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Data Streaming Summit 2026: The Data+Agent Conference
Oct 7–8, 2026 · Hotel Nikko San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- Data Streaming Summit Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Oct 7, 2026 – Oct 8, 2026
- Venue
- Hotel Nikko San Francisco
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- datastreaming-summit.org
- Recorded
- 24 sponsors · 56 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Day 1 (Oct 7): free Data+Agent Hackathon; day 2 (Oct 8): keynotes and 32 breakouts in four tracks (Streaming Infrastructure, Lakehouse & Real-Time Pipelines, Context & Memory for Agents, Agent Runtime & Governance). Full session list from the agenda data on the live site; recordings on streamnative.io. Early bird ended Aug 31 but prices were not captured (Eventbrite page shows none after sales ended).
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 24
Title / headline 1
- StreamNative · Host
Platinum 4
- Amazon Web Services · Platinum sponsors
- Materialize · Platinum sponsors
- RisingWave · Platinum sponsors
- Ververica · Platinum sponsors
Gold 3
- Conduktor · Gold sponsors
- Greydient Lab · Gold sponsors
- PhoenixAI · Gold sponsors
Silver 2
- PuppyGraph · Silver sponsors
- Synadia · Silver sponsors
Community 14
- CocoIndex · Community sponsors
- Factor House · Community sponsors
- Lenses.io · Community sponsors
- Nuaav · Community sponsors
- ShadowTraffic · Community sponsors
- Starburst · Community sponsors
- StarTree · Community sponsors
- Steadforce · Community sponsors
- Streambased · Community sponsors
- Suger · Community sponsors
- Timeplus · Community sponsors
- TrustGraph · Community sponsors
- VeloDB · Community sponsors
- Volt Active Data · Community sponsors
Speakers and talks 56
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Mathew | Databricks | Keynote | Opening Keynote | Video |
| Jaime López | Ververica | Keynote | Opening Keynote | Video |
| Justin Zhu | Mithra | Keynote | Fireside Chat: Agents as the New Customer | Video |
| Kundan Vyas | StreamNative | Keynote | Opening Keynote | Video |
| Matteo Merli | StreamNative | Keynote | Opening Keynote | Video |
| Ray Qureshi | OpenAI | Keynote | Opening Keynote | Video |
| Rayees Pasha | RisingWave | Keynote | Opening Keynote | Video |
| Sijie Guo | StreamNative | Keynote | Fireside Chat: Agents as the New Customer | Video |
| Sijie Guo | StreamNative | Keynote | Opening Keynote | Video |
| Abhinav Wagle | Together AI | Panelist | Closing Panel: Data Platforms Were Built for Humans - What Do Agents Actually Need? | Video |
| Abhinav Wagle | Together AI | Speaker | Immutable Events, Real-Time Decisions | Video |
| Ahmed Ibrahim | OpenAI | Speaker | MCP Is Not Free Context | Video |
| Alfred Schmid | Steadforce | Speaker | Schedule Heavy and Long-Living Workloads in Highly Scalable Kubernetes Clusters | Video |
| Ananth Packkildurai | Zeta Global | Speaker | One Partition, 2,000 Tenants: Order Preserving Fair Kafka Consumption with an LSM in Object Storage | Video |
| Bonnie Xu | OpenAI | Panelist | Closing Panel: Data Platforms Were Built for Humans - What Do Agents Actually Need? | Video |
| Bonnie Xu | OpenAI | Speaker | Inside Open AI's Internal AI Data Agent | Video |
| Cazen Lee | SK Telecom | Speaker | Carrier-Scale Real-Time Decisioning with Streaming Data and AI Agents at SK Telecom | Video |
| Chinmay Soman | StarTree | Speaker | From Seconds to Years: Building Full-Spectrum Analytics with StreamNative, Iceberg, and StarTree | Video |
| Connor Clark | Harvey | Speaker | Teaching the Agent Your Data | — |
| Connor Clark | Harvey | Panelist | Closing Panel: Data Platforms Were Built for Humans - What Do Agents Actually Need? | Video |
| Dinesh Chandrasekhar | Stratola Research | Speaker | The Context Tax: Why Your Agents Pay for the Same Context Over and Over | Video |
| Felipe Perez | OpenAI | Speaker | Testing the Nondeterministic: Evals and Experiments for Agent Systems | Video |
| Gang Tao | Timeplus | Speaker | Machine-Speed Threats Need Machine-Speed Defense: Real-Time Guardrails for AI Agents with Streaming | Video |
| Irene Rodríguez | New Relic | Speaker | Resolving Data Skew in Non-Kafka Ingestion | Video |
| Jeff Ling | Goldsky | Speaker | Yet Another Rewrite in Rust | Video |
| Jeremy Frenay | Lenses.io | Speaker | Building an Autonomous SRE Agent for Kafka Incidents | Video |
| Jianmei Ye | Adobe | Speaker | Stateful Stream Processing for Autonomous Identity Graph Protection | Video |
| Jingyi Cui | Harvey | Speaker | Teaching the Agent Your Data | — |
| Justin Cunningham | Airbnb | Speaker | Declarative Data Movement at Scale: Unifying Streaming and Offline-to-Online Pipelines | Video |
| Kundan Vyas | StreamNative | Panelist | Closing Panel: Data Platforms Were Built for Humans - What Do Agents Actually Need? | Video |
| Kundan Vyas | StreamNative | Speaker | From Seconds to Years: Building Full-Spectrum Analytics with StreamNative, Iceberg, and StarTree | Video |
| Lari Hotari | StreamNative | Speaker | Key Order Without Compromise: Scalable Topics in Apache Pulsar 5.0 | Video |
| Liang Mou | Speaker | Next-Generation DB Ingestion at Pinterest: From CDC + Iceberg to Agentic Onboarding | Video | |
| Naga Durga Rao Dindi | Toyota | Speaker | Event-Sourced Agents: Rebuilding Agent Memory as a Kafka Log, Not a Vector Lookup | Video |
| Owen Zhang | Speaker | Next-Generation DB Ingestion at Pinterest: From CDC + Iceberg to Agentic Onboarding | Video | |
| Parth Nagori | Twilio Segment | Speaker | Why Stream Aggregations Break: Real-Time State Over a Messy Event Stream at Scale | Video |
| Pranali Awasekar | Twilio Segment | Speaker | Why Stream Aggregations Break: Real-Time State Over a Messy Event Stream at Scale | Video |
| Qiang Zhao | StreamNative | Speaker | Building Rich Context on Live Data with StreamNative and RisingWave | Video |
| Ram Alagappan | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Speaker | Forkable Shared Logs: Letting AI Agents Safely Operate on Live Data | Video |
| Rayees Pasha | RisingWave | Speaker | Building Rich Context on Live Data with StreamNative and RisingWave | Video |
| Sai Krishna Chaitanya Govada | Airbnb | Speaker | Declarative Data Movement at Scale: Unifying Streaming and Offline-to-Online Pipelines | Video |
| Saish Sali | Netflix | Speaker | Building the Model Lifecycle Graph | Video |
| Seth Wiesman | Materialize | Speaker | Building Live Context for Interactive AI Agents with SQL | — |
| Seungbum Lee | SK Telecom | Speaker | Carrier-Scale Real-Time Decisioning with Streaming Data and AI Agents at SK Telecom | Video |
| Shaghayegh Moradirad | Stanford University | Speaker | MCP Is Not Free Context | Video |
| Shubham Amilkanthwar | Crusoe | Speaker | Streaming 5 GB/s into a Lakehouse. Running Kafka to Iceberg for Durable, Queryable Context | — |
| Smruthi Mukund | JPMorgan Chase | Panelist | Closing Panel: Data Platforms Were Built for Humans - What Do Agents Actually Need? | Video |
| Spoorthi Basu | Genesys Cloud Services | Speaker | Your Agent's Memory Is Only as Good as the Pipeline Behind It | Video |
| Stella Gai | OpenAI | Speaker | The AI-Native Flink Experience at OpenAI | Video |
| Stephane Derosiaux | Conduktor | Speaker | Event-Driven Memory for LLM Agent Swarms | Video |
| Ting Wang | Timeplus | Speaker | Machine-Speed Threats Need Machine-Speed Defense: Real-Time Guardrails for AI Agents with Streaming | Video |
| Vahid Hashemian | Speaker | The MirrorMaker That Lies to Kafka (and Gets Away With It) | Video | |
| Vivek Garg | e6data | Speaker | Beating the Concurrency Tax: Millions of Rows/Sec on a Single Iceberg Table | Video |
| Weimo Liu | PuppyGraph | Speaker | From Thousands of Tables to an Ontology Graph: Building an AI Agent with Usra and PuppyGraph | Video |
| Xinyuan Liang | Adobe | Speaker | Stateful Stream Processing for Autonomous Identity Graph Protection | Video |
| Yaroslav Tkachenko | Irontools | Speaker | Lessons Learned: Vectorizing Apache Flink | Video |
Sources
- https://datastreaming-summit.org/dss2026
- https://web.archive.org/web/20261005232409/https://datastreaming-summit.org/dss2026?utm_campaign=44494253-%5BEvent%5D%20Data%20Streaming%20Summit%202026&utm_content=386973483&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-1058828554459205632
- https://streamnative.io/blog/announcing-data-streaming-summit-2026-the-data-streaming-agent-infra-conference
- https://streamnative.io/blog/announcing-the-agenda-for-data-streaming-summit-2026-the-data-agent-conference
- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-streaming-summit-2026-the-data-streaming-agent-infra-conference-tickets-1990614661037
- https://streamnative.io/data-streaming-summit/recordings