Stream Forward Prague
Stream Forward is a practitioner conference for the people who actually run Apache Flink® in production. Engineers, architects, and business leaders gather to share what works, what broke, and what became possible with real-time streaming data.
Talks on the big screen, sound that fills the room, an experience built to match the scale of what's being built. Expect short, dense talks: architecture deep dives alongside boardroom outcomes. No theory without numbers.
Morning. The Main Feature
Practitioner talks, real business use cases, architecture deep dives, production war stories, and a panel discussion.
Afternoon. X-Stream Lab
Hands-on training guided by Ververica engineers. Small groups, whiteboard sessions, and real code. You leave with a working application and sandbox access that persists for 7 days.
What gets covered
Client stories: from data to decisions across retail, finance, logistics, and media
Apache Flink at scale: state management, checkpoint tuning, backpressure debugging, job graph optimization
Real-time AI: feature pipelines, model serving over streams, online inference
Streamhouse architecture: Flink as compute, Fluss as real-time storage, Paimon as the historical tier
Migration and modernization: moving from batch to streaming, replacing legacy ETL
Doors open at 08:30. Talks run from 09:00 to 12:30, followed by lunch and X-Stream Labs (bring your own laptop; it's required for the labs) from 13:30 to 17:00. Then we switch to networking, with food and drinks until 19:00.
AGENDA
08:30 – 09:00: Doors Open, Registration & Coffee
09:00 – 09:15: Welcome to Stream Forward
09:15 – 09:55: Keynote: From Your Money to Your Health: When Real-Time Data Can’t Fail
09:55 – 10:35: Tech Talk: Streamhouse™: Rethinking the Real-Time Data Stack
10:35 – 11:30: Tech Talk: Medallion Architecture Is Killing Your AI Agents: Designing Data Platforms for Action, Not Just Analysis
11:30 – 12:05: Tech Talk: Apache Flink® at Scale: From Streaming Engine to Critical Infrastructure
12:05 – 13:00: Lunch
BRING YOUR LAPTOP FOR THE X-Stream EXPERIENCE
13:00 – 17:00: X-Stream Lab - Building a Streamhouse™ with Apache Flink®, Fluss™ and Iceberg™
Real-time and historical analytics usually live in separate systems, connected by pipelines that are costly to build and hard to keep consistent. A Streamhouse combines them into one architecture. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll build one end to end. Apache Flink handles stream processing, Apache Fluss serves as the real-time storage layer, and Apache Iceberg provides the open lakehouse format for long-term analytics.
The workshop follows an e-commerce order analytics scenario. You’ll use Flink SQL to ingest order events from Kafka and product data from PostgreSQL, enrich them in real time, and store the results in Fluss for sub-second access. Fluss then tiers that data automatically into Iceberg. You can query fresh and historical data together as a single table from Flink, or query the Iceberg tables from other engines such as Trino.
By the end, you’ll understand how these components fit together to serve both operational and analytical workloads on a single, unified data foundation.
Prerequisites: basic SQL and a laptop
15:00-15:15: Coffee Break
17:00-19:00: Evening Reception
Your ticket includes the full conference program, X-Stream Labs, lunch, and the evening reception with food and drinks.
Come for the talks. Stay for the hands-on labs. Connect with the community over drinks.
Organized by Ververica, the team that founded Apache Flink and continues to push the boundaries of real-time data infrastructure.
📍Venue: Enforum Event Space