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 included a hackathon where participants built data processing solutions and competed for prizes.

Topics

Beam College 2025 sessions included 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

The recordings have been uploaded to the Beam College website, the Apache Beam and the Beam College Youtube channels. Watch them here!