Confluent Current London 2026 - confidence in the new streaming age
For the past decade, the fundamental mission of data infrastructure has been to enable organizations to work with their data without having to think about the underlying systems. The ideal world is one where business leaders can focus on core entities like payments, customers, deliveries, inventory, and SKUs at any scale, for any use case, anywhere inside the organization. That’s the view of Shaun Clowes, Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Kafka, who sat down with diginomica following his Shaun squared routine with Sean Falconer, the firm’s AI lead, on the main stage at Confluent Current London 2026.
Data streaming technology Apache Kafka was conceived to decouple data from systems. But as our community research shows, many firms are struggling with this. As Clowes observes:
We've been trying to enable people to decouple their data from their system so they can reason about the world that way. And that sounds easy,...
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