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Kafka User Group - Americas (October 2026)
October 28, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm PT Virtual
A free online session for Kafka practitioners. Each session kicks off with a lightning talk from a community member, followed by open group discussion, a chance to share what you are building, work through challenges together, and connect with engineers facing the same problems.
Agenda
- 2:00 pm Welcome & Introductions
- 2:10 pm Lightning Talk: Optimizing serialization for Kafka clients
- 2:25 pm Q&A
- 2:35 pm Roundtable Discussions
- 2:55 pm Wrap Up
Speaker
Yaroslav Tkachenko
Software Engineer (formerly Activision, Shopify)
Yaroslav Tkachenko is a Software engineer & architect specializing in data-intensive applications, data streaming, stream processing, and distributed systems.
