AI Won’t Wait for Your Next Report: Build a Real-Time Data Foundation

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

AMER: 10 AM PDT | APAC: 10:30 AM IST | 1 PM SGT | 3 PM AEST | EMEA: 10 AM BST

AI is changing what you need from data infrastructure. Agents and applications operate at machine speed, so data must move at machine speed as well. Batch data and yesterday’s reports can’t power continuous decisions.

While AI can answer questions, the biggest opportunities require more – they need AI that can understand what is happening now and respond in the moment. When data arrives late, fragmented, or without the right context, powerful models and agents are limited to analyzing the past. Fraud can clear before anyone catches it. Inventory can run out before a system knows. A customer can churn before anyone responds.

The gap between when something happens in the business and when your data reflects it puts a ceiling on AI’s impact. Confluent’s data streaming platform closes that gap. Register now to learn:

• Why AI initiatives stall on data
• How to evolve from BI infrastructure to an AI one
• How to serve always-current business state for AI, apps, and analytics
• Real-time agentic use cases and reference architectures
• New product capabilities to connect data where it lives, stream and enrich it in motion, govern and share downstream
• How to move AI pilots into production

See an end-to-end demo, join Chief Product Officer Shaun Clowes for a live conversation, and get all your questions answered in the live Q&A!