Real-Time Berlin: Where Data gets Moving
Real-time data is no longer a technical niche. It's the foundation for modern AI, analytics, and digital experiences.
Join a curated group of engineering, platform, data, and product leaders for an evening of practical insights & honest lessons learned from teams building and operating real-time systems at scale.
This will happen
17:00 – Registration & Arrival
Doors, Drinks & Food
17:30 – Welcome: Why real‑time data is becoming the foundation for AI
Steffen Hoellinger, Field CTO, Confluent
17:40 – From Events to Live ML Features at Delivery Hero
Arsalan Uddin - Senior Data Engineer, Data & ML Platform, Delivery Hero
Minji Park - Data Engineer, Data & ML Platform, Delivery Hero
Minji & Arsalan will show how data flows from Postgres CDC and other event sources into Kafka, how it is consumed by Delivery Hero's Live Feature Store, and how these pipelines are managed by the Data & ML Platform team.
18:20 - Abstracting Kafka at Scale: Nakadi’s API-First Event Streaming Architecture at Zalando
Chaitanya Waikar - Senior Software Engineer, Zalando
Nakadi is Zalando’s API-first event streaming platform. Over the past decade, it has evolved to seamlessly swap underlying Kafka topics without user disruption. In this talk, discover "Timelines" - the mechanism enabling admins to divert publishing traffic to new storage while Nakadi automatically adjusts both producer and consumer flows behind the scenes.
Short Break
19:10 – Ins and Outs of the Outbox Pattern
Gunnar Morling, Senior Principle Technologist, Confluent
It’s time to take another look at the outbox pattern! In this session Gunnar will bring you up to speed on what the outbox pattern is, how to implement it, pros & cons, backfills & alternatives.
19:40 – Networking & Peer Exchange
Continue the conversation over food and drinks
This event is for you, if you:
Build or scale data‑driven products
Modernize legacy or batch‑oriented data architectures
Evaluate or run real‑time analytics, AI, or GenAI workloads
Want experience‑based insights
Seats are limited and attendance is by invitation.
👉 Request your spot at Real-Time Berlin now!
Hosted by Confluent, an IBM Company
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