Conference Program April 10

Lower Floor

AM 8:00 - AM 9:00



Check In
Intermediate

Check-in



Main Floor

AM 9:00 - AM 9:40



Keynote
Beginner

What turns stream processing from a tool into a platform?

Stephan Ewen, data Artisans
Kostas Tzoumas, data Artisans

Main Floor

AM 9:40 - AM 9:50



Keynote
Beginner

Stream Processing Revolutionizing Big Data

Srikanth Satya, Dell EMC
web

Main Floor

AM 09:50 - AM 10:30



Keynote
Beginner

Apache Flink + Apache Beam: Expanding the horizons of Big Data

Anand Iyer, Google Cloud

AM 10:30 - AM 11:00



Break
Standard

Coffee Break



Main Floor

AM 11:00 - AM 11:40



Ecosystem
Intermediate

Powering Yelp’s Data Pipeline Infrastructure with Apache Flink

Enrico Canzonieri, Yelp Inc.

Upper Floor

AM 11:00 - AM 11:40



Ecosystem
Advanced

Scaling stream data pipelines

Flavio Junqueira, Pravega by DellEMC
Till Rohrmann, data Artisans

Lower Floor

AM 11:00 - AM 11:40



Use cases
Intermediate

Building a scalable focused web crawler with Flink

Ken Krugler, Scale Unlimited
web

Main Floor

AM 11:50 - PM 12:10



Managing continuous applications
Intermediate

Building Flink As a Service platform at Uber

Shuyi Chen, Uber
Rong Rong, Uber

Upper Floor

AM 11:50 - PM 12:10



Use cases
Beginner

eBay monitoring platform preprocessing and alerting on Flink

Garret Li, ebay
Ralph Su, ebay

Lower Floor

AM 11:50 - PM 12:10



Use cases
Intermediate

Using Flink for balances and controls across platform boundaries

Faraz Babar, American Express

Main Floor

PM 12:20 - PM 1:00



Technology deep-dive
Intermediate

Scaling Flink in Cloud

Steven Wu, Netflix
web

Upper Floor

PM 12:20 - PM 1:00



Ecosystem
Advanced

Flink real-time analysis in CloudStream Service of Huawei Cloud

Jinkui Shi, Huawei
web

Lower Floor

PM 12:20 - PM 1:00



Other
Intermediate

Why and how to leverage the simplicity and power of SQL on Flink

Fabian Hueske, data Artisans
Timo Walther, data Artisans

PM 1:00 - PM 2:00



Break
Standard

Lunch Break



Main Floor

PM 2:00 - PM 2:40



Technology deep-dive
Advanced

Optimizations in Blink Runtime for Global Shopping Festival at Alibaba

Feng Wang, Alibaba

Upper Floor

PM 2:00 - PM 2:40



Managing continuous applications
Intermediate

Bootstrapping State In Apache Flink

Gregory Fee, Lyft

Lower Floor

PM 2:00 - PM 2:40



Use cases
Beginner

Panta Rhei: designing distributed applications with streams

Aris Koliopoulos, Drivetribe
Alex Garella, Drivetribe

Main Floor

PM 2:50 - PM 3:10



Ecosystem
Beginner

Powering Tensorflow with Big Data (Apache BEAM & Flink)

Holden Karau, Google Cloud
web

Upper Floor

PM 2:50 - PM 3:10



Use cases
Intermediate

Alibaba’s common algorithm platform on Flink

Xu Yang, Alibaba

Lower Floor

PM 2:50 - PM 3:10



Managing continuous applications
Intermediate

Cloud Native Flink

Jowanza Joseph, One Click Retail
web

Main Floor

PM 3:20 - PM 4:00



Use cases
Intermediate

Embedding Flink Throughout an Operationalized Streaming ML Lifecycle

Dave Torok, Comcast Corporation
Sameer Wadkar, Comcast NBCUniversal

Upper Floor

PM 3:20 - PM 4:00



Use cases
Intermediate

Scaling Uber’s Realtime Optimization with Apache Flink

Xingzhong Xu, Uber Technologies Inc.

Lower Floor

PM 3:20 - PM 4:00



Ecosystem
Intermediate

Operating Flink on Mesos at Scale

Jörg Schad, Mesosphere
Biswajit Das, Branch

PM 4:00 - PM 4:30



Break
Standard

Coffee Break



Main Floor

PM 4:30 - PM 5:10



Use cases
Intermediate

Finding Bad Acorns

Andrew Gao, Capital One
Jeff Sharpe, Capital One

Upper Floor

PM 4:30 - PM 5:10



Managing continuous applications
Beginner

dA Platform – Production-ready stream processing with Apache Flink

Robert Metzger, data Artisans
Patrick Lucas, data Artisans

Lower Floor

PM 4:30 - PM 5:10



Use cases
Intermediate

Real-time monitoring of Mobile Internet Quality of Experience using Flink

David Reniz, Everis
Dahyr Vergara, Everis

Main Floor

PM 5:20 - PM 6:00



Technology deep-dive
Intermediate

How to build a modern stream processor: The science behind Apache Flink

Stefan Richter, data Artisans

Upper Floor

PM 5:20 - PM 5:40



Managing continuous applications
Beginner

Testing Stateful Streaming Applications

Seth Wiesman, MediaMath

Lower Floor

PM 5:20 - PM 5:40



Managing continuous applications
Intermediate

Extending Flink metrics: Real-time BI atop existing Flink streaming pipelines

Andrew Torson, Walmart Labs
web

Main Floor

PM 6:00 - PM 6:10



Closing
Intermediate

Closing session (10 min) + Bonus session (20 min)



Upper Floor

PM 6:30 - PM 9:30



Closing
Advanced

Flink Fest