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Want better outcomes with partners? Elena Cuevas of Confluent shares how long-term trust—built before the problem—creates room for win-win outcomes.

Strategic partnerships don’t work without trust. And in the data streaming world, trust begins with transparency. In this episode, Elena Cuevas, Sr. Manager of Cloud Partner Solutions Engineering at Confluent, joins Joseph Morais to unpack what it takes to collaborate with hyperscalers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. From managing competitive overlaps to future-proofing enterprise data architectures, Elena shares her battle-tested strategies for driving alignment across complex stakeholder ecosystems.

Elena Cuevas of Confluent shares that partnerships thrive when it’s not “you or me”, but what you can do together.

Discover how OpenAI is transforming day-to-day work with data streaming. From building smarter products to enabling real-time AI use cases—data streaming is at the heart of everything they do! Hear what OpenAI’s Jigar Bhati had to say.

We love our Current 2025 attendees! That’s why we want to hear their insights on all things data streaming. Check out Steffen’s thoughts on how real-time stream processing and event-driven architecture will enable agentic AI in the years to come.

Allium powers real-time data feeds across organizations and blockchains. Ethan Chan shares how Stream Sharing in Confluent Cloud is a game changer.

We love our Current 2025 attendees! That’s why we want to hear their insights on all things data streaming. Check out Aikaterini’s thoughts on why Tableflow is going to drive innovation, and how streaming has unlocked real-time customer data at PPC Group.

Confluent CEO Jay Kreps shares how unifying batch and streaming workflows lets teams build, test, and deploy AI-ready data pipelines–in real time.

AI and real-time data automate credit checks, speed mortgage approvals.