**Wednesday, 15 May
13:00-18:00
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Part of our mission at Confluent is to build communities of like like-minded individuals who can share experiences and learn from each other. As a result, we’re launching the first Confluent event specifically for the UK government. Confluent is the commercial organisation founded by the original authors of Apache Kafka® . Consequently, Confluent Platform is the most widely adopted enterprise distribution of Apache Kafka® .
Event streaming is an infrastructure revolution that is fundamentally changing how public sector organisations think about data and build applications. Rather than viewing data as stored records or transient messages, data could be considered to be a continually updating stream of events. Event-driven architecture is the future of data infrastructure, this event is designed to educate and inform those who are interesting in driving this change.
Whether you are an Apache Kafka® expert, recent convert or technically curious, this event is for you.
- 13:00 – 13:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
- 13:30 – 14:15 Apache Kafka® & Confluent
- 14.15 – 15:00 Keynote: The Rise of the Streaming Platform - How Apache Kafka is Revolutionising Data Distribution With Nick Dearden (Stream Processing - Advanced Technologies group Confluent )
- 15:00 – 15:15 Break
- 15.15– 16:00 Demo - Confluent Enterprise Platform (Simon Leigh - Director Sales Engineering)
- 16:00- 16.40 Keynote: Dissolving the Problem: Kafka is more ACID Than Your Database With Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Experience)
- 16.40 Closing Remarks
- 16:45 - 18:00 Networking Cocktails
Authors
Nick Dearden
Director of Engineering, Confluent
Nick Dearden is a technology and product leader at Confluent, where he enjoys leveraging many years of experience in the world of data and analytic systems to help design and explain the power of a streaming platform for every business. Prior to Confluent, he led the data platform group for a leading online real-estate seller and was chief architect for a cloud-based financial analytics platform. His early career stretches all the way back through multiple data warehouse and business intelligence adventures to the green-screen days of mainframe banking systems.
Tim Berglund
Sr. Director of Developer Experience
Tim Berglund is a teacher, author, and technology leader with Confluent, where he serves as the Senior Director of Developer Experience. He can frequently be found at speaking at conferences in the United States and all over the world. He is the co-presenter of various O’Reilly training videos on topics ranging from Git to Distributed Systems, and is the author of Gradle Beyond the Basics. He tweets as @tlberglund, blogs very occasionally at http://timberglund.com, is the co-host of the http://devrelrad.io podcast, and lives in Littleton, CO, USA with the wife of his youth and their youngest child, the other two having mostly grown up.