From Batch to Real-Time: The Business Case for Event Streaming

In today’s digital landscape, data that moves slowly is data that loses value. As organizations strive for instant insights, responsive experiences, and operational agility, batch processing can no longer keep up. Event streaming offers a transformative alternative—enabling continuous data flow, faster decision-making, and real-time responsiveness across systems and services.
In this session, we’ll explore why leading enterprises are embracing event-driven architectures and how event streaming unlocks new business potential. You’ll learn how real-time data pipelines drive innovation across industries, and how Kong’s Event Gateway brings consistency, observability, and governance to event-driven communication—bridging the gap between APIs and events for the modern enterprise.
What You’ll Learn:

• Why organizations are shifting from batch to event-driven architectures—and the business outcomes they gain
• How real-time event streaming improves agility, time-to-insight, and customer experience
• Common challenges in scaling and governing event-driven systems—and how to overcome them
• How Kong’s Event Gateway unifies APIs and events under one control plane for consistency and visibility