Confluent Current
Confluent · 2 keynotes · 2024, 2025 · mostly Data platforms and Agents · 11 announcements
Year by year
Key themes and the top highlight of each edition| Year | Keynote | Key themes | Top highlight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jay KrepsOct 29, 2025 · 1h 48m · videoData platforms, AgentsJay Kreps opened Current 2025 in New Orleans on building intelligent systems with real-time data | Data platforms, Agents | Jay Kreps opened Current 2025 in New Orleans on building intelligent systems with real-time data |
| 2024 | Jay KrepsSep 17, 2024 · 1h 37m · videoData platforms, Agents, Open sourceAI applications need data that is relevant and up to date with what is happening right now, Kreps argued | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | AI applications need data that is relevant and up to date with what is happening right now, Kreps argued |
Announcements
11 announcements
| Announcement | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| Confluent IntelligenceReal-time, trustworthy data platform for production AICurrent 2025 | GA | Current 2025 |
| Tableflow Delta Lake and Unity Catalog supportNative Databricks integrationCurrent 2025 | GA | Current 2025 |
| Confluent Hub 2.0Redesigned connector marketplaceCurrent 2025 | GA | Current 2025 |
| Real-Time Context EngineEarly access; serves enriched data to AI agents via MCPCurrent 2025 | Preview | Current 2025 |
| Streaming Agents Phase 2Agent definition, observability, and debuggingCurrent 2025 | Preview | Current 2025 |
| Unified Stream ManagerSingle control point for streaming data across the businessCurrent 2025 | Announced | Current 2025 |
| Queues for Kafka (KIP-932)Dynamic scaling for dedicated clustersCurrent 2025 | Preview | Current 2025 |
| mTLS AuthenticationLimited availability for enterprise clusters in DecemberCurrent 2025 | Preview | Current 2025 |
| Flink in Confluent PlatformStream processing on premisesCurrent 2024 | Announced | Current 2024 |
| TableflowKafka topics as Apache Iceberg tablesCurrent 2024 | Announced | Current 2024 |
| Flink Table API for Java and PythonProgrammatic Flink in Confluent CloudCurrent 2024 | Announced | Current 2024 |
About and year over year
Announcements per year
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Companies on stage: Airy, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, AWS Glue, ClickHouse, Confluent, Couchbase, Databricks, Firebolt, MariaDB, Redis, SingleStore, Weaviate, YugabyteDB
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