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Kafka Summit GoldenGate bridge run/walk

Published Sep 23, 2019 by in Kafka Summit, Running, 5k Run/Walk at https://preview.rmoff.net/2019/09/23/kafka-summit-goldengate-bridge-run/walk/

Coming to Kafka Summit in San Francisco next week? Inspired by similar events at Oracle OpenWorld in past years, I’m proposing an unofficial run (or walk) across the GoldenGate bridge on the morning of Tuesday 1st October. We should be up and out and back in plenty of time to still attend the morning keynotes. Some people will run, some may prefer to walk, it’s open to everyone :)

It’s a total of 6km / 3.8 miles. You can see it on Strava here.

Here’s the plan:

  • Tuesday 1st October @ 06:50 Meet at the GoldenGate bridge (duh), in the car park next to the visitor center. Take a group photo / #streamingselfie

    Lyft/Uber is probably easiest to get there (c.20 minutes from the Hilton Union Square).

  • 07:00 run/walk across the bridge to the other side where we’ll take another group photo & more #streamingselfie

  • Run/walk back to the other side, Uber/Lyft back and then on to Kafka Summit day two keynotes which start at 09:00

It’s an unofficial run—so up to you to arrange your own transport, etc. Use Twitter (#KafkaSummitBridgeRun) or the #summit channel on the Community slack group if you want to arrange sharing rides etc.

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Robin Moffatt

Robin Moffatt works on the DevRel team at Confluent. He likes writing about himself in the third person, eating good breakfasts, and drinking good beer.

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