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Upcoming events
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Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® x Apache Iceberg Meetup
Rue Gilt Groupe , 9, 10 Fenian S, Dublin, IEJoin us for an Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® x Apache Iceberg meetup on Tuesday, October 7th from 6:00pm in Dublin hosted by Rue Gilt Groupe and supported by Confluent!
📍Venue:
Rue Gilt Groupe Ireland, 9, 10 Fenian St, Dublin, Ireland
1st Floor🗓 Agenda:
- 6:00pm: Doors open
- 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Food, Drinks & Networking
- 6:30pm - 7:00pm: PPJ, Director, Solutions Engineering DSP
- 7:00pm - 7:20pm: Douglas Temple - Principal Engineer (Platform), RGG
- 7:20pm - 7:50pm: Tim Berglund, VP DevRel, Confluent
- 8:00pm - 9:00pm: Additional Q&A and Networking
💡 Speaker One:
PPJ, Director, Solutions Engineering DSPTitle of Talk:
End-to-End Kafka & Flink: Oracle, Flink, VSCode & BeyondAbstract:
Join us for a fast-paced, demo-focused session showcasing the latest in Kafka integrations. We’ll explore how Confluent Cloud (CC) connects with the new Oracle connector, delve into real-time processing with Flink, and demonstrate how developers can streamline workflows using our custom VSCode plugin. If time permits, we’ll also preview an exciting integration with Claude via Managed Connector Platform (MCP). Whether you’re building pipelines or enhancing dev productivity, this talk highlights practical tools to supercharge your Kafka ecosystem.Bio:
During a 30-year career, Peter has been lucky enough to have worked worldwide in diverse IT and Software Industries sectors. A passionate contributor to several well-known and established open source projects (in his spare time), Peter firmly believes in utilising the right tools and technology to meet the data and analytical challenges of business today while ensuring his customers derive the very best ROI.With the convergence of robotics, analytics, artificial intelligence and IoT on the cusp of this fourth industrial revolution, Peter firmly believes there has never been a more exciting time to work in data streaming and advanced analytics.
💡 Speaker Two:
Douglas Temple - Principal Engineer (Platform), RGGTitle of Talk:
Our ongoing journey from batch to event-driven systems in e-commerce.Abstract:
We present a lightning intermission talk exploring our gradual progress towards integrating event-driven systems into an existing batch-oriented architecture. We'll outline some of the challenges, missteps, and wins that we've experienced along this path and prospects for our future use real-time streaming with Apache Kafka using Confluent Cloud.💡 Speaker Three:
Tim Berglund, VP DevRel, ConfluentTitle of Talk:
Building Agents with MCP and Data StreamsAbstract:
LLMs are incredibly powerful, but they have two problems: they only know what they read on the Internet, and they can't actually do anything—they can only chat with you. If you want to build agentic applications that have access to the immediate, non-public context of your business, and you want your agents to be able take actions in the world, you'll probably need some help from the Model Context Protocol, or MCP.And that "business context" increasingly exists in the form of real-time streaming data, often in Kafka topics. Once you're asking your microservices to interpret natural-language prompts, then deputizing them to take actions on your behalf—this is what an agent is!—you can't afford for them to be acting on out-of-data context. They need to remain deeply connected to the events that matter to your business.In this talk, we'll get a solid overview of MCP itself, then see you how you can use it to build practical multi-agent architectures powered by real-time, streaming data. We'll see what's possible when we stop thinking about AI as an external chatbot and start treating it as part of our streaming architecture. Agents are here, and they are powered by streams.Bio:
Tim serves as the VP of Developer Relations at Confluent, where he and his team work to make streaming data and its emerging toolset accessible to all developers. He is a regular speaker at conferences and a presence on YouTube explaining complex technology topics in an accessible way. He lives with his wife and stepdaughter in Mountain View, CA, USA. He has three grown children, three step-children, and four grandchildren.***
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