Timothy Spann
Employers on the program
- 2024–2026Snowflake4 talks
- 2019–2023Cloudera9 talks
- 2021–2022StreamNative8 talks
Appearances by year
- Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)
- Budapest Data+AI Forum
- OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference)
- Data Summit (DBTA)
- DataWorks Summit
- Flink Forward
- Beam Summit
- Data Con LA
- 4 other conferences
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2026 | Budapest Data+AI Forum 2026 | Budapest Data+AI Forum | speaker | From Air Quality to Aircraft & Automobiles, Unstructured Data Is Everywhere as Snowflake | |
| Sep 11, 2025 | Community Over Code North America 2025 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Enhancing Apache NiFi 2.x with Python ProcessorsIn this talk, I will delve into the world of Apache NiFi 2.0 Python processors, exploring the capabilities they offer and demonstrating how to build custom…Show lessIn this talk, I will delve into the world of Apache NiFi 2.0 Python processors, exploring the capabilities they offer and demonstrating how to build custom processors to enhance your data processing pipelines. By the end of this talk, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of building and optimizing Apache NiFi 2.0 Python processors, enabling them to integrate Python seamlessly into | |
| Sep 11, 2025 | Community Over Code North America 2025 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | NiFI Man: “We're here – but should we have come?”The last few years, travel has been tough with diseases, air quality problems, fires, airline delays, wars and other events. The only way to know is to measure…Show lessThe last few years, travel has been tough with diseases, air quality problems, fires, airline delays, wars and other events. The only way to know is to measure the conditions and make that decision. | |
| May 13, 2025 | Data Summit 2025 | Data Summit (DBTA) | speaker | From Air Quality to Aircraft & Automobiles, Unstructured Data Is Everywhere as Snowflake | |
| Nov 6, 2024 | PyData NYC 2024 | PyData | speaker | Unstructured Data Processing with a Raspberry Pi AI Kit and Python | Video |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Budapest Data+ML Forum 2024 | Budapest Data+AI Forum | speaker | Building Real-time Pipelines with FLaNK: A Case Study with Transit Data as Snowflake | |
| May 7, 2024 | Data Summit 2024 | Data Summit (DBTA) | speaker | Building Real-Time Pipelines With FLaNK as Snowflake | |
| Dec 12, 2023 | OSA CON 2023 | OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) | speaker | Unlocking Financial Data with Real-Time Pipelines as Cloudera Financial institutions thrive on accurate and timely data to drive critical decision-making processes, risk assessments, and regulatory compliance. However,…Show lessFinancial institutions thrive on accurate and timely data to drive critical decision-making processes, risk assessments, and regulatory compliance. However, managing and processing vast amounts of financial data in real-time can be a daunting task. | SlidesVideo |
| Oct 7, 2023 | Community Over Code North America 2023 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Looking at the New Features of Apache NiFi as Cloudera Apache NiFi has a lot of new features, processors and best practices that have arrived in the last year or so. I will walk through building flows using the…Show lessApache NiFi has a lot of new features, processors and best practices that have arrived in the last year or so. I will walk through building flows using the latest tips, techniques and processor. I will and change a number of data flows utilizing the latest NiFi version and point out gotchas and some | Slides |
| Oct 7, 2023 | Community Over Code North America 2023 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Utilizing Real-Time Transit Data for Travel Optimization as Cloudera There are a lot of factors involved in determining how you can find our way around and avoid delays, bad weather, dangers and expenses. In this talk I will…Show lessThere are a lot of factors involved in determining how you can find our way around and avoid delays, bad weather, dangers and expenses. In this talk I will focus on public transport in the largest transit system in the United States, the MTA, which is focused around New York City. Utilizing public a | Slides |
| Jun 5, 2023 | Budapest Data Forum + Budapest ML Forum 2023 | Budapest Data+AI Forum | speaker | Building Modern Data Streaming Apps with NiFi, Flink and Kafka as Cloudera | |
| Nov 15, 2022 | OSA CON 2022 | OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) | speaker | Streaming Data Made Easy as StreamNative | Video |
| Oct 24, 2022 | DoK Day North America 2022 (at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022) | Data on Kubernetes Day (DoK Day) | speaker | Architecting Your First Event Driven Serverless Streaming Applications on K8 as StreamNative | |
| Oct 3, 2022 | ApacheCon North America 2022 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Citizen Streaming Engineer - A How To Democratizing the ability to build streaming data pipelines will help turn everyone who needs streaming data to be able to do it themselves. | Slides |
| Oct 3, 2022 | ApacheCon North America 2022 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Deep Dive into Building Streaming Applications with Apache PulsarIn this session I will get you started with real-time cloud native streaming programming with Java, Golang, Python and Apache NiFi.I will start off with an…Show lessIn this session I will get you started with real-time cloud native streaming programming with Java, Golang, Python and Apache NiFi.I will start off with an introduction to Apache Pulsar and setting up your first easy standalone cluster in docker. | Slides |
| Jun 14, 2022 | Budapest Data Forum 2022 | Budapest Data+AI Forum | speaker | Unified Messaging and Data Streaming 101 as StreamNative | |
| Mar 8, 2022 | SQLBits 2022 (Arcade) | SQLBits | speaker | Apache NiFi 101: Introduction and Best Practices as StreamNative Using open source apache nifi to integrate and ingest data at scale | Video |
| Nov 2, 2021 | OSA CON 2021 | OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) | speaker | Hello Hydrate! From Stream to Clickhouse with Apache Pulsar and Friends as StreamNative | |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Trino Summit 2021 | Trino Summit | speaker | FLiP Into Trino as StreamNative | |
| Oct 18, 2021 | Flink Forward Global 2021 | Flink Forward | speaker | SPONSORED Interactive Session: AMA | Pulsar and Flink for Unified Data Processing as StreamNative Apache Pulsar is the cloud-native, messaging and streaming platform for modern companies. Integrating it with Flink could help solve the complex data storage…Show lessApache Pulsar is the cloud-native, messaging and streaming platform for modern companies. Integrating it with Flink could help solve the complex data storage and computing challenges in various enterprise scenarios. | |
| Sep 21, 2021 | ApacheCon @Home 2021 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Apache Deep Learning 302 | Video |
| Sep 21, 2021 | ApacheCon @Home 2021 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Apache NIFi Deep Dive 300 | Video |
| Sep 21, 2021 | ApacheCon @Home 2021 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Smart Transit: Real-Time Transit Information with FLaNK | Video |
| Sep 17, 2021 | Data Con LA 2021 | Data Con LA | speaker | Codeless Pipelines With Pulsar and Flink as StreamNative | |
| Aug 6, 2021 | ApacheCon Asia 2021 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | FLaNK Stack with Flink For Streaming Use Cases | |
| Oct 19, 2020 | Flink Forward Global 2020 | Flink Forward | speaker | Using the Mm FLaNK Stack for Edge AI (Flink, NiFi, Kafka, Kudu) as Cloudera Introducing the FLaNK stack which combines Apache Flink, Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka and Apache Kudu to build fast applications for IoT, AI, rapid ingest. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 | ApacheCon @Home 2020 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Incrementally Streaming RDBMS Data to Your DataLake Automagically | Video |
| Sep 29, 2020 | ApacheCon @Home 2020 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Real-Time Stock Processing With Apache NiFi, Apache Flink and Apache Kafka | Video |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Beam Digital Summit 2020 | Beam Summit | speaker | Using the Mm FLaNK Stack for Edge AI (Flink, NiFi, Kafka, Kudu)The Beam Summit brings together experts and community to share the exciting ways they are using, changing, and advancing Apache Beam and the world of data and…Show lessThe Beam Summit brings together experts and community to share the exciting ways they are using, changing, and advancing Apache Beam and the world of data and stream processing. | Video |
| May 20, 2019 | DataWorks Summit Washington, DC 2019 | DataWorks Summit | speaker | Cold Supply Chain Logistics using Sensors, Apache NiFi and the Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Platform as Cloudera | |
| May 20, 2019 | DataWorks Summit Washington, DC 2019 | DataWorks Summit | speaker | Edge to AI: Analytics from Edge to Cloud with Efficient Movement of Machine Data as Cloudera | |
| Mar 18, 2019 | DataWorks Summit Barcelona 2019 | DataWorks Summit | speaker | Apache Deep Learning 201 as Cloudera | |
| Mar 18, 2019 | DataWorks Summit Barcelona 2019 | DataWorks Summit | speaker | Edge to AI: Analytics from Edge to Cloud with Efficient Movement of Machine Data as Cloudera |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Kjerrumgaard | 8 | 2 | 2026 |
| Peter Zaitsev | 5 | — | 2023 |
| Sunil Govindan | 5 | — | 2021 |
| Alex Merced | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Patrick McFadin | 4 | — | 2025 |
| Robert Hodges | 4 | — | 2024 |
| Uma Maheswara Rao Gangumalla | 4 | — | 2023 |
| Xinli Shang | 4 | — | 2023 |
| Szilvia Hodvogner | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Alex Petrov | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Paige Roberts | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Zoe Steinkamp | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Ismaël Mejía | 3 | — | 2023 |
| Mary Grygleski | 3 | — | 2023 |
| Maxime Beauchemin | 3 | — | 2023 |
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.