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LIVE from Current NOLA: Scaling Streaming in the AI Era | Life Is But A Stream

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.

This Is Where Agentic AI Is Headed Next | Insights From Current NOLA

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.

The Future of Data Is All in the Packaging | Current '25 Keynote Highlights

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.

Real-Time Context Engine: Power AI Agents With Instant Intelligence | Current '25 Keynote Highlights

– 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.