Kyle Klein

$20.9 billion is lost to fraud every year. Most of it could be stopped in milliseconds, if the right data were moving fast enough. In this 1-hour hackathon, build a real-time fraud detection pipeline that catches suspicious transactions the instant they happen, not hours later in a batch report. You'll learn key skills including setting up a live transaction pipeline, writing pattern detection rules that flag anomalous behavior as it happens, connecting a real-time view to monitor flagged transactions as they fire, and working with core Confluent concepts: topics, producers, consumers and stream processing. Walk away with a fully working fraud detection system AND the skills to apply it to your own data pipelines. Show up, build, and win. Laptops will be provided and the first to finish takes home a DJI Drone 🏆 Bonus: Every participant gets a limited-edition Confluent T-shirt!

20 cars. Hundreds of sensors. Millions of data points per race. In this 1-hour hackathon, plug into a live F1 event stream and build a real-time race leaderboard powered by Confluent - tracking lap times, positions and race order as they change, corner by corner. Pick your team: May 19 you're with Mercedes, May 20 you're with Ferrari and see if you can own the leaderboard before the chequered flag. You'll learn key skills including setting up a real-time ingestion pipeline for live F1 telemetry, writing stream processing logic to track lap times and race order as they change, building a live leaderboard that updates with every new event, and working with core Confluent concepts: topics, producers, consumers and stream processing. Walk away with a fully working real-time leaderboard AND the skills to apply it to any live event data stream. Show up, build, and win — first to finish takes home a DJI Drone 🏆 and every participant gets a limited-edition Confluent T-shirt!

This hands-on lab will guide you through building a real-time personalization engine using Confluent Cloud, Apache Flink, Databricks, and AWS. You’ll stream change data from Oracle with Confluent connectors, enrich and process it in Flink, and write it to Delta Lake with Tableflow. Finally, you’ll leverage Databricks Genie—powered by Mosaic AI—to generate dynamic promotional content and audience segments based on live booking and review data.