Jay Kreps (Confluent Co-Founder and CEO), Shaun Clowes (Confluent CPO), and data streaming leaders from organizations like NASA, Warner Brothers, and Notion explore the past, present, and future of data streaming. They will address two key questions: how can organizations integrate data across their applications to deliver better experiences, and how can they embed data and analytics into every part of the business to drive better decision-making? The Keynote will present how a Data Streaming Platform built on Kafka can enable organizations to stitch together data from across the organization to produce high-value data assets that can be shared and used to support operational applications and data analytics, including exciting new use cases such as Generative AI.
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Shaun Clowes
ConfluentShaun Clowes is Chief Product Officer at Confluent
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Joseph Foster
NASAJoe Foster joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center as the Cloud Computing Program Manager in September 2018. He designed and built the Agency’s Mission Cloud Platform (MCP), achieving an Authorization To Operate (ATO) at a Moderate Security Level in only 10 months. Since the ATO, MCP has grown rapidly to now supporting almost 160 projects across all 10 NASA centers and still growing. For his work on MCP and thought leadership in the Federal space around Cloud Computing, Foster has won numerous awards including the 2020 Robert H Goddard Award, the 2021 NASA Agency Honors Award, and the 2021 Association for Federal Information Resources Management (AFFIRM) Leadership in Cloud Computing award winner.
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Jay Kreps
ConfluentJay Kreps is the CEO and co-founder of Confluent, the foundational platform for data in motion built on Apache Kafka. As a pioneer in a new category of data infrastructure, Confluent’s significant growth underscores the importance of data in motion across all industries. Prior to Confluent he was the lead architect for data and infrastructure at LinkedIn. He is the initial developer of several open source projects, including Apache Kafka.
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Girish Rao
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD)Girish is SVP, Engineering at Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) leading the Platform Engineering and Operations team delivering rich customer experience for Max and other products worldwide. At WBD, Girish leads the global platform spanning Release & Delivery Engineering, Cloud Engineering and Automation, Site Reliability Engineering, Global QA and Launch Mgmt functional areas that enable improvements in engineering and operational excellence across global teams. Prior to WBD, Girish’s 20+ years of professional journey spans various leadership positions in public traded Fortune 500 companies as well as some startups that he founded / worked at. Girish is based out of Seattle.
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Daniel Sternberg
NotionDaniel Sternberg leads Data at Notion, the all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. For the past decade, Daniel has worked at the intersection of data science, analytics and engineering at consumer and B2B technology companies. Daniel received his PhD In Cognitive Psychology from Stanford, where he studied human learning processes by combining behavioral experiments with computational models of learning and decision making. Daniel lives in San Francisco with his wife and two daughters.