architectures to streaming from batch processing, spanning on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Backed by Benchmark, Index Ventures and Sequoia, Confluent is headquartered in Palo Alto and London with offices globally. To learn more, please visit www.confluent.io. Download Confluent Platform at www.confluent.io/download.

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Humana is Improving Health Outcomes with Event-Driven Architectures

 

August 24 - 4:00PM PDT


Humana is at the forefront of an industry-wide effort to improve health outcomes while keeping costs in check through improved interoperability.  Levi Bailey, Associate Vice President, Cloud Architecture, will share Humana’s vision and how an event-driven architecture, built with Kafka and Confluent, powers the interoperability platforms at the heart of the company’s digital transformation.


Levi Bailey is an Associate Vice President of Cloud Architecture at Humana. Humana is a health insurance company whose focus is on achieving our member’s best health.


His background includes over 15 years in the technology sector across multiple industries including Finance, Healthcare, and Retail. Levi’s career has varied across roles such as Software Engineer, Software Architect, and Technology Leader. His background includes being the Lead Engineer on multiple teams that built Credit Union software systems from the ground up and being the Solution Architect designing best in class sales solutions for the Credit Card Processing industry. Levi has extensive experience with building and managing large enterprise systems in both data center and cloud environments.


Levi has spent the last 5+ years in the healthcare sector working to transform the industry through interoperability and analytics to enable improved outcomes for patients. He currently leads teams that are focused on creating platforms to enable interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem to impact patient outcomes at the point of care.


Levi focuses on impacting people’s lives in a positive manner and uses his job to do that with his associates and with the consumers that use the solutions his teams deliver. Levi believes that health is the most important factor in everyone’s lives and is driven to improve the healthcare system so people get to live their best lives.


Originally from Myrtle Beach, SC, Levi lives in Sellersburg, IN with his wife and two children.

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Building Momentum at Lowe’s with Event Streaming - Jun Rao in discussion with Bhanu Solleti (Lowe's)

 

August 24 - 4:00PM PDT


In this Q&A keynote, Confluent co-founder Jun Rao and Lowe’s Domain Architect Bhanu Solleti will discuss the central role that Kafka and real-time event streaming play at one of the world’s largest home improvement retailers. At Lowe’s, Kafka and Confluent Platform form the core of an event-driven architecture that connects systems across cloud platforms, data centers, and brick-and-mortar stores. This architecture, along with enterprise-ready solutions like replicators and connectors, are helping Lowe’s improve time-to-market and respond quickly to shifting store hours, increased curbside pickup, and a range of other new business imperatives that have emerged during the pandemic.

"Bhanu Solleti is primarily responsible for roadmap, strategy & new Integration technologies adoption at Lowe’s. 15 years of experience in managing, delivering integration solutions using a wide variety of integration technology stacks. Worked for many top clients like Apple, News.au, Cadence in solving the integration problems & providing business value. One of the early adopters of Kafka at Lowe’s in 2018
& was responsible for the architecture & Implementation of Kafka Platform at Lowe’s. Currently Kafka plays a key role in supporting all critical omni channel use cases like Order Capture to Fulfillment while connecting Lowe’s applications across Datacenters, Cloud and Stores in a decoupled manner.

Today’s Data is in Motion, and Citi is Moving With It - Jun Rao (Confluent) in discussion with Leon Stiel (Citigroup)


August 25 - 9:00AM PDT


Join Confluent co-founder Jun Rao as he talks with Leon Stiehl of Citi about why and how Kafka is at the epicenter of seismic change in the way big banks and financial institutions think about data. Gone are the days of end-of-day batch processes and static data locked in disparate silos.  Today’s data is in motion, and Citi is moving with it. Enterprises need to see their business in near real time; they need to respond in milliseconds not hours; and they need to integrate, aggregate, curate, and disseminate data and events within and across production environments. Learn how Citi is tackling these challenges, using event streaming to drive efficiencies and improve customer experiences. 


Leon Stiel serves as a Director at Citigroup and is responsible for the Electronic Market-Making IT program globally. He specializes
in equities and shared services innovation with a focus on reactive backend architectures and blockchain. Before joining Citigroup,
Leon spent nine years at Credit Suisse as the US and global tech lead designing and implementing technology to resolve complex
management challenges related to trading and risk systems. At Credit Suisse, he was recognized as the IT Americas
“Raising the Bar” winner for his contribution to developing talent through mentorship. As the former CTO at AM Investment Partners,
he leveraged his subject matter expertise to directly manage the design and implementation of core technology infrastructure including
options trading algorithms, order management, risk, and trade reporting – from the ground up. He graduated from
Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor’s degree emphasizing art, computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and robotics.

Apache Kafka - The Next 10 Years

1August 24, 9:00AM PDT 


Let's begin a very unusual Kafka Summit by reflecting about change. Changes we've seen in the software engineering world and changes we've seen in Kafka. We'll also talk about things that don't change - like great software design and architecture. We'll dive deep into two huge changes that are happening in the Kafka community right now - and the possibilities they open for the future.