Ask HN: What are the best Big data conferences to attend?

[homosaphien]

I work as a Big data software engineer, I mostly go to AWS Summit or GCP Next. I feel like these conferences are more pushing their products (which is understandable) than giving new & interesting information about advances in the field. Any recommendations on conferences I should attend?

[agibsonccc]

Disclaimer: I am an oreilly author and have spoken at both hadoop summit at strata multiple times.

Generally: Your luck with the above mentioned conferences are going to be mixed. There's a ton more biased content towards machine learning now.

Spark summit and flink forward might be better for you. Those are more systems focused: http://sf.flink-forward.org/ https://spark-summit.org/

There's also kafka summit: https://kafka-summit.org/

[kylemurph]

I had good luck with Hadoop World - https://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/strata-ca and Hadoop Summit (now branded as Dataworks Summit) - https://dataworkssummit.com/san-jose-2017/sponsors/

They're both pretty big and not as technically deep as smaller ones could be, but they make up for it with multiple tracks (ops, security, dev, business) and a breadth of technologies represented.

[mtmail]

https://www.bigdataspain.org/ Madrid in November this year.

Last year's line up https://www.bigdataspain.org/2016/program

http://apachecon.com/ has big data tracks but of course pushes the (many many) projects under the Apache umbrella.