Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Tuesday, October 28, 202510:00 AM - 5:00 PMExecutive Summit La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom 
Tuesday, October 28, 20252:03 PM - 2:07 PMLivestream Test 1 (Keynote-10/27) VirtualView Session
Tuesday, October 28, 20252:05 PM - 2:13 PMLivestream Test 4 (Breakouts-10/28) VirtualView Session
Tuesday, October 28, 20252:15 PM - 2:46 PMLivestream Test 3 (Keynote-10/28) VirtualView Session
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Wednesday, October 29, 202512:00 AM - 11:59 PMAI Alley Theater: Day 1 AI Alley Theater 
Wednesday, October 29, 202512:00 AM - 11:59 PMHackathon: Day 1 Hackathon 
Wednesday, October 29, 20257:15 AM - 9:00 AMEast Area Big Easy Breakfast Room 277 
Wednesday, October 29, 20258:00 AM - 8:20 AMShift Left, Code Right with Confluent for VS Code and IntelliJ Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20258:20 AM - 8:40 AMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20258:30 AM - 8:55 AMAI Agents & Technology MigrationDevlin Liles, Improving
Nick Larson, Improving
AI Alley Theater 
Wednesday, October 29, 20258:30 AM - 9:30 AMIntroduction to Apache Flink®: Key Concepts and ArchitectureBorja Hernandez Crespo, Confluent
Antonio Loma Daza, Confluent
Room 298 
Wednesday, October 29, 20258:40 AM - 9:00 AMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20259:00 AM - 9:20 AMMastering Event Deduplication in Real-Time Architectures Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20259:00 AM - 9:25 AMFrom Event Streams to Smart Streams: Powering AI/ML with Your Kafka Topics AI Alley Theater 
Wednesday, October 29, 20259:00 AM - 9:45 AMEnding the Streaming Data Quality Nightmare: Building Real-Time Data Intelligence into Your Data PipelinesScott Haines, BufMeet-up Hub 
Wednesday, October 29, 20259:20 AM - 9:40 AMShift Left, Code Right with Confluent for VS Code and IntelliJ  Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20259:40 AM - 10:00 AMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 202510:00 AM - 11:30 AMKeynote: Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time DataJay Kreps, Confluent
Shaun Clowes, Confluent
Rachel Lo, Anthropic
Rajesh Kandasamy, Marriott
Sean Falconer, Confluent
Cosmo Wolfe, Metronome
Gunther Hagleitner, Salesforce
New Orleans Theater 
Wednesday, October 29, 202510:00 AM - 12:00 PMKeynote: Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time Data (Livestream)Shaun Clowes, Confluent
Rajesh Kandasamy, Marriott
Jay Kreps, Confluent
Cosmo Wolfe, Metronome
Rachel Lo, Anthropic
VirtualView Session
Wednesday, October 29, 202511:30 AM - 12:30 PMAMER Partner Awards Ceremony AI Alley Theater 
Wednesday, October 29, 202511:30 AM - 1:00 PMCAB Lunch Room 273 
Wednesday, October 29, 202511:30 AM - 1:15 PMBuilding Event-Driven Microservices, 2nd Edition Book Signing with Adam BellemareAdam Bellemare, ConfluentConfluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 202511:30 AM - 1:25 PMFrom Streaming To Sharing: Modernizing US Financial Data InfrastructureJonathan Zammit, DTCC
Brian Pyle Pyle, Confluent
La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom 
Wednesday, October 29, 202512:00 PM - 12:45 PMApache Kafka® Ask Me AnythingBill Bejeck, Confluent
Greg Harris, Aiven
David Jacot, Confluent
Matthias Sax, Confluent
Meet-up Hub 
Wednesday, October 29, 202512:30 PM - 2:00 PMTechnical Fundamentals of Apache Kafka®Joseph Desmond, ConfluentRoom 298 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:00 PM - 1:20 PMConfluent Arcade: Power Up Your Partner Practice Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMKafka Cluster of ClusterZhifeng Chen, Uber
Si Lao, Uber
Meet-up Hub 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:00 PM - 2:30 PMBuild Scalable Agentic AI Systems with Confluent & MongoDB on AWSBraeden Quirante, Confluent
Li Dai, AWS
Lakshmi Kumkala, Amazon
AI Alley Theater 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:15 PM - 1:30 PMScaling the Past: Productionalizing the Flink History Server for Stream and BatchAllison Chang, DiscordRoom 291 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:15 PM - 1:30 PMFlinkSketch: Democratizing the Benefits of Sketches for the Flink CommunityMilind Srivastava, Carnegie Mellon University
Songting Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
Room 287 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:15 PM - 1:30 PMMetadata: From Zookeeper to KRaftPhillip Groves, Data Surge, LLCRoom 295 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:15 PM - 1:30 PMFrom Queues to Intelligence: The Evolution of Stream Infrastructure for AIAravind Suresh, OpenAIRoom 285 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:15 PM - 1:30 PMHow Reddit Uses Flink Stream Joins in Its Real-Time Safety SystemsVignesh Raja, Reddit, IncRoom 290 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:15 PM - 1:30 PMThe Zen of PyFlink: The evolution towards a truly “pythonic” FlinkZander Matheson, ConfluentRoom 294 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:15 PM - 1:30 PMLazyLog: A New Log Abstraction for Low-Latency ApplicationsRam Alagappan, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignRoom 293 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:15 PM - 1:30 PMScaling Agentic AI Delivery: How Infosys Leverages the Confluent OEM ProgramGreg Murphy, Confluent
Paresh Oswal, Infosys
Seth Catalli, Confluent
Room 292 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:15 PM - 2:00 PMHow Reddit Uses Flink Stream Joins in Its Real-Time Safety Systems (Livestream)Vignesh Raja, Reddit, IncVirtualView Session
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:40 PM - 2:00 PMStreaming at Scale: Cigna's Journey with KafkaPraveen Kancharla, CignaConfluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:45 PM - 2:30 PMStreaming Meets Governance: Building AI-Ready Tables With Confluent Tableflow and Unity CatalogKasun Indrasiri Gamage, Confluent
Jason Pohl, Databricks
Room 291 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:45 PM - 2:30 PMUnifying Kafka and Relational Databases for Event Streaming ApplicationsNithin Thekkupadam Narayanan, ORACLE AMERICA INCRoom 285 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:45 PM - 2:30 PMChange Data Capture at Scale: Insights from Slack’s Streaming PipelineThomas Thornton, SlackRoom 290 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:45 PM - 2:30 PMAn ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure - Fix data clustering in streaming write to IcebergSteven Wu, SnowflakeRoom 294 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:45 PM - 2:30 PMUnlocking Inter-Agent Collaboration: Confluent Powers Scalable AI with Google Cloud's A2ADustin Shammo, Confluent
Merlin Yamssi, Google Cloud
Pascal Vantrepote, Confluent
Room 287 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:45 PM - 2:30 PMUrsa: Augment Your Lakehouse With Kafka-Compatible Data Streaming CapabilitiesDavid Kjerrumgaard, Datadog
Gaurav Saxena, Automotive Company
Room 295 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:45 PM - 2:30 PMWhat the Spec?!: New Features in Apache Iceberg™ Table Format V3Russell Spitzer, SnowflakeRoom 293 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:45 PM - 2:30 PMAgentic AI Meets Kafka + Flink: Event-Driven Orchestration for Multi-Agent SystemsIsrael Ekpo, Microsoft
Devanshi Thakar, Microsoft
Room 292 
Wednesday, October 29, 20251:45 PM - 3:00 PMChange Data Capture at Scale: Insights from Slack’s Streaming Pipeline (Livestream)Thomas Thornton, SlackVirtualView Session
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:00 PM - 2:20 PMReal-time Entity Resolution Reloaded: Faster, Leaner, Smarter with Confluent Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMApache Druid - Kafka's Missing DatabaseDave Klein, IndependentMeet-up Hub 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:20 PM - 2:40 PMShift Left, Code Right with Confluent for VS Code and IntelliJ Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:30 PM - 3:30 PMIntroduction to Stream Governance with ConfluentAntonio Loma Daza, ConfluentRoom 298 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:40 PM - 3:00 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:45 PM - 3:30 PMQuiet Failures, Loud Consequences: Streaming ML Drift Detection in PracticeDominique Ronde, ConfluentRoom 292 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:45 PM - 3:30 PMA Deep Dive into Kafka Consumer Rebalance Protocols: Mechanisms and Migration Process InsightsDavid Jacot, Confluent
Dongnuo Lyu, Confluent
Room 293 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:45 PM - 3:30 PMSizing, Benchmarking and Performance Tuning Apache Flink ClustersRobert Metzger, ConfluentRoom 287 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:45 PM - 3:30 PMMore than query: Morel, SQL and the evolution of data languagesJulian Hyde, MorelRoom 285 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:45 PM - 3:30 PMThe Future of Agentic AI is Event-Driven: How to Build Streaming Agents on Apache FlinkSean Falconer, Confluent
Mayank Juneja, Confluent
Room 291 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:45 PM - 3:30 PMGC, JIT and Warmup: The JVM’s Role in Flink at ScaleJiří Holuša, Azul SystemsRoom 295 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:45 PM - 3:30 PMDeep Dive into Apache Flink 2.1: The Key Features in SQL & AI IntegrationRon Liu, Alibaba CloudRoom 294 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:45 PM - 3:30 PMAgents Running A Data MeshBlake Shaw, RocketRoom 290 
Wednesday, October 29, 20252:45 PM - 4:00 PMAgents Running A Data Mesh (Livestream)Blake Shaw, RocketVirtualView Session
Wednesday, October 29, 20253:00 PM - 3:20 PMFastest Path from SAP to Business Outcomes Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20253:00 PM - 3:45 PMTurning the database inside out again: What if everything was Iceberg?Roman Kolesnev, StreambasedMeet-up Hub 
Wednesday, October 29, 20253:00 PM - 4:30 PMBuild an AI-Powered Personalization Engine With Confluent & Databricks on AWSKyle Klein, ConfluentAI Alley Theater 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:00 PM - 4:20 PMShift Left, Code Right with Confluent for VS Code and IntelliJ Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:00 PM - 4:45 PMFrom “Where’s My Money?” to “Here’s Your Bill”: Demystifying Kafka Chargebacks and ShowbacksAbhishek Walia, ConfluentRoom 285 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:00 PM - 4:45 PMStream All the Things — Patterns of Effective Data Stream ProcessingAdi Polak, ConfluentRoom 290 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:00 PM - 4:45 PMStreamLink: Real-Time Data Ingestion at OpenAI Scale Room 294 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:00 PM - 4:45 PMRobinhood’s Use of WarpStream for LoggingEthan Chen, Robinhood
Renan Rueda, Robinhood Markets, Inc.
Room 291 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:00 PM - 4:45 PMBite Size Topologies: Learning Kafka Streams Concepts One Topology at a TimeNeil Buesing, Kinetic EdgeRoom 287 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:00 PM - 4:45 PMApache Polaris (incubating) in actionJB Onofré, DremioMeet-up Hub 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:00 PM - 4:45 PMDiskless but with disks, Leaderless but with leaders: A KIP-1163 Deep DiveGreg Harris, AivenRoom 293 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:00 PM - 4:45 PMThe Kafka Protocol Deconstructed: A Live-Coded Deep DiveEmir Rojas, WwtRoom 292 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:00 PM - 4:45 PMSmart Action in Real-time: Building Agentic AI Systems Powered by AWS and Confluent StreamingWeifan Liang, awsRoom 295 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:00 PM - 5:15 PMStream All the Things — Patterns of Effective Data Stream Processing (Livestream)Adi Polak, ConfluentVirtualView Session
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:20 PM - 4:40 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:40 PM - 5:00 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20254:45 PM - 5:10 PMStreaming Insurance Forward: Unlocking Real-Time Intelligence with Streaming AgentsJared Jones, Confluent
Rakesh Tripathi, Persistent Systems
AI Alley Theater 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:00 PM - 5:20 PMShift Left, Code Right with Confluent for VS Code and IntelliJ Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:00 PM - 5:45 PMPowering Real-Time Vehicle Intelligence at Rivian with Apache FlinkGuruguha Marur Sreenivasa, Rivian Volkswagen Group Technologies
Rupesh Arjun More, Rivian Volkswagen Group Tech
Room 295 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:00 PM - 5:45 PMFrom cockpit to Kafka: Streaming design lessons from aviationSimon Aubury, QantasRoom 293 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:00 PM - 5:45 PMEvolving the Data Supply Chain: Powering Real-Time Analytics & GenAI with Flink, Iceberg, and TrinoCraig Albritton, Accenture
Dylan Gunther, Accenture
Thomas Mahaffey, Accenture
Room 292 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:00 PM - 5:45 PMUnlocking the Mysteries of Apache FlinkDavid Anderson, ConfluentRoom 287 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:00 PM - 5:45 PMTuning the Iceberg: Practical Strategies for Optimizing Tables and QueriesAlex Merced, DremioRoom 285 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:00 PM - 5:45 PMLow latency Serving on Iceberg with Apache Pinot in StarTree CloudNeha Pawar, StarTree
Chinmay Soman, StarTree
Meet-up Hub 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:00 PM - 5:45 PMThe evolution of Notion’s event logging stackAdam Hudson, NotionRoom 291 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:00 PM - 5:45 PMBreaking Boundaries: Confluent Migration for Every StackPrakash Rajbhoj, InfosysRoom 294 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:00 PM - 5:45 PMBringing Stories to Life With AI, Data Streaming and Generative AgentsOlena Kutsenko, ConfluentRoom 290 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:00 PM - 5:46 PMBringing Stories to Life With AI, Data Streaming and Generative Agents (Livestream)Olena Kutsenko, ConfluentVirtualView Session
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:20 PM - 5:40 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:30 PM - 5:55 PMMaking agents, workflows, and event-driven apps as simple as SpringBoot, with RestateStephan Ewen, Restate
Till Rohrmann, Restate GmbH
AI Alley Theater 
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:40 PM - 6:00 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team  Confluent Booth 
Wednesday, October 29, 20256:00 PM - 9:00 PM⚜️ Current Party ⚜️  Generations Hall 
Wednesday, October 29, 20259:00 PM - 11:00 PMCurrent Afterparty ⚜️ Cornet - Bourbon Street Balcony 
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Thursday, October 30, 202512:00 AM - 11:59 PMAI Alley Theater: Day 2 AI Alley Theater 
Thursday, October 30, 202512:00 AM - 11:59 PMHackathon: Day 2 Hackathon 
Thursday, October 30, 20258:00 AM - 8:20 AMShift Left, Code Right with Confluent for VS Code and IntelliJ Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20258:00 AM - 9:30 AMPowering Real-Time Innovation: Data Streaming in Telecommunications & Media Room 277 
Thursday, October 30, 20258:15 AM - 9:45 AMTechnical Fundamentals of Apache Kafka®Joseph Desmond, ConfluentRoom 298 
Thursday, October 30, 20258:20 AM - 8:40 AMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20258:30 AM - 8:55 AMKafka Ops Meets AI: Automating Operational Excellence at ScaleNurettin Burak OMEROGLU, Booking.comAI Alley Theater 
Thursday, October 30, 20258:40 AM - 9:00 AMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20259:00 AM - 9:20 AMShift Left, Code Right with Confluent for VS Code and IntelliJ Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20259:00 AM - 9:25 AMAgent Ami: Autonomous Financial Crime Investigations with Agentic ScalePaul Gege, Goodlabs StudioAI Alley Theater 
Thursday, October 30, 20259:00 AM - 9:45 AMApache Flink® Ask Me AnythingDavid Anderson, Confluent
Robert Metzger, Confluent
Timo Walther, Confluent
Matyas Orhidi, Apple
Meet-up Hub 
Thursday, October 30, 20259:30 AM - 9:55 AMZeroLayer: Expert Confluent Coding Companion — Supercharge Simplicity. Master Complex InsightsChris McMahon, GoodLabs Studio
Eric Yuyitung, GoodLabs Studio
AI Alley Theater 
Thursday, October 30, 202510:00 AM - 11:05 AMKeynote: Be Ready for What's Next (Livestream)Anna McDonald, Confluent
Tim Berglund, Confluent
VirtualView Session
Thursday, October 30, 202510:00 AM - 11:30 AMKeynote: Be Ready for What's NextTim Berglund, Confluent
Anna McDonald, Confluent
New Orleans Theater 
Thursday, October 30, 202511:30 AM - 11:55 AMPlaying Chess by Scaling Multi-Agent LLM Play with Kafka QueuesStephane Derosiaux, ConduktorAI Alley Theater 
Thursday, October 30, 202511:30 AM - 1:00 PMWomen in Tech LunchAnna McDonald, Confluent
Shilna Joshi, Eaton
Aarohi Tripathi, CVS Health
Room 290 
Thursday, October 30, 202511:30 AM - 1:15 PMBuilding Event-Driven Microservices, 2nd Edition Book Signing with Adam BellemareAdam Bellemare, ConfluentConfluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 202512:00 PM - 12:20 PMShift Left, Code Right with Confluent for VS Code and IntelliJ Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 202512:15 PM - 12:40 PMAI-First Pipeline Authoring with Declarative FrameworksMatt Jones, DatabricksAI Alley Theater 
Thursday, October 30, 202512:20 PM - 12:40 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 202512:30 PM - 1:30 PMIntroduction to Apache Flink®: Key Concepts and ArchitectureBorja Hernandez Crespo, Confluent
Antonio Loma Daza, Confluent
Room 298 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:00 PM - 1:15 PMWhat Can You Do with a (Kafka) Queue?Sandon Jacobs, ConfluentRoom 285 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:00 PM - 1:15 PMTable API on Confluent Cloud: Show me Examples!Timo Walther, ConfluentRoom 291 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:00 PM - 1:15 PMFrom Pawns to Pipelines: Learning Flink Through the Mind of a Chess PlayerVish Srinivasan, ConfluentRoom 293 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:00 PM - 1:15 PMFlinkAI: Building a Real-Time LLM Knowledge Engine for Apache Flink... with Flink!Purshotam Shah, YahooRoom 292 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:00 PM - 1:15 PMOrchestrating a Successful Kafka MigrationJohn Burns, NordstromRoom 294 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:00 PM - 1:15 PMReal-Time Data Infrastructure at Scale: Lessons from Meta's Streaming ArchitectureVivek Chittireddy, MetaRoom 287 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:00 PM - 1:20 PMShift Left, Code Right with Confluent for VS Code and IntelliJ Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:00 PM - 1:45 PMBite Size Topologies - The Leftovers: Learning Kafka Streams Concepts One Topology at a TimeNeil Buesing, Kinetic EdgeMeet-up Hub 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:00 PM - 2:30 PMBuilding Intelligent Data-to-Campaign Automation with Confluent, Amazon Bedrock, and Strands AgentPraveen Kanumarlapudi, Amazon
Shashi Shekhar, Amazon
Vijay Pawar, Amazon
Lakshmi Kumkala, Amazon
AI Alley Theater 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:20 PM - 1:40 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:30 PM - 2:15 PMFrom Tower of Babel to Babel Fish: Evolving Your Kafka Architecture With Schema RegistryViktor Gamov, ConfluentRoom 285 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:30 PM - 2:15 PMUnpacking Serialization in Apache Kafka: Down the Rabbit HoleBill Bejeck, ConfluentRoom 292 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:30 PM - 2:15 PMPress Play on Data: Netflix's Journey from Streams to Gaming InsightsSujay Jain, NetflixRoom 287 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:30 PM - 2:15 PMFuture of Streaming: Emerging trends for event driven architecturesMatthew Walker, JP Morgan ChaseRoom 291 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:30 PM - 2:15 PMEmpowering the Disconnected Edge: Shifting Far Left with Predictive Analytics for Naval ShipsAndrew Hahn, Databricks
Michael Peacock, Confluent
Room 293 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:30 PM - 2:15 PMEvent Driven Views With Ingest-Materialize-Index Stream TopologySage Pierce, IndeedRoom 294 
Thursday, October 30, 20251:40 PM - 2:00 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:00 PM - 2:20 PMShift Left, Code Right with Confluent for VS Code and IntelliJ Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:00 PM - 2:45 PMFlink Agents: A New Runtime for Real-Time, AI-Native ApplicationsSean Falconer, Confluent
Xintong Song, Alibaba Cloud
Meet-up Hub 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:00 PM - 3:00 PMIntroduction to Confluent TableflowBorja Hernandez Crespo, ConfluentRoom 298 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:20 PM - 2:40 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:30 PM - 3:15 PMScaling Streaming Computation at LinkedIn: A Multi-Year Journey with Apache FlinkWeiqing Yang, LinkedInRoom 290 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:30 PM - 3:15 PMBeyond Documentation: AI Agents as Flink Debugging PartnersSeth Saperstein, Stripe
Pratyush Sharma, Stripe
Room 293 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:30 PM - 3:15 PMUnlocking Cost-Efficient, High-Performance Stream Processing with MongoDB Atlas and Confluent CloudLaura Zhukas, MongoDBAI Alley Theater 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:30 PM - 3:15 PMKroxylicious: Taking a bite out of the Kafka ProtocolSam Barker, IBMRoom 287 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:30 PM - 3:15 PMThe Curious Case of Streaming WindowsMatthias Sax, ConfluentRoom 285 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:30 PM - 3:15 PMBeyond Message Key Parallelism: Increasing Dropbox Dash AI Ingestion Throughput by 100xDavid Yun, DropboxRoom 292 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:30 PM - 3:15 PMHow Apache Kafka and Flink Power Event-Driven Agentic AI in Real TimeKai Waehner, ConfluentRoom 294 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:30 PM - 3:15 PMEscape the Micro-Maze: Build Fast, Scalable Streaming Services with Apache FlinkBenjamin Gamble, AI By WireRoom 291 
Thursday, October 30, 20252:30 PM - 3:45 PMScaling Streaming Computation at LinkedIn: A Multi-Year Journey with Apache Flink (Livestream)Weiqing Yang, LinkedInVirtualView Session
Thursday, October 30, 20252:40 PM - 3:00 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20253:00 PM - 3:20 PMShift Left, Code Right with Confluent for VS Code and IntelliJ Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20253:00 PM - 3:45 PMFrom Kafka to Insights: Building a High-Throughput Kafka-to-Iceberg Ingestion Engine at StarburstLakshmikant Shrinivas, Starburst Data
Deanna Victoria, Starburst
Meet-up Hub 
Thursday, October 30, 20253:20 PM - 3:40 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
Thursday, October 30, 20253:40 PM - 4:00 PMDevelopers Tools & Experiences Team Confluent Booth 
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