Kenneth Knowles
Employers on the program
- 2019–2026Google9 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- Beam Summit
- Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)
- Flink Forward
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2026 | Beam Summit 2026 | Beam Summit | speaker | State of the Project: Beam in the age of agents as Google Agents were the hot topic in 2025. Now in 2026 they are the new normal, though we are still constantly navigating the changes. From my perch on the PMC Chair, I…Show lessAgents were the hot topic in 2025. Now in 2026 they are the new normal, though we are still constantly navigating the changes. From my perch on the PMC Chair, I will give my perspective on: The activity of the Beam community and project How agentic development impacts the ecosystem and Beam’s... | SlidesVideo |
| Jul 8, 2025 | Beam Summit 2025 | Beam Summit | keynote | 3.0 and Beyond: The Future of Beam as Google Beam has become a core part of the data processing ecosystem through a combination of innovation and hard work from the Beam community. As the data landscape…Show lessBeam has become a core part of the data processing ecosystem through a combination of innovation and hard work from the Beam community. As the data landscape continues to evolve, however, so too must Beam. During this talk, Kenn (Beam PMC chair) and Danny (Beam PMC) will explore some of the... | SlidesVideo |
| Jul 8, 2025 | Beam Summit 2025 | Beam Summit | keynote | See the Full Picture: Integrating Beam/Dataflow into Your Distributed Traces as Google Achieving holistic observability often hits a wall at asynchronous batch or streaming systems. While OpenTelemetry provides standards for tracing, integrating…Show lessAchieving holistic observability often hits a wall at asynchronous batch or streaming systems. While OpenTelemetry provides standards for tracing, integrating systems like Apache Beam/Dataflow requires specific considerations. This presentation details the successful integration of Beam... | SlidesVideo |
| Jun 13, 2023 | Beam Summit 2023 | Beam Summit | keynote | Founders' Panel as Google Kenn Knowles, Robert Bradshaw and Reuven Lax look back at their early experiences building streaming and batch systems, where Beam has gone so far and their…Show lessKenn Knowles, Robert Bradshaw and Reuven Lax look back at their early experiences building streaming and batch systems, where Beam has gone so far and their perspective for the future. | Video |
| Jul 18, 2022 | Beam Summit 2022 | Beam Summit | speaker | Where is Beam leading Data Processing now? as Google Kenn Knowles, the PMC chair for Apache Beam, will speak about the last year of developments in Beam, and the exciting things that are coming to Beam. | SlidesVideo |
| Oct 18, 2021 | Flink Forward Global 2021 | Flink Forward | speaker | SPONSORED Interactive Session: Beam and Beam on Flink general roadmap discussion and AMA as Google An interactive discussion and Ask-Me-Anything about Apache Beam and the general roadmap Beam on Flink | |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Beam Digital Summit 2020 | Beam Summit | keynote | Keynote: Apache Beam: Past, present and future as Google I will give a brief history of Beam, how we got where we are (and where are we anyhow?) and talk about interesting directions for the project’s future and what…Show lessI will give a brief history of Beam, how we got where we are (and where are we anyhow?) and talk about interesting directions for the project’s future and what is being worked on. | Video |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Beam Digital Summit 2020 | Beam Summit | speaker | Office hours: Java SDK, Go, Spark, Flink as Google A team of Apache Beam creators and committers will be hosting office hours where they will answer any questions you may have regarding the different components…Show lessA team of Apache Beam creators and committers will be hosting office hours where they will answer any questions you may have regarding the different components of Apache Beam. 18:00-19:00 Java SDK & SQL (Kenneth Knowles) 18:00-19:00 Go (Robert Burke) 19:00-20:00 Spark (Kyle Weaver) 19:00-20:00... | |
| Sep 11, 2019 | Beam Summit North America 2019 | Beam Summit | speaker | Using the Timer and State API to solve times series use case in Apache Beam as Google | Video |
| Sep 9, 2019 | ApacheCon North America 2019 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | One SQL to Rule Them All – a Syntactically Idiomatic Approach to Management of Streams and Tables |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Israel Herraiz | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Reza Rokni | 4 | 1 | 2023 |
| Robert Burke | 4 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charles Adetiloye | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Austin Bennett | 4 | — | 2025 |
| Alex Van Boxel | 4 | — | 2023 |
| Alexey Romanenko | 4 | — | 2023 |
| Kyle Weaver | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Danny McCormick | 3 | 1 | 2026 |
| Maximilian Michels | 3 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ahmed Abualsaud | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Jack McCluskey | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Raj Katakam | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Tom Stepp | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Yi Hu | 3 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.