IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup Bangalore- May 2026
Details
Hello everyone! Join us for an IN PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on May 16 from 11:00AM, hosted by New Relic in Bangalore!
📍 Venue:
New Relic
One India Pvt Ltd (Bangalore Office), 2nd floor, Signature, Pyramid Ln, Embassy Golf Links Business Park, Challaghatta, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560071
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Agenda:
- 11:00 - 11:10: Welcome
- 11:10 - 11:50: Kumar Keshav, Manager II, Engineering, Confluent
- 11:50 - 12:30: Saumitra Srivastav - Principal Engineer, Glassbeam
- 12:30 - 12:40: Break
- 12:40 - 12:55: Jones Zachariah Noel N, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic
- 12:55 - 14:00: Lunch
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💡 Speaker:
Eishwar Anand, Technical Support Engineer, Confluent (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eishwar-anand-78a118b0/)
Talk:
ZooKeeper to KRaft Migration: Metadata Perspective
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💡 Speaker:
Saumitra Srivastav, Principal Engineer, Glassbeam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumitras/)
Talk:
Building a real-time risk decisioning platform
This session will dive into how fraud and risk decisioning is being reshaped by advancements in agentic AI. We will discuss architecture patterns for building a real-time transaction risk platform that combines rules, ML, and reasoning agents, and how AI can augment existing tools, surface novel threat patterns, accelerate investigations and elevate compliance from reactive to proactive.
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💡 Speaker:
Jones Zachariah Noel N, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic
Talk:
Understanding Tracing for your Kafka Clusters with Opentelemetry
Abstract:
Event driven applications leverage Kafka topics which could fail for whatever reasons. With Opentelemetry, you can bring the traces which can help you navigate the hops and how errors from consumer or producer can be pin pointed.