Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Tuesday, May 20, 20257:30 AM - 6:00 PMRegistration
Boulevard (Level 0)
Tuesday, May 20, 20258:00 AM - 9:30 AMBreakfast
ICC Capital Hall
Tuesday, May 20, 20258:00 AM - 7:00 PMExpo Hall
ICC Capital Hall
Tuesday, May 20, 202510:00 AM - 11:15 AMKeynote
ICC Auditorium
Tuesday, May 20, 202511:30 AM - 12:30 PMWomen in Technology Luncheon: How to build your personal strategy into leadership
Capital Suite 14
Tuesday, May 20, 202511:30 AM - 12:30 PMLunch
ICC Capital Hall
Tuesday, May 20, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMHow Searching Potatoes Can Teach You AI: A Fun Guide to Vector Search
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Tuesday, May 20, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMTaming the Kafka Chaos: How OpenAI Simplifies Kafka Consumption
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Tuesday, May 20, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMTurning the Lights On: How We Unlocked Real-Time Customer Data
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Tuesday, May 20, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMStreamline Access: Just-in-Time User Provisioning & Group Mappings for Confluent Cloud
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Tuesday, May 20, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMKafka 4.0: Preparing Platform Teams for KIP-896
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Tuesday, May 20, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMThe Silent Migration: How Kafka Streams Became Our Safety Net
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Tuesday, May 20, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMLet's add Kafka support to the Kubernetes Gateway API.
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Tuesday, May 20, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMStreaming with Apache Iceberg
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Tuesday, May 20, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMTaming the Data Beast: Processing real time Market Data by a Crypto Exchange
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Tuesday, May 20, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMUnlocking the Mysteries of Apache Flink
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Tuesday, May 20, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMInto the Otter-Verse: Using time-travel to transform Kafka Streams development and operations.
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Tuesday, May 20, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMChanging engines mid-flight: Kafka migrations at OpenAI
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Tuesday, May 20, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMBuild and Deploy AI with Tableflow and Databricks
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Tuesday, May 20, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMIns and Outs of The Outbox Pattern
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Tuesday, May 20, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMWhy Kafka is always late? Is that really a problem?
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Tuesday, May 20, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMKafka productivity tools in the age of AI
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Tuesday, May 20, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMThe Luge: Apache Iceberg™ and Streaming
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Tuesday, May 20, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMKafka Consumer 4.0 - Major version, major improvements, get to know it all
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Tuesday, May 20, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMMastering real-time anomaly detection with open source tools
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Tuesday, May 20, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMAutoscaling Apache Kafka brokers on Kubernetes with Strimzi
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Tuesday, May 20, 20253:30 PM - 4:15 PMQueues for Kafka
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Tuesday, May 20, 20253:30 PM - 4:15 PMSecure Streaming RAG: AI in Regulated FinTech
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Tuesday, May 20, 20253:30 PM - 4:15 PMServerless Transactional Applications Go with the (Data)Flow
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Tuesday, May 20, 20253:30 PM - 4:15 PMFlink Jobs as Agents 🤖 – Unlocking Agentic AI with Stream Processing
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Tuesday, May 20, 20253:30 PM - 4:15 PMBite Size Streams: Learning Advanced Kafka Streams Concepts One Simple Topology at a Time
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Tuesday, May 20, 20253:30 PM - 4:15 PMEmpowering Developers with a Centralized Kafka Library
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Tuesday, May 20, 20253:30 PM - 4:15 PMThe Latency-Cost equation for Disaggregated Architectures
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Tuesday, May 20, 20254:15 PM - 5:15 PMKafka Topics as a Service in Data Mesh at Netflix
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Tuesday, May 20, 20254:30 PM - 5:15 PMTableflow: Not Just Another Kafka-to-Iceberg Connector!
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Tuesday, May 20, 20254:30 PM - 5:15 PMBuilding Stream Processing Platform at OpenAI
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Tuesday, May 20, 20254:30 PM - 5:15 PMZero to Data Streaming Platform in Under 15 Minutes
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Tuesday, May 20, 20254:30 PM - 5:15 PMLeave Your Passwords Behind: Embracing mTLS in Kafka
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Tuesday, May 20, 20254:30 PM - 5:15 PMFlinkSQL Powered Asynchronous Data Processing in Pinterest’s Rule Engine Platform
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Tuesday, May 20, 20254:30 PM - 5:15 PMScaling Semantic Search: Apache Kafka Meets Vector Databases
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Tuesday, May 20, 20255:30 PM - 6:15 PMFlink, Kafka and Prometheus: better together to improve efficiency of your observability platform
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Tuesday, May 20, 20255:30 PM - 6:15 PMStream On: From Bottlenecks to Streamline with Kafka Streams Template
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Tuesday, May 20, 20255:30 PM - 6:15 PMFrom Zero to Hero: petabyte-scale Tiered Storage lessons
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Tuesday, May 20, 20255:30 PM - 6:15 PMModernizing Core Banking Platform: Real-Time Data Streaming from Mainframe to Salesforce
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Tuesday, May 20, 20255:30 PM - 6:15 PMOne Client to Rule them all
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Tuesday, May 20, 20255:30 PM - 6:15 PMOptimizing Kafka Streams Joins for Business-Critical Processes
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Tuesday, May 20, 20255:30 PM - 6:15 PMFive Performance Optimization Techniques you need in a Lakehouse (Iceberg, Hudi, Delta)
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Tuesday, May 20, 20257:30 PM - 10:00 PMCurrent London Party
ICC Auditorium
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Wednesday, May 21, 20257:30 AM - 5:00 PMRegistration
Boulevard (Level 0)
Wednesday, May 21, 20258:00 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
ICC Capital Hall
Wednesday, May 21, 20258:00 AM - 5:00 PMExpo Hall
ICC Capital Hall
Wednesday, May 21, 20259:00 AM - 9:45 AMExactly-Once vs. Idempotency: When Misconceptions Create Complexity
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Wednesday, May 21, 20259:00 AM - 9:45 AMEvent-Driven AI: Real-Time Intelligence with Open Source Frameworks
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Wednesday, May 21, 20259:00 AM - 9:45 AMReal-Time AI, Done Right: The Power of Kafka & Delta Live Tables
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Wednesday, May 21, 20259:00 AM - 9:45 AMFlink SQL Revolutions: Breaking Out of the Matrix with PTFs
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Wednesday, May 21, 20259:00 AM - 9:45 AMBlur the line between real-time and batch with Apache Kafka, Druid, and Iceberg
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Wednesday, May 21, 20259:00 AM - 9:45 AMLand of Confusion: Living with Hybrid Kafka Deployments for the Long Haul
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Wednesday, May 21, 20259:00 AM - 9:45 AMHALO Jumping into Flink: Lessons learned from managing real-time data at Daimler Truck
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Wednesday, May 21, 202510:00 AM - 10:45 AMBefore and After: Transforming Wix’s Online Feature Store with Apache Flink
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Wednesday, May 21, 202510:00 AM - 10:45 AMThe Future of AI is Event-Driven
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Wednesday, May 21, 202510:00 AM - 10:45 AMObservability Made Easy: Unlocking Kafka Client Insights with KIP-714
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Wednesday, May 21, 202510:00 AM - 10:45 AMFrom days to seconds: adidas' journey to scalable Kafka self-service
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Wednesday, May 21, 202510:00 AM - 10:45 AMStream Processing and Cascading Materialized Views: Why, How, and What
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Wednesday, May 21, 202510:00 AM - 10:45 AMUnified CDC Ingestion and Processing with Apache Flink and Iceberg
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Wednesday, May 21, 202510:00 AM - 10:45 AMProcessing Exception Handling and Dead Letter Queue in Kafka Streams
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Wednesday, May 21, 202511:00 AM - 11:15 AMHow Kafka's new KRaft protocol replaces ZK for partition management, and improves data performance
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Wednesday, May 21, 202511:00 AM - 11:15 AMEnsuring Client Continuity in Kafka: High Availability in Confluent Kafka
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Wednesday, May 21, 202511:00 AM - 11:15 AMCLI tools you need to know for your everyday Kafka
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Wednesday, May 21, 202511:00 AM - 11:15 AMNext-Gen RAG Architectures for Streaming Vector Data
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Wednesday, May 21, 202511:00 AM - 11:15 AMSimplifying Real-Time Vector Store Ingestion with Apache Flink
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Wednesday, May 21, 202511:00 AM - 11:15 AMScaling Smarter: How We Tamed Multi-Region Complexity with Kafka Hub-and-Spoke Replication at Forter
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Wednesday, May 21, 202511:00 AM - 11:15 AMFrom Design to Code: Crafting Kafka Streams Topologies
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Wednesday, May 21, 202511:30 AM - 12:30 PMLunch
ICC Capital Hall
Wednesday, May 21, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMDon't Judge the Consumer by Its Lag: Uncovering the Metrics That Truly Matter
Breakout Room 1
Wednesday, May 21, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMFor the brave ones: Dive into the Kafka wire protocol
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Wednesday, May 21, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMApache Kafka: meet Apache Druid DART
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Wednesday, May 21, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMTick-Tock with Kafka: Building Scalable Timer Functionality for Microservices
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Wednesday, May 21, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMHow We Replaced Node.js with Apache Flink for Real-Time Deduplication and Cut Costs by 7x
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Wednesday, May 21, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMMassive Kafka Streams Topology Revamp in Production: No Chaos, No Headaches! My Key Takeaways 🦾!
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Wednesday, May 21, 202512:30 PM - 12:45 PMGlobal Schema Registry: Door to Data Catalog
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Wednesday, May 21, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMStream Processing Smackdown: Kafka Streams vs. Apache Flink
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Wednesday, May 21, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMDemocratising Stream Processing: How Netflix Empowers Teams with Data Mesh and Streaming SQL
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Wednesday, May 21, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMpyflink Table API on streaming data - Fearless python data engineering
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Wednesday, May 21, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMMigrating Kafka from ZooKeeper to KRaft: adventures in operations
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Wednesday, May 21, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMKafka Tiered Storage in Production?
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Wednesday, May 21, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMAsync Processing: Get any Kafka Streams app into the throughput Olympics
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Wednesday, May 21, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMWrangling Iceberg Tables with PyIceberg CLI: A Hands-On Journey
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Wednesday, May 21, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMUnified Schema Registry: Ensure schema consistency across data systems
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Wednesday, May 21, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMBuilding a scalable and efficient real-time event counter framework with Flink(SQL) and Kafka
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Wednesday, May 21, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMAn Orchestrator for global data migrations: A Kafka-powered service mesh approach
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Wednesday, May 21, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMNo More Hiding: Kafka Streams as a First-Class Citizen in the Kafka Protocol
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Wednesday, May 21, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMFlink & Metered Billing - a reprocessing story
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Wednesday, May 21, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMKafka Connection Chaos: Surviving the Storm
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Wednesday, May 21, 20253:00 PM - 3:45 PMTowards Transactional Buffering of Change Data Capture Events
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