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Learn how to build a real-time meeting coach system that uses Confluent's data streaming platform, Apache Flink SQL, and Azure OpenAI to provide sales teams with timely, contextual advice. In this demo, Brenner Heintz, Staff Technical Marketing Manager at Confluent, demonstrates the system's architecture, key components, and how it leverages company knowledge documents to enhance sales conversations.

Even resilient Kafka clusters can fail when entire regions go down. Here's why Kafka-to-Kafka replication is essential for disaster recovery and how to keep your data continuously synced across locations.

Moving Kafka between cloud providers or from on-prem to cloud? Learn why continuous replication beats the "stop everything and migrate" approach. Keep your business running while seamlessly transitioning your Kafka infrastructure.

Why mirror production Kafka data to staging environments? Test safely without risking production. Learn about data subsetting, sensitive data masking, and the emerging pattern that's revolutionizing Kafka testing workflows.

When AI needs to think faster, the architecture beneath it matters more than ever. Val Cook, Chief Software Architect at Blaize, joins The AI Forecast to unpack how today’s AI systems demand more than raw compute, but more adaptable infrastructure. He and host Paul Muller explore the critical intersection of hardware and software, the growing importance of data flow machines, and the limits of traditional architectures in real-time environments.

Apache Iceberg unlocks the complex time travel requirements and intensive data validation needs that Affirm has as a financial company. Iceberg's write-once / read-anywhere paradigm simplifies Affirm’s governance by minimizing existing data sets — ensuring there is only ever one logical copy of a given data set, complete with a validation history, and tag-based time travel watermarks. This presentation recorded at Summit 2025 provides detail on the the way Affirm leverages Snowflake’s Open Catalog to power our Iceberg implementation, solving both operational and analytic challenges in the business.