Streaming the Future: Kafka & The Agentic Era event is a builder evening in San Francisco exploring what happens when streaming infrastructure meets AI.

🎤 Main Sessions:

Panel: The Future of Kafka + AI by Filip Yonov (Aiven), Sijie Guo (StreamNative), Yingjun Wu (RisingWave). Is Kafka becoming the default message bus for AI agents, or is that hype? What does "real-time" actually mean in an AI context? Where does this stack go in the next 2-3 years?

Tech talk: Streaming as the Backbone of Autonomous AI Agents, by Sijie Guo, CEO, StreamNative. When agents need to coordinate, observe, and react, they need a message bus. A practical look at event-driven agent architectures and real-time RAG pipelines.

Tech talk: Designing Real-Time Systems for the Age of Agents, by Yingjun Wu, CEO, RisingWave. Architecture patterns, real-time serving, and event-driven design for the agentic era.

Tech talk: ​Your Kafka Topics Already Know What They Are, by Filip Yonov, Head of Streaming, Aiven Live Demo: Watch Claude diagnose a production anomaly from raw Kafka topics in under 30 seconds.

Tech talk: ​OpenSearch + AI: Building Smarter Search for the Agentic Era, by Dima Kan, Product Director of Search, Aiven What it actually takes to build AI-native search pipelines that go beyond basic retrieval, including practical patterns for RAG, real-time indexing, and making OpenSearch a backbone for agentic applications.

Agenda:
- 5:30pm~6:00pm: Checkin, food and networking
- 6:00pm~8:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A
- 8:00pm~9:00pm: Open discussion, Mixer and Closing.