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.

Join the Confluent leadership team as they share their vision of streaming data products enabled by a data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka. Jay Kreps, Co-creator of Apache Kafka and CEO of Confluent, will present his vision of unifying the operational and analytical worlds with data streams and showcase exciting new product capabilities. During this keynote, the winner and finalists of the $1M Data Streaming Startup Challenge will showcase how their use of data streaming is disrupting their categories.