Confluent Streaming Event: Amsterdam 2019

Ben is a technologist in the Office of the CTO at Confluent where he has worked on a wide range of projects, from implementing the latest version of Kafka’s replication protocol through to developing strategies for streaming applications. Before Confluent Ben led the design and build of a company-wide data platform for a large financial institution, as well as working on a number of early service-oriented systems, both in finance and at Thoughtworks.

Nick Dearden is a technology and product leader at Confluent, where he enjoys leveraging many years of experience in the world of data and analytic systems to help design and explain the power of a streaming platform for every business. Prior to Confluent, he led the data platform group for a leading online real-estate seller and was chief architect for a cloud-based financial analytics platform. His early career stretches all the way back through multiple data warehouse and business intelligence adventures to the green-screen days of mainframe banking systems.

Lyndon is a Director of Customer Solutions at Confluent. He helps organizations model how Digital and specifically how event-centric thinking can enable new business models and improve company performance. Prior to joining Confluent, Lyndon was a; Director of Digital Strategy at Acquia (2014-2017), Head of Customer Success at a UK digital start-up (2009-2014) and an IT Strategist and Enterprise Architect at Accenture (1996-2008). Lyndon holds an MSc in Neuroscience incl. Neural Networks & AI, from Oxford University. He runs his own blog on all things Digital & Data here: https://lyndon.london