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🌙 Switching to dark mode. Live music, food, and games are all waiting for you on the ground floor! #Current26 London: let's party! 🪩

AI is only as strong as the data behind it. And for real-time AI, “good” isn’t enough. Join our roundtable led by Data Reply at #CurrentLondon! https://lnkd.in/dPZgmrxk We’re bringing together practitioners for a candid conversation on what it really takes to scale AI with real-time data - the wins, the lessons, the pain points and the tradeoffs.

Sandon Jacobs at Current London, throwing shade at me for being old, getting ready to talk architecture with us. (Both of these are good things.)

Trust us, data monsters are easier to wrangle when they're small. At #Current26 London? Stop by the booth to snag a data monster plushie of your own!

Today's second hackathon just kicked off in the expo hall! Can't make it to this one? No need to worry, we have 4 more sessions on the docket for #Current26 London. Here's what's coming up: May 19 3:00 PM · F1 Live: Supporting Team Mercedes? Build your own leaderboard! May 20 11:00 AM · Stop payment fraud in milliseconds. See and build it live! 12:30 PM · F1 Live: Supporting Team Ferrari? Build your own leaderboard! 2:00 PM · Beat your competitors with your own real-time pricing tracker.

We’re off and streaming here at #Current26 #CurrentLondon with a Kafka AMA session featuring this panel of experts. Drop by the Meetup Hub.

Whether you’re looking to learn more about Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Strimzi, make sure you stop by the meetup hub at #Current26 London! Check out a few of the events on today’s agenda. ⤵️ 🔷 12:30 | Apache Kafka® AMA with David Jacot, Lianet Magrans, Apoorv Mittal, Greg Harris, Andrew Schofield, 🦦 Matthias J. Sax 🔷 14:30 | Contributing to the Apache Flink Community Q&A with Robert Metzger and David Radley 🔷 16:30 | Strimzi AMA + Book Giveaway with Kate Stanley, Paolo Patierno, Gantigmaa Selenge

Just announced at the #Current26 London keynote: Confluent Intelligence is entering its next phase. Here’s what’s new. ⤵ 🔷 An upgraded Real-Time Context Engine with rich querying capabilities 🔷 A fully managed MCP server for Confluent Cloud with a catalog of Agent Skills 🔷 Streaming Agents, now with GA support and enterprise‑grade operations 🔷 Agent Management Console, a UI control plane for operating agents at scale 🔷 Additional support for Anthropic, TimesFM, and Fireworks AI models 🔷 Built-in ML functions like PII detection and sentiment analysis Full details are on our blog: https://cnfl.io/49bMqD7

We’re making AI-ready streaming accessible across the data, pipelines, and ops that your teams already manage. Here’s what’s new in our latest Confluent Cloud launch, coming to you live from #Current26 London! ⤵️ 🐿️ We’re making life easier for data engineers working with Confluent Cloud #ApacheFlink with a free, open-source dbt adapter, as well as Materialized Tables to simplify the evolution of streaming pipelines 🧠 We’re building on the open-source MCP server for Confluent Cloud with a new, managed option, along with Confluent Agent Skills that encode Confluent best practices directly into AI agents. ☁️ Kafka Copy Paste is stepping in for the “final mile” of the journey: client migrations. Migration from hosted Kafka to Confluent Cloud is now automated end-to-end. Learn all about the latest and greatest in Confluent Cloud on our blog: https://cnfl.io/49GU9Jz

Current London is on! If you’re here, look for David Anderson, Viktor Gamov, Olena Kutsenko, Joe Reis, Sandon Jacobs, and more. And be sure to visit the Certification Lounge in Victoria 7 (third floor) for your Data Streaming Engineer Certification!