BIG DATA CONFERENCE
EUROPE 2021
Online Edition
September 28-30
Online
Confirmed Talks
Juan Venegas
Growth Tribe, The Netherlands
Translating Data Into Powerful Stories
In this live session, we will dive into the fundamentals of data storytelling & visualisation. We’ll borrow tried-and-tested techniques from master presenters. We’ll go on a journey from plotting our story to designing our slides, infusing new life into our data without fabricating lies or boring our audiences.
Alex Sanginov
ServiceNow, US
Embracing #AiFirst Enterprise-Wide
How do you change perceptions to embrace AI enterprise-wide?
Where do you even begin? How do you keep the momentum? And most importantly, How do you maintain the hype while delivering results that people love?!
Mark Grover
Stemma, US
Trust Your Data
In this talk, Mark will why trust in data matters to the data industry and the tactics best-in-class organizations use to address it — including org structure, culture, and technology.
Phil Winder
Winder Research, UK
A Code-Driven Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Although this presentation is suitable for beginners, you will benefit if you have some exposure to data science and machine learning.
Albert Lewandowski
GetInData, Poland
Best Practices for ETL with Apache NiFi on Kubernetes
During the talk, there are described all details about migrating pipelines from the old Hadoop platform to the Kubernetes, managing everything as the code, monitoring all corner cases of NiFi and making it a robust solution that is user-friendly even for non-programmers.
Bas Geerdink
Aizonic, The Netherlands
The State of MLOps – Machine Learning in Production at Enterprise Scale
In this session, we’ll explore this relatively new subject. Bas will explain the need for MLOps (and AIOps and ModelOps which are related), dive into the tools and techniques, and give some examples of real-world solutions.
Carlos Manuel Duclos-Vergara
Schibsted, Norway
Choosing the Right Abstraction Level for Your Kafka Project
What kind of operations need to be applied to the events? Do we need to interact with external systems? In this presentation, he will go through several scenarios and cases to highlight the key factors that should be considered when deciding which API should be used for a given project.
Daniel Wrigley
SHI, Germany
Keyword Search is Dead! And so are Solr and Elasticsearch?
How can AI combined with Vector Similarity Search efficiently deliver more relevant search results than conventional methods?
For which cases is there an economic gain from their application?
To answer these and other questions, he will provide an overview of the current state and an outlook into the future possibilities of new technologies and reveal how search applications can get a boost with the help of AI.
Frank Munz
Databricks, Germany
Share Massive Amounts of Live Data with Delta Sharing
The proposed session is a technical session for developers and big data architects. The session includes a live, hands-on demonstration of Delta Sharing. A detailed explanation of how to get started with purely open source is provided to the interested audience.
Einat Orr
Treeverse, Israel
Rethinking Ingestion: CI/CD for Data Lakes
What they propose and will cover in this talk, is a new strategy for data lake ingestion. One where new data can be added in isolation then tested and validated, before “going live” in a production table. Finally, they will show how git-for-data tools like lakeFS and Nessie enable this ingestion paradigm in a seamless way.