What was announced at the Confluent Current 2025 keynote?

Confluent Intelligence (GA), Tableflow Delta Lake and Unity Catalog support (GA), Confluent Hub 2.0 (GA), Real-Time Context Engine (Preview), Streaming Agents Phase 2 (Preview), Unified Stream Manager (Announced), and 2 more.

What are the key takeaways from the Confluent Current 2025 keynote?

Jay Kreps opened Current 2025 in New Orleans on building intelligent systems with real-time data Kreps argued that putting MCP in front of systems is not enough on its own, since MCP just exposes access to data Confluent introduced streaming agents that let LLMs act directly on continuously processed streaming data Confluent announced a partnership with Anthropic connecting Claude to live enterprise data through MCP

Who gave the Confluent Current 2025 keynote?

Jay Kreps, on 2025-10-29 in New Orleans.

Current 2025 keynote

Jay Kreps · Oct 29, 2025 · 1h 48m · New Orleans

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Where each takeaway is said1:48:01

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1Jay Kreps opened Current 2025 in New Orleans on building intelligent systems with real-time data1:38
2Kreps argued that putting MCP in front of systems is not enough on its own, since MCP just exposes access to data9:32
3Confluent introduced streaming agents that let LLMs act directly on continuously processed streaming data25:47
4Confluent announced a partnership with Anthropic connecting Claude to live enterprise data through MCP31:03
5Confluent launched Unified Stream Manager to manage streaming data consistently across the business1:23:14
6A live demo showed the new Real-Time Context Engine serving data to AI systems through a fully managed MCP server1:29:41
7Tableflow was shown converting streaming data into open table formats with a single push-button step1:36:39

Announced

3 available the same day

Announcement	Status
Confluent IntelligenceReal-time, trustworthy data platform for production AI	GA
Tableflow Delta Lake and Unity Catalog supportNative Databricks integration	GA
Confluent Hub 2.0Redesigned connector marketplace	GA
Real-Time Context EngineEarly access; serves enriched data to AI agents via MCP	Preview
Streaming Agents Phase 2Agent definition, observability, and debugging	Preview
Unified Stream ManagerSingle control point for streaming data across the business	Announced
Queues for Kafka (KIP-932)Dynamic scaling for dedicated clusters	Preview
mTLS AuthenticationLimited availability for enterprise clusters in December	Preview

About this keynote

Jay Kreps opened Current 2025 in New Orleans arguing real-time, governed data is what makes AI agents trustworthy, launching Unified Stream Manager and a Real-Time Context Engine with Anthropic.

On stage

Jay KrepsCo-founder and CEO, Confluent

Sources

Companies named: Confluent, Anthropic, Databricks, ClickHouse, Redis, Airy, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Glue, Couchbase, Firebolt, MariaDB, SingleStore, Weaviate, YugabyteDB

Checked 2026-09-24.

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