Name: Stream Forward London
Start: 2026-10-20T08:30:00.000+01:00
End: 2026-10-20T19:00:00.000+01:00
Location: 42 Hallam St

Ververica

https://www.ververica.com/events/terms-and-service

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.

Practitioner talks, real business use cases, architecture deep dives, production war stories, and a panel discussion.

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.

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.

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

BRING YOUR LAPTOP FOR THE X-Stream EXPERIENCE

13:00 – 17:00: X-Stream Lab - Building a Streamhouse™ with Apache Flink

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.

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.