Anna McDonald

Leveraging new technology for your role is not new. AI is changing how we work and we all need to adapt and leverage this innovation not help in our daily role, reduce bias, and build equity. Join Confluent’s Women Inclusion Network (WIN) as we host a networking reception and panel of women to discuss ways in which we can get rid of extra and use AI to reduce bias, improve your work, build prompts to highlight your work, and ensure that we continue to build Equity with Technology. People that join this session will leave with: - Tools and using AI - ways to build prompts that amplify your work - Templatizing and getting rid of the extra work - Using AI to be more accurate, reduce bias, and reduce gendered language - Using AI for what is natural for you and Train the model to show beyond what is expected!

Once thought to be a temporary state, more and more organizations are finding out that maintaining on-prem Kafka and a cloud deployment may last years or even forever. Confronting disparity deployments means dealing with the inherent differences between on-prem and cloud Kafka. Whether you are using a service provider or maintaining your own, there are important items to tackle for long term success. In this talk we will cover the most important strategies to ensure a successful hybrid deployment such as: * Entitlement: How to manage and unify AUTHN and AUTHZ * Data availability: Patterns for data migration and continual sync between on-prem and cloud * One onboarding to rule them all: Altering your existing control plane to accommodate hybrid * Monitoring: Creating a standard for your entire Kafka estate At the end of this talk you will understand the critical aspects that need to be addressed to cut through the confusion, and enjoy long term hybrid stability.