Kafka Summit 2020 Speakers

David Allen

Partner Solution Architect, Neo4j

David Allen

Partner Solution Architect, Neo4j

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Speaking at Kafka Summit 2020 is a great way to connect with your peers, become more involved in the Apache 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. Winning submissions will make it clear that you understand how to take your knowledge and experience and transfer it to Kafka Summit attendees. Discuss best practices or lessons learned, present business cases or a success story, and provide details to help attendees get under the hood of your Kafka implementation.


For example:

 

  • A deep dive into a recent Kafka feature or a KIP under development

  • Patterns you have developed while building event-driven systems

  • Development techniques, libraries, and debugging techniques that have helped you build event-driven systems 

  • An experience report about the Kafka-based system you’ve built, including takeaways that the audience can put into practice right away

  • Beginner-level introductions to Kafka, Connect, the Streams API, KSQL, and other ecosystem tools

  • Specific explanations of how Kafka and stream processing enabled you to build a solution unique to your industry, and applicable to others with similar use cases.


 

Submit fresh ideas, unique perspectives, and thought-provoking discussions that will give our attendees a good time and send them home better-informed and more capable than they came. So do your best to stand out by submitting relevant, engaging, creative, and entertaining proposals.

 
Key submission fields to prepare:

 

 

 What you will need to provide:

  • Previous speaking experience
  • Speaker bio 
  • Session title
  • Abstract Summary (include Key Takeaways)

 


Speaking at Kafka Summit 2020 is a great way to connect with your peers, become more involved in the Apache 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. Winning submissions will make it clear that you understand how to take your knowledge and experience and transfer it to Kafka Summit attendees. Discuss best practices or lessons learned, present business cases or a success story, and provide details to help attendees get under the hood of your Kafka implementation.



What you'll receive as an accepted speaker:

 

  • Exclusive swag only available to speakers
  • Recognition on the Kafka Summit 2020 website, with your headshot and bio
  • Adoration of your peers

 

Important dates:

 

Call for Papers opens: February 4, 2020

Call for Papers closes: May 17, 2020 – 23:59 PDT

Speaker Notifications sent: June 15, 2020

Agenda posted: June 22, 2020

Speaking at Kafka Summit 2020 is a great way to connect with your peers, become more involved in the Apache 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. Winning submissions will make it clear that you understand how to take your knowledge and experience and transfer it to Kafka Summit attendees. Discuss best practices or lessons learned, present business cases or a success story, and provide details to help attendees get under the hood of your Kafka implementation.


Resources

Looking for help developing your abstract? Learn how to write an abstract with tips from Tim Berglund, chair of the Kafka Summit Program Committee, How to Write a Successful Conference Abstract

Speaking at Kafka Summit 2020 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. Winning submissions will make it clear that you understand how to take your knowledge and experience and transfer it to Kafka Summit attendees. Discuss best practices or lessons learned, present business cases or a success story, and provide details to help attendees get under the hood of your Kafka implementation.


Speaking at Kafka Summit 2020 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. Winning submissions will make it clear that you understand how to take your knowledge and experience and transfer it to Kafka Summit attendees. Discuss best practices or lessons learned, present business cases or a success story, and provide details to help attendees get under the hood of your Kafka implementation.



Speaking at Kafka Summit 2020 is a great way to connect with your peers, become more involved in the Apache 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. Winning submissions will make it clear that you understand how to take your knowledge and experience and transfer it to Kafka Summit attendees. Discuss best practices or lessons learned, present business cases or a success story, and provide details to help attendees get under the hood of your Kafka implementation.


Speaking at Kafka Summit 2020 is a great way to connect with your peers, become more involved in the Apache 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. Winning submissions will make it clear that you understand how to take your knowledge and experience and transfer it to Kafka Summit attendees. Discuss best practices or lessons learned, present business cases or a success story, and provide details to help attendees get under the hood of your Kafka implementation.


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Cody Irwin

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Danica Fine

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Dave Klein

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Elad Leev

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Emma Humber

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Fadhili Juma

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Gantigmaa Selenge

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Gerard Klijs

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Grace Jansen

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Guido Schmutz

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Gunnar Morling

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Guozhang Wang

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Igor Buzatović

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Israel Ekpo

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Jac Noel

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Jeff Ferguson

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John Roesler

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Josh Treichel

Partner Solution Architect, Confluent

Joy Nag

Senior Software Engineer, Zendesk

Julian Stampfli

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Justin Murray

Technical Marketing Architect, VMware 

Kai Wähner

Technology Evangelist, Confluent

Katherine Stanley

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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

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Mitchell Henderson

Sr. Technical Account Manager, Confluent

Navinder Pal Singh Brar

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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

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Ravi Singh

Engineering Lead, PayPal

Ravi Vankamamidi

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Ricardo Ferreira

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