Beam College 2025

Online Training + Hackathon

May 15-17, 2025

Join our online free training + hackathon!

Beam College is an online, free educational program that provides hands-on training to solve data processing use cases using Apache Beam®. The program consists of live online training sessions which are then made available on-demand for future reference.

The 2025 edition of Beam College also includes a hackathon where participants build data processing solutions and compete for prizes.

What you will learn

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Build a GenAI app

Develop a Generative AI application using Beam for text summarization or image generation.

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Create a pipeline without coding

Build pipelines visually with the Dataflow Job Builder.

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Build a RAG pipeline

Build a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline for question answering in bulk using Apache Beam.

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Easily read and write to Apache Iceberg

Leverage the managed I/O Connector to read+write to Apache Iceberg.

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