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| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Building Intelligent Systems on Real Time Data | Can Sözeri, Getir Jay Kreps, Confluent Shaun Clowes, Confluent Sean Falconer, Confluent alex holt, elevenlabs | Maritime Hall - Level 0 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | Financial Services Luncheon: The Data Streaming Imperative - Navigating the 2026 Financial Landscape | Ramzi Alashabi, ABN AMRO Bank N.V Peter Pugh-Jones, Confluent | Connaught 1 + 2 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM | Putting Kafka to Work: Real-Time GenAI on Streaming FX Data | Matthew Simpson, Singlestore | Stream Theatre - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Towards a Balanced Kafka: Resolving Data Skew in Non-Kafka Ingestion with Apache Paimon and Flink | Irene Rodríguez Clavería, New Relic | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Chaos to Golden Path - How FanDuel's Eventing Strategy Transformed Enterprise Event Streaming | Tony Cui, FanDuel Alexandru Barbu, BETFAIR ROMANIA DEVELOPMENT SRL | Victoria Room 3 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | The GitHub for Streaming Data: Unlocking Open Data Streams | Stefan Hudelmaier, huditech UG | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Building End-to-End Data Lineage with Kafka, Flink, and Spark | Jaehyeon Kim, Factor House | Victoria Room 6 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Header-aware state stores for Kafka Streams | Alieh Saeedi, Confluent | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | KRafting your Kafka cluster on Kube | Kate Stanley, IBM | Victoria Room 2 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Kafka Governance without Tears: a Vattenfall case study | Marcel Radusch, Vattenfall Christoph Schubert, Conduktor | Stream Theatre - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM | Apache Kafka® AMA | Apoorv Mittal, Confluent Lianet Magrans, Confluent David Jacot, Confluent Matthias Sax, Confluent Andrew Schofield, Confluent Greg Harris, Aiven | Meetup Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM | Flink Fires the Alert. Sybilion Explains What It Means, and What to Do About It. | Mike Doherty, Sybilion Nuno Barros, Sybilion Inc | Stream Theatre - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | Life in the Slow Lane: Cost-Efficient Streaming Through Latency Tiering | Josef Goldstein, Wix | Victoria Room 6 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | Keeping data private in real-time pipelines | Olena Kutsenko, Confluent | Victoria Room 2 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | Bring analytics and AI to your data wherever it’s stored | Maria Emmanuelli, Google | Victoria Room 3 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | Embedding Tiny Language Models in Flink SQL functions | Dale Lane, IBM | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | The High-Performance Backbone: Benchmarking Your Enterprise for Streaming Success | Jon McCullagh-Vines, Confluent | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | Scaling Real-Time AI Actions with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Confluent Streaming Agents | Arun Nallathambi, Amazon Web Services | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | While You Were Sleeping, Your Competitor Cut Their Price: Build Real-Time Pricing Intelligence with Confluent | Ahmed ZamZam, Confluent | Hackathon Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | Diskless Kafka Meets Iceberg: The Lakestream Foundation for Native Kafka | Kundan Vyas, StreamNative Sijie Guo, StreamNative | Stream Theatre - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM | From Hot Streams to Cold Ice: Unifying Streaming and Historical Analytics with Flink, Spark & StarRocks | Nicoleta Lazar, Fresha Anton Borisov, Fresha | Meetup Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Town Hall: AI, Agents, and the Engineer in 2026 and Beyond | Joe Reis | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Chaining AI Agents with Streams | Benjamin Gamble, AI By Wire | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Towards Interoperable Intelligence: Streaming Foundations for Multi‑Agent Systems | Patrick Burger, E.ON Martijn van der Pauw, Team Rockstars IT @Essent | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Dynamic Kafka, Static Sleep: Taming Multi-Cluster Streams with Flink at OpenAI | Bowen Li, OpenAI Xin Gao, OpenAI | Victoria Room 2 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | From Batch to Real Time: Operating Cassandra CDC with Debezium at Datadog Scale | Joan Gomez, Datadog Alejandro Huertas, Datadog | Victoria Room 6 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Getting Started with Apache Flink: Essential Patterns and Best Practices | David Anderson, Confluent | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Supersonic Streams: When Quarkus Met Kafka | Kevin Dubois, IBM Viktor Gamov, Confluent | Victoria Room 3 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | £1.17 Billion Lost Last Year — Learn How to Stop It in Milliseconds | Ahmed ZamZam, Confluent | Hackathon Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM | Intro to Apache Kafka on Aiven: From Managed Simplicity to Inkless Architectures | Hugh Lewis, Aiven | Stream Theatre - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM | Contributing to the Apache Flink Community Q&A | Robert Metzger, Confluent David Radley, IBM | Meetup Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Office Hour: The Apache Kafka Guildhall | Stream Theatre - Expo Hall | |||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 20 Cars. Millions of Data Points. One F1 Leaderboard. Build It in less than an hour | Kyle Klein, Confluent Alex Stuart, Confluent | Hackathon Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | Surviving the Storm: Practical DR Strategies for Kafka | Bryan De Smaele, Kannika | Meetup Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | How Datadog Runs Its Streaming Platform | Nandini Singhal, DataDog Francois Visconte, DataDog | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | Thinking in Streams: Building Stateful, Serverless Agentic Loops | Shuva Jyoti Kar, Palo Alto Networks | Victoria Room 6 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | Stop Answering Today's Questions with Yesterday's Data: Low-Latency RAG with Kafka and Flink | Sandon Jacobs, Confluent | Victoria Room 3 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | The "Plug & Play" Lie: Why Your Oracle CDC Pipeline Will Fail | Kiril Piskunov, MarketAxess Declan Curran, MarketAxess | Victoria Room 2 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | AI Needs Context. Why Flink is Made for Context Engineering | Timo Walther, Confluent | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | Kafka Head-of-Line Blocking: Increase Throughput, Reduce Latency | David Green, Speaking in personal capacity | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM | Turning the database inside out again: What if everything was Iceberg? | Tom Scott, Streambased | Victoria Room 6 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM | Deep dive into writing Queues for Kafka applications | Apoorv Mittal, Confluent Andrew Schofield, Confluent | Victoria Room 2 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM | Streaming CDC to Apache Iceberg at Scale with Apache Kafka: Best Practices for Enterprise Lakehouse Architectures | Vinayaka Gangadhar, AWS (Amazon Web Services) Yashika Jain, Amazon Web Service | Victoria Room 3 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM | Strimzi AMA (Ft. Book Giveaway) | Gantigmaa (Tina) Selenge, Red Hat Paolo Patierno, IBM Kate Stanley, IBM | Meetup Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM | Transactional Change Stream Processing With Apache Flink | Gunnar Morling, Confluent | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM | Enterprise ready with the Flink HTTP Connector | David Radley, IBM Nic Townsend, IBM | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM | Real-Time Feature Engineering at Scale: Chaining Features and Inference with Chronon | Piyush Narang, Zipline AI | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM | 🇬🇧 Current Party 🇬🇧 | Maritime Hall - Level 0 | |||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | ||||||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Your Model Is Fine. Your Context Is Broken. | Sean Falconer, Confluent Vasudha Khare, Confluent | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Handling Surges in Petabyte-Scale Streaming Systems by Doing Nothing | Jeff Xiang, Pinterest, Inc. | Victoria Room 3 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Building Reliable CDC and Kafka Mirroring Pipelines at Trillion-Message Scale | Harshada Yesane, Linkedin | Victoria Room 6 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Debezium, Apache Kafka, and an Acyclic Synchronization Algorithm | MD Sayem Ahmed, eBay | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Lambda Architecture in 2025: Kafka, Views, and the Evolving Data Platform | Emiliano Mancuso, fresha | Victoria Room 2 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Apache Flink® AMA | Robert Metzger, Confluent David Anderson, Confluent Timo Walther, Confluent | Meetup Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Apache Kafka Data Migrations | Michael Muehlbeyer, Apps Associates | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Defending the Perimeter: Patterns for Secure External Event Exchange | Hugo Guerrero, Kong | Victoria Room 3 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Python Streaming Analytics Leveraging the Composable Data Stack | Arthur Andres | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Beyond Watermarks: Custom Flink Operators for Feature-Trigger Synchronization | Csanád Bakos, Vinted | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | How to write your own partition assignor in Kafka’s KIP-848 Era | Lianet Magrans, Confluent David Jacot, Confluent | Victoria Room 6 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | A peek under the hood of Confluent for VS Code | Stefan Sprenger, Confluent | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Life as a Kafka Admin: Lessons from Running 30+ Clusters in Production | Marcos Prado, Sr. Engineer | Victoria Room 2 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Flink Beyond Streaming: Building a Production-Ready Batch Platform at LinkedIn | Archit Goyal, LinkedIn | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Diskless but with disks, Leaderless but with leaders: A KIP-1163 Deep Dive | Greg Harris, Aiven | Victoria Room 3 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Migrating a Large-Scale Kafka Streams Platform to the KIP-1071 Rebalance Protocol | Jakob Edding, bakdata | Victoria Room 2 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Streaming AI/ML with Apache Kafka: Real-Time Patterns for Modern Intelligence | Paolo Patierno, IBM | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Rethinking CDC in a post Iceberg world | Roman Kolesnev, Streambased | Meetup Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | The Missing Piece in the Kafka Stack: Durable Functions for Event-Driven Apps and AI Agents | Stephan Ewen, Restate | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | 🤖 Building AI systems? Context - and Flink - is all you need! | Steffen Hoellinger, Confluent | Victoria Room 6 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | £1.17 Billion Lost Last Year — Learn How to Stop It in Milliseconds | Ahmed ZamZam, Confluent | Hackathon Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM | Putting Kafka to Work: Real-Time GenAI on Streaming FX Data | Matthew Darwin, SingleStore | Stream Theatre - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | To Fork Kafka or to Proxy Kafka? An Engineering Story | Stephane Derosiaux, Conduktor Florent Ramiere, Conduktor | Stream Theatre - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 20 Cars. Millions of Data Points. One F1 Leaderboard. Build It in less than an hour | Kyle Klein, Confluent Alex Stuart, Confluent | Hackathon Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | Kafka as the Backbone for Distributed LLM Inference | Sergey Zyrianov, Cisco | Victoria Room 2 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | From Millions of Players to Real-Time Insights: Building PlayStation’s Gameplay Pipeline on Apache Flink and Kafka | Bahar Pattarkine, Sony | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | FlinkSQL Declassified: A Production Survival Guide | Gal Krispel, Riskified | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | KIP-1111: Making Kafka Streams Internal Topic Naming Explicit and Safe | Sébastien Viale, Michelin | Victoria Room 3 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | Stability through Static Membership: Task-Level Reliability at 3 Trillion Events Per Day | Dan O'Reilly, Salesforce | Victoria Room 6 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | Fake It Till You Make It: Rapid Prototyping with Flink’s Datagen Connector | Nic Townsend, IBM | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM | What's missing from real-time AI: the context-driven forecasting engine | Mike Doherty, Sybilion Nuno Barros, Sybilion Inc | Stream Theatre - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | Testing Flink SQL Scripts Made Simple for Non-Developers | Robin Fehr, Acosom GmbH | Victoria Room 6 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | Sizing, Benchmarking and Performance Tuning Apache Flink Clusters | Robert Metzger, Confluent | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | Batch Is Just a Slow Stream: Designing Event-First Pipelines Without Going All-In on Real-Time | Ramzi Alashabi, ABN AMRO Bank N.V | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | Bridging Stream and Queue: Protocol Enhancements For Kafka's Share Groups | Andrew Schofield, Confluent Apoorv Mittal, Confluent | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | Distilling Kafka’s Binary Protocol into Elixir | Anton Borisov, Fresha | Victoria Room 2 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | Back to the Boring: GenAI That Ships | David Navalho, Marionete | Victoria Room 3 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | Hardwood: Building a Parquet Parser From Scratch (With a Little Help From AI) | Gunnar Morling, Confluent | Meetup Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | Diskless Kafka Meets Iceberg: The Lakestream Foundation for Native Kafka | Sijie Guo, StreamNative Kundan Vyas, StreamNative | Stream Theatre - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | While You Were Sleeping, Your Competitor Cut Their Price: Build Real-Time Pricing Intelligence with Confluent | Ahmed ZamZam, Confluent | Hackathon Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | Schema Management in Kafka (with GitOps!) | Jan Siekierski, Kentra | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | What If We've Been Scaling Stream Processing Wrong All Along? | Hartmut Armbruster, StoatFlow | Victoria Room 3 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | Self-Healing Infrastructure: Through the power Streaming | John McBride, Paper Compute Co. Brian Douglas, Paper Compute | Meetup Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | From Data Pipelines to Context Streams: Building Infrastructure for the Agent Era | David Kjerrumgaard, Datadog | Victoria Room 6 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | Who Let the Agent In? Securing MCP Servers in Production | Prachi Jamdade, Gravitee | Victoria Room 2 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | Design with me : a Kafka Streams Payment Authorization Collaborative Design Session | Adam Souquieres, Stream Consulting | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | From Blind Spots to Full Visibility: Kafka Observability with OpenTelemetry | Manish Dusad, Fidelity Evan Kelly, Fidelity | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM | IceKaffe: Making Kafka Topics Queryable with Apache Iceberg at HelloFresh | Md Nahidul Kibria, HelloFresh SE | Stream Theatre - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | Streamiz: Bringing Native Kafka Streams to the .NET Ecosystem | Willem Serruys, Cymo | Victoria Room 1 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | Joining Streams Through Time: As-Of Joins with Spark 4's new transformWithState API | Carlos Rodrigues, Databricks | Victoria Room 5 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | From Weeks to Seconds: Real-Time ML Quality Control for Medical Device Manufacturing | Samuel von Baußnern, D ONE Solutions | Victoria Room 4 | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | Kafka Streams Birthday Party 🎂 | Matthias Sax, Confluent Tim Berglund, Confluent | Meetup Hub - Expo Hall | ||
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | Breaking Kafka at Scale: Lessons from Running 70K Topics on a Single Cluster | Ziv Fridfertig, Skai | Victoria Room 2 | ||