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Upcoming events
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•OnlineVIRTUAL! AI Agents on Kafka and Flink
OnlineHello everyone! Join us for a VIRTUAL Apache Kafka® meetup on Dec 11th from 7:00 pm!
Agenda:
- 19:00pm-19:05pm: Introduction & Online Networking
- 19:05pm-19:50pm: Diptiman Raichaudhuri, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent
- 19:50pm: Q&A
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Speaker:
Diptiman Raichaudhuri, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent
Talk:
AI Agents on Kafka and Flink - A sneak peek into agents working with Confluent MCP
Abstract:
This session would start with an introduction to Apache Kafka and how a data streaming platform is built.
Then MCP(Model Context Protocol) would be introduced to the audience as a mean to solve enterprise grade agentic integrations challenges using a standard protocol.
After that Confluent-MCP along with Kafka and Flink tools would be explored using AI Agents (Claude Desktop, LangGraph and Strands).
Bio:
Developer Advocate at Confluent. Designed and implemented ‘Modern Data Platform’ for large scale enterprise use cases. Works at the intersection of Data(Spark, Flink, Kafka, Arrow, Iceberg, Glue, Hive) and AI(MCP, pytorch,sagemaker,vertex ai, LLMs) at cloud scale (AWS and Google Cloud).
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• Please hold your questions until the end of the presentation or use the zoom chat during!
• Please arrive on time as zoom meetings can become locked for many reasons (though if you get locked out a recording will be available, but you may have to wait a little while for it!)
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