From Data Mess to Data Mastery:
Rethink Your Data Streaming Strategy
Monday, May 19, 2025
12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
London Museum Docklands
No. 1, West India Quay,
Hertsmere Rd, London E14 4AL
We invite you to Confluent’s Executive Summit London—an exclusive event for senior executives to share knowledge and craft transformative data streaming strategies.
Learn how the latest innovations in Confluent’s Data Streaming Platform, AI, and data architecture are shaping the future of business. Hear success stories shared by your peers, demonstrating how they’re tackling their data mess challenges, freeing their data to accelerate time-to-market for applications, and fuelling game-changing AI-driven analytics, customer 360, real-time fraud detection, and more.
Why You Should Attend
Unlock Exclusive Insights
Discover actionable strategies to address the rising costs of your modern tech stack and break down data silos. Hear from guest speakers and visionaries like Jay Kreps, Confluent CEO and original co-creator of Apache Kafka®, and many more.
Master Your Data Strategy
Be inspired by thought-provoking keynotes on the latest trends, learn best practices from organisations driving industry innovation, and take home a wealth of knowledge to shape your future data strategy for business success.
Build Valuable Connections
Engage in meaningful discussions with industry peers and leading data streaming experts, exchange ideas with transformative business leaders, and make lasting connections at this exclusive networking event.
This event is full. Contact executive.engagement@confluent.io
to get added to the waitlist.
Be Inspired By:
Jay Kreps
Mike Agnich
Di Black
Fiona Sweeney
Josef Goldstein
Kinnari Ladha
Lorraine Kibble
Louise Maynard-Antem
Peter Stojanovic
Ranil Boteju
Reg Williams
Robin Sutara
Romina Pyplacz
Steve Hall
Trevor Gordon
Richard Timperlake
Shaun Clowes
Agenda
Registration & Networking Luncheon
Richard Timperlake, SVP, EMEA
Welcome
Jay Kreps, Co-founder/CEO, Confluent
Shaun Clowes, CPO, Confluent
Confluent Data Streaming Platform: Igniting Your Data Strategy Innovation
Confluent Keynote
Mike Agnich, GM & VP of Product Management, Confluent
Shift Left To Solve Any Data Challenge
Romina Pyplacz, Global Head of Data, AI Strategy and Governance, E.ON Digital Technology
Robin Sutara, Field Chief Data Strategy Officer, Databricks
Mike Agnich, GM & VP of Product Management, Confluent
Andrew Sellers, Head of Technology Strategy, Confluent
Smarter Analytics In The Age of AI
How do you move your data faster to unlock real-time analytics and AI innovation? Be inspired by our panel of visionary technologists as they share their perspectives on operationalizing real-time analytical data at scale to automate and accelerate decision-making.
Josef Goldstein, Head of R&D, Big Data Platform, WIX
Kai Waehner, Field CTO, Confluent
Streaming Data for Profit: How Real-Time Analytics Drives Customer Engagement
How do you leverage real-time data for a competitive edge? Learn how Wix extracts analytical data to empower data engineers with real-time business intelligence
Break
Peter Stojanovic, Business Editor at Hot Topics
Reg Williams, Managing Director, Accenture
Trevor Gordon, CIO, Save The Children
Steve Hall, Former Chief of Staff for the Group CTO, Sky
Peter Pugh-Jones, Director of Strategic Accounts, Confluent
How To Gain Data Strategy Buy-In: Influencing Non-Technical Leaders
Data strategy–from new mindsets to teams and structure–can be hard to gain buy-in from non-technical C-Suite leaders. In this session, you’ll hear how data and IT leaders can best influence their non-technical peers and leaders.
Lorraine Kibble, Senior Head of Engineering, Sainsbury’s
Jon McCullagh-Vines, Director, EMEA Executive Advisors, Confluent
Adam Goldsmith, Enterprise Account Executive, Confluent
From Use Case To Excellence: Building A Data Streaming Standard
Learn how to take your data streaming vision from concept to enterprise-wide reality. You’ll hear the unique strategies and best practices employed by Sainsbury’s as they strive to drive a data streaming mindset throughout their organisation.
Roundtable Discussions
- Optimise data streams for real-time analytics
- Data readiness for faster AI innovation
- Data integration strategies for hybrid and multicloud architectures
Fiona Sweeney, Director, Women in Data
Di Black, Managing Director in Data & AI, Accenture
Ranil Boteju, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Lloyds Banking Group
Kinnari Ladha, Chief Data Officer, Merlin Entertainments
Human-First AI: Driving Innovation Through Data, Purpose and Passion
Even when data and AI are doing the heavy lifting, people remain central to the success of our initiatives. Hear real world examples from very different organization as they consider the risks of getting it wrong—and the opportunities of getting it right.
Moderated by Women in Data
Summary and Closing Remarks
Cocktails, Appetizers, and Networking
Elegant Dinner Hosted in Private Museum Space
Please note the Executive Summit London is a closed-door session. Media and video recording will not be permitted.