*Beam Summit is next week!*
Get to know our amazing keynote speakers: *Kenn Knowles* is an Apache Software Foundation Member and chair of the Apache Beam Project Management Committee. Kenn has been working on Google Cloud Dataflow—Google’s Beam backend—since 2014. Prior to that, he built backends for startups such as Cityspan, Inkling, and Dimagi. Kenn holds a Ph.D. in programming languages from the University of California, Santa Cruz. *Robert Bradshaw* is a software engineer at Google with over ten years of experience working on all aspects of big data processing systems. He is one of the founding members of the Apache Beam project. He is also active in the open-source community, leading the Cython project since its inception and as a long-time contributor to the open-source mathematics software Sage. He received a B.S. in Mathematics and Linguistics from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Washington studying Number Theory. *Kerry Donny-Clark* is a manager of the Apache Beam team at Google. Before this, he has been a professional yo-yo player, an English teacher in Japan, a cancer researcher, an elven fighter/mage, a janitor, a circus performer, and various kinds of software engineer. Kerry likes to build things, from furniture to applications, and his hobby is collecting other hobbies. He lives in the woods of Pittsboro NC with his wife, six kids, 2 cats, and a dog named Krypto. *Reza Rokni* has 7 years of experience in Google, being lucky enough to work with developers from many industries from Gaming to Banking, applying Google's Data Analytics technologies to new domains. Currently, as a developer advocate for Google Cloud Dataflow and Apache Beam, he gets to have fun talking about stream processing all day long, or should that be stream processing unbounded... :-) *Matt Housley* holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and is co-author of the bestselling O’Reilly book Fundamentals of Data Engineering. He’s currently CTO at Ternary Data where he assists clients with data strategy in the cloud. *Reuven Lax* is a software engineer in Moma. He has been at Google since 2006 and involved in designing and building Google's streaming data processing infrastructure since 2008, serving as technical lead for MillWheel and leading development of Dataflow's streaming engine. Besides the amazing content, this year's Beam Summit gives you the perfect excuse to get to visit NYC: walk the Financial District, visit Times Square, tour some of the best museums in the world, get to know Little Italy, and *so much more* <https://beamsummit.org/venue/>! *You still can register so you keep on top of the data science trends!* Check out the Program <https://beamsummit.org/program/> Register Now <https://beamsummit.org/tickets/> [image: Tw] <https://twitter.com/ApacheBeam> [image: Yt] <https://www.youtube.com/@ApacheBeamYT> [image: In] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/apache-beam/?viewAsMember=true>