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With Sijie Guo (CEO, StreamNative), Yingjun Wu (CEO, RisingWave), Filip Yonov (Head of Streaming, Aiven).
May 12 (Tuesday) @ 05:30 PM       FREE
House of AI, 40 Boardman Pl, SoMa, San Francisco

 
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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 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?

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

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

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

OpenSearch + AI: Building Smarter Search for the Agentic Era 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, & making OpenSearch a backbone for agentic applications.

Agenda

5:30 PM: Doors Open | Networking with light bites & drinks

6:00 PM: Presentations + Q&A

8:00 PM: Post-talk Networking

9:00 PM: Doors Close

Getting There

House of AI 40 Boardman Pl, SoMa, San Francisco

Caltrain (SF Station / 4th & King): A 12 minute walk. It's about 0.7 miles away.

Muni (4th & Brannan Station): A 10-12-minute walk. This is the closest light rail stop.

Muni Bus: The 8, 12, 30, & 45 lines all have stops within 2-3 blocks of Boardman Pl.

Parking: Extremely limited. We strongly recommend using Uber/Lyft/Waymo or public transit to avoid the stress of SoMa parking.

About the Organizers

Aiven is an open-source data infrastructure platform providing managed databases, streaming, & analytics - including PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, & ClickHouse - across all major clouds.

StreamNative provides a cloud-native event streaming platform powered by Apache Pulsar, designed to handle high-throughput, real-time data for modern AI applications.

RisingWave is the distributed
 
 
 
 
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