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First, Simon Aubury, co-author of "Getting Started With DuckDB," explains why treating data as a product (complete with an owner, a schema, and SLAs) is the key to building a culture of quality and accountability. He explores how this shift in mindset creates the right incentives for application developers and aligns the entire organization on the true value of its data.

– ABOUT CONFLUENT Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Confluent’s cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion – designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven backend operations.

– ABOUT CONFLUENT Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Confluent’s cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion – designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven backend operations.

Confluent data streaming platform makes creating a real-time sales meeting coach app easy. Event-driven architecture, Apache Flink SQL simplicity, and built-in connectors deliver the right messaging at the right time, straight from your company’s knowledge base.#confluent.

In this video, Tun Shwe (@DataSurfer), Head of AI at Lenses.io, takes you on a journey through the Lenses MCP Server - the bridge between AI models and Apache Kafka. Discover how engineers, analysts, and compliance teams can now interact with Kafka using natural language.

Apache Kafka delivers unmatched performance for real-time data streaming — but managing it in-house requires deep expertise. That’s where OpenLogic’s Kafka Service Bundle comes in. This managed Apache Kafka solution helps enterprises simplify operations, control costs, and maintain full ownership of their data — without the vendor lock-in of commercial clouds. Key benefits: With OpenLogic, your business gets the freedom and flexibility of open source Kafka — supported by the expertise and reliability enterprises depend on.

AI is driving change, and data streaming makes it possible for me to adapt.