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Are you on top of the latest innovations in data, analytics, and AI? With data being pivotal to strategy and change, the Data-powered Innovation Jam podcast gives you the key to some of the most crucial aspects of business success. Through our guests, we bring you the latest trends from the world of data and AI, discussing the best ideas and experiences. Our hosts with their decades of profound experience and a background in avant-garde music, will also explore the edges of jazz, rock, and p ...
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Streaming Audio: Apache Kafka® & Real-Time Data

Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®

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Streaming Audio features all things Apache Kafka®, Confluent, real-time data, and the cloud. We cover frequently asked questions, best practices, and use cases from the Kafka community—from Kafka connectors and distributed systems, to data mesh, data integration, modern data architectures, and data mesh built with Confluent and cloud Kafka as a service. Join our hosts as they stream through a series of interviews, stories, and use cases with guests from the data streaming industry. Apache®️, ...
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Hosted by Viktor Gamov and Kaitlyn Barnard, we interview software developers and technology leaders at the top of their game every other week. We’ll also give you the tools, tactics and strategies you need to take your cloud native architecture to the next level. We go beyond the buzzwords and dissect real-life applications and success stories so that you can tackle your biggest connectivity challenges.
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Ready for your Hour of (Data) Power with some Radioactive and Electric Feel thrown in? Ok, so hang tight, get your coffee or lemonade (depending on how your summer looks like!), as we bring you a double whammy from your newest Data-powered Innovation Jam to celebrate the anniversary launch of the 10th edition of the Data Powered Innovation Review. …
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From punk rock to process automation, from Blondie to BSON — it’s a genre-defying episode of the Data-Powered Innovation Jam where we grab a virtual bench in Central Park with Andrew Davidson, SVP of Products at MongoDB, and let the data conversation run wild. What follows is an improvisational jam session on the evolution of data, the art of distr…
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Ready for the remix? You might have already listened to one of the most recent episodes of the Cloud Realities podcast, where six dynamic voices from two podcast teams came together to unpack Capgemini’s TechnoVision 2025. From infrastructure and applications to collaboration, user experience, automation, and — naturally — a heavy dose of data and …
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What happens when Professor Erik Proper of the Technical University of Vienna teams up with the ever-inquisitive ‘Dr. Bob’ Robert Engels – modestly supported by co-hosts Weiwei Feng and Ron Tolido - to discuss AI, models, semantics, ontologies, and context? A true PhD Fest? Or a practical exploration of the synergies between the academic and busine…
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Much like a hammer sees every problem as a nail, data experts tend to see opportunity in every single data field. Collaboration on data is still one of the best ways to bring data to life and build business value on top of it. Sharing data across organizations is one of the most powerful ways to spark innovation. But when data needs to stay private…
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Ever thought AI practitioners could win a Noble prize? Well, they already have. Not for predicting your next favourite movie or generating poetry, but for groundbreaking advancements in Life Sciences. And it won’t be the last time. In this episode, hosts Ron Tolido, Robert Engels, and Weiwei Feng find themselves venturing into unexpected territory …
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In for a new venture? This episode of the Data-powered Innovation Jam has you covered. Our hosts Weiwei, Robert, and Ron welcome Brett Clark, Director, Global Business Development at blackshark.ai—a company with the modest mission of creating a digital twin of the entire planet using satellite data. It all started with Microsoft Flight Simulator, b…
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It’s the ultimate new hit album for generative AI: intelligent automation, autonomous systems, and—of course—agents. But while ServiceNow has been a pioneering force in this space for a long time, it still seems to fly under the radar for many data and AI experts. Time to change that. Time to bridge the worlds of Planet Process and Planet Data! For…
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"It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing"—Duke Ellington’s immortal words composed almost a century ago resonate deeply in the latest episode of the Data-powered Innovation Jam. Hosts Ron Tolido, Robert Engels, and Weiwei Feng explore TechnoVision 2025, Capgemini’s annual technology trend analysis, where ‘The Pendulum Swing’ captures the r…
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Cloud computing has long been a familiar fixture in the digital sky, but that doesn’t mean innovation has stopped soaring. In this episode, hosts Ron Tolido, Robert Engels, and Weiwei Feng discuss all things cloud with Carolin Eggers, Director, Data & AI, EMEA North, Google Cloud. The first kind of cloud? There’s nothing UFO about it. That’s well u…
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Is quantum computing an early ‘70s thing? Well, certainly if you compare it to the new, experimental music that was released then. To many, quantum computing feels like listening to an early Pink Floyd record for the very first time: alien, incomparable, confusing, but above all: intriguing. Quite different from the more mainstream band the Floyd l…
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Knock, knock, Neo. Think Agents are a thing of the future? Look again at the iconic movie, The Matrix—they've been hiding in plain sight. In the first episode of 2025, hosts Ron Tolido, Weiwei Feng, and Robert Engels venture down the digital rabbit hole of Virtual Twins with Morgan Zimmerman, CEO of NETVIBES at Dassault Systèmes. It’s a fascinating…
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Do we hear sleigh bells in that surf rock soundtrack? Well, anything can happen when you tune in to the Data-powered Innovation Jam podcast—especially in the very last episode of the year! Our hosts Weiwei Feng (winning top honours for her Christmas sweater), Robert Engels, and Ron Tolido gather with their producer Arne Rossmann by a cozy fireplace…
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Autonomous AI isn’t just a futuristic dream—it’s here, and robots are redefining industries. But who would have thought the human touch is so crucial to success? In this electrifying episode, hosts Robert Engels, Weiwei Feng, and Ron Tolido are joined by Kence Anderson, CEO and co-founder of Composabl and author of “Designing Autonomous AI: A Guide…
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Bayer, a global powerhouse with a diverse portfolio spanning pharmaceuticals via consumer health, all the way to crop science. So, what do you get when you have a guest from Bayer discussing data and AI? Even more diverse topics, of course. In this episode, hosts Weiwei Feng, Robert Engels, and Ron Tolido are joined by Mukesh Dubey, Product Managem…
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Sometimes, language is universal – one could win the Eurovision Song Contest with lyrics like “la-la-la” or “ding-a-dong! But when it comes to sharing data across companies, sectors, and countries, we need a little more than catchy choruses. Enter Gaia-X: a pan-European platform designed to enable trusted, decentralized data sharing and digital eco…
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Blue is the new green! Data is key to achieving sustainability goals and a greener planet, but what about a bluer planet? Our guest, Heidi Karlsson, Director of Open Footprint Forum at The Open Group, joins us to ‘dive deep’ into this topic. As a facilitator in creating open data standards for global carbon emission exchange, Heidi shares insights …
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What’s bigger news in 2025: The Gallagher brothers reuniting Oasis, or generative AI going enterprise scale? Tough call, but we’ll stick with AI for now. Just as Noel Gallagher’s grounded presence is complemented by his rebellious brother Liam, generative AI stands to benefit from Graph technology. Graphs bring context, semantics, and deeper unders…
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Get ready for a compelling discussion on diversity in data! Expanding perspectives always uncovers fresh insights and new opportunities—and this is especially true in the world of data. Joining us is Jennifer Belissent, Principal Data Strategist at Snowflake, whose career journey embodies diversity itself. From Peace Corps volunteer to academic res…
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Remember the exciting days of data mesh not so long ago? A lot of organizations saw the potential of domain-owned data, federated governance, self-service platforms, and data as a product. Then ChatGPT hit the market, and everybody got distracted. Now the concepts are back, with a vengeance. Our guest of today, Pavel Doležal, indeed acknowledges it…
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He was the first to teach an MBA AI course at Harvard Business School. He also wrote a book called ‘AI is a Waste of Money’, and he is the founder and CEO of Aible, a company that focuses on delivering seamless generative AI experiences and autonomous intelligence that chats with you. Would he be an interesting guest to discuss data and AI? We thou…
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Apache Kafka® 3.5 is here with the capability of previewing migrations between ZooKeeper clusters to KRaft mode. Follow along as Danica Fine highlights key release updates. Kafka Core: KIP-833 provides an updated timeline for KRaft. KIP-866 now is preview and allows migration from an existing ZooKeeper cluster to KRaft mode. KIP-900 introduces a wa…
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After recording 64 episodes and featuring 58 amazing guests, the Streaming Audio podcast series has amassed over 130,000 plays on YouTube in the last year. We're extremely proud of these achievements and feel that it's time to take a well-deserved break. Streaming Audio will be taking a vacation! We want to express our gratitude to you, our valued …
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Have you ever struggled with managing data long term, especially as the schema changes over time? In order to manage and leverage data across an organization, it’s essential to have well-defined guidelines and standards in place around data quality, enforcement, and data transfer. To get started, Abraham Leal (Customer Success Technical Architect, …
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Can you use Apache Kafka® and Python together? What’s the current state of Python support? And what are the best options to get started? In this episode, Dave Klein joins Kris to talk about all things Kafka and Python: the libraries, the tools, and the pros & cons. He also talks about the new course he just launched to support Python programmers en…
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In this episode, Kris interviews Doron Porat, Director of Infrastructure at Yotpo, and Liran Yogev, Director of Engineering at ZipRecruiter (formerly at Yotpo), about their experiences and strategies in dealing with data modeling at scale. Yotpo has a vast and active data lake, comprising thousands of datasets that are processed by different engine…
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Migrating Apache Kafka® clusters can be challenging, especially when moving large amounts of data while minimizing downtime. Michael Dunn (Solutions Architect, Confluent) has worked in the data space for many years, designing and managing systems to support high-volume applications. He has helped many organizations strategize, design, and implement…
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dbt is known as being part of the Modern Data Stack for ELT processes. Being in the MDS, dbt Labs believes in having the best of breed for every part of the stack. Oftentimes folks are using an EL tool like Fivetran to pull data from the database into the warehouse, then using dbt to manage the transformations in the warehouse. Analysts can then bu…
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What’s the next big thing in the future of streaming data? In this episode, Greg DeMichillie (VP of Product and Solutions Marketing, Confluent) talks to Kris about the future of stream processing in environments where the value of data lies in their ability to intercept and interpret data. Greg explains that organizations typically focus on the inf…
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What can online gaming teach us about making large-scale event management more collaborative in real-time? Ben Gamble (Developer Relations Manager, Aiven) has come to the world of real-time event streaming from an usual source: the video games industry. And if you stop to think about it, modern online games are complex, distributed real-time data s…
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Apache Kafka® 3.4 is released! In this special episode, Danica Fine (Senior Developer Advocate, Confluent), shares highlights of the Apache Kafka 3.4 release. This release introduces new KIPs in Kafka Core, Kafka Streams, and Kafka Connect. In Kafka Core: KIP-792 expands the metadata each group member passes to the group leader in its JoinGroup sub…
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How can you use OpenTelemetry to gain insight into your Apache Kafka® event systems? Roman Kolesnev, Staff Customer Innovation Engineer at Confluent, is a member of the Customer Solutions & Innovation Division Labs team working to build business-critical OpenTelemetry applications so companies can see what’s happening inside their data pipelines. I…
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Data democratization allows everyone in an organization to have access to the data they need, and the necessary tools needed to use this data effectively. In short, data democratization enables better business decisions. In this episode, Rama Ryali, a Senior IT and Data Executive, chats with Kris Jenkins about the importance of data democratization…
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Is it possible to manage and test data like code? lakeFS is an open-source data version control tool that transforms object storage into Git-like repositories, offering teams a way to use the same workflows for code and data. In this episode, Kris sits down with guest Adi Polak, VP of DevX at Treeverse, to discuss how lakeFS can be used to facilita…
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How does leader election work in Apache Kafka®? For the past 2 ½ years, Adithya Chandra, Staff Software Engineer at Confluent, has been working on Kafka scalability and performance, specifically partition leader election. In this episode, he gives Kris Jenkins a deep dive into the power of leader election in Kafka replication, why we need it, how i…
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