Confluent Current London 2026 - AI requires a data rethink
A slew of product announcements highlighted that Confluent is bigger and stronger as part of IBM, and that CIOs are having to rethink data operations in order to deliver AI-driven business strategies. CEO and Founder Jay Kreps took to the stage in London to explain in detail why these new updates make data streaming vital to meeting the needs of CIOs.
Confluent, which IBM acquired in the final months of 2025, announced new capabilities for its Intelligence and Cloud systems that they say will:
Streamline how real-time artificial intelligence (AI) applications are built and secured.
In addition, a managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and code development assistant Agent Skills were announced, which let AI manage streaming operations alongside features for automated redaction of personally identifiable information (PII). Confluent said the new MCP allows AI to build, manage, and debug streaming operations using natural language and that its PII...
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