Aiven Live: New York City

Registration, breakfast, and more!

Pick up your badge, enjoy breakfast, and network! You can also visit the "Ask Me Anything" stations to chat with Aiven Experts and secure your limited-edition swag.

Welcome to Aiven Live: NYC

Opening remarks from Aiven's Founder and CEO, Oskari Saarenmaa.

Optimizing, Scaling and Saving Money with Aiven

In this opening keynote, you’ll learn where Aiven is innovating and evolving as we introduce more services built on the flexibility of our open source data platform. Learn what is coming up to further improve price, performance and, using AI technologies to optimize your data infrastructure. We will elaborate on the future unification between streaming, warehousing, and the ability to transform your data with powerful stream processing. Stay in touch with the newest innovations from Aiven through various channels we will talk about during this exciting session.

Kelsey Hightower: The Past, Present, and Future of Open Source

In this keynote, Kelsey reflects on his 25 year tech journey, how the industry has evolved, and where it may be heading. Kelsey will share stories, examples, and best practices he's picked up along the way and share his bold predictions for the future of Open Source, AI, and more.

Navigating 2024 and Beyond: Stories of Resilience and Innovation

In this session, you’ll discover the real-world challenges Aiven customers are tackling and the innovative solutions they are building. Gain valuable insights into technology trends as global experts share their perspectives on overcoming obstacles and shaping the data landscape. This session promises a deep dive into actionable lessons, success stories, and a glimpse into the exciting possibilities that lie ahead.

Networking Lunch

Enjoy lunch and network with your peers!

Preparing for the Long-Term Impact of AI

Generative AI is not a fleeting trend but a powerful force that will reshape industries for years to come. In this session, Ritu Jyoti will review practical applications and guidance for you as you embark on your journey in reshaping your organizations at this pivotal time. Ritu will review business, organization, and technology architecture transformation with an emphasis on data and open source to help your organization tap into emerging business models and achieve sustainable competitive advantage.

Vector Databases: A Framework for Building Generative AI Applications

Want to build Generative AI applications but don't know which vector database to use? Join this breakout session to learn about building GenAI applications with vector databases like Postgres, OpenSearch, and Clickhouse. This session will cover a framework for choosing your vector database, best practices, and a demo of an enterprise chatbot built on Aiven's vector database solutions.

How OSPOs Fuel Future Proof innovations: Fireside Chat Between Leaders

Companies are looking to innovate building futureproof solutions and therefore relying on open source to benefit from advanced, trustable and portable technologies. However, support is needed to properly fuel the innovation and community behind these projects. In this fireside chat, Nithya and Josep will share details on how Open Source Program Offices are key to bridge the gap between corporates and open source, sustaining adoption and addressing companies’ innovation, security and reliability needs.

Building for Scale: Core Principles to Follow For Building a Cost-Efficient Multi-Cloud Strategy

In this session, we’ll review the core principles you can follow to assess the scalability of your data infrastructure. We’ll discuss multi-cloud deployments for high resilience, cost optimization strategies like Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), and even review a few reference architectures that support high-scale Generative AI and data streaming use cases, and more.

Learn Apache Kafka with Python (Workshop)

Apache Kafka is the industry de-facto standard for data streaming. An open-source, scalable, highly available and reliable solution to move data across companies' departments, technologies or micro-services. In this workshop you'll learn the basic components of Apache Kafka and how to get started with data streaming using Python. We'll dive deep, with the help of some prebuilt Jupyter notebooks, on how to produce, consume and have concurrent applications reading from the same source, empowering multiple use-cases with the same streaming data. Finally, we'll see how streaming data in Apache Kafka can be reshaped in real time, enabling new data stakeholders and, at the same time, satisfying regulatory needs.

Prerequisites: Your own laptop, a web browser, GitHub Account

Boundaries and Collaboration Between Developers and Data Engineers

This panel discussion will explore general tips and best practices, as well as pitfalls to avoid when ingesting data and collaborating cross-functionally between software engineers and data teams. Attendees can expect a lively discussion from experienced practitioners on important questions to ask, different approaches to prototyping, as well as how to handle “people problems” in the mix.

Building the Future Together

Closing thoughts from Aiven and our partners.

Closing reception

Enjoy refreshments, discuss your learnings, and meet new peers!