Wednesday, November 4
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Decoupling the Behemoth: How Kafka Powers Bradesco's Real-Time Mainframe DB2 Offload to Cloud (Architecting a Resilient CDC Pipeline with Topics, Schema Registry, and Connectors at One of the World's Largest Banks)
Rafael Diniz Guerra, Banco Bradesco S/A.Room 2000
Wed, Nov 4, 1:00 PM
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State of Grace: Transactional State Stores and the End of EOS Recovery Pain in Kafka Streams
Bill Bejeck, ConfluentRoom 2002
Wed, Nov 4, 1:00 PM
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Surviving the Surge: Netflix's playbook for Kafka Resilience
Vinay Rayini, NetflixJorge Rodriguez, NetflixRoom 2004
Wed, Nov 4, 1:00 PM
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Your Apache KafkaⓇ Topics Are APIs - Treat Them Like It
Sandon Jacobs, ConfluentRoom 2006
Wed, Nov 4, 1:00 PM
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Sizing, Benchmarking and Performance Tuning Apache Flink Clusters
Robert Metzger, ConfluentRoom 2008
Wed, Nov 4, 1:00 PM
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Using Agentic AI to create the next generation of non-Java Kafka clients
Shivsundar R, ConfluentAndrew Schofield, ConfluentRoom 2010
Wed, Nov 4, 1:00 PM
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Orchestrating Intelligent Agent Ecosystems: Building a Real-time Streaming Backbone with Confluent and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Sean Falconer, ConfluentMerlin Yamssi, Google CloudRoom 2012
Wed, Nov 4, 1:00 PM
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From Real-Time Game Data to Autonomous AI Risk Decisions: Confluent + Orchestrate + IBM Bob
Lucas Fernandez, CDWInnovation Theater
Wed, Nov 4, 2:00 PM2:00–2:30 PM
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Handling Surges in Petabyte-Scale Streaming Systems by Doing Nothing
Jeff Xiang, Pinterest, Inc.Room 2002
Wed, Nov 4, 2:00 PM
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The Lean Kafka Streams Playbook: Making Java Containers Lighter and Faster
Neil Buesing, RaftRoom 2004
Wed, Nov 4, 2:00 PM
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Hardwood: Building a Parquet Parser From Scratch (With a Little Help From AI)
Gunnar Morling, ConfluentRoom 2006
Wed, Nov 4, 2:00 PM
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The Missing Protocol: Connecting AI Agents to Real-Time Data Streams
Sean Falconer, ConfluentViktor Gamov, ConfluentRoom 2008
Wed, Nov 4, 2:00 PM
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OpenLineage To Track Them All: From Kafka To The LakeHouse
Karel Alfonso Sague, Factor HouseChad Harris, Factor HouseRoom 2010
Wed, Nov 4, 2:00 PM
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The Lakestream Catalog: Turning Streams into Governed, Real-Time Context for Agents
Sijie Guo, StreamNativeKundan Vyas, StreamNativeRoom 2012
Wed, Nov 4, 2:00 PM
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Powering Interactive Agents with Live Context
Nate Stewart, MaterializeInnovation Theater
Wed, Nov 4, 2:40 PM2:40–3:10 PM
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The Iceberg Spec in Motion: v3 Features, v4 Proposals, and a Maturing Catalog Ecosystem
Alex Merced, DremioRoom 2000
Wed, Nov 4, 3:15 PM
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Keeping the Balance with Kafka Streams
Matthias Sax, ConfluentRoom 2002
Wed, Nov 4, 3:15 PM
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Know Your Clients: A 2026 Tour of the Apache Kafka Clients
David Jacot, ConfluentLianet Magrans, ConfluentRoom 2004
Wed, Nov 4, 3:15 PM
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The Taming of Change Data Capture: Lessons from Slack's Streaming Pipelines
Thomas Thornton, SlackRoom 2006
Wed, Nov 4, 3:15 PM
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All You Need Is Schema: A Cross-Language, Cross-Team Approach to Data Contracts
Brandon Brown, SecurityScorecardRoom 2008
Wed, Nov 4, 3:15 PM
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From Streaming ETL to AI-Ready Data Pipelines: The Evolution of Flink CDC
Leonard Xu, Alibaba CloudRoom 2010
Wed, Nov 4, 3:15 PM
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The Partition Tax: A Playbook for Right-Sizing Your Kafka Clusters
Charles Larrieu Casias, ConduktorRoom 2012
Wed, Nov 4, 3:15 PM
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AutoMQ: Agent-Managed Diskless Kafka
Xinyu Zhou, AutoMQInnovation Theater
Wed, Nov 4, 3:20 PM3:20–3:40 PM
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How Confluent Accelerates the IBM AI Operating Model
Denny O'Brien, TD SYNNEXInnovation Theater
Wed, Nov 4, 3:50 PM3:50–4:10 PM
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The Model Isn’t the Product: Building Streaming Evidence Layers for Industrial AI
Tony Lo, IntelFactor Systems, LLCRoom 2000
Wed, Nov 4, 4:15 PM
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Getting Started with Apache Flink: Design Patterns and Best Practices
David Anderson, ConfluentRoom 2002
Wed, Nov 4, 4:15 PM
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Queues, Ordering, and Long-Running Tasks in Kafka with Atleon
Sage Pierce, IndeedRoom 2004
Wed, Nov 4, 4:15 PM
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Cluster Mirroring: Rethinking Cross-Cluster Replication from Inside the Broker
Luke Chen, IBM (Red Hat)Federico Valeri, IBM (Red Hat)Room 2006
Wed, Nov 4, 4:15 PM
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These are not the brokers you are connecting to
Sam Barker, IBMRoom 2008
Wed, Nov 4, 4:15 PM
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AI-Augmented Diagnostics for Change Data Capture Pipelines: Triage, Lineage, and Downstream Impact Assessment
Jake Leister, Sammons Financial GroupRoom 2010
Wed, Nov 4, 4:15 PM
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Kafka Streams Needs Real Timers
Hartmut Armbruster, StoatFlowRoom 2012
Wed, Nov 4, 4:15 PM
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Kafka Ops from the Terminal, by You or Your AI Agent
Chad Harris, Factor HouseInnovation Theater
Wed, Nov 4, 4:20 PM4:20–4:40 PM
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Kafka Is Just the Beginning. Turn Real-Time Data into Trusted AI with IBM and Arrow
Sam Martin, Arrow ElectronicsInnovation Theater
Wed, Nov 4, 4:50 PM4:50–5:20 PM
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Thursday, November 5
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2026 Flink Community Checkpoint
Robert Metzger, ConfluentInnovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 9:30 AMLightning talk9:30–9:45 AM
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When the RAG-Time Never Stops
Benjamin Gamble, AI By WireRoom 2000
Thu, Nov 5, 9:30 AM
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From One Site to Twenty: A Reusable Blueprint for Manufacturing at Scale
Shalini Maripadaga, ConfluentRoom 2002
Thu, Nov 5, 9:30 AM
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Least Privilege for Non-Human Identities: Governing an Autonomous Kafka SRE Agent
Jeremy Frenay, LensesRoom 2004
Thu, Nov 5, 9:30 AM
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Wireshark for Kafka: Catch Your Client's Anti-Patterns on the Wire
Stephane Derosiaux, ConduktorRoom 2006
Thu, Nov 5, 9:30 AM
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Democratizing Access to Kafka at Scale: Running a Multi-Tenant Streaming Platform Under Strict Regulation
Julia Lok, TDDerek Troy-West, Factor HouseRoom 2008
Thu, Nov 5, 9:30 AM
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Kafka Disaster Recovery and Multi-Region Architectures
Michał Matłoka, SoftwareMillRoom 2010
Thu, Nov 5, 9:30 AM
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Breaking the Bottleneck: Why We Built Our Own Kafka Connect Source for Massive Mainframe Offloading
Marco Antonio Jonack, SerproInnovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 9:50 AMLightning talk9:50–10:05 AM
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The Producer Memory Math That Breaks at Scale (KIP-1332)
Nikita Shupletsov, ConfluentInnovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 10:10 AMLightning talk10:10–10:25 AM
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Watch Kafka Rebalance: Classic vs. Consumer Protocol, Live
David Jacot, ConfluentInnovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 10:30 AMLightning talk10:30–10:45 AM
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Masking PII/PCI in Motion: Real-Time Data-Loss Prevention with Kafka and Flink on Confluent Cloud
Leo Bombonato, Blip.aiErick Da Silva, DatatchêRoom 2000
Thu, Nov 5, 10:30 AM
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Introducing the Flink State Catalog: A New Era in State Observability
Gyula Fora, AppleRoom 2002
Thu, Nov 5, 10:30 AM
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Flink Watermarks* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Lorenzo Nicora, ConfluentJan Svoboda, ConfluentRoom 2004
Thu, Nov 5, 10:30 AM
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From Classic to Futuristic: Rolling out Diskless Topics with a Quality Program
Greg Harris, AivenRoom 2006
Thu, Nov 5, 10:30 AM
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Faster Kafka Without Changing Any Code
Simon Ritter, Azul SystemsRoom 2008
Thu, Nov 5, 10:30 AM
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EventBus at Dropbox: Self-Serve Millions of Events Per Second with Near-Zero Ops
David Yun, DropboxRoom 2010
Thu, Nov 5, 10:30 AM
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Serverless Kafka consumer applications and AI agents with AWS Lambda
Anton Aleksandrov, AWSNihar Sheth, AWS LambdaRoom 2012
Thu, Nov 5, 10:30 AM
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Flink with an AI Agent That Debugs Itself: A Harness Engineering Walkthrough
Purshotam Shah, YahooInnovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 10:50 AMLightning talk10:50–11:05 AM
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One Hash, N Connectors: Parallelizing MongoDB Managed Source Connectors Without Writing Connector Code
Guilherme Ferreira, MurmurationInnovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 11:30 AMLightning talk11:30–11:45 AM
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The MirrorMaker That Lies to Kafka (and Gets Away With It)
Vahid Hashemian, PinterestRoom 2000
Thu, Nov 5, 11:30 AM
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Lessons from migrating Flink Streaming and Batch platform to Kubernetes at LinkedIn
Sanil Jain, LinkedinRoom 2002
Thu, Nov 5, 11:30 AM
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No Data Engineers Required: DevEx and Operations for Thousands of Streaming Pipelines
Xiao Meng, GoldskyAvishek Neupane, GoldskyRoom 2004
Thu, Nov 5, 11:30 AM
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Driving the Enterprise Data Highway: Why McDonald's Ditched Self Managed Kafka
Yinsong Li, McDonald'sRaj Bhino Rajamani, McDonald'sRoom 2006
Thu, Nov 5, 11:30 AM
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When an SLA Isn't Enough: Cluster Linking as the Last Line of Defense for Brazil's Capital Markets
Kaio Lebid, B3 - Brazilian Stock ExchangeRoom 2008
Thu, Nov 5, 11:30 AM
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Kafka’s quiet observability superpower — Kafka Interceptors
Brett Au, Life360Jeffrey Jennings, signalRoom Inc.Room 2010
Thu, Nov 5, 11:30 AM
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Fork the Stream: Safe, Isolated AI Agents on Real-Time Data with AgileLog
Shreesha Gopalakrishna Bhat, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignRoom 2012
Thu, Nov 5, 11:30 AM
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Catching the Wave: PyFlink's missing DataFrame API
Zander MathesonTun Shwe, LensesInnovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 11:50 AMLightning talk11:50 AM–12:05 PM
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Lifting the Fog: Automated Kafka Topology Discovery for Event-Driven Architecture
Swati Bansal, CollectorsInnovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 1:30 PMLightning talk1:30–1:45 PM
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Beyond Watermarks: Custom Flink Operators for Feature-Trigger Synchronization
Csanád Bakos, VintedRoom 2002
Thu, Nov 5, 1:30 PM
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Stop Scanning the Whole Topic: Server-Side Filtered Reads for Agent Context
David Kjerrumgaard, StreamNativeRoom 2004
Thu, Nov 5, 1:30 PM
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Teaching datalakes to speak human with LLMs and MCP
Olena Kutsenko, ConfluentRoom 2006
Thu, Nov 5, 1:30 PM
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From Change Data to Live Context: Serving CDC Streams to AI Agents over MCP
Ankit Srivastava, Humana IncRoom 2008
Thu, Nov 5, 1:30 PM
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Falcon: Democratizing Stream Processing with Flink SQL and Config-Driven Event Routing
Arthur Li, SlackRoom 2010
Thu, Nov 5, 1:30 PM
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Agentic Coding For Data Streaming Engineers
Lucia Cerchie, Confluent, and IBM CompanyBernie Chen, ConfluentRoom 2012
Thu, Nov 5, 1:30 PM
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Kafka as the Agent Action Log: Replay, Recovery, and Observability for AI Agents
Ron Kapoor, ConduktorInnovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 1:50 PMLightning talk1:50–2:05 PM
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More pods won't save you: how Whatnot scaled Kafka producers past 50,000 pods
Micah Denbraver, Whatnot Inc.Innovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 2:10 PMLightning talk2:10–2:25 PM
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Towards a sovereign streaming cloud: Self-hosting and operational excellence on BYOC & Kubernetes
Pavan Keshavamurthy, PlatformatoryInnovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 2:30 PMLightning talk2:30–2:45 PM
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Forget Everything You Know About Ingestion Engines
Doron Porat, EonLiran Yogev, EONRoom 2000
Thu, Nov 5, 2:30 PM
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What Would It Take to Shrink a Kafka Partition? A Portable Pattern for Live Repartitioning — and Where Each Broker Hits Its Limit
Manideep Bora, www.tradestation.comRoom 2004
Thu, Nov 5, 2:30 PM
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The Other Side of Event Streaming Nobody Talks About
Sugam Sharma, Zeliot Connected Services Private LimitedRoom 2006
Thu, Nov 5, 2:30 PM
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Choreography and Orchestration: React to Kafka Events in Real-Time with Kafka Connect and Business-as-Code
Colt McNealy, LittleHorse EnterprisesRoom 2008
Thu, Nov 5, 2:30 PM
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Streamling: Lightweight, Extensible Data Streaming Framework on Apache DataFusion
Rafael Aguiar, GoldskyYaroslav Tkachenko, IrontoolsRoom 2010
Thu, Nov 5, 2:30 PM
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When Kafka + Flink + Redis Isn't Enough: Building a Context Lake for Sub-Second Agent Decisions
Xiaowei Jiang, TacnodeRoom 2012
Thu, Nov 5, 2:30 PM
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Understanding Puffin File Format for Advanced Query Optimization in Apache Iceberg
Dipankar Mazumdar, ClouderaInnovation Theater
Thu, Nov 5, 2:50 PMLightning talk2:50–3:05 PM
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