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Want better outcomes with partners? Elena Cuevas of Confluent shares how long-term trust—built before the problem—creates room for win-win outcomes.

In this episode, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, is joined by Soren Marklund, Vice President of Global Services, Technology Consulting, and AI Data Strategy at Ericsson. They explore how Ericsson leverages modern data architectures to enhance customer interactions and drive business benefits. The discussion covers the importance of a unified data operating model, challenges faced with data silos, and the role of AI and machine learning in improving customer service.

Did you know that 51% of teams cite limited skills or experience in test automation as their biggest challenge? This insight from the State of Software Quality 2025 Report reveals a major roadblock to successful test automation across the industry. Teams continue to face difficulties in implementing and scaling automation due to a lack of trained talent. But there is a path forward—through strategic training, team upskilling, and the use of intuitive automation tools.

BigQuery Data Engineering Agents are here to help data analysts and engineers build faster, and focus more on creative problem-solving. Lucia Subatin shows how these AI-powered agents can save your time from tedious coding, schema mapping, and manual metadata creation Speakers: Lucia Subatin Products Mentioned: AI Infrastructure, BigQuery.

Have you checked out SmartBear's Server which opens the door to capabilities from across our API Hub, Test Hub, and Insight Hub right within your AI development environment. In this video, Yousif Ahmed fixes a real software issue using a combination of our Insight Hub MCP tools together with GitHub Co-pilot.

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a Fivetran Connector SDK custom connector using VS Code and GitHub Copilot. The demo showcases the end-to-end process of creating, testing, and deploying a connector that ingests tobacco problem reports from the openFDA API. What You'll Learn Resources.

Why replicate data across Kafka clusters? What options are out there for Kafka to Kafka replication? Adamos Loizou and Stefan Bocutiu explain the most common reasons for Kafka replication, and the principles behind our platform-neutral Kafka replicator -- Lenses K2K.

Snowflake Summit 2025 marked a major shift in the modern data stack bringing AI closer to your data, simplifying operations, and making every layer more connected. From Cortex AI SQL and Native Agents to Adaptive Compute and enhanced governance with Horizon Catalog, Snowflake is evolving from a warehouse into the execution engine for intelligent apps.

Elena Cuevas of Confluent shares that partnerships thrive when it’s not “you or me”, but what you can do together.

Strategic partnerships don’t work without trust. And in the data streaming world, trust begins with transparency. In this episode, Elena Cuevas, Sr. Manager of Cloud Partner Solutions Engineering at Confluent, joins Joseph Morais to unpack what it takes to collaborate with hyperscalers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. From managing competitive overlaps to future-proofing enterprise data architectures, Elena shares her battle-tested strategies for driving alignment across complex stakeholder ecosystems.