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Confluent Current 2025

Apr 2 to Oct 30, 2025 · New Orleans · 3 keynotes

Other years: 2026 · 2024 · 2023

Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time Data

Oct 29, 2025 · 1h 48m · New Orleans

Jay Kreps opened Current 2025 in New Orleans arguing real-time, governed data is what makes AI agents trustworthy, launching Unified Stream Manager and a Real-Time Context Engine with Anthropic.

What it announced

  • Confluent Intelligence · ConfluentReal-time, trustworthy data platform for production AIGA
  • Tableflow Delta Lake and Unity Catalog support · ConfluentNative Databricks integrationGA
  • Confluent Hub 2.0 · ConfluentRedesigned connector marketplaceGA
  • Real-Time Context Engine · ConfluentEarly access; serves enriched data to AI agents via MCPPreview
  • Streaming Agents Phase 2 · ConfluentAgent definition, observability, and debuggingPreview
  • Unified Stream Manager · ConfluentSingle control point for streaming data across the businessAnnounced
  • Queues for Kafka (KIP-932) · ConfluentDynamic scaling for dedicated clustersPreview
  • mTLS Authentication · ConfluentLimited availability for enterprise clusters in DecemberPreview
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