Join us for an exciting deep dive into the future of Kafka architecture and the intersection of AI with data streaming! Learn how diskless Kafka is revolutionising cloud-native deployments and discover how to interact with your Kafka data using natural language.
Date and Time: 🗓️ Wednesday 4th February, ⏰ 18:00 - 20:30 PM 🕘
Venue: Lacon House, London WC1X 8NL, United Kingdom
Attending Brands: OSO, Aiven, Lenses
Schedule:
18:00: Doors Open
18:00 - 18:30: Food, drinks, networking
18:30 - 19:00: "Diskless Kafka" - Hugh Evans, Aiven
19:00 - 19:30: “How Lenses MCP Brings AI to Kafka | Talk to Your Data with Claude & MCP" - Tun Shew, Lenses.io
19:30- 20:30pm: Additional Q&A, Networking
🎙️ ~Talk 1~
Talk Title: Diskless Kafka
Summary: Summary: Deep dive into KIP-1150 and the future of diskless Kafka, why diskless matters in cloud-native deployments, rerouting replication to object storage, and how diskless and traditional topics can coexist in one cluster. This talk explores the fundamental architectural shift that allows Kafka to leverage cloud object storage for data persistence, reducing operational complexity and costs while maintaining the performance characteristics that make Kafka the backbone of modern data infrastructure.
🗣️ Speaker 1: Hugh Evans is at Aiven
🎙️ ~Talk 2~
Talk Title: Go Faster on Kafka with AI-Assisted Engineering (Without Summoning Consumer Lag Demons)
Summary: Are you spending more time wrestling with Kafka configurations and debugging consumer lag than shipping real-time products? The era of AI-assisted engineering is here to change that. This talk takes you on a journey through the evolution of developer tools, moving from the editor wars of the past to a seamless AI-integrated future. We will demonstrate how next-generation tools like Cursor and Claude Code, paired with the Lenses MCP server, allow you to explore, manage and debug your Kafka environment simply using natural language. Through practical demos, you will see how to design robust topic strategies, apply governance best practices and deploy streaming data pipelines using any framework of your choice in seconds. We'll explore the best ways to shift your mindset towards leveraging an AI copilot and you'll leave with a list of actionable tips to enhance your daily routine and increase your productivity with AI today.
🗣️ Speaker 1: Tun Shwe, Lenses.io
