About

Berlin Buzzwords is Germany's most exciting conference on storing, processing, streaming and searching large amounts of digital data. It focuses on open source software projects. The 9th edition of Berlin Buzzwords will be held on June 10-12, 2018 at Kulturbrauerei.

All tickets are valid for the full three days and include free WiFi as well as food, snacks, and drinks throughout the two conference days on Monday and Tuesday. You can also join the barcamp on Sunday and meetups & hackathons taking place all over Berlin hosted by Berlin Buzzwords and local companies.

Berlin Buzzwords is a conference focused on open source software projects in the field of big data analysis, scalability, storage and searchability. It provides a platform for developers, engineers, IT architects, analysts and data scientists who are interested in information retrieval, the searchability of large amounts of data, NoSQL and big data processing. Previous Berlin Buzzwords' presentations focused on Apache Spark, Flink, Kylin, Cassandra, Lucene, HBase, Kafka, Solr, Hadoop, Samza, Mahout, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and many more.

The conference was founded by Isabel Drost-Fromm (Member of the Apache Software Foundation, PMC member Apache community development and co-founder of Apache Mahout), Jan Lehnardt (PMC member Apache CouchDB) and Simon Willnauer (PMC member Apache Lucene).

In 2017, more than 600 attendees visited Kulturbrauerei to join the eighth edition of Berlin Buzzwords. Over 60 international speakers offered more than 40 hours of program in 50+ sessions on 4 stages.

Venue: Kulturbrauerei
Address: Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin – Prenzlauer Berg

Overview:
June 10 - Barcamp Day (registration 2:00 pm / barcamp 3:00 pm)
June 11 - Conference Day 1 (registration 8:00 am / conference 9:30 am / get-together 6:00 pm)
June 12 - Conference Day 2 (registration 8:30 am / conference 9:30 am)