Conferences / Current (formerly Kafka Summit)
Current Bengaluru 2025
Mar 19, 2025 · Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield, Bengaluru, KA, India
- Conference
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit) Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Mar 19, 2025
- Venue
- Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield
- Place
- Bengaluru, KA, India
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No reported headcount (site shows a generic '3500 attendees' marketing stat). Press: 45 speakers, 35+ sessions.
- Website
- current.confluent.io
- Recorded
- 17 sponsors · 56 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Successor to Kafka Summit Bangalore. 'Other Partners' (Meesho, Swiggy, Mumbai Indians) shown on the archived page appear to be carried over from 2024 and were omitted. Session catalog: 43 agenda items from the official Swoogo agenda (https://confluent.swoogo.com/currentbengaluru/agenda, live Nov 2026), 35 of them with speakers. The 8 items with no listed speakers (meals, registration, expo, trainings, parties) are not recorded. The agenda names no speakers for the keynote session(s) 'Keynote', so their speakers are known only from other sources. Track holds the agenda's session type. Abstracts from the session detail pages, truncated to about 1,200 characters.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super early bird pass | ₹2,250 | Feb 19, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Group pass (min 3, per ticket, early) | ₹2,250 | Feb 19, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Standard pass | ₹4,500 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 17
Speakers and talks 56
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Kreps | Confluent | Keynote | — | — |
| Shaun Clowes | Confluent | Keynote | — | — |
| Abhijeet Kumar | Uber | Speaker | Modernising Kafka at Uber Scale: Upgrading from Legacy to New Hardware SKUs | — |
| Akash Agarwal | Swiggy | Speaker | Powering Real-Time Analytics, Predictions, and Recommendations at Swiggy with Confluent Kafka | — |
| Aman Kesharwani | Yubi | Speaker | Building an intelligent Kafka streaming pipeline for near real-time business insights | — |
| Andrew Schofield | Confluent | Speaker | One Client to Rule them all | — |
| Andrew Schofield | Confluent | Speaker | Queues for Kafka | — |
| Apoorv Mittal | Confluent | Speaker | Queues for Kafka | — |
| Arti Pande | Thoughtworks | Speaker | Towards Manufacturing 5.0 - Edge IoT Platform with Sparkplug and Apache Kafka | — |
| Aswin A | IBM | Speaker | Breaking the Kubernetes Barrier: Deploying Kafka Across Clusters | — |
| Bipul Karnani | Dream11 | Speaker | Re-engineering Kafka Consumers for 'India Scale' | — |
| Diptiman Raichaudhuri | Confluent | Speaker | Flink SQL WINDOW function recipes in my Flink kitchen ! | — |
| Ganesh Jadhav | John Deere | Speaker | Towards Manufacturing 5.0 - Edge IoT Platform with Sparkplug and Apache Kafka | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Confluent | Speaker | Ins and Outs of the Outbox Pattern | — |
| Guruprasad Sridharan | PhonePe | Speaker | Demystify MirrorMaker2 for DR, at India scale(~ 1 trillion messages a day!) - The PhonePe story | — |
| Jayesh Asrani | StarTree | Speaker | Empowering AIAgents with Real-Time Insights: From Streams to Smarter Actions | — |
| Jayita Bhattacharyya | Deloitte | Speaker | Building Knowledge GRAPH RAG using Neo4j | — |
| K R Avinash Upadhyaya | Platformatory | Speaker | Transforming APIs into an event source with Kafka Streams | — |
| Kavya Ramaiah | Shiprocket | Speaker | Build ‘India Scale’ (~ 1billion events/day) E-commerce with Kafka - The Shiprocket Story | — |
| Lakhan Marda | MPL | Speaker | Building a Scalable RealTime ML Platform for competitive gaming, harnessing the power of Kafka & Flink | — |
| Luke Chen | IBM | Speaker | All you need to know about Kafka v4.0 as a Kafka or Flink user | — |
| Mahesh Girkar | Oracle | Speaker | Unifying Kafka and Relational Databases for Event Streaming Applications | — |
| Mahesh Jadhav | Mobile Premier League [MPL] | Speaker | Building a Scalable RealTime ML Platform for competitive gaming, harnessing the power of Kafka & Flink | — |
| Manu Manjunath | Atlassian | Speaker | An Orchestrator for global data migrations: A Kafka-powered service mesh approach | — |
| Matthias Sax | Confluent | Speaker | One Client to Rule them all | — |
| Nikin Raagav | Uber | Speaker | Modernising Kafka at Uber Scale: Upgrading from Legacy to New Hardware SKUs | — |
| Nitish Goyal | PhonePe | Speaker | Demystify MirrorMaker2 for DR, at India scale(~ 1 trillion messages a day!) - The PhonePe story | — |
| Olena Kutsenko | Confluent | Speaker | Building agent systems with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink | — |
| Pratibha Singh | Shiprocket | Speaker | Build ‘India Scale’ (~ 1billion events/day) E-commerce with Kafka - The Shiprocket Story | — |
| Ralph Matthias Debusmann | Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund | Speaker | Kafka Superpowers for Your Jupyter Notebook and Python | — |
| Ratnesh Kumar | Shiprocket | Speaker | Build ‘India Scale’ (~ 1billion events/day) E-commerce with Kafka - The Shiprocket Story | — |
| Ravi Bhardwaj | Confluent | Speaker | Transitioning to KRaft in Apache Kafka: Avoiding Common Mistakes | — |
| Ravi Gupta | Atlassian | Speaker | An Orchestrator for global data migrations: A Kafka-powered service mesh approach | — |
| Rohit Yadav | Uber | Speaker | Inside Uber's Large-Scale Real-Time Analytics Platform | — |
| Saravanan R | Yubi | Speaker | Building an intelligent Kafka streaming pipeline for near real-time business insights | — |
| Satish Duggana | Uber | Speaker | Inside Uber's Large-Scale Real-Time Analytics Platform | — |
| Shailesh Dwivedi | Oracle | Speaker | Unifying Kafka and Relational Databases for Event Streaming Applications | — |
| Shashi kant Singh | Shiprocket | Speaker | Build ‘India Scale’ (~ 1billion events/day) E-commerce with Kafka - The Shiprocket Story | — |
| Shasidhar Eranti | Databricks | Speaker | Serverless Streaming Pipelines: Integrating Delta Live Tables, Kafka, and Serverless Architectures | — |
| Shivam Yadav | Uber | Speaker | Streaming Aggregations at Scale using Kafka and Kafka Streams | — |
| Shivaprakash Akki | Platformatory | Speaker | Seamless Authentication to Confluent Cloud Using OAuth/OIDC with Okta as Identity Provider | — |
| Shrvan Warke | Myntra | Speaker | From Events to Insights: Kafka’s Role in Myntra’s Real-Time Data Revolution | — |
| Shubham Dhal | ShareChat | Speaker | Streaming Aggregations at Scale using Kafka and Kafka Streams | — |
| Shubham Dhal | ShareChat | Speaker | Cost-Effective Logging at Scale: ShareChat’s Journey to WarpStream | — |
| Shubham Goel | Confluent | Speaker | Seamless SSO Configuration in Confluent Control Center for Enhanced Streaming Authentication with CFK | — |
| Sibhi Arul Prian Poyhai Karunakaran | Yubi | Speaker | Building an intelligent Kafka streaming pipeline for near real-time business insights | — |
| Siddharth Bedekar | Confluent | Speaker | Continuous forecasting and anomaly detection with Flink SQL | — |
| Sunaim Nazar | Dream11 | Speaker | Reducing Kafka Producer Cross Network Costs with RackAwareStickyPartitioner | — |
| Ufuk Celebi | Confluent | Speaker | Introduction to Stateful Stream Processing with Apache Flink | — |
| Varsha Sharma | Confluent | Speaker | Seamless SSO Configuration in Confluent Control Center for Enhanced Streaming Authentication with CFK | — |
| Varsha Sharma | Confluent | Speaker | Real-Time Social Security: Leveraging Apache Kafka and Flink for Efficient Benefits Disbursements | — |
| Venkata Kalyana Chakravarthy Bitragunta | Teradata | Speaker | Real-Time Social Security: Leveraging Apache Kafka and Flink for Efficient Benefits Disbursements | — |
| Vikas Reddy Aravabhumi | Databricks | Speaker | Serverless Streaming Pipelines: Integrating Delta Live Tables, Kafka, and Serverless Architectures | — |
| Viktor Gamov | Confluent | Speaker | The IDE That Speaks Kafka: Mastering Streams in VS Code | — |
| Vivek Chandela | ShareChat | Speaker | Cost-Effective Logging at Scale: ShareChat’s Journey to WarpStream | — |
| Zack Wilson | DataExpert.io | Speaker | How I built an entire data platform by myself that thousands of data streaming engineers use in one year | — |
Sources
- https://current.confluent.io/past-events
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250218123340/https://current.confluent.io/bengaluru
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250612204655/https://current.confluent.io/bengaluru/sponsors
- https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/business/confluent-kicks-off-current-2025-in-bengaluru
- https://confluent.swoogo.com/currentbengaluru/agenda