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Ramon Cidade shares why Apache Flink was a game changer at Current 2025 in New Orleans, and gives his take on what makes the data streaming event so special: the community, the people, and the technology they’re innovating with.

From the heart of the expo hall at Current NOLA, this special episode drops you into the conversations, energy, and the breakthroughs as they happened. Host, Joseph Morais, and co-host, Adi Polak talk with data streaming leaders and community voices to unpack how teams are using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink to power low-latency, AI-ready applications—covering patterns from usage-based billing and hybrid operations to cost efficiency and streaming governance. You’ll also hear how shift-left processing and governance make AI-ready data possible at scale.

Experience the vibe of Current NOLA! Big insights, thought-provoking conversations, and real voices from the data streaming community.#current25.

What does the future hold for agentic AI? Lucia Cerchie predicts a shift from chatbots to more agent-to-agent interactions built into real-world business workflows.

See how Debezium captures real-time data changes from a Postgres database. Watch how inserts, updates, and deletes work and are being streamed instantly, ensuring exceptional auditability, reproducibility, and replayability of the data.

Monitoring is old school. Agentic AI makes observability autonomous. Learn how it can be used to spot patterns, find issues, and keep systems healthy—all on its own.

Ever wondered what's next for agentic AI? In this quick chat, we dive into how agentic AI and real-time data are shaping the future—helping systems predict trends, make smarter decisions, and much more. Watch to find out what could be coming in 2026.

First, Simon Aubury, co-author of "Getting Started With DuckDB," explains why treating data as a product (complete with an owner, a schema, and SLAs) is the key to building a culture of quality and accountability. He explores how this shift in mindset creates the right incentives for application developers and aligns the entire organization on the true value of its data.

– ABOUT CONFLUENT Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Confluent’s cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion – designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven backend operations.

– ABOUT CONFLUENT Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Confluent’s cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion – designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven backend operations.

Confluent data streaming platform makes creating a real-time sales meeting coach app easy. Event-driven architecture, Apache Flink SQL simplicity, and built-in connectors deliver the right messaging at the right time, straight from your company’s knowledge base.#confluent.