With the first Spark Summit Europe only days away, we are excited to announce that all 900 tickets have been sold out. Spark Summit is the premier event that brings the Apache Spark community together, where they can hear from leading production users of Spark, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming and related projects; find out where the project development is going, and learn how to use the Spark stack in a variety of applications. The enthusiasm shown by the Spark community turned the Summit from a small gathering of early adopters in San Francisco in 2013 into a global phenomenon of over three thousand people across continents in two year’s time.
A great deal of exciting content has been planned at Amsterdam. To kick things off, the creator of Spark – Matei Zaharia – will give a keynote. Matei will be followed by industry and community leaders from organizations such as Databricks, Goldman Sachs, and many others.
The diverse set of talks is divided by topics that include: developer, research, data science, and applications. Organization such as Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barclay, Netflix, The Guardian, and SK Telecom will take the stage to share their valuable experiences in working with Apache Spark.
As with all Spark Summits, there will be multiple training sessions for people who want to learn Spark. At Amsterdam, the training includes introduction topic such as Spark Essentials as well as advanced topics such as data science and hands-on large-scale data exploration with the Wikipedia dataset.
Don’t worry if you cannot make it to Summit! There are many ways to stay up-to-date with the happenings in Amsterdam: Follow us on twitter to get real-time updates throughout the event; register for the live stream to watch the talks at home; or simply subscribe to our newsletter to get all the content delivered to your inbox. We’ll also post the slides and recordings of the talks on the Summit website – stayed tuned.
Finally, remember that there is always another Spark Summit just around the corner – the call for presentations for Spark Summit in New York City (Feb 16-18, 2016) is already open. Submit your ideas now!