Current 2025 keynote
Jay Kreps · Oct 29, 2025 · 1h 48m · New Orleans
Summary
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.
Key themes: Data platforms, Agents · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Jay Kreps opened Current 2025 in New Orleans on building intelligent systems with real-time data1:38
- 2Kreps argued that putting MCP in front of systems is not enough on its own, since MCP just exposes access to data9:32
- 3Confluent introduced streaming agents that let LLMs act directly on continuously processed streaming data25:47
- 4Confluent announced a partnership with Anthropic connecting Claude to live enterprise data through MCP31:03
- 5Confluent launched Unified Stream Manager to manage streaming data consistently across the business1:23:14
- 6A live demo showed the new Real-Time Context Engine serving data to AI systems through a fully managed MCP server1:29:41
- 7Tableflow was shown converting streaming data into open table formats with a single push-button step1:36:39
Announced
3 available the same day| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Confluent IntelligenceReal-time, trustworthy data platform for production AI | GA |
| Tableflow Delta Lake and Unity Catalog supportNative Databricks integration | GA |
| Confluent Hub 2.0Redesigned connector marketplace | GA |
| Real-Time Context EngineEarly access; serves enriched data to AI agents via MCP | Preview |
| Streaming Agents Phase 2Agent definition, observability, and debugging | Preview |
| Unified Stream ManagerSingle control point for streaming data across the business | Announced |
| Queues for Kafka (KIP-932)Dynamic scaling for dedicated clusters | Preview |
| mTLS AuthenticationLimited availability for enterprise clusters in December | Preview |
Related keynotes
| Date | Keynote | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2024 | Confluent Current 2024Jay Kreps · 1h 37m · 3 announcedData platforms, Agents, Open source | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | AI applications need data that is relevant and up to date with what is happening right now, Kreps argued | 3 |
About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSwVl72etgY
On stage
- Jay KrepsCo-founder and CEO, Confluent
Sources
Companies named: Airy, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, AWS Glue, ClickHouse, Confluent, Couchbase, Databricks, Firebolt, MariaDB, Redis, SingleStore, Weaviate, YugabyteDB
Last changed 2026-09-24.
History (append-only)
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