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Are you building something great with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Iceberg, or AI? Let’s see it! Call for Papers for #Current26 San Francisco is now open! This is your chance to share real-world wins, bold ideas, and hands-on lessons with the data streaming community. You bring your expertise, we’ll bring the mic. Submit your talk by June 8 → cnfl.io/4da4m3o

🆕 on the Confluent Blog: Learn how to reduce the client cutover step from a weeks-long effort of cross-team coordination and setup to a few KCP commands. Check out how KCP and Gateway work together to make client migration seamless, safe, and rollback-friendly: cnfl.io/4el9Nh7

AI agents can't operate on stale data. The enterprises building durable agentic systems know this, and that’s why they're building on real-time streaming infrastructure from the start. In this 🆕 episode of Life Is But A Stream, Varun Jasti joins Joseph Morais to break down how our partnership with AWS gives enterprises a production-ready foundation for agentic AI without the infrastructure overhead. Tune in: cnfl.io/4cF3WSo | 💙 @AWS_Partners

As we close out #GoogleCloudNext, one thing is abundantly clear: When it comes to agentic AI, context is king. @thedatagiant talks through his top takeaways from the week. ⤵️

The key to an agentic future? 🔑 Modifying, manipulating, and enriching data in real time. 🎤 @thedatagiant | #GoogleCloudNext

Agents have to stop being reactive and become systems of actions. In other words, they have to become event-driven. Let's break it down. ⤵️ 🎤 @thedatagiant | #GoogleCloudNext

With the Gemini Enterprise Platform announcement the keynote yesterday, Google acknowledged that Model Context Protocol is here to stay. So, what does that mean? @thedatagiant breaks it down.

⏱️ From topics to queries in seconds. We met up with Rashmi to talk about our BigQuery Sink V2 Connector and why analytics are key in a world of agentic AI. ⤵️ 🎤 @thedatagiant | #GoogleCloudNext

Morning, #GoogleCloudNext! ☕️ Ready to kick off Day 2? Come hang out with us at booth 7209!

Don’t just hear about the future. Join us in building it! At the #Current26 London keynote, @jaykreps, @ShaunMClowes, Can Sözeri from @getir, and industry thought leaders will show how data streaming powers AI with shift-left strategies, live demos, and real-world wins. Secure your spot: cnfl.io/4cs2dQh

AI agents are only as good as the data they can access, but legacy architectures often fail to provide the real-time context agents require. @seanfalconer's lightning talk will explore context engineering: the foundation for ensuring data freshness and quality. We met up with him to hear all about it. At #GoogleCloudNext? Add it to your agenda: cnfl.io/41PVVUs 🎤 @thedatagiant

🔴 Live from Las Vegas, it’s #GoogleCloudNext! @thedatagiant is back as your on-site correspondent to bring you a backstage pass. At the event? Want to say hi? Here’s where we’ll be: 📍 Booth 7209, where we'll show you how to stream data from anywhere to Google Cloud. 📍 Taking the Expo Theater 2 stage for a lightning talk all about Context Engineering. More info: cnfl.io/4dj4ZIn 📍Hosting a happy hour with @MongoDB + @LangChain at Border Grill before Next at Night. Register here to join us: cnfl.io/46SZY5p

Simpler to Build On. Simpler to Run. Confluent Platform 8.2 is here! Built on Apache Kafka 4.2, this update extends and simplifies what you can do with Kafka and Apache Flink. Handle task-queue workloads natively, build rich stateful apps with Flink SQL, and manage cluster migrations without the usual operational burden. Check it out: cnfl.io/4sAycm0

Don't miss our Context Engineering Lightning Talk next week at #GoogleCloudNext! Join @seanfalconer as he showcases how Confluent and @googleCcoud work hand-in-hand to enable accurate, autonomous action without the lag you’d find in traditional data stacks. → cnfl.io/4dj4ZIn | @gcloudpartners

In this new episode of Life Is But A Stream, Kevin Johnson joins @thedatagiant to share how Focal Systems (our first-ever Data Streaming Startup of the Year!) built a computer vision platform that processes millions of shelf images daily with Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud. From 95% inventory accuracy to real-time task automation, see what happens when AI-powered products are built on a foundation that can actually keep up: cnfl.io/4tMj1Ho

How do you scale from 1 to 1M AI agents? @atf_ai built a multi‑agent platform on Confluent Cloud + @AWS that sustained ~1,880 agent calls/sec with sub‑30 ms latency. Dive into the architecture + benchmarks in our new blog: cnfl.io/3QaW95U

The return on your AI investment isn’t behind the highest-IQ implementation strategy deck. It’s behind play. Just as we developed executive function skills (such as working memory and cognitive flexibility) through play in childhood, we can build AI skills by integrating tools into daily work, sharing what we learn across teams, and engaging in deliberate, structured experimentation. Learn more in @seanfalconer’s latest in @Techstrongai ⤵️ techstrong.ai/features/if-yo…

⌛️Happening tomorrow! Join Madhu Kochar, Sean Falconer, and Brenner Heintz to see how @IBM and Confluent make production AI possible with real-time data. Save your spot: cnfl.io/40WmUxk