Conferences / Current (formerly Kafka Summit)
Current London 2026
May 19–20, 2026 · ExCeL London, London, United Kingdom
- Conference
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit) Vendor & industry
- Dates
- May 19, 2026 – May 20, 2026
- Venue
- ExCeL London
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No reported headcount (site shows a '2000 attendees' marketing stat).
- Website
- current.confluent.io
- Recorded
- 22 sponsors · 133 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Session catalog: 101 agenda items from the official Swoogo agenda (https://confluent.swoogo.com/currentlondon2026/agenda, live Nov 2026), 99 of them with speakers. The 2 items with no listed speakers (meals, registration, expo, trainings, parties) are not recorded. This agenda has (almost) no session types, so track is mostly empty and the keynote is identified by its room; hackathon sessions are recorded as workshops. Abstracts from the session detail pages, truncated to about 1,200 characters.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early-bird individual pass | £499 | Mar 29, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| General attendee (advance) | £599 | Apr 26, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| General attendee (standard) | £799 | May 17, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| Onsite individual pass | £999 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 22
Platinum 2
Community 1
- Apache Software Foundation · Community Partners
Other 2
- BearingPoint · Ambassador Sponsors
- Marionete · Ambassador Sponsors
Speakers and talks 133
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| alex holt | ElevenLabs | Keynote | Building Intelligent Systems on Real Time Data | — |
| Can Sözeri | Getir | Keynote | Building Intelligent Systems on Real Time Data | — |
| Jay Kreps | Confluent | Keynote | Building Intelligent Systems on Real Time Data | — |
| Sean Falconer | Confluent | Keynote | Building Intelligent Systems on Real Time Data | — |
| Shaun Clowes | Confluent | Keynote | Building Intelligent Systems on Real Time Data | — |
| Adam Souquieres | Stream Consulting | Speaker | Design with me : a Kafka Streams Payment Authorization Collaborative Design Session | — |
| Ahmed ZamZam | Confluent | Workshop | £1.17 Billion Lost Last Year — Learn How to Stop It in Milliseconds | — |
| Ahmed ZamZam | Confluent | Workshop | While You Were Sleeping, Your Competitor Cut Their Price: Build Real-Time Pricing Intelligence with Confluent | — |
| Alejandro Huertas | Datadog | Speaker | From Batch to Real Time: Operating Cassandra CDC with Debezium at Datadog Scale | — |
| Alex Stuart | Confluent | Workshop | 20 Cars. Millions of Data Points. One F1 Leaderboard. Build It in less than an hour | — |
| Alexandru Barbu | BETFAIR ROMANIA DEVELOPMENT SRL | Speaker | Chaos to Golden Path - How FanDuel's Eventing Strategy Transformed Enterprise Event Streaming | — |
| Alieh Saeedi | Confluent | Speaker | Header-aware state stores for Kafka Streams | — |
| Andrew Schofield | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Kafka® AMA | — |
| Andrew Schofield | Confluent | Speaker | Bridging Stream and Queue: Protocol Enhancements For Kafka's Share Groups | — |
| Andrew Schofield | Confluent | Speaker | Deep dive into writing Queues for Kafka applications | — |
| Anton Borisov | Fresha | Speaker | From Hot Streams to Cold Ice: Unifying Streaming and Historical Analytics with Flink, Spark & StarRocks | — |
| Anton Borisov | Fresha | Speaker | Distilling Kafka’s Binary Protocol into Elixir | — |
| Apoorv Mittal | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Kafka® AMA | — |
| Apoorv Mittal | Confluent | Speaker | Deep dive into writing Queues for Kafka applications | — |
| Apoorv Mittal | Confluent | Speaker | Bridging Stream and Queue: Protocol Enhancements For Kafka's Share Groups | — |
| Archit Goyal | Speaker | Flink Beyond Streaming: Building a Production-Ready Batch Platform at LinkedIn | — | |
| Arthur Andres | — | Speaker | Python Streaming Analytics Leveraging the Composable Data Stack | — |
| Arun Nallathambi | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Scaling Real-Time AI Actions with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Confluent Streaming Agents | — |
| Bahar Pattarkine | Sony | Speaker | From Millions of Players to Real-Time Insights: Building PlayStation’s Gameplay Pipeline on Apache Flink and Kafka | — |
| Benjamin Gamble | AI By Wire | Speaker | Chaining AI Agents with Streams | — |
| Bowen Li | OpenAI | Speaker | Dynamic Kafka, Static Sleep: Taming Multi-Cluster Streams with Flink at OpenAI | — |
| Brian Douglas | Paper Compute Co | Speaker | Self-Healing Infrastructure: Through the power Streaming | — |
| Bryan De Smaele | Kannika | Speaker | Surviving the Storm: Practical DR Strategies for Kafka | — |
| Carlos Rodrigues | Databricks | Speaker | Joining Streams Through Time: As-Of Joins with Spark 4's new transformWithState API | — |
| Christoph Schubert | Conduktor | Speaker | Kafka Governance without Tears: a Vattenfall case study | — |
| Csanád Bakos | Vinted | Speaker | Beyond Watermarks: Custom Flink Operators for Feature-Trigger Synchronization | — |
| Dale Lane | IBM | Speaker | Embedding Tiny Language Models in Flink SQL functions | — |
| Dan O'Reilly | Salesforce | Speaker | Stability through Static Membership: Task-Level Reliability at 3 Trillion Events Per Day | — |
| David Anderson | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Flink® AMA | — |
| David Anderson | Confluent | Speaker | Getting Started with Apache Flink: Essential Patterns and Best Practices | — |
| David Green | — | Speaker | Kafka Head-of-Line Blocking: Increase Throughput, Reduce Latency | — |
| David Jacot | Confluent | Speaker | How to write your own partition assignor in Kafka’s KIP-848 Era | — |
| David Jacot | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Kafka® AMA | — |
| David Kjerrumgaard | Datadog | Speaker | From Data Pipelines to Context Streams: Building Infrastructure for the Agent Era | — |
| David Navalho | Marionete | Speaker | Back to the Boring: GenAI That Ships | — |
| David Radley | IBM | Speaker | Contributing to the Apache Flink Community Q&A | — |
| David Radley | IBM | Speaker | Enterprise ready with the Flink HTTP Connector | — |
| Declan Curran | MarketAxess | Speaker | The "Plug & Play" Lie: Why Your Oracle CDC Pipeline Will Fail | — |
| Emiliano Mancuso | Fresha | Speaker | Lambda Architecture in 2025: Kafka, Views, and the Evolving Data Platform | — |
| Evan Kelly | Fidelity Investments | Speaker | From Blind Spots to Full Visibility: Kafka Observability with OpenTelemetry | — |
| Florent Ramiere | Conduktor | Speaker | To Fork Kafka or to Proxy Kafka? An Engineering Story | — |
| Francois Visconte | Datadog | Speaker | How Datadog Runs Its Streaming Platform | — |
| Gal Krispel | Riskified | Speaker | FlinkSQL Declassified: A Production Survival Guide | — |
| Gantigmaa (Tina) Selenge | Red Hat | Speaker | Strimzi AMA (Ft. Book Giveaway) | — |
| Greg Harris | Aiven | Speaker | Apache Kafka® AMA | — |
| Greg Harris | Aiven | Speaker | Diskless but with disks, Leaderless but with leaders: A KIP-1163 Deep Dive | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Confluent | Speaker | Transactional Change Stream Processing With Apache Flink | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Confluent | Speaker | Hardwood: Building a Parquet Parser From Scratch (With a Little Help From AI) | — |
| Harshada Yesane | Speaker | Building Reliable CDC and Kafka Mirroring Pipelines at Trillion-Message Scale | — | |
| Hartmut Armbruster | StoatFlow | Speaker | What If We've Been Scaling Stream Processing Wrong All Along? | — |
| Hugh Lewis | Aiven | Speaker | Intro to Apache Kafka on Aiven: From Managed Simplicity to Inkless Architectures | — |
| Hugo Guerrero | Kong | Speaker | Defending the Perimeter: Patterns for Secure External Event Exchange | — |
| Irene Rodríguez Clavería | New Relic | Speaker | Towards a Balanced Kafka: Resolving Data Skew in Non-Kafka Ingestion with Apache Paimon and Flink | — |
| Jaehyeon Kim | Factor House | Speaker | Building End-to-End Data Lineage with Kafka, Flink, and Spark | — |
| Jakob Edding | bakdata | Speaker | Migrating a Large-Scale Kafka Streams Platform to the KIP-1071 Rebalance Protocol | — |
| Jan Siekierski | Kentra | Speaker | Schema Management in Kafka (with GitOps!) | — |
| Jeff Xiang | Speaker | Handling Surges in Petabyte-Scale Streaming Systems by Doing Nothing | — | |
| Joan Gomez | Datadog | Speaker | From Batch to Real Time: Operating Cassandra CDC with Debezium at Datadog Scale | — |
| Joe Reis | — | Speaker | Town Hall: AI, Agents, and the Engineer in 2026 and Beyond | — |
| John McBride | Paper Compute Co | Speaker | Self-Healing Infrastructure: Through the power Streaming | — |
| Jon McCullagh-Vines | Confluent | Speaker | The High-Performance Backbone: Benchmarking Your Enterprise for Streaming Success | — |
| Josef Goldstein | Wix | Speaker | Life in the Slow Lane: Cost-Efficient Streaming Through Latency Tiering | — |
| Kate Stanley | IBM | Speaker | Strimzi AMA (Ft. Book Giveaway) | — |
| Kate Stanley | IBM | Speaker | KRafting your Kafka cluster on Kube | — |
| Kevin Dubois | IBM | Speaker | Supersonic Streams: When Quarkus Met Kafka | — |
| Kiril Piskunov | MarketAxess | Speaker | The "Plug & Play" Lie: Why Your Oracle CDC Pipeline Will Fail | — |
| Kundan Vyas | StreamNative | Speaker | Diskless Kafka Meets Iceberg: The Lakestream Foundation for Native Kafka | — |
| Kyle Klein | Confluent | Workshop | 20 Cars. Millions of Data Points. One F1 Leaderboard. Build It in less than an hour | — |
| Lianet Magrans | Confluent | Speaker | How to write your own partition assignor in Kafka’s KIP-848 Era | — |
| Lianet Magrans | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Kafka® AMA | — |
| Manish Dusad | Fidelity Investments | Speaker | From Blind Spots to Full Visibility: Kafka Observability with OpenTelemetry | — |
| Marcel Radusch | Vattenfall | Speaker | Kafka Governance without Tears: a Vattenfall case study | — |
| Marcos Prado | — | Speaker | Life as a Kafka Admin: Lessons from Running 30+ Clusters in Production | — |
| Maria Emmanuelli | Speaker | Bring analytics and AI to your data wherever it’s stored | — | |
| Martijn van der Pauw | Team Rockstars IT @Essent | Speaker | Towards Interoperable Intelligence: Streaming Foundations for Multi‑Agent Systems | — |
| Matthew Darwin | SingleStore | Speaker | Putting Kafka to Work: Real-Time GenAI on Streaming FX Data | — |
| Matthew Simpson | SingleStore | Speaker | Putting Kafka to Work: Real-Time GenAI on Streaming FX Data | — |
| Matthias Sax | Confluent | Speaker | Kafka Streams Birthday Party 🎂 | — |
| Matthias Sax | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Kafka® AMA | — |
| Md Nahidul Kibria | HelloFresh | Speaker | IceKaffe: Making Kafka Topics Queryable with Apache Iceberg at HelloFresh | — |
| MD Sayem Ahmed | eBay | Speaker | Debezium, Apache Kafka, and an Acyclic Synchronization Algorithm | — |
| Michael Muehlbeyer | Apps Associates | Speaker | A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Apache Kafka Data Migrations | — |
| Mike Doherty | Sybilion | Speaker | Flink Fires the Alert. Sybilion Explains What It Means, and What to Do About It. | — |
| Mike Doherty | Sybilion | Speaker | What's missing from real-time AI: the context-driven forecasting engine | — |
| Nandini Singhal | Datadog | Speaker | How Datadog Runs Its Streaming Platform | — |
| Nic Townsend | IBM | Speaker | Enterprise ready with the Flink HTTP Connector | — |
| Nic Townsend | IBM | Speaker | Fake It Till You Make It: Rapid Prototyping with Flink’s Datagen Connector | — |
| Nicoleta Lazar | Fresha | Speaker | From Hot Streams to Cold Ice: Unifying Streaming and Historical Analytics with Flink, Spark & StarRocks | — |
| Nuno Barros | Sybilion | Speaker | Flink Fires the Alert. Sybilion Explains What It Means, and What to Do About It. | — |
| Nuno Barros | Sybilion | Speaker | What's missing from real-time AI: the context-driven forecasting engine | — |
| Olena Kutsenko | Confluent | Speaker | Keeping data private in real-time pipelines | — |
| Paolo Patierno | IBM | Speaker | Streaming AI/ML with Apache Kafka: Real-Time Patterns for Modern Intelligence | — |
| Paolo Patierno | IBM | Speaker | Strimzi AMA (Ft. Book Giveaway) | — |
| Patrick Burger | E.ON | Speaker | Towards Interoperable Intelligence: Streaming Foundations for Multi‑Agent Systems | — |
| Peter Pugh-Jones | Confluent | Speaker | Financial Services Luncheon: The Data Streaming Imperative - Navigating the 2026 Financial Landscape | — |
| Piyush Narang | Zipline AI | Speaker | Real-Time Feature Engineering at Scale: Chaining Features and Inference with Chronon | — |
| Prachi Jamdade | Gravitee | Speaker | Who Let the Agent In? Securing MCP Servers in Production | — |
| Ramzi Alashabi | ABN AMRO | Speaker | Financial Services Luncheon: The Data Streaming Imperative - Navigating the 2026 Financial Landscape | — |
| Ramzi Alashabi | ABN AMRO | Speaker | Batch Is Just a Slow Stream: Designing Event-First Pipelines Without Going All-In on Real-Time | — |
| Robert Metzger | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Flink® AMA | — |
| Robert Metzger | Confluent | Speaker | Sizing, Benchmarking and Performance Tuning Apache Flink Clusters | — |
| Robert Metzger | Confluent | Speaker | Contributing to the Apache Flink Community Q&A | — |
| Robin Fehr | Acosom | Speaker | Testing Flink SQL Scripts Made Simple for Non-Developers | — |
| Roman Kolesnev | Streambased | Speaker | Rethinking CDC in a post Iceberg world | — |
| Samuel von Baußnern | D ONE | Speaker | From Weeks to Seconds: Real-Time ML Quality Control for Medical Device Manufacturing | — |
| Sandon Jacobs | Confluent | Speaker | Stop Answering Today's Questions with Yesterday's Data: Low-Latency RAG with Kafka and Flink | — |
| Sean Falconer | Confluent | Speaker | Your Model Is Fine. Your Context Is Broken. | — |
| Sébastien Viale | Michelin | Speaker | KIP-1111: Making Kafka Streams Internal Topic Naming Explicit and Safe | — |
| Sergey Zyrianov | Cisco | Speaker | Kafka as the Backbone for Distributed LLM Inference | — |
| Shuva Jyoti Kar | Palo Alto Networks | Speaker | Thinking in Streams: Building Stateful, Serverless Agentic Loops | — |
| Sijie Guo | StreamNative | Speaker | Diskless Kafka Meets Iceberg: The Lakestream Foundation for Native Kafka | — |
| Stefan Hudelmaier | huditech UG | Speaker | The GitHub for Streaming Data: Unlocking Open Data Streams | — |
| Stefan Sprenger | Confluent | Speaker | A peek under the hood of Confluent for VS Code | — |
| Steffen Hoellinger | Confluent | Speaker | 🤖 Building AI systems? Context - and Flink - is all you need! | — |
| Stephan Ewen | Restate | Speaker | The Missing Piece in the Kafka Stack: Durable Functions for Event-Driven Apps and AI Agents | — |
| Stephane Derosiaux | Conduktor | Speaker | To Fork Kafka or to Proxy Kafka? An Engineering Story | — |
| Tim Berglund | Confluent | Speaker | Kafka Streams Birthday Party 🎂 | — |
| Timo Walther | Confluent | Speaker | Apache Flink® AMA | — |
| Timo Walther | Confluent | Speaker | AI Needs Context. Why Flink is Made for Context Engineering | — |
| Tom Scott | Streambased | Speaker | Turning the database inside out again: What if everything was Iceberg? | — |
| Tony Cui | FanDuel | Speaker | Chaos to Golden Path - How FanDuel's Eventing Strategy Transformed Enterprise Event Streaming | — |
| Vasudha Khare | Confluent | Speaker | Your Model Is Fine. Your Context Is Broken. | — |
| Viktor Gamov | Confluent | Speaker | Supersonic Streams: When Quarkus Met Kafka | — |
| Vinayaka Gangadhar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Streaming CDC to Apache Iceberg at Scale with Apache Kafka: Best Practices for Enterprise Lakehouse Architectures | — |
| Willem Serruys | Cymo nv | Speaker | Streamiz: Bringing Native Kafka Streams to the .NET Ecosystem | — |
| Xin Gao | OpenAI | Speaker | Dynamic Kafka, Static Sleep: Taming Multi-Cluster Streams with Flink at OpenAI | — |
| Yashika Jain | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Streaming CDC to Apache Iceberg at Scale with Apache Kafka: Best Practices for Enterprise Lakehouse Architectures | — |
| Ziv Fridfertig | Skai | Speaker | Breaking Kafka at Scale: Lessons from Running 70K Topics on a Single Cluster | — |