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Streaming Agents enable you to build, deploy, and orchestrate event-driven agents natively on Apache Flink and Apache Kafka. By unifying stream processing and agentic AI workflows, they leverage fresh context to continuously monitor and act on what’s happening in the business. In this demo, Brenner Heintz, Staff Technical Marketing Manager at Confluent, shows how to build agents that automate real-time competitive price matching on sales orders.

Discover how developers and data teams can build agentic AI applications with the combined power of Google Cloud AI services and Confluent Cloud’s real-time data streaming platform. This video showcases the joint value of integrating Apache Kafka, Confluent Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and Apache Flink to enable seamless, real-time communication between AI agents. What you’ll learn: With Confluent and Google Cloud, you can go beyond AI experiments to build scalable, enterprise-ready multi-agent systems powered by real-time data.

Moving data processing and governance closer to the source, aka shifting left in data integration, results in faster, easier access to reliable data when and where it’s needed—without wasteful and costly reprocessing of bad data.

AI is only as good as the data behind it. That’s why 87% of IT leaders are relying on data streaming platforms to feed AI systems. Dig into how businesses like Reworked AI and @Notion are accelerating their AI initiatives with DSPs.

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.