AI Day Toronto - Data Streaming World Tour 2026 by Confluent, an IBM Company (w/ The AI Collective)
🚀 Priority access to a curated builder pathway, not just another AI event
📅 Tuesday, May 26, 2026
🕘 9:30am to 6:00pm EDT
📍 The Westin Harbour Castle, 1 Harbour Square, Toronto
🎟️ Free to attend. Breakfast and lunch included.
The gap between an AI demo and AI in production is almost always a data problem, not a model problem.
AI Day Toronto is built around closing that gap.
Confluent (the data streaming platform behind much of the Fortune 500, now part of IBM) is bringing their global Data Streaming World Tour to the city for a full day on real-time AI, agentic workflows, and the architecture behind systems that actually ship.
AI Collective Canada is the community partner in the room.
🎯 Come prepared to:
→ Discover agentic AI use cases and reference architectures
→ Master context engineering for AI (the framing Confluent is leading with this year)
→ Learn patterns including RAG with vector databases, MCP, Agent2Agent, AutoGen, and Streaming Agents on Flink
→ Get hands-on with a multi-agent workshop
→ Hack on your own AI application to win prizes including a MacBook Pro and iPhone
🔥 Who this is for
→ Startup founders building on real-time data
→ Engineers shipping AI into production
→ Architects designing event-driven systems
→ Teams working with LLMs, streaming, or agentic workflows
If you are building seriously, this is a high-signal room.
📅 Schedule
8:30 AM → Check-in, networking, sponsor expo
9:30 AM → Keynote: The Future of AI Is Event-Driven and Relies on Context Engineering
10:00 AM → From Vision to Reality: Notion's Data Streaming Success Story
10:30 AM → Break and networking
11:00 AM → Scaling Real-time AI Actions with AWS and Confluent
11:30 AM → Reference Architectures: StarTree AI Session
12:00 PM → Lunch and networking
1:00 PM → Hands-On Agentic AI Workshop
2:00 PM → AI Hackathon (🏆 MacBook Pro and iPhone prizes)
5:00 PM → Hackathon winners announced
5:10 PM → Happy hour and networking
🎤 Speakers
Andrew Sellers, VP Technology Strategy and Enablement, Confluent
Tim Graczewski, Director, Product Marketing (Startups), Confluent
Brenner Heintz, Staff Technical Marketing Manager, Apache Flink, Confluent
Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate, Confluent
David Marsh, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Confluent
Preeti Gondi, Software Engineer, Notion
🧠 Why register through AI Collective Canada
If you register through AIC Canada, you are not just attending.
👉 You are being considered for what comes next.
🎯 Data Streaming Builder Event (AIC pathway)
A smaller, curated experience for selected Canadian builders in June.
Selected participants receive:
→ 💰 $500 in Confluent Cloud credits
→ 📚 AI Accelerator training materials and eBooks
→ 🚀 A pathway to apply for Confluent for Startups AI Accelerator, a selective 10-week global program
🌐 Plus ongoing AIC access:
→ Tool partnerships including credits and early offers beyond Confluent
→ Priority access to future AIC build competitions and events
→ The AIC Canada community: Slack, events and humans in AI.
📍 Find the AIC booth on the day and grab your permanent AIC Canada pin.
⚙️ How registration works
Fill out the form on this page.
Standard fields give you access to the main event. Optional questions are how we evaluate Builder event candidates.
💡 If you want to be considered, take the optional questions seriously.
🚀 What happens next
🔥 Selected Builder candidates are contacted after AI Day.
🗓️ Builder Day is in June.
🤝 Sponsors
AWS | Lenses | SOC Prime
Most people will attend this event.
👉 A smaller group will get access to the Builder pathway and what comes next.
Register here if you want to be in that group!
🔗 About Confluent
Confluent is the data streaming platform powering real-time applications for much of the Fortune 500. Now part of IBM, Confluent enables teams to build, scale, and operate event-driven systems that bring data and AI into motion.
If you are building with real-time data, you are likely building on or alongside Confluent.
⚖️ Terms and Conditions
By registering, you agree to the following:
I have read and agreed to the Registration Terms & Conditions, Confluent Terms of Use, and Confluent Privacy Notice.
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