Conferences / Current (formerly Kafka Summit)
Current New Orleans 2025
Oct 29–30, 2025 · Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, United States
- Conference
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit) Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Oct 29, 2025 – Oct 30, 2025
- Venue
- Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
- Place
- New Orleans, LA, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No reported headcount (site shows a '3500 attendees' marketing stat; coverage says 'thousands' in person and online).
- Website
- current.confluent.io
- Recorded
- 61 sponsors · 137 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Executive Summit on Oct 28. Keynotes livestreamed. Keynote included a fireside chat with Anthropic's head of applied AI (name not given in source). Session catalog: 150 agenda items from the official Swoogo agenda (https://confluent.swoogo.com/currentneworleans/agenda, live Nov 2026), 94 of them with speakers (plus 8 livestream duplicates of in-room sessions, not recorded). The 48 items with no listed speakers (meals, registration, expo, trainings, parties) are not recorded. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early bird general attendee | $499 | Aug 15, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Advance individual pass | $699 | Oct 10, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Standard individual pass | $899 | Oct 29, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Onsite individual pass | $999 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 61
Silver 30
Community 1
- Apache Software Foundation · Community Partner
Other 6
- ClickHouse · AI Innovators
- GitHub · AI Innovators
- GoodLabs Studio · AI Pioneers
- Improving · AI Pioneers
- Persistent Systems · AI Pioneers
- Snowflake · AI Innovators
Speakers and talks 137
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna McDonald | Confluent | Keynote | Keynote: Be Ready for What's Next | — |
| Cosmo Wolfe | Metronome | Keynote | Keynote: Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time Data | — |
| Gunther Hagleitner | Salesforce | Keynote | Keynote: Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time Data | — |
| Jay Kreps | Confluent | Keynote | Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time Data Streaming | — |
| Rachel Lo | Anthropic | Keynote | Keynote: Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time Data | — |
| Rajesh Kandasamy | Marriott International | Keynote | Keynote: Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time Data | — |
| Sean Falconer | Confluent | Keynote | Keynote: Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time Data | — |
| Shaun Clowes | Confluent | Keynote | Keynote: Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time Data | — |
| Tim Berglund | Confluent | Keynote | Keynote: Be Ready for What's Next | — |
| Aarohi Tripathi | CVS Health | Speaker | Women in Tech Lunch | — |
| Abhishek Walia | Confluent | Speaker | From “Where’s My Money?” to “Here’s Your Bill”: Demystifying Kafka Chargebacks and Showbacks | — |
| Adam Bellemare | Confluent | Speaker | Building Event-Driven Microservices, 2nd Edition Book Signing with Adam Bellemare | — |
| Adam Hudson | Notion | Speaker | The evolution of Notion’s event logging stack | — |
| Adi Polak | Confluent | Speaker | Stream All the Things — Patterns of Effective Data Stream Processing | — |
| Alex Merced | Dremio | Speaker | Tuning the Iceberg: Practical Strategies for Optimizing Tables and Queries | — |
| Allison Chang | Discord | Speaker | Scaling the Past: Productionalizing the Flink History Server for Stream and Batch | — |
| Andrew Hahn | Databricks | Speaker | Empowering the Disconnected Edge: Shifting Far Left with Predictive Analytics for Naval Ships | — |
| Anna McDonald | Confluent | Speaker | Women in Tech Lunch | — |
| Antonio Loma Daza | Confluent | Speaker | Introduction to Apache Flink®: Key Concepts and Architecture | — |
| Antonio Loma Daza | Confluent | Speaker | Introduction to Stream Governance with Confluent | — |
| Aravind Suresh | OpenAI | Speaker | From Queues to Intelligence: The Evolution of Stream Infrastructure for AI | — |
| Benjamin Gamble | AI By Wire | Speaker | Escape the Micro-Maze: Build Fast, Scalable Streaming Services with Apache Flink | — |
| Bill Bejeck | Confluent | Speaker | Unpacking Serialization in Apache Kafka: Down the Rabbit Hole | — |
| Bill Bejeck | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Kafka® Ask Me Anything | — |
| Blake Shaw | Rocket Software | Speaker | Agents Running A Data Mesh | — |
| Borja Hernandez Crespo | Confluent | Speaker | Introduction to Apache Flink®: Key Concepts and Architecture | — |
| Borja Hernandez Crespo | Confluent | Speaker | Introduction to Confluent Tableflow | — |
| Braeden Quirante | Confluent | Speaker | Build Scalable Agentic AI Systems with Confluent & MongoDB on AWS | — |
| Brian Pyle Pyle | Confluent | Speaker | From Streaming To Sharing: Modernizing US Financial Data Infrastructure | — |
| Chinmay Soman | StarTree | Speaker | Low latency Serving on Iceberg with Apache Pinot in StarTree Cloud | — |
| Chris McMahon | GoodLabs Studio | Workshop | ZeroLayer: Expert Confluent Coding Companion — Supercharge Simplicity. Master Complex Insights | — |
| Craig Albritton | Accenture | Speaker | Evolving the Data Supply Chain: Powering Real-Time Analytics & GenAI with Flink, Iceberg, and Trino | — |
| Dave Klein | Independent | Speaker | Apache Druid - Kafka's Missing Database | — |
| David Anderson | Confluent | Speaker | Unlocking the Mysteries of Apache Flink | — |
| David Anderson | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Flink® Ask Me Anything | — |
| David Jacot | Confluent | Speaker | A Deep Dive into Kafka Consumer Rebalance Protocols: Mechanisms and Migration Process Insights | — |
| David Jacot | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Kafka® Ask Me Anything | — |
| David Kjerrumgaard | Datadog | Speaker | Ursa: Augment Your Lakehouse With Kafka-Compatible Data Streaming Capabilities | — |
| David Yun | Dropbox | Speaker | Beyond Message Key Parallelism: Increasing Dropbox Dash AI Ingestion Throughput by 100x | — |
| Deanna Victoria | Starburst | Speaker | From Kafka to Insights: Building a High-Throughput Kafka-to-Iceberg Ingestion Engine at Starburst | — |
| Devanshi Thakar | Microsoft | Speaker | Agentic AI Meets Kafka + Flink: Event-Driven Orchestration for Multi-Agent Systems | — |
| Devlin Liles | Improving | Workshop | AI Agents & Technology Migration | — |
| Dominique Ronde | Confluent | Speaker | Quiet Failures, Loud Consequences: Streaming ML Drift Detection in Practice | — |
| Dongnuo Lyu | Confluent | Speaker | A Deep Dive into Kafka Consumer Rebalance Protocols: Mechanisms and Migration Process Insights | — |
| Dustin Shammo | Confluent | Speaker | Unlocking Inter-Agent Collaboration: Confluent Powers Scalable AI with Google Cloud's A2A | — |
| Dylan Gunther | Accenture | Speaker | Evolving the Data Supply Chain: Powering Real-Time Analytics & GenAI with Flink, Iceberg, and Trino | — |
| Emir Rojas | Wwt | Speaker | The Kafka Protocol Deconstructed: A Live-Coded Deep Dive | — |
| Eric Yuyitung | GoodLabs Studio | Workshop | ZeroLayer: Expert Confluent Coding Companion — Supercharge Simplicity. Master Complex Insights | — |
| Ethan Chen | Robinhood | Speaker | Robinhood’s Use of WarpStream for Logging | — |
| Gaurav Saxena | Automotive Company | Speaker | Ursa: Augment Your Lakehouse With Kafka-Compatible Data Streaming Capabilities | — |
| Greg Harris | Aiven | Speaker | Apache Kafka® Ask Me Anything | — |
| Greg Harris | Aiven | Speaker | Diskless but with disks, Leaderless but with leaders: A KIP-1163 Deep Dive | — |
| Greg Murphy | Confluent | Speaker | Scaling Agentic AI Delivery: How Infosys Leverages the Confluent OEM Program | — |
| Guruguha Marur Sreenivasa | Rivian Volkswagen Tech | Speaker | Powering Real-Time Vehicle Intelligence at Rivian with Apache Flink | — |
| Israel Ekpo | Microsoft | Speaker | Agentic AI Meets Kafka + Flink: Event-Driven Orchestration for Multi-Agent Systems | — |
| Jared Jones | Confluent | Workshop | Streaming Insurance Forward: Unlocking Real-Time Intelligence with Streaming Agents | — |
| Jason Pohl | Databricks | Speaker | Streaming Meets Governance: Building AI-Ready Tables With Confluent Tableflow and Unity Catalog | — |
| JB Onofré | Dremio | Speaker | Apache Polaris (incubating) in action | — |
| Jiří Holuša | Azul | Speaker | GC, JIT and Warmup: The JVM’s Role in Flink at Scale | — |
| John Burns | Nordstrom | Speaker | Orchestrating a Successful Kafka Migration | — |
| Jonathan Zammit | DTCC | Speaker | From Streaming To Sharing: Modernizing US Financial Data Infrastructure | — |
| Joseph Desmond | Confluent | Speaker | Technical Fundamentals of Apache Kafka® | — |
| Julian Hyde | Morel | Speaker | More than query: Morel, SQL and the evolution of data languages | — |
| Kai Waehner | Confluent | Speaker | How Apache Kafka and Flink Power Event-Driven Agentic AI in Real Time | — |
| Kasun Indrasiri Gamage | Confluent | Speaker | Streaming Meets Governance: Building AI-Ready Tables With Confluent Tableflow and Unity Catalog | — |
| Kyle Klein | Confluent | Speaker | Build an AI-Powered Personalization Engine With Confluent & Databricks on AWS | — |
| Lakshmi Kumkala | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Build Scalable Agentic AI Systems with Confluent & MongoDB on AWS | — |
| Lakshmi Kumkala | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Building Intelligent Data-to-Campaign Automation with Confluent, Amazon Bedrock, and Strands Agent | — |
| Lakshmikant Shrinivas | Starburst | Speaker | From Kafka to Insights: Building a High-Throughput Kafka-to-Iceberg Ingestion Engine at Starburst | — |
| Laura Zhukas | MongoDB | Speaker | Unlocking Cost-Efficient, High-Performance Stream Processing with MongoDB Atlas and Confluent Cloud | — |
| Li Dai | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Build Scalable Agentic AI Systems with Confluent & MongoDB on AWS | — |
| Matt Jones | Databricks | Speaker | AI-First Pipeline Authoring with Declarative Frameworks | — |
| Matthew Walker | JPMorgan Chase | Speaker | Future of Streaming: Emerging trends for event driven architectures | — |
| Matthias Sax | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Kafka® Ask Me Anything | — |
| Matthias Sax | Confluent | Speaker | The Curious Case of Streaming Windows | — |
| Matyas Orhidi | Apple | Speaker | Apache Flink® Ask Me Anything | — |
| Mayank Juneja | Confluent | Speaker | The Future of Agentic AI is Event-Driven: How to Build Streaming Agents on Apache Flink | — |
| Merlin Yamssi | Speaker | Unlocking Inter-Agent Collaboration: Confluent Powers Scalable AI with Google Cloud's A2A | — | |
| Michael Peacock | Confluent | Speaker | Empowering the Disconnected Edge: Shifting Far Left with Predictive Analytics for Naval Ships | — |
| Milind Srivastava | Carnegie Mellon University | Speaker | FlinkSketch: Democratizing the Benefits of Sketches for the Flink Community | — |
| Neha Pawar | StarTree | Speaker | Low latency Serving on Iceberg with Apache Pinot in StarTree Cloud | — |
| Neil Buesing | Kinetic Edge | Speaker | Bite Size Topologies: Learning Kafka Streams Concepts One Topology at a Time | — |
| Neil Buesing | Kinetic Edge | Speaker | Bite Size Topologies - The Leftovers: Learning Kafka Streams Concepts One Topology at a Time | — |
| Nick Larson | Improving | Workshop | AI Agents & Technology Migration | — |
| Nithin Thekkupadam Narayanan | Oracle | Speaker | Unifying Kafka and Relational Databases for Event Streaming Applications | — |
| Nurettin Burak OMEROGLU | Booking.com | Workshop | Kafka Ops Meets AI: Automating Operational Excellence at Scale | — |
| Olena Kutsenko | Confluent | Speaker | Bringing Stories to Life With AI, Data Streaming and Generative Agents | — |
| Paresh Oswal | Infosys | Speaker | Scaling Agentic AI Delivery: How Infosys Leverages the Confluent OEM Program | — |
| Pascal Vantrepote | Confluent | Speaker | Unlocking Inter-Agent Collaboration: Confluent Powers Scalable AI with Google Cloud's A2A | — |
| Paul Gege | GoodLabs Studio | Workshop | Agent Ami: Autonomous Financial Crime Investigations with Agentic Scale | — |
| Phillip Groves | Data Surge, LLC | Speaker | Metadata: From Zookeeper to KRaft | — |
| Prakash Rajbhoj | Infosys | Speaker | Breaking Boundaries: Confluent Migration for Every Stack | — |
| Pratyush Sharma | Stripe | Speaker | Beyond Documentation: AI Agents as Flink Debugging Partners | — |
| Praveen Kancharla | Cigna | Speaker | Streaming at Scale: Cigna's Journey with Kafka | — |
| Praveen Kanumarlapudi | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Building Intelligent Data-to-Campaign Automation with Confluent, Amazon Bedrock, and Strands Agent | — |
| Purshotam Shah | Yahoo | Speaker | FlinkAI: Building a Real-Time LLM Knowledge Engine for Apache Flink... with Flink! | — |
| Rakesh Tripathi | Persistent Systems | Workshop | Streaming Insurance Forward: Unlocking Real-Time Intelligence with Streaming Agents | — |
| Ram Alagappan | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Speaker | LazyLog: A New Log Abstraction for Low-Latency Applications | — |
| Renan Rueda | Robinhood | Speaker | Robinhood’s Use of WarpStream for Logging | — |
| Robert Metzger | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Flink® Ask Me Anything | — |
| Robert Metzger | Confluent | Speaker | Sizing, Benchmarking and Performance Tuning Apache Flink Clusters | — |
| Roman Kolesnev | Streambased | Speaker | Turning the database inside out again: What if everything was Iceberg? | — |
| Ron Liu | Alibaba Cloud | Speaker | Deep Dive into Apache Flink 2.1: The Key Features in SQL & AI Integration | — |
| Rupesh Arjun More | Rivian Volkswagen Tech | Speaker | Powering Real-Time Vehicle Intelligence at Rivian with Apache Flink | — |
| Russell Spitzer | Snowflake | Speaker | What the Spec?!: New Features in Apache Iceberg™ Table Format V3 | — |
| Sage Pierce | Indeed | Speaker | Event Driven Views With Ingest-Materialize-Index Stream Topology | — |
| Sam Barker | IBM | Speaker | Kroxylicious: Taking a bite out of the Kafka Protocol | — |
| Sandon Jacobs | Confluent | Speaker | What Can You Do with a (Kafka) Queue? | — |
| Scott Haines | Buf | Speaker | Ending the Streaming Data Quality Nightmare: Building Real-Time Data Intelligence into Your Data Pipelines | — |
| Sean Falconer | Confluent | Speaker | The Future of Agentic AI is Event-Driven: How to Build Streaming Agents on Apache Flink | — |
| Sean Falconer | Confluent | Speaker | Flink Agents: A New Runtime for Real-Time, AI-Native Applications | — |
| Seth Catalli | Confluent | Speaker | Scaling Agentic AI Delivery: How Infosys Leverages the Confluent OEM Program | — |
| Seth Saperstein | Stripe | Speaker | Beyond Documentation: AI Agents as Flink Debugging Partners | — |
| Shashi Shekhar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Building Intelligent Data-to-Campaign Automation with Confluent, Amazon Bedrock, and Strands Agent | — |
| Shilna Joshi | Eaton | Speaker | Women in Tech Lunch | — |
| Si Lao | Uber | Speaker | Kafka Cluster of Cluster | — |
| Simon Aubury | QANTAS Loyalty | Speaker | From cockpit to Kafka: Streaming design lessons from aviation | — |
| Songting Wang | Carnegie Mellon University | Speaker | FlinkSketch: Democratizing the Benefits of Sketches for the Flink Community | — |
| Stephan Ewen | Restate | Workshop | Making agents, workflows, and event-driven apps as simple as SpringBoot, with Restate | — |
| Stephane Derosiaux | Conduktor | Speaker | Playing Chess by Scaling Multi-Agent LLM Play with Kafka Queues | — |
| Steven Wu | Snowflake | Speaker | An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure - Fix data clustering in streaming write to Iceberg | — |
| Sujay Jain | Netflix | Speaker | Press Play on Data: Netflix's Journey from Streams to Gaming Insights | — |
| Thomas Mahaffey | Accenture | Speaker | Evolving the Data Supply Chain: Powering Real-Time Analytics & GenAI with Flink, Iceberg, and Trino | — |
| Thomas Thornton | Slack | Speaker | Change Data Capture at Scale: Insights from Slack’s Streaming Pipeline | — |
| Till Rohrmann | Restate | Workshop | Making agents, workflows, and event-driven apps as simple as SpringBoot, with Restate | — |
| Timo Walther | Confluent | Speaker | Table API on Confluent Cloud: Show me Examples! | — |
| Timo Walther | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Flink® Ask Me Anything | — |
| Vignesh Raja | Speaker | How Reddit Uses Flink Stream Joins in Its Real-Time Safety Systems | — | |
| Vijay Pawar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Building Intelligent Data-to-Campaign Automation with Confluent, Amazon Bedrock, and Strands Agent | — |
| Viktor Gamov | Confluent | Speaker | From Tower of Babel to Babel Fish: Evolving Your Kafka Architecture With Schema Registry | — |
| Vish Srinivasan | Confluent | Speaker | From Pawns to Pipelines: Learning Flink Through the Mind of a Chess Player | — |
| Vivek Chittireddy | Meta | Speaker | Real-Time Data Infrastructure at Scale: Lessons from Meta's Streaming Architecture | — |
| Weifan Liang | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Smart Action in Real-time: Building Agentic AI Systems Powered by AWS and Confluent Streaming | — |
| Weiqing Yang | Speaker | Scaling Streaming Computation at LinkedIn: A Multi-Year Journey with Apache Flink | — | |
| Xintong Song | Alibaba Cloud | Speaker | Flink Agents: A New Runtime for Real-Time, AI-Native Applications | — |
| Zander Matheson | Confluent | Speaker | The Zen of PyFlink: The evolution towards a truly “pythonic” Flink | — |
| Zhifeng Chen | Uber | Speaker | Kafka Cluster of Cluster | — |
Sources
- https://current.confluent.io/past-events
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251006155012/https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251009173506/https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sponsors
- https://www.techzine.eu/blogs/data-management/135851/confluent-crowns-the-new-ai-kingmaker-real-time-data-in-context
- https://confluent.swoogo.com/currentneworleans/agenda