BIG DATA CONFERENCE
EUROPE 2025
November 18-21
Vilnus & Online
Confirmed Talks
Gad Salner
Melio, Israel
Zoom Out: Building a Kickass Engineering Team Remotely
In this talk, Gad outlines how to build a winning engineering team and overcome remote-work challenges such as communication, engagement, development velocity, cultural gaps, and more. He explains the importance of calibrating your team’s efforts and processes, emphasizes the importance of high-trust communication, and curating the right cultural and technical framework for your team.
Karol Przystalski
Codete, Poland
Machine Learning Security
Many companies would like to introduce machine learning models, but fail to see the potential security issues. In the presentation, he will show recent security issues related to machine learning models, such as adversarial attacks.
Josef Habdank
DXC Technology, Denmark
Management of a Cloud Data Lake in Practice: How to Manage 1000s of ETLs Using Apache Spark
The talk will outline the business reasoning, key design principles as well as technical solution. Expect some (but not too much) nerdy details related to Apache Spark implementation.
Herminio Vazquez
IOVIO, Mexico
The Unbreakable Data Pipeline
This session, will provide, detailed examples on the engineering aspects of authoring and maintaining high-quality data pipelines using Apache Spark and Delta Lake. Optimizations for performance gains, tricks that reduce verbosity, caveats, and trade-offs, standards in a team, and all those little things you wish have known before your project started…
Mario A Vinasco
Credit Sesame, US
The Intuition Behind Machine Learning In Marketing
This talk presents the key insights that make AI/ML useful for marketing and demystifies the core technology and illustrates case studies where my team applied the technology. In this talk, he will discuss how predictive models are used across these areas
Marta Paes
Materialize, Germany
An Introduction to Streaming SQL with Materialize
In this talk, we’ll introduce Materialize, a streaming database that lets you use standard SQL over streams of data and get low-latency, incrementally updated answers as the underlying data changes. We’ll cover the basic concepts of streaming SQL and highlight what makes Materialize unique in comparison to other tools, then tie it all together by building a simple streaming analytics pipeline — from data ingestion to visualization!
Sebastian Mehldau
VanMoof, The Netherlands
Creating a Dwh From Scratch to Analyze 11 Million Kilometers Worth of Bike Rides
In this talk, we will show you what problems we faced with creating a DWH from scratch, how we solved them with BigQuery, and what insights we gained with Looker: do e-bikes replace other forms of transportation?
Kris van der Mast
VaHa, Belgium
Use Visual Studio Code for Your Machine Learning Environments
VS Code has grown over the years to a multi-functional tool and turns out to be a great entry point for your Machine Learning experiences. Integration with Azure, Python support, … In this session, Kris will show you what’s possible.
Jan Karremans
EDB Postgres, The Netherlands
Riding the Second Wave – Open Source for Relational Databases
How do databases fit in this equation? How do relational databases fit in this equation specifically? What does the database landscape look like, and where does Open Source fit in? Interesting questions in today’s world, from all angles, such as business, operations, development. Join this talk and get more insight into the wonderful world of data storage, data processing, and information delivery!
Mohammad Hossein Noranian
Esra Tech, Lithuania
How to Fail in AI Business
In this presentation, after a short introduction to the process of making AI-based products, different pitfalls and barriers to make a product into a successful business will be discussed and different failed cases will be presented. Afterwards, few tips will be explained to prevent failing in AI businesses based on the experiences of the speaker.