Pipelines, Privacy & the Collector Fleet: Real-Time Data Done Right Meetup

Datenströme sind komplex, besonders wenn es um den Schutz persönlicher Informationen geht. Olena Kutsenko von Confluent zeigt an Praxisbeispielen, wie sich sensible Daten in Kafka-Pipelines mittels Maskierung und Tokenisierung absichern lassen. Der zweite Teil widmet sich der Infrastruktur. Marcin Stożek von Elastic erläutert, wie sich OpenTelemetry Collector Deployments von der Edge bis zum Gateway skalierbar aufbauen lassen. Das Meetup findet im Coworking Space beyond statt. Nach den Vorträgen gibt es Zeit für Austausch bei Pizza und Getränken.

Join us for an evening with two talks, one theme: data flowing at scale — and handling it responsibly. From architecting your OpenTelemetry Collector fleet across edge-to-gateway topologies, to protecting PII in real-time Kafka pipelines — practical patterns, live demos, and a few privacy war stories along the way. Food and drinks on us — stick around after for networking. ✍️ RSVP soon — capacity is limited! 📅 Date and Time Thursday, October 15, 2026 from 18:00-20:45 📍 Location EBCONT office, beyond Quartier Heidestrasse, 34, 10557 Berlin 📝 Agenda 18:00 – Doors open, arrivals and check-in 18:20 – Welcome note by EBCONT 18:30 – Keeping data private in real-time pipelines by Olena Kutsenko, Confluent 19:00 – Q&A & quick break 19:15 – From Edge to Gateway: architecting your OpenTelemetry Collector deployment by Marcin "Perk" Stożek, Elastic 19:45 – Pizza, drinks & networking First Talk: Keeping data private in real-time pipelines by Olena Kutsenko, Confluent Real-time data — clicks, payments, messages — is full of personal information we're not supposed to leak. The challenge: how do we keep streaming data useful and safe at the same time? We'll explore practical privacy protection patterns in streaming systems using Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg — from masking and tokenizing PII, to why "anonymous" data often isn't, to techniques like k-anonymity and noise injection. With real-world deanonymization stories and live demos included. Second Talk: From Edge to Gateway: architecting your OpenTelemetry Collector deployment by Marcin "Perk" Stożek, Elastic As OpenTelemetry adoption scales, the Collector becomes your observability backbone — but deploying it effectively means knowing what to run and where. ...