“Streaming isn’t just about fast data anymore — it’s about smart, autonomous decisions driven by agentic AI.”
This was the vibe that echoed through every hall, breakout session, and hallway conversation at Confluent Current 2025 in London — and our team was right there at the heart of it.
We didn’t just attend. We absorbed, debated, brainstormed, and came back with our heads buzzing from what can only be described as a streaming epiphany.
💥 Why Agentic AI Was the Undercurrent
Agentic AI — systems that don’t just respond but act with purpose — requires more than just fast pipelines.
It demands:
Contextual memory
Trustworthy data
Real-time adaptability
Security at scale
And Confluent showed up with answers — from the internals of Kafka and Flink, all the way to the evolutionary leap in Apache Iceberg.
🎯 4 Big Ideas That Stuck with Us
🔍 1. Snapshot Queries — Memory for the Real-Time Mind
