DET NYC #2 Meetup

​We are SUPER EXCITED to host the first DET NYC Meetup! for 2026. Join us at Capital One's NYC office for an evening of learning, networking, and fun. Light bites and beverages will be provided.

​With limited capacity, make sure to register ASAP to secure your spot!

​Please bring a valid photo ID for building access.

​Stay tuned for more details, but this is definitely not one to miss! 🗽

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​Agenda

• ​​6:00 to 6:30 PM: Doors open and networking

• ​Talk 1: How Apache Spark's Declarative Pipelines Enables the Convergence of Batch and Streaming | Lisa Cao | Databricks | 6.30 - 7.00 PM

  • ​In this talk we'll discuss the evolvability Spark 4 introduces, and how it is becoming central to unifying data workloads in a way that actually makes sense for production use cases through its new declarative framework.

• ​Talk 2: Best practices as a Data engineer | Mike Xu | Motherduck | 7.00 - 7.30 PM

  • ​He will be giving a talk about the best practices a data engineer can follow to increase model accuracy for various tasks against their SQL databases.

• ​​7:30 to 8:00 PM: Closing remarks and networking

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​Cheers!

​The DET NYC Team

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