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[Event Report] Beam Summit 2023
Beam Summit 2023 <https://beamsummit.org/> was the eighth and the biggest
edition of the flagship conference for the Apache Beam community. Beam
Summit 2023 took place on June 13 - 15, 2023 as an in-person event,
bringing the community together in NYC, and on July 18-20, 2023 as a
virtual edition. Thank you to all who helped participate and plan another
great year of content and collaboration!
[LINK TO FULL REPORT]
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MjnWBm1TA80R7RhuJggVT1K4HcDz5yGo3ou6VUrBzYc/edit?usp=sharing>
Report prepared by Danielle Syse
------------------------------
Overall Success Metrics
1,204
Registrations
592
Unique Attendees
4.5/5
Satisfaction Score
79
Speakers
193K
Social Media Impressions
1,884
New Social Media Followers
9
Sponsors and Partners
120
Countries Reached
In-person reach
530
Registrations
273
Unique
Attendees
58
Onsite talks
2
Keynotes
27
End-user presentations
6
Workshops
Online reach
672
Online Registrations
310
Remote live attendees
66
Countries
67,996
YouTube Beam Summit 2023 Impressions
23
Avg Users per Session
1,446
Session views
25hrs
Avg Time Spent
548
Reactions to Content
Event overview
Event highlights
-
Beam Summit 2023 was the biggest event to date dedicated to the Apache
Beam project. It was a 6-day event: 3 days in person + 3 days virtual,
focused on community building and advocacy for Apache Beam.
-
Keynotes were the most loved sessions, receiving great feedback from
both onsite and online attendees:
-
Kerry DC <https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/google/> and Kenn K
<https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/beam-update/> covered the
current state and future of Apache Beam
-
HSBC <https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/hpc-grid/>, Spotify
<https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/spotify/>, Twitter
<https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/twitter/>, and Palo Alto
Networks <https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/beam-palo-alto/>
showcased large-scale and innovative Beam use cases
-
A great number of talks were delivered from end-users that represent
different industries: Nokia
<https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/beam-in-nokia-nwdaf-distributed-architecture/>,
Affirm
<https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/use-apache-beam-to-build-machine-learning-feature-system-at-affirm/>
, LinkedIn
<https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/power-realtime-machine-learning-feature-engineering-with-managed-beam-at-linkedin/>,
Talend
<https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/beam-at-talend-the-long-road-from-incubator-project-to-cloud-based-pipeline-designer-tool/>,
Trustpilot
<https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/optimizing-machine-learning-workloads-on-dataflow/>,
League Inc.
<https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/mapping-data-to-fhir-with-apache-beam/>
between
others.
-
There were 27 user talks and popular tracks were as following:
-
IO track: 5 talks
-
ML Quasi-track: 9 talks, 1 workshop
-
Flink-on-Kubernetes Quasi-track: 4 talks
-
Other interesting trends: A cluster of CICD, dependency management
and compliance talks; cluster of troubleshooting and load testing
-
The sessions with most attendees were:
-
Beam ML past, present and future
-
Mapping Data to FHIR with Apache Beam
-
Beam IO: CDAP and SparkReceiver IO Connectors Overview
-
Introduction to Clustering in Apache Beam
-
Multi-language pipelines: a unique Beam feature that will make your team
more efficient
-
89% of all registered attendees were non-Googlers, and 55% of all
speakers were non-Googlers.
-
Onsite attendance increased by 38% since 2022 and achieved a 46%
attendance rate (We continue to see the impact of travel restrictions from
budget cuts due to the global pandemic and economic changes).
-
The Multi-language pipelines: a unique Beam feature that will make your
team more efficient
Event sponsors and partners
Beam Summit 2023 had the highest number of combined sponsors (5) and
partners (4) to date that contributed to the event's success:
-
Sponsors: Google Cloud, AI Camp, Akvelon, Mavencode, DoIt.
-
Community partners: Apache Beam, Packt, Techqueria, Latinas in
Computing.
Workshops
Workshops were designed to provide hands-on experience to get started with
different parts of Beam. Each of the workshops was attended by 25+ people
on average.
Photo highlights from New York
Summary
Beam Summit 2023 was a 6-day (3 in-person + 3 virtual) event for the Apache
Beam community. We reached 1,169 total registrants from 120 countries. The
event was received well, with a satisfaction score of 4.5/5 and provided
high levels of engagement. Around 600 users registered for the in-person
Beam Summit event (+198% since 2022) with 273 unique attendees (+38% since
2022).
Participant Demographics:
-
Of all online attendees, 43% of participants joined from the USA, 12%
from Canada, 8.7% from Mexico, 8.7% from the UK, 7.9% from India, 7% from
Germany, 4.5% from Spain, 2.9% from Brazil and 2.9% from France. from
Asia, 6.4% from South America, 2.6% from Africa, and 0.90% from Oceania.
-
For the in-person event, users traveled from all over the world to
participate spanning across 266 different regions. Overall, the top 25 USA
departure areas included New York, San Francisco, New Jersey, Seattle,
Boston, California, and more.
-
Internationally, the regions most captured by our in-person audience
were Mexico City, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgium, Brazil,
India, Pakistan, Spain, Paris, Tel Aviv, Vancouver, Bangalore, Bergamo,
Berlin, and Birmingham.
-
For virtual participant experience level with Apache Beam, 56% of users
were beginners, 39% were intermediate, and 6% were experts showcasing a
need for differentiation amongst training materials for Beam College and
Beam Summit.
-
Users were introduced to Apache Beam through various forms of outreach.
Of all attendees, 36% heard about Beam Summit 2023 through email, 22% from
Dataflow, 17% from work, 14% from social media, 5% from SEO, 4% from
organic ads, and 4% from local meetups.
-
Of all participants, 61% were engineers, 12% architects, 9% were
top-level decision makers. 8% developers, 7% Product Managers, and 4% data
scientists.
Engagement:
-
Attendance was routinely at its highest during the first day of both the
in-person and virtual event with keynote “Beam ML Past, Present and Future”
having the majority of attendees per session at 100 users.
-
During the virtual Summit, the average time spent per user across the 3
days was 12 hours 4 min with an average of 23 users per active session.
-
For engagement levels, 25 people asked questions, 47 sent direct
messages, and over 548 emojis were used as reactions to the content.
Program:
-
Beam Summit 2023 was a two-part event series with unique content
delivered in person in New York City and showcased virtually on-demand to a
global audience at a later date. The in-person sessions were recorded for
those who could not attend due to travel restrictions and budget cuts. All
of the sessions are now available on the Apache Beam YouTube channel.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4dEBWmGSIU9Lq2BKRDz3ksRdoPJB13Fg>
-
There are 56 sessions recorded and uploaded to YouTube with over 141
hours of knowledgeable content for our users.
-
Since upload, there have been over 67,996 impressions with an
additional 28 subscribers after viewing the Beam Summit content.
-
The most significant focus for the organizers this year was to highlight
the end users of Apache Beam to strengthen the message that Beam is a
production-ready open-source tool with a large user community.
-
This year, we had 2 keynote sessions followed by 58 talks and 6
workshops for the Beam Summit event series (+29% increase in sessions
compared to 2022).
Schedule:
-
The event resulted in collaboration opportunities with end users on
small and medium-scale projects including the implementation of Dask and
Ray runners, Apache Hop and Beam integration, Pipeline design for end
users, performance optimization, etc
-
The event offered 6 in-person workshops for attendees to get started
with different components of Beam, with an average of 25+ live attendees
per workshop and high satisfaction score.
-
The Summit partnered with AI Camp to offer exclusive access to AI Meetup
Wednesday evening of the event which attracted more than 500+ additional
attendees. Due to capacity, we could only accommodate 271 in addition to
the Beam Summit attendees who stayed for the meet up.
-
General social events were not included in the schedule for in-person
networking opportunities due to budget restrictions.
-
Google Cloud customer happy hour was hosted on day 1 which was attended
by 30+ top Dataflow customers (representing: Spotify, PANW, …).
Communication:
-
The event was first-time promoted by the Apache Software Foundation
across their social media channels during the event.
-
3 new case studie <https://beam.apache.org/case-studies/>s finalized
development and were highlighted at the event.
-
The Beam Summit coincided with the release of additional learning tools
of Tour of Beam <https://tour.beam.apache.org/> (interactive guided
learning tutorial) and Beam Quest
<https://beam.apache.org/get-started/resources/learning-resources/#getting-started-with-apache-beam-quest>
(first ever GCP credential for an OSS project) which was promoted at the
Summit.
-
Promotions for Beam Summit 2023 were done via direct outreach, email
marketing, and organic social media promotions due to budget restrictions.
Find us on Social Media
Twitter | @BeamSummit <https://twitter.com/BeamSummit> @ApacheBeam
<https://twitter.com/apachebeam?lang=en> LinkedIn | Apache Beam LinkedIn
Group <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12004045/> Apache Beam LinkedIn
Account <https://www.linkedin.com/company/80000291/admin/> Slack | ASF
#Beam-Events-meetups #Beam-Summit-Attendees
Re: [Event Report] Beam Summit 2023
Posted by Ahmet Altay via dev <de...@beam.apache.org>.
(just the dev list)
This was a hugely successful event. It was also the 6th annual iteration of
Beam Summit. The summit is getting bigger and better each year!
Thanks to Danielle for sending this report, thanks to all organizers, all
speakers, all participants, all sponsors for making this event a huge
success!
Ahmet
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:41 PM Danielle Syse <sy...@google.com> wrote:
> Beam Summit 2023 <https://beamsummit.org/> was the eighth and the biggest
> edition of the flagship conference for the Apache Beam community. Beam
> Summit 2023 took place on June 13 - 15, 2023 as an in-person event,
> bringing the community together in NYC, and on July 18-20, 2023 as a
> virtual edition. Thank you to all who helped participate and plan another
> great year of content and collaboration!
>
> [LINK TO FULL REPORT]
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MjnWBm1TA80R7RhuJggVT1K4HcDz5yGo3ou6VUrBzYc/edit?usp=sharing>
>
> Report prepared by Danielle Syse
>
> ------------------------------
>
>
> Overall Success Metrics
>
> 1,204
>
> Registrations
>
> 592
>
> Unique Attendees
>
> 4.5/5
>
> Satisfaction Score
>
> 79
>
> Speakers
>
> 193K
>
> Social Media Impressions
>
> 1,884
>
> New Social Media Followers
>
> 9
>
> Sponsors and Partners
>
> 120
>
> Countries Reached
>
> In-person reach
>
> 530
>
> Registrations
>
> 273
>
> Unique
> Attendees
>
> 58
>
> Onsite talks
>
> 2
>
> Keynotes
>
> 27
>
> End-user presentations
>
> 6
>
> Workshops
>
>
> Online reach
>
> 672
>
> Online Registrations
>
> 310
>
> Remote live attendees
>
> 66
>
> Countries
>
> 67,996
>
> YouTube Beam Summit 2023 Impressions
>
> 23
>
> Avg Users per Session
>
> 1,446
>
> Session views
>
> 25hrs
>
> Avg Time Spent
>
> 548
>
> Reactions to Content
>
> Event overview
>
> Event highlights
>
> -
>
> Beam Summit 2023 was the biggest event to date dedicated to the Apache
> Beam project. It was a 6-day event: 3 days in person + 3 days virtual,
> focused on community building and advocacy for Apache Beam.
> -
>
> Keynotes were the most loved sessions, receiving great feedback from
> both onsite and online attendees:
> -
>
> Kerry DC <https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/google/> and Kenn K
> <https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/beam-update/> covered the
> current state and future of Apache Beam
> -
>
> HSBC <https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/hpc-grid/>, Spotify
> <https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/spotify/>, Twitter
> <https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/twitter/>, and Palo Alto
> Networks <https://2022.beamsummit.org/sessions/beam-palo-alto/>
> showcased large-scale and innovative Beam use cases
> -
>
> A great number of talks were delivered from end-users that represent
> different industries: Nokia
> <https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/beam-in-nokia-nwdaf-distributed-architecture/>,
> Affirm
> <https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/use-apache-beam-to-build-machine-learning-feature-system-at-affirm/>
> , LinkedIn
> <https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/power-realtime-machine-learning-feature-engineering-with-managed-beam-at-linkedin/>,
> Talend
> <https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/beam-at-talend-the-long-road-from-incubator-project-to-cloud-based-pipeline-designer-tool/>,
> Trustpilot
> <https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/optimizing-machine-learning-workloads-on-dataflow/>,
> League Inc.
> <https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2023/mapping-data-to-fhir-with-apache-beam/> between
> others.
> -
>
> There were 27 user talks and popular tracks were as following:
> -
>
> IO track: 5 talks
> -
>
> ML Quasi-track: 9 talks, 1 workshop
> -
>
> Flink-on-Kubernetes Quasi-track: 4 talks
> -
>
> Other interesting trends: A cluster of CICD, dependency management
> and compliance talks; cluster of troubleshooting and load testing
>
>
> -
>
> The sessions with most attendees were:
>
>
> -
>
> Beam ML past, present and future
> -
>
> Mapping Data to FHIR with Apache Beam
> -
>
> Beam IO: CDAP and SparkReceiver IO Connectors Overview
> -
>
> Introduction to Clustering in Apache Beam
> -
>
> Multi-language pipelines: a unique Beam feature that will make your
> team more efficient
>
>
> -
>
> 89% of all registered attendees were non-Googlers, and 55% of all
> speakers were non-Googlers.
> -
>
> Onsite attendance increased by 38% since 2022 and achieved a 46%
> attendance rate (We continue to see the impact of travel restrictions from
> budget cuts due to the global pandemic and economic changes).
>
>
> -
>
> The Multi-language pipelines: a unique Beam feature that will make
> your team more efficient
>
> Event sponsors and partners
>
> Beam Summit 2023 had the highest number of combined sponsors (5) and
> partners (4) to date that contributed to the event's success:
>
> -
>
> Sponsors: Google Cloud, AI Camp, Akvelon, Mavencode, DoIt.
> -
>
> Community partners: Apache Beam, Packt, Techqueria, Latinas in
> Computing.
>
> Workshops
>
> Workshops were designed to provide hands-on experience to get started with
> different parts of Beam. Each of the workshops was attended by 25+ people
> on average.
>
> Photo highlights from New York
>
>
>
>
> Summary
>
> Beam Summit 2023 was a 6-day (3 in-person + 3 virtual) event for the
> Apache Beam community. We reached 1,169 total registrants from 120 countries.
> The event was received well, with a satisfaction score of 4.5/5 and
> provided high levels of engagement. Around 600 users registered for the
> in-person Beam Summit event (+198% since 2022) with 273 unique attendees
> (+38% since 2022).
>
> Participant Demographics:
>
> -
>
> Of all online attendees, 43% of participants joined from the USA, 12%
> from Canada, 8.7% from Mexico, 8.7% from the UK, 7.9% from India, 7% from
> Germany, 4.5% from Spain, 2.9% from Brazil and 2.9% from France. from
> Asia, 6.4% from South America, 2.6% from Africa, and 0.90% from Oceania.
> -
>
> For the in-person event, users traveled from all over the world to
> participate spanning across 266 different regions. Overall, the top 25 USA
> departure areas included New York, San Francisco, New Jersey, Seattle,
> Boston, California, and more.
> -
>
> Internationally, the regions most captured by our in-person audience
> were Mexico City, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgium, Brazil,
> India, Pakistan, Spain, Paris, Tel Aviv, Vancouver, Bangalore, Bergamo,
> Berlin, and Birmingham.
> -
>
> For virtual participant experience level with Apache Beam, 56% of
> users were beginners, 39% were intermediate, and 6% were experts showcasing
> a need for differentiation amongst training materials for Beam College and
> Beam Summit.
> -
>
> Users were introduced to Apache Beam through various forms of
> outreach. Of all attendees, 36% heard about Beam Summit 2023 through email,
> 22% from Dataflow, 17% from work, 14% from social media, 5% from SEO, 4%
> from organic ads, and 4% from local meetups.
> -
>
> Of all participants, 61% were engineers, 12% architects, 9% were
> top-level decision makers. 8% developers, 7% Product Managers, and 4% data
> scientists.
>
>
> Engagement:
>
> -
>
> Attendance was routinely at its highest during the first day of both
> the in-person and virtual event with keynote “Beam ML Past, Present and
> Future” having the majority of attendees per session at 100 users.
> -
>
> During the virtual Summit, the average time spent per user across the
> 3 days was 12 hours 4 min with an average of 23 users per active session.
> -
>
> For engagement levels, 25 people asked questions, 47 sent direct
> messages, and over 548 emojis were used as reactions to the content.
>
>
> Program:
>
> -
>
> Beam Summit 2023 was a two-part event series with unique content
> delivered in person in New York City and showcased virtually on-demand to a
> global audience at a later date. The in-person sessions were recorded for
> those who could not attend due to travel restrictions and budget cuts. All
> of the sessions are now available on the Apache Beam YouTube channel.
> <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4dEBWmGSIU9Lq2BKRDz3ksRdoPJB13Fg>
>
> -
>
> There are 56 sessions recorded and uploaded to YouTube with over
> 141 hours of knowledgeable content for our users.
> -
>
> Since upload, there have been over 67,996 impressions with an
> additional 28 subscribers after viewing the Beam Summit content.
> -
>
> The most significant focus for the organizers this year was to
> highlight the end users of Apache Beam to strengthen the message that Beam
> is a production-ready open-source tool with a large user community.
> -
>
> This year, we had 2 keynote sessions followed by 58 talks and 6
> workshops for the Beam Summit event series (+29% increase in sessions
> compared to 2022).
>
>
> Schedule:
>
> -
>
> The event resulted in collaboration opportunities with end users on
> small and medium-scale projects including the implementation of Dask and
> Ray runners, Apache Hop and Beam integration, Pipeline design for end
> users, performance optimization, etc
> -
>
> The event offered 6 in-person workshops for attendees to get started
> with different components of Beam, with an average of 25+ live attendees
> per workshop and high satisfaction score.
> -
>
> The Summit partnered with AI Camp to offer exclusive access to AI
> Meetup Wednesday evening of the event which attracted more than 500+
> additional attendees. Due to capacity, we could only accommodate 271 in
> addition to the Beam Summit attendees who stayed for the meet up.
> -
>
> General social events were not included in the schedule for in-person
> networking opportunities due to budget restrictions.
> -
>
> Google Cloud customer happy hour was hosted on day 1 which was
> attended by 30+ top Dataflow customers (representing: Spotify, PANW, …).
>
>
> Communication:
>
> -
>
> The event was first-time promoted by the Apache Software Foundation
> across their social media channels during the event.
> -
>
> 3 new case studie <https://beam.apache.org/case-studies/>s finalized
> development and were highlighted at the event.
> -
>
> The Beam Summit coincided with the release of additional learning
> tools of Tour of Beam <https://tour.beam.apache.org/> (interactive
> guided learning tutorial) and Beam Quest
> <https://beam.apache.org/get-started/resources/learning-resources/#getting-started-with-apache-beam-quest>
> (first ever GCP credential for an OSS project) which was promoted at the
> Summit.
> -
>
> Promotions for Beam Summit 2023 were done via direct outreach, email
> marketing, and organic social media promotions due to budget restrictions.
>
>
> Find us on Social Media
>
> Twitter | @BeamSummit <https://twitter.com/BeamSummit> @ApacheBeam
> <https://twitter.com/apachebeam?lang=en> LinkedIn | Apache Beam LinkedIn
> Group <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12004045/> Apache Beam LinkedIn
> Account <https://www.linkedin.com/company/80000291/admin/> Slack | ASF
> #Beam-Events-meetups #Beam-Summit-Attendees
>
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