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The shift left paradigm isn’t just a developer trend, it’s how Swedbank bakes in data governance, compliance, and security from the start.

In a highly regulated industry where every millisecond matters, Swedbank is shifting its data strategy to move fast without breaking trust. In this episode, Rami Al Lolah, Lead Architect at Swedbank’s Integration Center of Excellence, shares how the bank built a future-proof foundation using Apache Kafka with Confluent Cloud.

According to the 2025 Data Streaming Report, 44% IT leaders reap 5x or more ROI with data streaming. From powering AI initiatives to improving customer experience, find out how companies like @VictoriasSecret are driving myriad business benefits with easy access to real-time data.

Confluent’s Andrew Sellers shares how data products help you innovate faster by turning data into reusable, reliable assets.

Get a peek at the key findings from the 2025 Data Streaming Report and what 4K+ IT leaders had to say about how they’re driving business value (think faster time to market and AI innovation) with data streaming platforms.

Is your data strategy keeping up with your AI ambitions? In this special episode, we unpack findings from Confluent’s 2025 Data Streaming Report—a global pulse check on how IT leaders (4,000+ to be specific) are using data streaming to drive innovation, faster time to market, and reduce costs and complexity.

Confluent’s Andrew Sellers shares why domain-specific, real-time, and contextualized data is essential to getting real results from AI.

This demo showcases a use case for a mortgage provider that leverages Confluent Cloud, Databricks, and AWS to fully automate mortgage applications—from initial submission to final decision and offer. New to Confluent? Experience unified Apache Kafka and Apache Flink with a free trial.

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

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.