Recorded from the expo hall at Current New Orleans, Joseph Morais and Adi Polak break down keynote insights, trends in Apache Kafka®️, Apache Flink®️, and agentic AI, plus voices from the community shaping the future of real-time data streaming.

Metronome's CTO, Cosmo Wolfe shares how his team built a real-time monetization platform that delivers second-level latency for billing and revenue insights. Discover how Metronome leverages Confluent’s data streaming platform to process billions of events per day, enabling instant billing, fraud detection, and agile pricing at scale.

Cursor is redefining what coding looks like when AI and humans work side by side. In this episode, Alex Haugland explains how WarpStream and data streaming keep Cursor fast, private, and scalable while powering better AI productivity.

When AI agents truly connect, businesses move beyond isolated AI experiments to unlock scale and innovation. In this episode, Confluent's Sean Falconer dives into the Agent2Agent protocol, why agents need both fresh data and a powerful infrastructure, and how a data streaming platform turns isolated agents into a connected, business-driving force.

In a highly regulated industry where every millisecond matters, Swedbank is shifting its data strategy to move fast without breaking trust. In this episode, Rami Al Lolah, Lead Architect at Swedbank’s Integration Center of Excellence, shares how the bank built a future-proof foundation using Apache Kafka with Confluent Cloud.

How does a data streaming platform (DSP) unlock ROI? Confluent’s Andrew Sellers breaks it down in this special episode, sharing insights from the 2025 Data Streaming Report. From faster time to market to smarter AI, tune in and learn how 4,000+ IT leaders are driving business impact and up to 5x ROI with DSPs.

Strategic partnerships don’t work without trust. And in the data streaming world, trust begins with transparency. Confluent’s Elena Cuevas breaks down the art of cloud partnerships in the world of data streaming. From AWS to Azure, she reveals how collaboration—not competition—drives customer value at scale.

Allium’s CEO, Ethan Chan, reveals how Confluent’s data streaming platform helps them deliver clean, real-time blockchain data across nearly 100 chains, and why building your own infrastructure just doesn’t scale.