About Beam College

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.

Who can benefit from joining Beam College?

• Software developers getting started in data processing.
• Data scientists looking to learn about tools that can enable their models for production streaming use cases.
• Data engineers familiar with other data processing tools (Spark, Flink, etc) who are interested in learning how Beam fits in the tool ecosystem.
• Existing Beam or Dataflow users interested in learning advanced features of Beam.

Topics

Beam College 2025 sessions will include basic topics for those who are getting started with Apache Beam, as well as sessions for experienced users covering new features like:

• Beam YAML
• Embeddings and RAG support
• Managed IO with Iceberg
• Anomaly Detection
• Kafka IO
• Building pipelines visually with the Dataflow Job Builder