Realtime Analytics & Streaming 2023

Event Details

Participants

Dr. Dr. Patrick O�Connell 🇮🇪

CloudScale Institute

Program Chair

Session_chair: Program Chair Track: Program Room: Main Hall Featured

Chair: Session

Data lakes, lakehouse patterns.

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Prof. Prof. Lila Mendes 🇵🇹

University of Lisbon

Professor of Systems

Keynote: Opening Keynote Track: Keynotes Room: Main Hall Oct 9, 2023 5:00 AM – 5:45 AM Featured

Keynote: Declarative Data Engineering

Contracts, lineage, reproducibility.

Metadata-driven pipelines.

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Dr. Dr. Omar Haddad 🇦🇪

DataForge

Chief Architect

Keynote: Industry Keynote Track: Keynotes Room: Main Hall Oct 9, 2023 6:00 AM – 6:45 AM Featured

Keynote: Lakehouse Reliability at Petabyte Scale

Storage, checkpoints, retries.

Cloud-native ETL.

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Chen Wei 🇨🇳

StreamLift

Principal Engineer

Session_chair: Track Chair Track: Ingestion Room: Room IG Featured

Chair: Session

CDC, change tables, latency.

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Anna Kowalska 🇵🇱

ModelOps

Data Modeler

Session_chair: Track Chair Track: Modeling Room: Room MD Featured

Chair: Session

Dimensional models & dbt.

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Julia Novak 🇨🇿

dbtWorks

Workshop Instructor

Workshop_instructor: Hands-on Lab Track: Workshops Room: Lab A Oct 10, 2023 6:30 AM – 8:00 AM Featured

Workshop: Test-Driven Analytics Engineering

Contracts, CI, and CI gates.

dbt + tests.

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Diego Paredes 🇲🇽

RetailFlow

Staff Engineer

Speaker Track: Ingestion Room: Room IG Oct 9, 2023 7:15 AM – 7:45 AM

Talk: CDC to Lakehouse without Tears

Idempotent loads & merge keys.

AppFlow & Salesforce ETL.

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Priya Natarajan 🇮🇳

FinData

Data Engineer

Speaker Track: Modeling Room: Room MD Oct 9, 2023 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Talk: Recon that Catches What Matters

SLAs, anomaly detection, SOV.

Reconciliation frameworks.

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Jonas Berg 🇸🇪

OpsLake

Engineer

Speaker Track: Ingestion Room: Room IG Oct 9, 2023 9:15 AM – 9:45 AM

Talk: Error Budgets for Data Pipelines

SLOs, retries, and alerts.

Ops for data platforms.

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Noelle Dupont 🇫🇷

Modeled

Analytics Engineer

Speaker Track: Modeling Room: Room MD Oct 9, 2023 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Talk: Semantic Layers that Don�t Drift

Contracts & lineage.

dbt + governance.

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Fatima Zahra 🇲🇦

DataForge

Platform Engineer

Speaker Track: Ingestion Room: Room IG Oct 9, 2023 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Talk: Storage Layouts that Save Real Money

Partitions, z-order, & lifecycle.

Cost-aware lakehouse.

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Gareth Hughes 🇬🇧

Independent

Moderator

Moderator: Panel Moderator Track: Panel Room: Main Hall Oct 9, 2023 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM

Panel: Modern Data Stack, 2023 Edition

What stuck, what didn�t.

Data engineering community.

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Tatiana Ivanova 🇷🇺

RetailFlow

Head of Data

Panelist: Panelist Track: Panel Room: Main Hall Oct 9, 2023 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM

Panel: Modern Data Stack, 2023 Edition

Team topologies & ROI.

Org-scale adoption.

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Ahmed Samir 🇪🇬

FinData

Director of Engineering

Panelist: Panelist Track: Panel Room: Main Hall Oct 9, 2023 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM

Panel: Modern Data Stack, 2023 Edition

Controls & compliance.

Financial data platforms.

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Kelvin Chua 🇸🇬

StreamLift

Workshop Instructor

Workshop_instructor: Hands-on Lab Track: Workshops Room: Lab B Oct 10, 2023 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Workshop: Kafka-to-Lakehouse with Quality Gates

Contracts, retries, and SLAs.

Streaming ETL.

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Lucas Ferreira 🇧🇷

REGKT Events

Organizer

Organizer: Program Ops

Ops: Session

Program ops.

Sophie Martin 🇫🇷

REGKT Events

Organizer

Organizer: Logistics

Ops: Session

Venue & AV.

Rohan Gupta 🇮🇳

OpsLake

Engineer

Speaker: Lightning Track: Ingestion Room: Room IG Oct 10, 2023 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM

Talk: Self-Healing ELT

Detect, isolate, heal.

Ops automation.

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Carla Souza 🇵🇹

ModelOps

Engineer

Speaker: Lightning Track: Modeling Room: Room MD Oct 10, 2023 12:20 PM – 12:35 PM

Talk: CI for dbt Models

Contracts and test coverage.

Modeling workflows.

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Dr. Dr. Ingrid Hoff 🇩🇪

OpenEval

Judge

Judge: Data Awards Judge Oct 10, 2023 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Judging: Session

Independent innovation judge.

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Paul Nguyen 🇺🇸

FinData

Senior Engineer

Speaker Track: Ingestion Room: Room IG Oct 9, 2023 9:15 AM – 9:45 AM

Talk: FinOps for ETL at Scale

Budgets, tags, and actions.

Cost dashboards.

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