Confluent
Current 2025Keynote recap and announcements
Wednesday, October 29, 2025New Orleans 
Keynote: Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time DataWednesday, October 29, 2025 · 1h 48m · Jay Kreps- 1Jay Kreps opened Current 2025 in New Orleans on building intelligent systems with real-time data
- 2Kreps argued that putting MCP in front of systems is not enough on its own, since MCP just exposes access to data
- 3Confluent introduced streaming agents that let LLMs act directly on continuously processed streaming data
- 4Confluent announced a partnership with Anthropic connecting Claude to live enterprise data through MCP
- 5Confluent launched Unified Stream Manager to manage streaming data consistently across the business
- 6A live demo showed the new Real-Time Context Engine serving data to AI systems through a fully managed MCP server
- 7Tableflow was shown converting streaming data into open table formats with a single push-button step
- Confluent IntelligenceReal-time, trustworthy data platform for production AIGA
- Tableflow Delta Lake and Unity Catalog supportNative Databricks integrationGA
- Confluent Hub 2.0Redesigned connector marketplaceGA
- Real-Time Context EngineEarly access; serves enriched data to AI agents via MCPPreview
- Streaming Agents Phase 2Agent definition, observability, and debuggingPreview
- Unified Stream ManagerSingle control point for streaming data across the businessAnnounced
- Queues for Kafka (KIP-932)Dynamic scaling for dedicated clustersPreview
- mTLS AuthenticationLimited availability for enterprise clusters in DecemberPreview
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Databricks
ClickHouse
Airy
Amazon SageMaker
Couchbase
Firebolt
MariaDB
SingleStore
Weaviate
YugabyteDB