October Meetup: AWSUG x Manila Apache Kafka®

October Meetup: AWSUG x Manila Apache Kafka® A collaboration between AWS User Group Philippines, Manila Apache Kafka® Ecosystem Meetup by Confluent

Join us for an evening of real-world data engineering, cloud, and edge innovation. This October Meetup brings together three speakers to share practical lessons on streaming data, scaling under pressure, and putting serverless AI to work on tiny hardware.

What’s on deck:

Miguel Cabral (Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent): Real-time data pipelines with Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg

Jansen Ang (Software and ML Engineer, Maya): When the Surge Hit: Load and Chaos Testing Kafka on AWS MSK

Neil Riego (Lead, AWSUG PH): Serverless Intelligence at the Edge: Powering Home Assistant with AWS Lambda and Amazon Bedrock on a Pi 5

📅 Date: October 20, 2026🕠 Time: 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM📍 Venue: AWS Office

Whether you’re building streaming pipelines, running Kafka on AWS, or tinkering with AI at the edge, this session has something for you. Come for the talks, stay for the community.