Maximilian Michels

Employers on the program

2019–2026Apple6 talks
2020Lyft4 talks

Events11

Conferences5

Talks142 keynotes

Years active2019–2026

Miles between events28,5299 in-person events · 4 countries

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.

Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 10, 2026

Appearances by year

Flink Forward
Beam Summit
Berlin Buzzwords
FOSDEM
Iceberg Summit

Talks

Date	Event	Conference	Role	Title	Links
Apr 8, 2026	Iceberg Summit 2026	Iceberg Summit	speaker	Schema-Flexible Ingestion with Flink SQL Variant, and Dynamic Iceberg Sink as Apple Modern lakehouse ingestion pipelines struggle with frequent upstream schema changes due to SQL’s strong static typing. This forces teams to build and maintain…Show less Modern lakehouse ingestion pipelines struggle with frequent upstream schema changes due to SQL’s strong static typing. This forces teams to build and maintain complex, code-heavy pipelines, slowing onboarding and increasing operational burden.	Video
Oct 13, 2025	Flink Forward Barcelona 2025	Flink Forward	speaker	Dynamic, Scalable, and Schema-Evolving: Introducing the Flink Dynamic Iceberg Sink as Apple $2c
Oct 21, 2024	Flink Forward Berlin 2024	Flink Forward	speaker	Flink Autoscaling: A Year in Review - Performance, Challenges, and Innovations as Apple At last year’s FlinkForward in Seattle, we presented Flink Autoscaling (FLIP-271), a research-backed open-source autoscaling solution as part of the Flink…Show less At last year’s FlinkForward in Seattle, we presented Flink Autoscaling (FLIP-271), a research-backed open-source autoscaling solution as part of the Flink Kubernetes Operator.
Nov 6, 2023	Flink Forward Seattle 2023	Flink Forward	speaker	Flink on Autopilot: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Autoscaling as Apple Cost-effective resource assignment for a Flink deployment requires finding a configuration such that the deployment is neither under- nor overprovisioned.
Oct 18, 2021	Flink Forward Global 2021	Flink Forward	speaker	SPONSORED Interactive Session: Flink on Autopilot with Splunk as Apple Splunk Principal Software Engineer Maximilian Michels hosts an interactive session focused on Splunk's Fully Managed Autoscaled and Elastic Stream Processing…Show less Splunk Principal Software Engineer Maximilian Michels hosts an interactive session focused on Splunk's Fully Managed Autoscaled and Elastic Stream Processing Services
Aug 24, 2020	Beam Digital Summit 2020	Beam Summit	speaker	Closing remarks and giveaways as Lyft Join us for some closing remarks from the event steering committee as well as the raffles for the giveaways.
Aug 24, 2020	Beam Digital Summit 2020	Beam Summit	speaker	From pipeline to execution: What happens when you run() your pipeline? as Lyft Apache Beam is a powerful framework: unified batch and stream processing, support for multiple execution engines, as well as writing code in multiple languages.…Show less Apache Beam is a powerful framework: unified batch and stream processing, support for multiple execution engines, as well as writing code in multiple languages. It can be hard to wrap your head around how all of this works. Fortunately, Beam’s architecture can be broken down into several...	Video
Aug 24, 2020	Beam Digital Summit 2020	Beam Summit	keynote	Keynote: The state of Apache Beam as Lyft In this talk we’ll provide an overview of the current and upcoming developments in the Apache Beam Runners. Based off that, we will look into new use cases and…Show less In this talk we’ll provide an overview of the current and upcoming developments in the Apache Beam Runners. Based off that, we will look into new use cases and patterns. Finally, we want to brainstorm about new items for the roadmap, and encourage users and developers to share their ideas.	Video
Aug 24, 2020	Beam Digital Summit 2020	Beam Summit	speaker	Office hours: Java SDK, Go, Spark, Flink as Lyft 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 less 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 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...
Oct 7, 2019	Flink Forward Europe 2019	Flink Forward	speaker	Beam on Flink: How does it actually work? as Apple Apache Beam is a data processing model built with focus on portability. Beam jobs can be written in the language of your choice: Java, Python, Go, or SQL.
Sep 11, 2019	Beam Summit North America 2019	Beam Summit	speaker	The Road To Portability	Video
Jun 19, 2019	Beam Summit Europe 2019	Beam Summit	keynote	The Road to Portability	Video
Jun 16, 2019	Berlin Buzzwords 2019	Berlin Buzzwords	talk	Python, Java, or Go: It's Your Choice with Apache Beam With the rise of Tensorflow and libraries like Numpy, Python has become a popular choice for data processing.	Slides Video
Feb 2, 2019	FOSDEM 2019	FOSDEM	speaker	From Zero to Portability Apache Beam is a programming model for composing parallel and distributed data processing jobs. As many other Apache projects, Beam first used Java as its API…Show less Apache Beam is a programming model for composing parallel and distributed data processing jobs. As many other Apache projects, Beam first used Java as its API language.	Video

Frequent co-speakers

Speaker	Shared events	Shared talks	Last together
Thomas Weise	5	2	2025
Suneel Marthi	5	—	2020
Ismaël Mejía	4	2	2020
Robert Burke	4	1	2020
Lu Niu	4	—	2026
Stephan Ewen	4	—	2024
Reza Rokni	4	—	2021
Steffen Hausmann	4	—	2021
Griselda Cuevas	3	2	2020
Gyula Fora	3	1	2023
Kenneth Knowles	3	1	2021
Kyle Weaver	3	1	2021
Austin Bennett	3	1	2020
Tucker Harvey	3	—	2026
Hans-Peter Grahsl	3	—	2025

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.