​Join the Minneapolis data community for a happy hour accompanied by a series of lightning talks from local and visiting data practitioners.

​We're excited to be hosted by SmartThings at their office in the Riverplace Building Complex located at:
1 SE Main Street
Minneapolis, MN 55414

​The meetup will be held in the Garamond Conference Room located inside the Main Hall Building. Parking is available on the street or in the Riverplace Parking Ramp on 2nd St SE.

​Agenda

​5:00 - 6:00, Networking, pizza, and drinks
6:00 - 7:30, lightning talks
7:30 - 8:30, more networking and drinks!

​Topics

​The Apache Iceberg™ Catalog Landscape
Danica Fine, Sr. Manager, OSS Developer Relations @ Snowflake
Alex Merced, Head of DevRel @ Dremio

​Accelerating Connect plugin discovery with KIP-898: A 10-minute migration
Greg Harris, Open Source Software Engineer @ Aiven

​Geo-Spatial Demo Using Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink®
James Hughes, Software Engineer @ Confluent

​Deduping Events at the Edge, and its Challenges
Kianoosh Karami, Director of Engineering @ SmartThings

​To Shred or Not to Shred the Apache Iceberg™ Variant Type
Matt Topol, Co-founder @ Columnar

​Join the Queue for Apache Kafka® Share Groups
Paul Brebner, Open Source Technology Evangelist @ Instaclustr by NetApp

​Mad Data: A Retro Look at Computing and Datas
Zoe Steinkamp, Senior Developer Advocate @ Clickhouse