Fluss Forward - London

​One day of talks. One evening of community.

​Fluss Forward is where the people building and running Apache Fluss™ come together: engineers, contributors, and early adopters shaping the future of open-source, lakehouse-native streaming storage. This isn't a vendor showcase. It's a community event, deliberately timed as the pre-event to Big Data LDN: the deeper dive before the wider stage.

​Fluss Forward + Dark Mode
A content-driven conference dedicated entirely to Apache Fluss and real-time data infrastructure. Short, dense talks from engineers in production, architecture deep dives, honest war stories, and a panel with the people actually building Fluss. No theory without numbers. No pitches. No filler.

​When the talks end, Dark Mode begins an open-floor evening of drinks, music, and unscripted conversation. Contributors next to early adopters, engineers next to architects. The Apache Fluss community, off the record.

​One ticket, full-day access, lunch included. Evening experience to follow.

​What gets covered

• ​Apache Fluss in production: columnar streaming storage, millisecond latency, real-time updates, and up to 10x read performance with reduced network costs from the early adopters already running it

• ​Streamhouse architecture: Flink as compute, Fluss as real-time storage, Paimon as the historical tier

• ​Real-time AI: collapsing the conventional stack into one substrate for feature pipelines, model serving, and online inference

• ​Why Fluss, why now: what Apache incubating status means and how to get involved

• ​Community building: meet the committers, first-time contributor workshops, and the on-ramp for shaping what Fluss becomes

​Date: 22 September 2026
Location: London, England
Venue: Vauxhall Arches, South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, London. SW8 1RT