​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

​Danica Fine, Sr. Manager, OSS Developer Relations @ Snowflake

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

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

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

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

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

​Zoe Steinkamp, Senior Developer Advocate @ Clickhouse

​Want to speak?

​Reach out to the organizers!