IN PERSON! Apache Kafka® Meetup Gujarat- Mar 2026

Hello everyone! Join us for our IN PERSON Apache Kafka® meetup on Mar 28th from 11:00 am, hosted and sponsored by Awfis and Incubyte in Gujarat!

📍 Venue:
Awfis Ashram Road

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Agenda:

• 11:00am - 11:10am: Registration & Welcome
• 11:10am - 11:50am: Diptiman Raichaudhuri, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent
• 11:50am - 12:30pm : Sarthak Sonagara, Software Engineer, Confluent
• 12:30pm - 13:30pm: Lunch

If you would like to speak at or host a meetup please let us know! community@confluent.io
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💡 Speaker:
Diptiman Raichaudhuri, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent

Talk:
Build and Evaluate Data Engineering AI Agents

Abstract:
Join this session to understand how AI agents communicate with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink to extract insights from a data streaming platform. The objective is to demonstrate how data engineering AI agents could be built using agent frameworks like AWS Strands and how to impose an observability layer on top of these agentic frameworks to evaluate AI agents. Code demos would use Anthropic Claude Sonnet and Opus LLMs. Data engineering agents would use MCP tools to communicate with Kafka, Flink and DuckDB.

Bio:
Staff Developer Advocate at Confluent. Designed and implemented ‘Modern Data Platform’ for large scale enterprise use cases. Worked at the intersection of Data(Spark, Flink, Kafka, Kinesis, Redshift, Iceberg, Glue, Hive, Neo4j, Neptune) and AI(torch,sagemaker,vertex ai,kubeflow, LLMs) at cloud scale (AWS and Google Cloud).
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💡 Speaker:
Sarthak Sonagara, Software Engineer, Confluent

Talk:
Inside Kafka Connect: How Connectors Work

Abstract:
Ever needed to integrate a system that doesn't have an existing Kafka connector? We'll explore the open-source connector framework—understanding the difference between Source and Sink connectors, the task lifecycle, configuration validation, and how parallelism enables scalable data pipelines. You'll learn about Single Message Transforms (SMTs) for data manipulation, error handling strategies, and testing approaches to ensure production readiness. Whether you're planning to integrate a proprietary system or contribute to the open-source ecosystem, this session gives you the conceptual foundation to get started. We will also take a quick look at Kafka Connect Offset Management.

Bio:
Sarthak Sonagara is a Software Engineer at Confluent. He works on the Kafka Connect team, contributing to top cloud storage connectors that power data pipelines for organizations worldwide. Based in Ahmedabad, Sarthak is passionate about building reliable data integration solutions. He enjoys building productivity tools and exploring AI for automations.

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DISCLAIMER
BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT IN PERSON, you acknowledge that risk includes possible exposure to and illness from infectious diseases including COVID-19, and accept responsibility for this, if it occurs.
As the classroom is a mask-on setting, please be reminded that masks should still be worn at all times unless actively eating or drinking
NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.
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If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.iond