Stream Forward Amsterdam
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 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: Customer Story: Inside a Mission-Critical Real-Time Deployment
10:35 – 11:05: Tech Talk: Streamhouse™: Rethinking the Real-Time Data Stack
11:05 – 11:35: Tech Talk: Designing Real-Time Data Architecture for the AI Era
11:35 – 12:05: Tech Talk: Apache Flink® at Scale: From Streaming Engine to Critical Infrastructure
12:05 – 12:30: Panel: What Does Mission-Critical Really Mean for Real-Time Data?
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch
13:30 – 17:00: X-Stream Lab - Streaming Analytics
15:00-15:15: Coffee Break
13:30 – 17:00: X-Stream Lab - Real-Time Feature Store
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.
📍Venue: B.Amsterdam
Organized by Ververica, the team that founded Apache Flink and continues to push the boundaries of real-time data infrastructure.