For the first time in the last twelve years, there’s no Confluent but Confluent, an IBM Company.
Confluent's founders introduced Kafka to the world, and their team also helped establish it as an industry standard in the data space.
Today, more than 80% of all Fortune 100 companies and more than another hundred thousand companies use Kafka, and the whole market is worth billions of dollars.
There are also some other big developments happening in our space, such as:
Streamhouse Initiative (the unification of streaming and Iceberg Lakehouse, which means the duality of streams and Iceberg tables and querying both with SQL).
Consolidation in data streaming
Confluent Cloud (Kafka + Flink)
Redpanda SQL (Redpanda + Oxla)
StreamNative’s SQL Workspace (Kafka and Pulsar + RisingWave).
Also, the rise of Agentic AI that’s changing all industries across the board and is also bringing new challenges and opportunities to our space.
Against this backdrop, the data streaming and stream processing community is coming together to meet and have a discussion about all these developments in our space.
We’re really excited to support Data Streaming Summit 2026 as a Platinum Sponsor!
Join us to explore all of the above and much more, and to connect with the community members building all this!
Register here:
datastreaming-summit.org/dss…
We look forward to seeing you there!