IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup - Nov 2025

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Nov 11th from 5:30pm, hosted by LimePoint in Sydney!

The address, agenda, and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

📍Venue:
Work Club Barangaroo
201 Kent St, Sydney 2000
(Ground Floor of the AON Building)

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🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Food, Drinks, and Networking
• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Chandramohan Kannusamy, Principal Consultant, LimePoint
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Rohan Walia, Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Networking

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💡 Speaker:
Rohan Walia, Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent

Talk:
KIP-932: The 'Q' We've All Been Waiting for in Kafka

Abstract:
For years, architects faced a false choice: the flexibility of traditional MQs (like RabbitMQ, SQS, or JMS) for task processing, or the power of Apache Kafka for real-time streaming. This resulted in fragmented data platforms, increased operational overhead, and costly data duplication.

Queues for Kafka is the feature that ends this divide. It delivers a best-of-both-worlds experience on a single, unified platform, allowing you to run traditional queue-based workloads directly on Kafka. In this session, you will learn about this new feature and how it can bring value.

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💡 Speaker:
Chandramohan Kannusamy, Principal Consultant, LimePoint

Talk:
Event-Driven Intelligence: Stream Processing and Agentic AI with MCP for Autonomous Decision-Making

Abstract:
A demonstration of how to automate high-stakes decisions by combining Confluent Cloud's streaming analytics with AI agents. Using Kafka for event ingestion, Flink for pattern detection, Model Context Protocol (MCP) for context enrichment, and LLMs for explainable reasoning, with high throughput and low latency.

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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io