Activities

2025

• Data Streaming World Tour (Detroit, Minnesota): The Rise of the Data Streaming Platform
• GDS CIO Summit (Amsterdam, Netherlands): Real AI Success Requires Real Time Data
• TWDI: Real-Time Model Inference with Apache Kafka and Flink for Predictive AI and GenAI

2024

• Data in Motion Tour Europe (Frankfurt, London, Zurich, Vienna): The Benefits of Data Streaming as Serverless SaaS
• Streaming Panel (Online via RisingWave): Data Streaming and Generative Al: The Emergence of Real-Time
• OpenSlava (Bratislava, Slovakia): The Evolution of Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink in the Cloud Era and Its Synergy with Generative Al
• Data in Motion Tour Asia (Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta)
• Timeplus: The Past, Present and Future of Stream Processing
• Tinybird Exec Events (Austin, US and London, UK): Real-Time Data Streaming and APIs
• Data in Motion Tour USA (Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco): The Rise of Data in Motion in the Cloud
• TDWI: GenAI with Python, LangChain, OpenAI, Kafka and Flink

2023

• AWS ReInvent (Las Vegas): DISH’s Smart 5G network: Cloud-native data streaming
• AWS ReInvent (Las Vegas): A Trifecta of Real-Time Applications: Apache Kafka, Flink, and Druid
• MQTT Summit (Munich): MQTT and Apache Kafka – A Match Made in Heaven
• TDWI: Data Streaming as Data Fabric for Generative AI
• Data in Motion Tour EMEA (Utrecht, Copenhagen, Tel Aviv, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Dubai and Stockholm): Apache Kafka Re-Engineering for the Cloud
• Kafka Meetup Munich – Industrial IoT Roundtable with Car Manufacturer Michelin
• Current (San Jose) – The Trinity of Real-Time Analytics: Apache Kafka, Flink and Druid
• Kafka Summit (London) – Pushing Apache Kafka to the Limits
• Data in Motion Tour Vienna – The Data Streaming Journey over the Years from the First POC to Global Scale
• Data in Motion Tour Sydney – Apache Kafka re-architected for the Cloud
• Data in Motion Tour Melbourne – Cloud-native Stream Processing with Kafka and Flink
• Open Data Source Conference (ODSC) Europe (London) – Real-Time Machine Learning Without a Data Lake
• FinTech Meetup New York – Data Streaming for Fraud Prevention
• Data in Motion Tour Chicago – Data Streaming is NOT a Race; it is a Journey
• Kafka Meetup Tel Aviv – The Heard of the Data Mesh Beats Real-Time
• OOP 2023 – Top 5 Use Cases and Architectures for Data Streaming in 2023

2022

• Kafka Meetups Asia in Manila and Bangkok (The Past, Present and Future of Apache Kafka)
• Current 2022 (The Next Generation of Kafka Summit) – When NOT to use Apache Kafka?
• Data in Motion Tour (Frankfurt, Zurich, Stockholm, Dubai, Tel Aviv)
• ApacheCon (New Orleans) – Apache Kafka as Data Hub for Crypto, NFT, Metaverse – Beyond the Buzz
• ApacheCon (New Orleans) – Use Cases and Architectures for Data Streaming in Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
• Data & AI Summit 2022 (San Francisco) – Serverless Multi-Cloud Lake House with Kafka and Spark
• Data in Motion Day Vienna – How to get event-driven architectures right
• Kafka Meetups in Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra)
• Kafka Summit London 2021 – Apache Kafka as the Backbone for Cybersecurity
• QCon London – Resilient Real-time Data Streaming across the Edge and Hybrid Cloud
• Data in Motion Day (virtual) – Top 5 Use cases for Data Streaming in 2022
• Data in Motion Forum Detroit – Digital Transformation in the Automotive Industry

2021

• Telecoms World Asia – The Era of Telco 4.0: Embracing Digital Transformation with Data in Motion
• Automotive IT Congress – Data in Motion as Engine for the Digital Transformation
• Kafka Summit Americas – Mainframe Offloading, Integration and Replacement with the Apache Kafka Ecosystem
• Finnovex Middle East (Dubai) – Modernize & Innovate IT: Enabling Transactional Workloads and Big Data Analytics through Data in Motion
• Open Networking and Edge Summit (Los Angeles) – Apache Kafka and Kubernetes in the Telco Industry for Cloud-Native 5G, MEC and OSS Use Cases
• Middle East Data Analytics Forum – Streaming Machine Learning without a Data Lake
• Kafka Summit APAC – Event Streaming vs. API Gateway / API Management
• TDWI Roundtable (Bern, Switzerland) –  A Smart City in Real Time: Scalable Real-Time Data Architectures on the Rise
• Data and the  Machine (London, UK) – Building Intelligent Systems powered by Event Streaming and Machine Learning
• Bitkom Big Data AI Summit – Streaming AI with Event Streaming
• Hybrid Cloud Middle East – Legacy Modernization with Hybrid Cloud Integration
• Kafka Summit Europe – Can Apache Kafka Replace a Database?
• BrightTalk: Gaining Control of Hybrid-Cloud – Streaming Integration with Apache Kafka
• IBM Lab Comes To You – Rethinking Integration with Event Streaming
• Future of Insurance (Sydney, Australia) – Rethinking the Insurance Business with Event Streaming
• CXO Insight – The Rise of Event Streaming to Rethink Data
• Hamburg IT Strategy Days – The Business Value of Event Streaming with Apache Kafka
• ConFoo 2021 (Canada) – Real World Use Cases & Architectures for Event Streaming Across Industries
• OOP 2021 –  Cloud-native Service Mesh with Kubernetes, Kafka, Envoy, and Istio

2020

• AWS Summit 2020 – App modernization on AWS with Apache Kafka and Confluent Cloud
• Bitzip (Bitkom Conference) – Machine Learning with a Streaming Data Lake

• API World 2020 – Modern Streaming APIs with Kafka and Istio Service Mesh

• Big Things Spain 2020 – Streaming Machine Learning without a Data Lake

• Kafka Summit 2020 (Texas, USA / Online) – Apache Kafka, Tiered Storage and TensorFlow for Streaming Machine Learning without a Data Lake

• TDWI (Munich, Germany) – The Next Generation of Intelligent Software
• JBCN Conf (Barcelona, Spain) – Real Time Streaming Analytics with 100000 Connected Cars using MQTT, Kafka, Kubernetes and TensorFlow
• MongoDB World (New York, USA) – How to Build a Digital Twin with Kafka and MongoDB
• Codemotion Amsterdam – Processing Industrial IoT (IIOT) Data from End to End with Apache Kafka
• Kafka Summit London – IoT at Scale – Best Practices to Integrate Millions of Cars with MQTT and Kafka
• The IoT & Industry Online Conference & Exhibition – IoT Sensor Analytics with Open Source Technologies and Machine Learning
• IoT Hessen – Data Streaming & Integration with Apache Kafka, MQTT, PLC4X
• InfluxDB Conference – Kafka and InfluxDB in Industrial IoT
• Strata (San Jose, USA) – Streaming Microservices with Kafka and Istio Service Mesh
• DevNexus (Atlanta, USA) – Architecture Patterns for Distributed, Hybrid and Global Apache Kafka Deployment
• Kafka Meetup Atlanta – Enabling Smarter Cities and Connected Vehicles with an Event Streaming Platform
• Kafka Meetup Dubai – The Rise of Event Streaming
• OOP (Munich) – Keynote: The Rise Of Event Streaming – Why Apache Kafka Changes Everything

2019

• IT Days (Frankfurt) – Processing IoT Data End to End with HiveMQ and Confluent Platform
• IT Days (Frankfurt) – The Rise of Event Streaming Platforms – Death of Traditional Middleware?
• IT Days (Frankfurt) – Keynote: Rethinking the Enterprise Architecture with an Event Streaming Platform
• Confluent ConfTab Detroit @ Google – Kafka and Machine Learning – Let’s Connect the Dots
• TDWI Switzerland (Zurich) – IoT Sensor Analytics with Apache Kafka, KSQL and TensorFlow
• W-JAX (Munich) – Keynote: Streaming Machine Learning without Data Store
• Confluent Streaming Day (Frankfurt, Zurich) – IoT at Scale with Apache Kafka and HiveMQ
• Kafka Meetup Dortmund – Healthcare, IoT and Stream Processing
• Kafka Summit San Francisco – Event-Driven Model Serving: Stream Processing vs. RPC with Apache Kafka and TensorFlow
• ApacheCon North America (Las Vegas) – Spoilt for Choice: Kafka Streams or KSQL for Kafka-native Stream Processing?
• ApacheCon North America (Las Vegas) – Processing IoT Data From End To End with MQTT And Apache Kafka
• ApacheCon North America (Las Vegas) – Apache Kafka vs. Middleware (MQ, ETL, ESB) – Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?
• ApacheCon North America (Las Vegas) – Unleashing Apache Kafka and TensorFlow in Cloud and Hybrid Architectures
• Oracle OpenWorld / Code One (San Francisco) – Unleashing Apache Kafka and TensorFlow in Cloud and Hybrid Architectures
• Oracle OpenWorld / Code One (San Francisco) – Streaming Machine Learning with Python, Jupyter, TensorFlow, Kafka and KSQL
• Oracle OpenWorld / Code One (San Francisco) – Apache Kafka – A Replacement for Integration Middleware or Not?
• AI4U (Munich): How to solve the impedance mismatch between data scientists and production engineers
• DATAXDAY (Paris): How to bring an analytic model in production with Apache Kafka
• JBCN Conf (Barcelona): IoT Sensor Analytics with Apache Kafka, KSQL and TensorFlow
• Kafka Meetup Zurich: Spoilt for Choice – Kafka Streams vs. KSQL for Stream Processing on top of Apache Kafka
• Bosch Connected World (Berlin): Embrace the Anarchy – Apache Kafka’s Role in Modern Data Architectures
• Kafka Summit (London): Apache Kafka vs. Middleware (MQ, ETL, ESB) – Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?
• Kafka Meetups (Amsterdam, Munich, London): Microservice Architectures and Process Orchestration with Kafka, Camunda and Zeebe
• Strata London – Unleashing Apache Kafka and TensorFlow in Hybrid Architectures
• Kafka Meetups USA (Phoenix, Seattle, San Francisco) – How to build a scalable machine learning infrastructure
• Couchbase Day (Zurich) – Real Time Applications at Scale with Apache Kafka and Couchbase
• IoT Meetup (Frankfurt) – Intelligent Sensor Analytics in Real Time with Kafka, MQTT and Deep Learning
• Big Data Paris – Anomaly Detection in Real Time with Kafka, TensorFlow and Keras
• OOP 2019 (Munich) – KSQL + MQTT to build scalable IoT Infrastructures
• OOP 2019 (Munich) – TensorFlow + Kafka in Hybrid Architectures