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Flink Forward Barcelona 2025
Oct 13–16, 2025 · Palau de Congressos de Barcelona (Fira de Barcelona Montjuïc), Barcelona, Spain
- Conference
- Flink Forward Database
- Dates
- Oct 13, 2025 – Oct 16, 2025
- Venue
- Palau de Congressos de Barcelona (Fira de Barcelona Montjuïc)
- Place
- Barcelona, Spain
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 600Sponsor prospectus (pre-event): 'In 2025, the event will host over 600 professionals'. No post-event count found.
- Website
- flink-forward.org
- Recorded
- 6 sponsors · 87 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Training October 13-14 (bootcamp and workshop), conference October 15-16. Full talk list from the event agenda; affiliations from the event site. Sponsors listed without tiers. Recordings on Ververica Academy: https://www.ververica.academy/app/courses/ee02b370-a09b-4092-95c2-3b645fa5ae48
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference only (early bird, 30% off) | €699 | May 31, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Conference + Bootcamp (early bird) | €1,399 | May 31, 2025 | Bootcamp 'Get Started with Apache Flink' | web.archive.org |
| Conference + Workshop (early bird) | €1,399 | May 31, 2025 | Workshop 'Flink Ecosystem - Building Pipelines for Real-Time Data Lakes' | web.archive.org |
| Conference only | €999 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Conference + Bootcamp | €1,999 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Conference + Workshop | €1,999 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 6
Other 6
- Aiven · Sponsors
- Autodesk · Sponsors
- Factor House · Sponsors
- Hivemind · Sponsors
- StreamNative · Sponsors
- Xebia · Sponsors
Speakers and talks 87
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahar Pattarkine | PlayStation | Keynote | Opening Session & Keynotes | — |
| Erik Schumann | NORD/LB | Keynote | Opening Session & Keynotes | — |
| Jaehyeon Kim | Factor House | Keynote | Factor House Demo (Show floor): Building End-to-End Data Lineage with Kafka, Flink, and Spark | — |
| Siddhartha Choudhury | Booking.com | Keynote | Opening Session & Keynotes | — |
| Aitor Algorta | Airy | Speaker | Building AI Agents for Complex Event Processing with Flink SQL | — |
| Antonio Davide Cali | JustEat Takeaway | Speaker | A Flink Story: Overcoming Windowing Constraints | — |
| Archit Goyal | Speaker | Charting New Territory: LinkedIns Early Bet on Flink Batch for Large-Scale Workloads | — | |
| Ben Gamble | Ververica | Speaker | My tokens are limited. You must use the right context: An agent builders guide to Apache Flink | — |
| Boyuan Huang | Alibaba Cloud | Panelist | Panel: AI in Motion | — |
| Boyuan Huang | Alibaba Cloud | Speaker | Accelerating Intelligence - Unlocking the Power of Realtime AI | — |
| Caio Camatta | Stripe | Speaker | Shepherd: Large-Scale, Low-Latency AI and ML with Flink at Stripe | — |
| Carlos Santos | tb.lx by Daimler Truck | Speaker | HALO Jumping into Flink: Lessons learned from managing real-time data at Daimler Truck | — |
| Cesar Fick | Kuehne+Nagel | Speaker | Flink for logistics: Kuehne+Nagel's journey to building a solution for near real-time shipment data | — |
| Daren Wong | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | From Stream to Sentence: Real-Time Generative AI with Apache Flink | — |
| Derek Troy-West | Factor House | Panelist | Panel: AI in Motion | — |
| Divya Manohar | Stripe | Speaker | Shepherd: Large-Scale, Low-Latency AI and ML with Flink at Stripe | — |
| Dominik Bünzli | Swisscom | Speaker | *It should not feel like rocket science*: Decoupling configuration from logic in Flink SQL | — |
| Dominik Žnidaršič | — | Speaker | Streaming Down the Fluss: Taming CDC Streams with Flink, Fluss, and Paimon | — |
| Erik Schmiegelow | Hivemind | Panelist | Panel: AI in Motion | — |
| Erik Schumann | NORD/LB | Speaker | How Streaming Fixes Your Batch - An Introduction to Event Based Data Quality Management | — |
| Fabian Wilckens | Ververica | Speaker | Real-Time Data, Zero Friction: How Ververica + Aiven Accelerate Time to Value | — |
| Fábio Silva | tb.lx by Daimler Truck | Speaker | HALO Jumping into Flink: Lessons learned from managing real-time data at Daimler Truck | — |
| Ferenc Csaky | DataSQRL | Speaker | Bridging the Gaps: The State of Flink Connectors and Why You should Care | — |
| Fulvio Pascotto | Intesa Sanpaolo | Speaker | Achieving High-Throughput & Robustness: Intesa Sanpaolos JDBC Sink and Error Management | — |
| Galo Freile | Aiven | Speaker | Real-Time Data, Zero Friction: How Ververica + Aiven Accelerate Time to Value | — |
| Gennadii Gashev | Ottofeller | Speaker | Real-Time Deduplication at Scale with Apache Flink from S3 to Snowflake | — |
| Giannis Polyzos | Ververica | Speaker | Apache Fluss and the Seven Deadly Sins of Streaming Analytics | — |
| Gustavo de Morais | Confluent | Speaker | The *Big State* Monster: Taming State Size in Multi-Way Joins with FLIP-516 | — |
| Hans-Peter Grahsl | Decodable | Speaker | Towards Transactional Buffering of Change Data Capture Events | — |
| Hashaam Ahsan | UNIBERG GmbH | Speaker | Log Pattern Mining at Scale - A Journey from PoC to Prod | — |
| Igor Kersic | Ververica | Speaker | Under the Hood: The Future of Streaming with Ververica and Aiven | — |
| Ioannis Stavrakantonakis | Ververica | Speaker | Enabling Apache Flink Management Platforms as a Service in the AI Stack | — |
| Jaime López | Ververica | Speaker | Preventing Blackouts with Flink: Power Grid Data Processing for Millisecond-Level Fault Handling | — |
| Jark Wu | Alibaba Cloud | Speaker | Apache Fluss: Making Your Lakehouse Truly Real-Time | — |
| Jingsong Li | Alibaba Cloud | Speaker | Apache Paimon: Unified Lake Storage for Data + Multimodal AI with Apache Iceberg Compatibility | — |
| Jonas Valkiunas | Bloomberg | Speaker | Petabytes, Pipelines & PyFlink: How We Stream, Enrich & Validate Billions of Events | — |
| Jorge Alor | Banco de Crédito Peru BCP | Speaker | From Batch to StreamHouse: How Peru Largest Bank is Modernizing Mainframe Workloads | — |
| Josep Prat | Aiven | Speaker | Under the Hood: The Future of Streaming with Ververica and Aiven | — |
| Juliusz Nadbereżny | Xebia | Speaker | Flink State: What We Miss, What We Need | — |
| Karin Landers | Ververica | Speaker | Zero Trust or Bust: Bring Your Own Cloud to Real-Time Data | — |
| Kartikey Pant | Salesforce | Speaker | From Logs to Logic: A Structured Event System for Flink Observability and AIOps | — |
| Ken Krugler | — | Trainer | Wrap-up & Next Steps | — |
| Ken Krugler | — | Trainer | Real-Time Stream Analytics - Part One | — |
| Ken Krugler | — | Trainer | Enrichment and Scalability - Lab | — |
| Ken Krugler | — | Trainer | Optimizing In-Flight and Stateful Data | — |
| Ken Krugler | — | Trainer | Workflow Design & Paimon | — |
| Ken Krugler | — | Trainer | Real-Time Stream Analytics - Part Two | — |
| Ken Krugler | — | Trainer | Exactly-Once and Failure Handling | — |
| Ken Krugler | — | Trainer | Flink SQL & Table API | — |
| Ken Krugler | — | Trainer | Enrichment and Scalability | — |
| Lasse Nedergaard | XCI | Speaker | Does Your Code Really Work? Testing Apache Flink Applications | — |
| Leonard Xu | Alibaba Cloud | Speaker | Build Real-time Data Ingestion with Flink CDC | — |
| Lincoln Lee | Alibaba Cloud | Speaker | Flink SQL 2025: Powering Real-Time AI and Stream Processing Innovations | — |
| Lorenzo Affetti | Ververica | Panelist | Panel: AI in Motion | — |
| Lu Niu | Speaker | Unifying Batch and Streaming: Scalable Feature Engineering at Pinterest | — | |
| Maciej Bryński | Cledar | Speaker | Agentic Flink: Real-Time Data Exploration with LangGraph & Model Context Protocol | — |
| Maximilian Michels | Apple | Speaker | Dynamic, Scalable, and Schema-Evolving: Introducing the Flink Dynamic Iceberg Sink | — |
| Michał Stutzmann | Swisscom | Speaker | *It should not feel like rocket science*: Decoupling configuration from logic in Flink SQL | — |
| Michas Szacillo | Bloomberg | Speaker | Keep Calm and Flink On: Disaster-Proofing Apache Flink | — |
| Muhammet Orazov | Ververica | Speaker | Beginners guide to Flink SQL query optimization | — |
| Naci Simsek | Ververica | Speaker | The Flink Mistake Playbook: 2 Years of Real-World Debugging | — |
| Niharika Sakuru | Bloomberg | Speaker | Keep Calm and Flink On: Disaster-Proofing Apache Flink | — |
| Niklas Wilcke | UNIBERG GmbH | Speaker | Log Pattern Mining at Scale - A Journey from PoC to Prod | — |
| Pedro Mázala | Evoura | Speaker | Streaming toward Agentic AI: How Flink, Kafka, and CDC Fuel your agents | — |
| Péter Váry | Microsoft | Speaker | Dynamic, Scalable, and Schema-Evolving: Introducing the Flink Dynamic Iceberg Sink | — |
| Pravesh Gupta | Speaker | Powering Stateful Joins at Scale with Flink SQL at LinkedIn | — | |
| Preeti Nayak | Bloomberg | Speaker | Petabytes, Pipelines & PyFlink: How We Stream, Enrich & Validate Billions of Events | — |
| Riccardo Tommasini | University of Tartu | Speaker | Unframed: Stream Processing Without Windows | — |
| Riccardo Zorzato | Target Reply | Speaker | Achieving High-Throughput & Robustness: Intesa Sanpaolos JDBC Sink and Error Management | — |
| Rosa Seohwa Kang | Shopify | Speaker | Optimizing Flink Applications on GKE: Infrastructure Decisions at Shopify | — |
| Ryan van Huuksloot | Shopify | Speaker | Democratizing Flink SQL at Shopify: Scaling Streaming for Every Developer | — |
| Saurav Mawandia | Bloomberg | Speaker | Real-time Fixed Income Pricing with Apache Flink | — |
| Sergio Chong Loo | Apple | Speaker | Redefining Flink Reliability — Blue/Green Deployments in Production | — |
| Shalin Shah | Bloomberg | Speaker | Real-time Fixed Income Pricing with Apache Flink | — |
| Steffen Hoellinger | Airy | Speaker | Building AI Agents for Complex Event Processing with Flink SQL | — |
| Sujay Jain | Netflix | Speaker | Driving Innovation at Scale: Operational Insights & Advancements in Netflixs Data Mesh Platform | — |
| Tejansh Rana | Autodesk | Panelist | Panel: AI in Motion | — |
| Thomas Weise | Apple | Speaker | Taming Large Flink State | — |
| Timo Walther | Confluent | Speaker | Flink SQL++: User-defined SQL Operators with PTFs | — |
| Tucker Harvey | Speaker | Unifying Batch and Streaming: Scalable Feature Engineering at Pinterest | — | |
| Venkata Krishnan Sowrirajan | Speaker | Charting New Territory: LinkedIns Early Bet on Flink Batch for Large-Scale Workloads | — | |
| Vincenzo Topazio | Agile Lab | Speaker | Achieving High-Throughput & Robustness: Intesa Sanpaolos JDBC Sink and Error Management | — |
| Vinod Chelladurai | Tools for Humanity | Speaker | Real-Time Deduplication at Scale with Apache Flink from S3 to Snowflake | — |
| Vitalii Zhebrakovskyi | Adyen | Speaker | Accelerating and protecting shoppers payments with Apache Flink at Adyen | — |
| Weiqing Yang | Speaker | Powering Stateful Joins at Scale with Flink SQL at LinkedIn | — | |
| Xintong Song | Alibaba Cloud | Speaker | Flink Agents: The Agentic AI Framework based on Apache Flink | — |
| Yuan Mei | Engineering | Speaker | Special Announcement Session VERA-X: Native Vectorized Flink | — |
Sources
- https://www.flink-forward.org/barcelona-2025
- https://www.flink-forward.org/barcelona-2025/agenda
- https://www.flink-forward.org/barcelona-2025/venue
- https://www.flink-forward.org/barcelona-2025/sponsors
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250516073552/https://www.flink-forward.org/barcelona-2025/tickets
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251010084955/https://www.flink-forward.org/barcelona-2025/tickets