Current (formerly Kafka Summit)
- Organizer
- Confluent
- Category
- Vendor & industry
- Website
- current.confluent.io
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · Bluesky · YouTube
- Typical place
- London, United Kingdom + 6 other cities
- Topics
- StreamingData engineering
Lineage: Confluent ran Kafka Summit from 2016 (San Francisco, New York, London editions; site kafka-summit.org). In 2019 there were three in-person summits (NYC, London, SF). In 2020 London (Apr 27-28) was cancelled for COVID-19 and Austin was replaced by the online 'Kafka Summit 2020' (Aug 24-25). 2021 was online only (Europe, APAC, Americas). Kafka Summit London returned in person in April 2022, and the US summit was rebranded 'Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit' (Austin, Oct 2022). Kafka Summit London continued through 2024 and Kafka Summit Bangalore ran once (May 2024). From 2025 all editions are branded Current (Current Bengaluru, Current London, Current New Orleans 2025; Current London and Current San Francisco 2026). In Jan 2026 Confluent replaced Current Bengaluru 2026 with a free one-day Data Streaming World Tour stop, and held a separate free one-day data-engineering 'mini-Current' (underCurrent, ~100 people, SF, March 2026), which is not recorded here as an edition. Social links are Confluent's corporate accounts; the conference has no dedicated accounts (hashtags #Current and formerly #KafkaSummit).
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.
- Partial or unverified list
- No sponsor list
8 of 8 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4–5, 2026 | Current San Francisco 2026 | San Francisco, United States | — | 25 | — | |
| May 19–20, 2026 | Current London 2026 | London, United Kingdom | — | 22 | — | |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Current Bengaluru 2026 | Bengaluru, India | Cancelled | — | — | — |
| Oct 29–30, 2025 | Current New Orleans 2025 | New Orleans, United States | — | 61 | 1 | |
| May 20–21, 2025 | Current London 2025 | London, United Kingdom | — | 36 | — | |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Current Bengaluru 2025 | Bengaluru, India | — | 17 | 2 | |
| Sep 17–18, 2024 | Current 2024 | Austin, United States | — | 56 | 12 | |
| May 2, 2024 | Kafka Summit Bangalore 2024 | Bengaluru, India | 2,500 | 25 | — | |
| Mar 19–20, 2024 | Kafka Summit London 2024 | London, United Kingdom | — | 36 | 1 | |
| Sep 26–27, 2023 | Current 2023 | San Jose, United States | 2,100 | — | 6 | |
| May 16–17, 2023 | Kafka Summit London 2023 | London, United Kingdom | 1,500 | 36 | 1 | |
| Oct 4–5, 2022 | Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit | Austin, United States | — | 43 | 9 | |
| Apr 25–26, 2022 | Kafka Summit London 2022 | London, United Kingdom | 1,200 | 29 | 2 | |
| Sep 14–15, 2021 | Kafka Summit Americas 2021 | — | Online | — | 38 | — |
| Jul 27–28, 2021 | Kafka Summit APAC 2021 | — | Online | — | 12 | — |
| May 11–12, 2021 | Kafka Summit Europe 2021 | — | Online | — | 26 | — |
| Aug 24–25, 2020 | Kafka Summit 2020 (virtual) | — | Online | — | — | — |
| Apr 27–28, 2020 | Kafka Summit London 2020 | London, United Kingdom | Cancelled | — | — | — |
| 2020 | Kafka Summit Austin 2020 | Austin, United States | Cancelled | — | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2019 – Oct 1, 2019 | Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019 | San Francisco, United States | 2,000 | 38 | — | |
| May 13–14, 2019 | Kafka Summit London 2019 | London, United Kingdom | — | 21 | 3 | |
| Apr 2, 2019 | Kafka Summit NYC 2019 | New York, United States | — | 20 | — |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 5 of 22 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 196 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Startup
- Community
- Other / unspecified
Sources
- https://current.confluent.io/past-events
- https://www.confluent.io/blog/introducing-current-next-generation-of-kafka-summit/
- https://www.confluent.io/blog/future-of-current-data-streaming-community/
- https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-summit-london-2020-update/
- https://rmoff.net/2026/02/27/interesting-links-february-2026/