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We recently released our 2026 Confluent Predictions Report, outlining bold ideas and trends that are shaping the future of data, AI, and real-time systems. And stay tuned for an upcoming episode of the Life Is But a Stream web show that will air early in the new year. Join the conversation as host Joseph Morais sits down with Sanjeev Mohan, independent analyst at SanjMo, for an exciting roundtable discussion breaking down those predictions. Are they forecasts? Are they trends? And which ones will matter most as we move forward into 2026?

Technology leaders share how they process streaming events end-to-end in sub-second latency, secure sensitive data through immutable and governed pipelines, power secured real-time systems in regulated environments, and enable multi-agent AI systems built on fresh, continuously streaming data.

In 2025, real-time data moved from important to mission-critical. From billion-event pipelines to AI agents reasoning over fresh data streams, the conversations this year revealed just how fast organizations are rethinking their data infrastructure and what’s possible when data streaming becomes the foundation.

Mohamed Ahmed Anwar shares why “shifting left” to process data closer to its source is key to AI agent performance, speeds RAG knowledge updates, And eases the move from legacy on-prem to scalable cloud architectures.

See how Tableflow converts data to Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake format, and how it can be integrated with Amazon Redshift to query and analyze customer activity snapshots.