Do you have a great data streaming story to share?

Speaking at Current 2022 is a great way to connect with hundreds of your peers, become more involved in the data streaming community, and have a public platform for you to share your story of the future of streaming and real-time data.

Talks should be informative, interesting, educational, and thought-provoking. If you’re talking about a product then don’t just pitch it. Come along with a talk that explains the problem that it solves, and the benefit that it will bring. Leave the sales folk at home and bring your engineers instead ;-) 

Abstract submissions

We’re looking for talks about all aspects of Event-Driven Design, Streaming Technology and Real-Time systems. Think about Apache Kafka® and similar technologies, and work outwards from there. Whether it’s a data engineering talk with real-time data, software engineering with message brokers, or event-driven architectures - if there’s data in motion, then it’s going to be relevant.

Topics for consideration:

• Developing Real-Time Applications
  All things related to building applications with streaming technologies. Development practices, scaling, testing, CI/CD, microservices, etc.
   
• Streaming Technologies
  Technology talks about Kafka et al. Introductory talks through to deep dives. KRaft, Tiered Storage, consensus protocols, and more. What's happening under the covers, and upcoming features. 
   
• Fun and Geeky
  Random stuff that will be interesting but probably has nothing to do with event streaming 8-) What interesting thing have you done with a Raspberry Pi and some houseplants? Or a brainwave monitor and ksqlDB? Or just an entertaining talk about the nuances of git…if it’s fun and geeky, it belongs here! 
  
  
• Architectures You've Always Wondered About
  A show-and-tell of the software stacks and architectures being used to run data in motion at scale.
   
• People & Culture
  Whether insights about being glue, how to build one’s career, or how to structure an organization to enable streaming adoption, this track will be host to a variety of fascinating ideas.
  
  
• Data Development Life Cycle (including SDLC for data, Data Mesh, Governance, Schemas)
  Building company-scale platforms with data in motion comes with a host of interesting challenges, both around system architecture, data, and more.
  
  
• Case Studies
  How has streaming been used in your business? Why did they adopt it? What lessons have you got to share that would help others on a similar journey? 
  
  
• Operations and Observability
  Stories from the world of the SRE. Operating a streaming pipeline or other streaming technologies, both in the cloud and on-premises. Tracing applications and testing in production. 
  
  
• Pipelines Done Right
  Streaming ETL, Modern Data Flow, Batch Pipelines, and beyond!
  
  
• Real-time Analytics
  What uses does a real-time dashboard serve, and how are you building them? Do you even need data in really real-time for analytics? 
  
  
• Event Streaming in Academia and Beyond
  Interesting papers and studies about the theory of event streaming, applications of real-time data in academic studies, and more.

Submit fresh ideas, unique perspectives, and thought-provoking discussions that will give our attendees a good time and send them home better-informed and more capable than they came. So do your best to stand out by submitting relevant, engaging, creative, and entertaining proposals.  You must submit a separate entry for each topic.

Please note: product pitches, whether explicit or thinly disguised, are unlikely to get selected.

Example talks

Here are some sample talk titles to illustrate the kind of thing we’re looking for: 

• Our move at Gotham Bank from batch to real-time - what worked and what didn’t
• This one library (or tool) will revolutionize your job as a developer with $STREAMING_TECHNOLOGY! 
• An overview of real-time machine learning techniques
• Data Mesh vs. ETL vs. ELT - an unbiased comparison
• Tiered storage deep dive
• Streaming ETL at ACME_CORP - here’s what we built
• We adopted a streaming architecture in our business, and here’s our story
• Rewiring your ‘relational brain’ for Event Sourcing
• How Nidavellir Enterprises manages schema change in a multi-team streaming environment
• Getting started with $STREAMING_TECHNOLOGY
• Event sourcing and event streaming - conceptually similar but a world apart in practice
• We blinked and it was gone: Ops stories from running streaming systems in production at Vormir Corp.
• Who needs event streaming when you’ve got Postgres?

Talk Types

There are three different types of sessions, each serving a particular purpose. Think about which would best suit for communicating your story and message and submit accordingly. 

• 10 mins - lightning talk, bite-sized to deliver a thought-proving idea or cool concept (no Q&A)
• 45 mins - time to explore an idea or technology, maybe with a demo

What’s in it for you? 

• Admiration and adulation of your peers
• Free admission to the conference
• Recognition on the Current 2022 website with your headshot and bio
• The talk will be recorded for posterity and made freely available afterwards
• Exclusive speaker swag

Key submission fields to prepare:

• Session title
• Session description (200 words max)
• Speaker bio (100 words max)

Important dates:

• Call for Papers opens: April 25, 2022
• Speaker Office Hours: June 8 (10:00 CDT) and June 22nd (15:00 CDT)
• Call for Papers closes: June 26, 2022  
• Speaker Notifications sent: July 26, 2022

Dates are subject to change.

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Questions? Please email speakers@currentevent.io

You will receive a complimentary conference pass.