Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021: CFP Open Now!

Pulsar Summit is the conference dedicated to Apache Pulsar, and the messaging and event streaming community. The conference gathers an international audience of CTOs/CIOs, developers, data architects, data scientists, Apache Pulsar committers/contributors, and the messaging and streaming community. Together, they share experiences, exchange ideas and knowledge, and receive hands-on training sessions led by Pulsar experts.

Last year, Pulsar Summit Virtual Conference and Pulsar Summit Asia featured 80 interactive sessions by tech leads, open-source developers, software engineers, and software architects from Salesforce, Splunk, Verizon Media, Iterable, Yahoo! JAPAN, TIBCO, OVHcloud, Clever Cloud, and more. The conferences garnered 1,600 attendees around the globe, including attendees from top tech, fintech and media companies, such as Google, Microsoft, AMEX, Salesforce, Disney, and Paypal.

This year, the summit will be hosted virtually on June 16th-17th. The speaker committee includes top Pulsar experts, such as Apache Pulsar PMC members Sijie Guo, CEO of StreamNative, Matteo Merli and Sanjeev Kulkarni from Splunk, and Joe Francis from Verizon. Additionally, Fabian Hueske from Apache Flink, Addison Higham from StreamNative, Ben Lorica from The Data Exchange Media, and Jesse Anderson from Big Data Institute will be participating.

Join Us and Speak at the Pulsar Virtual Summit!

Do you have a Pulsar story to share? Join us and speak at the summit! You will be on stage with all the top Pulsar thought-leaders. It is a great way to participate and raise your profile in the rapidly growing Apache Pulsar community.

We are looking for Pulsar stories that are innovative, informative, or thought-provoking. Here are some suggestions for what to talk about:

• Use cases, operations, tools, techniques, or the Pulsar ecosystem
• A deep dive into technologies
• Best practices and lessons learned
• A Pulsar success story
• Anything that inspires the audience!

To speak at the summit, please submit an abstract about your presentation. Remember to keep your proposal short, relevant and engaging.

As a speaker, you will receive:

• The chance to demonstrate your experience and deep knowledge in the rapidly growing event streaming space.
• Your name, title, company, and bio will be featured on the Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 website.
• Your session will be added to the Pulsar Summit YouTube Channel and promoted on Twitter and LinkedIn.
• A professionally produced video of your presentation.
• Exclusive Pulsar swag only available to the speakers.

Important Dates:

• CFP opens: Feb 18th, 2021
• CFP closes: Mar 26th, 2021
• Speaker notifications sent: April 2nd, 2021
• Schedule announcement: April 9th, 2021

If you want some advice or feedback on your proposal, or have any questions about the summit, please do not hesitate to contact us at organizers@pulsar-summit.org. We are happy to help!

Register for the Summit

If you are interested in attending Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021, please sign up in Hopin. Once you are registered, we will keep you updated on the summit.

Sponsor Pulsar Summit

Pulsar Summit is a conference for the community and your support is needed. Sponsoring this event will provide a great opportunity for your organization to further engage with the Apache Pulsar community. Contact us to learn more.

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See you at Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021!

About Apache Pulsar

Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native, distributed messaging and streaming platform that manages hundreds of billions of events per day. Since Pulsar was contributed to open source by Yahoo in 2016 and became a top-level Apache Software Foundation project in 2018, its community has witnessed incredible growth. In 2020, Pulsar had two releases and several ecosystem updates. As of today, Pulsar has gained 340+ contributors (with 150+ new contributors in 2020 alone), 7,000+ Github stars, and 2,500 Pulsar Slack members.

About StreamNative

StreamNative is the organizer of Pulsar Summit North America 2021. Founded by the original developers of Apache Pulsar, the StreamNative team is committed to the Pulsar community and to helping the community successfully adopt and deploy Pulsar. As the core developers of Pulsar, the StreamNative team is deeply versed in the technology, the community, and the use cases, and has experience operating Pulsar in large scale production environments, including at both Twitter and Yahoo!. The StreamNative team's unmatched operational experience on Pulsar and Bookkeeper is now available to you through StreamNative Cloud.