Big Data LDN can confirm that Apache Kafka Co-creator and current Confluent Co-founder & CTO Neha Narkhede will deliver the opening keynote on day 1, 15th November 2017.

Keynote: The Rise of the Streaming Platform

Neha will discuss how to build operable large scale data systems in the Big Data LDN Keynote Theatre

Neha Narkhede is co-founder and CTO at Confluent, the company behind the popular Apache Kafka streaming platform. Prior to founding Confluent, Neha led streams infrastructure at LinkedIn, where she was responsible for LinkedIn's streaming infrastructure built on top of Apache Kafka and Apache Samza. She is one of the initial authors of Apache Kafka and a committer and PMC member on the project.