Best Confluent Podcasts (2025)

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Real-Time Intelligence with Confluent 52:43

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Live from Current in New Orleans, join this special episode of DM Radio exploring how Confluent is redefining the data foundation for the age of Agentic AI. Host Eric Kavanagh will interview Andrew Sellers, who will unveil Confluent Intelligence - a new way to deliver trusted, contextual data to AI systems in real time. Then, Kamal Brar will join t…

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How Kafka Expert Robin Moffat Tackles Open Source Problems | Ep. 6 24:50

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Today, Viktor Gamov talks to his colleague Robin Moffat (Confluent) about his career in data engineering. His first job: paperboy. His challenge: working at a retailer with Oracle materialized views as well as teaching others how to productively approach Kafka’s internal systems. Follow Robin: ► Robin's blog: https://rnm1978.wordpress.com/2011/01/0…

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Streaming data and generative AI: Confluent's approach 30:59

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In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, Shaun Sutner and Esther Shittu interview Sean Falconer of streaming data platform vendor Confluent. They discuss Confluent's AI strategy, the importance of real-time data management, and the integration of generative AI and multi-agent systems into business processes. Falconer emphasizes…

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‘Change Happens at the Speed of Trust’: Reshaping Healthcare with Confluent Health CEO, Kristi Henderson - Episode 25 35:16

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Kristi Henderson's career is a masterclass in empathy-driven leadership, and the power of starting on the frontline. She began as a bedside nurse in a trauma center. Now, she’s become the CEO of Confluent Health, with the single-handed power to influence the law itself. Kristi’s path is a testament to the idea that true innovation comes from unders…

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Charting the Map for Transformative Leadership with Ordnance Survey’s CEO, Nick Bolton - Episode 26 46:37

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The path to success is rarely linear, and if anyone can help chart a course to the top, it’s Ordnance Survey’s CEO, Nick Bolton. Nick’s unconventional career path - from software developer to product manager, marketing director and ultimately CEO - highlights the importance of adaptability, continuous learning and seizing unexpected opportunities. …

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Breaking news: What Nvidia's $5 trillion milestone means for AI 5:00

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In this special news analysis edition of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, Esther Shittu and Shaun Sutner discuss Nvidia's historic achievement on Oct. 29 of becoming the first company to reach a $5 trillion market valuation with R "Ray" Wang of Constellation Research. The conversation explores the implications of this milestone for enterp…

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ElevenLabs’ Vision for Voice Interfaces | CEO Mati Staniszewski 1:04:38

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Before AI became a buzzword, a few true believers were already building. Since early 2022, Mati Staniszewski and his team at ElevenLabs have been among them, working to create voices that “actually represent emotions.” He shares with Joubin Mirzadegan how voice AI is transforming diverse fields, from delivering personalized healthcare for different…

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Private AI and the Data Race: Building Smarter, Safer Enterprises 52:54

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Dive into this episode of DM Radio, as host Eric Kavanagh joins experts from Cloudera and Hitachi to explore how enterprises are rethinking AI and data infrastructure amid rapid innovation. Manasi Vartak, Chief AI Architect at Cloudera, unpacks the concept of "Private AI" - enabling organizations to maintain full control over their data, models, an…

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Breaking News: Impact of the AWS Outage on AI Applications 5:10

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In this breaking news analysis episode of the Targeting AI podcast from Informa TechTarget's AI Business, Esther Shittu and Shaun Sutner discuss the recent AWS outage that disrupted numerous websites and services, including AI applications such as widely used generative AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Tech analyst David Nicholson provides insi…

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Building Parquet into Apache Pinot ft. Neha Pawar | Ep. 5 26:07

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Today, Tim Berglund talks to Neha Pawar (StarTree) about her career in real-time analytics and open source database engineering. Her first job: a year-long internship at NVIDIA. Her challenge: leading the technical effort to add native Parquet support into Apache Pinot. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited…

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95% Faster Video Production with Synthesia | Victor Riparbelli 1:08:17

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What’s product-market fit like when you give people the power to do what they never thought was possible? On this rerun of Grit from April 2024, Victor Riparbelli, co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, shares how his platform gave billions a new way to create video without cameras, and explores a future where video and audio replace text as the primary …

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Good AI vs Bad for AML, KYC and Fraud 56:18

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Know your customer? Know your bad guy! The power of AI extends to both black hats and white, and with Generative AI now in the toolset, all bets are off. Bad actors can whip up pixel-perfect, fraudulent web sites in seconds to pilfer your username and password. They can mimic your spouse's voice to put you in a panic. And they can use Agentic AI to…

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The Future of Patient Care: AI-First Approaches with Salesforce Agentforce 36:00

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In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, hosts Esther Shittu and Shaun Sutner discuss the role of AI in healthcare with Madhav Thattai of Salesforce and John Oberg of Precina Health. They explore the concept of being AI-first, the integration of AI in patient care, and the impact of agentic systems on healthcare outcomes. The c…

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Salesforce advances its agentic AI platform with Agentforce 360 10:44

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In this breaking news analysis episode of the Targeting AI podcast from Informa TechTarget's AI Business, hosts Esther Shittu and Shaun Sutner discuss the latest innovations in agentic AI technology unveiled at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference in October with guest Madhav Thattai of CRM and CX giant Salesforce. The conversation covers the new Age…

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The Fix That Secured 1000s of Credit Cards ft. Brian Sletten | Ep. 4 29:37

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In this episode, Tim talks to Brian Sletten (Bosatsu Consulting) about his career in software development. His first job: working at a small communications company that built network matrix switch interfaces. His challenge/theme: overhauling credit card storage and security at a major hospitality company. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak …

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From Idea To Impact: How Gamma Is Redefining Presentations | Grant Lee 1:10:04

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Make your product irresistible, and everything else will follow. That’s the philosophy of Grant Lee, co-founder and CEO of Gamma, an AI design platform with an 'anti-PowerPoint approach', used by over 50M people. This week on Grit, he also shares why enduring businesses aren’t one person shows, and how their deliberate hiring process shapes and str…

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UiPath moves from RPA to agentic AI 29:51

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How Viktor Gamov Stays Curious as Tech Rapidly Evolves | Ep. 3 30:11

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Adi Polak interviews her co-host, Viktor Gamov, about his career’s evolution from distributed systems to streaming technology. Viktor’s first job: apple picking. His challenge/theme: staying curious and non-judgmental in the ever-changing landscape of tech. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Ga…

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Leadership Lessons From Snowflake’s Sales & Marketing Duo | Chris Degnan and Denise Persson 1:23:13

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Scaling a business globally comes down to leaders who align teams and drive them forward together. Snowflake serves over 12,000 customers, and early executives Chris Degnan and Denise Persson share how they scaled the company while keeping the unlikely pairing of sales and marketing perfectly aligned through hypergrowth. They join Joubin Mirzadegan…

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Preparing Analytics for the AI Rewrite 53:21

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The revolution has begun. AI will rewrite most major enterprise applications. Analytics will play a central role, but big questions remain. How can deterministic BI meld with probabilistic AI? How will fast-evolving AI systems be effectively governed? What's the secret to building trust in data and interactive dashboards in this new era? Register f…

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‘Sink or Swim’: Mastering the Transition from Life-Saver to Leadership with CEO at CORCYM, Christian Mazzi - Episode 24 42:52

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Christian Mazzi has lived a life of constant motion, learning to "sink or swim" from the very start of his life. He moved countries frequently, bringing a cultural awareness, and an impressive ability to learn & adapt quickly. This superpower is the lynch pin of Christian’s monumental pivot, from the life of a doctor to the high-stakes world of bus…

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CoreWeave signs $14.2 billion deal with Meta Platforms 6:30

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In this special breaking news analysis edition of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, hosts Shaun Sutner and Esther Shittu dive into the latest developments in the AI industry with Torsten Volk, an analyst with Omdia. Both AI Business and Omdia are owned by Informa TechTarget. This episode covers AI cloud computing vendor CoreWeave's groundb…

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How Tim Berglund Found His Calling | Ep. 2 30:36

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Viktor Gamov interviews his co-host, Tim Berglund, about his career in the world of streaming data. Tim’s first job: Burger King broiler steamer. His challenge/theme: pivoting from working in hardware and firmware to finding his calling in enterprise software and developer relations. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produ…

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The Man Who Builds for the Decade Ahead | Founder of Google X, Waymo, and Udacity 1:13:22

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What does it take to reinvent entire industries, over and over again? This week on Grit, Sebastian Thrun, the “godfather” of self-driving cars and massive open online courses, reflects on a career pushing the boundaries of technology across mobility, education, and AI. With Joubin Mirzadegan, he shares why he believes autonomous driving could becom…

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Act Now: Visual Immediacy At Scale 51:09

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When time-to-action requires very low latency, the immediacy of data visualization makes all the difference. Being able to analyze vast amounts of multi-dimensional data in real-time requires massive throughput, and an in-memory architecture designed to deliver instant insights at scale. Check out this episode of DM Radio to hear how advanced optim…

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Capital One takes on GenAI in a big way 31:39

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As one of the biggest financial institutions in the U.S., Capital One isn’t running away from generative AI and agentic AI. Instead, the $490 billion company is using the technology to enhance both internal operations and customer experience. In this Targeting AI episode, the chief scientist and executive vice president at Capital One discusses som…

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Building Real-time Systems for Apple, Nike & more ft. Adi Polak | Ep. 1 32:53

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The Confluent Developer Podcast is here! For this first episode, Tim Berglund talks to his co-host, Adi Polak (Confluent), about her career in distributed data systems. Her first job: neighborhood dogwalker. Her challenge/theme: early Hadoop, working at Akamai on data optimization and real-time threat detection for huge global customers like Apple,…

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How WordPress Became a Web Giant | Automattic Founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg 1:10:16

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What kind of founder builds a billion-dollar company around something anyone can use for free? Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, joins Joubin Mirzadegan to reflect on two decades of building the platform that now powers over 43% of all websites through cycles of doubt, decline, and reinvention. He also shares how Automa…

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The Founder’s Edge: Secrets to Growing Alongside Your Business with Entrepreneur and Investor, Dave Parker - Episode 23 41:26

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Entrepreneurs are the ones who’ll change the world - so if you can help thousands of entrepreneurs at once, imagine how much change lies in your hands… Dave Parker’s a 5-time Founder with decades of experience in the tech world. From his storied past, he emboldens others with future-focused guidance that’s impossible to ignore. From the #1 reason f…

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Powering AI: Inside the Next-Gen Data Center 53:48

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Join this episode of DM Radio, as host Eric Kavanagh dives into the emerging concept of "AI factories" with special guests Mark Madsen of Third Nature and Denise Muyco of Ravel. Together, they explore how modern data centers are being transformed to handle the massive compute demands of AI-balancing workloads, optimizing power usage, and rethinking…

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The Central Nervous System for Modern Business | Confluent CEO Jay Kreps 1:17:32

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The apps and websites we use every day depend on systems most of us never see. Jay Kreps joins Joubin Mirzadegan to share how Confluent became the ‘central nervous system’ for companies like Expedia and eBay, letting them respond to business operations instantly. They also break down why the myth of AI-driven efficiency falls short, and why buildin…

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Data Products, On-Demand 52:48

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You can always build a better mousetrap. Data warehouses and lakes turn out to be overkill for many business teams. A new approach makes enterprise data readily available for last-mile transformations. In other words, don't build it until they come, then do so dynamically in minutes. Register for this DM Radio to learn how enterprise data from any …

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IBM, agentic AI and the future of enterprise tools 32:52

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As a legacy organization, IBM has long been a champion for open source, especially in the age of GenAI. In this episode of Targeting AI from Informa TechTarget, Bruno Aziza, vice president of data, AI and analytics at IBM, discusses how the vendor has had to rebrand and shift in the age of GenAI and agentic AI. Aziza shares insights on talent chall…

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Airtable’s AI Reboot with CEO Howie Liu 1:07:17

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Can a no-code giant reinvent itself in the AI-native era? This week on Grit, Airtable CEO Howie Liu shares what it means to “refound” a company, how speed comes from tearing up old playbooks, and why conversational AI is reshaping his product—and his company. Guest: Howie Liu, Co-Founder & CEO of Airtable Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:04 First startup &…

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Bridging the Gap: Driving Innovation with Data 52:27

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The blessing and curse of today's data landscape is diversity. Hundreds of vendors, scores of databases, a dozen cloud providers and an infinite array of information architectures: That's the reality facing business analysts and engineers every day. But there is one foundational player that can help make sense of all these variations: the battle-te…

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The Art of Reinvention Across Companies and Continents with CEO of British American Business, Duncan Edwards OBE - Episode 22 37:09

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Duncan Edwards has undergone some of the biggest pivots that anyone - at any level - could ever make. After 30 years thriving in the cutthroat media world, he changed course, changed career, and changed continents in one fell swoop. Duncan found success on both sides of the Atlantic - and thanks to his work strengthening economic ties between the U…

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We're back! Welcome to the Confluent Developer Podcast. 1:20

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Weekly episodes launching Sept. 22! | Hi, I'm Tim Berglund. It's been about four years since I've been podcasting at Confluent, and "Streaming Audio" has been on hiatus for a little more than two, but I've got great news: we are back! We're back with a new name, a new format, and new hosts. Welcome to the Confluent Developer Podcast, where we talk …

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Inside the Mind of the World’s Most Optimistic CEO 1:09:48

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For Bill McDermott, work has never been just a job. On this Labor Day rerun of Grit, first published Jan 9, 2023, the ServiceNow CEO reflects on what he learned from his earliest jobs and how he carried those lessons from a deli counter in Long Island to the boardroom of an $80B software company. We cover: Why Bill bought a deli when he was in high…

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How Black Girls Code is Transforming Tech Diversity 27:33

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When it comes to diversity, AI systems often fail. In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast, Christina Mancini, CEO of Black Girls Code, discusses the importance of inclusion in tech, the strategies Black Girls Code employs to empower girls of color, and the need for ethical considerations in AI education. Christina emphasizes the role of commun…

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How Dropbox Beat Big Tech in the Cloud Wars 1:32:34

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How do you win when your competitors are the biggest companies in the world? This week on Grit, Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston retraces the path from a bus-stop prototype to competing head-on with Google, Apple, and Microsoft. He explains why grit is “learning to run toward discomfort,” and the moments he realized founders keep going “for …

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Good Vibes or Bad? Agentic DevOps Evolves 54:55

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DevOps is undergoing a radical transformation, fueled by AI-driven platforms like Bolt, Lovable, Anthropic, OpenAI and others. They are seriously disrupting the market with agentic capabilities that can design, test, and deploy code at lightning speed. While the power of these tools is breathtaking, there are serious risks: quality, security, gover…

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Saving the World: How Purpose Guides Progress with CEO of Nexpring Health, Wil Boren - Episode 21 40:18

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Growing up, Wil Boren vowed to save the world - and having devoted his career to leadership in the medical field, he’s as close to a CEO superhero as you’ll ever find. His role as CEO of reproductive services company Nexpring Health is the latest role in a legacy driven by purpose, and underpinned by a remarkable humility. Wil finds joy not in lead…

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Building High-Impact Sales Teams | Dan Lee and Nooks 58:51

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Even with AI, sales still comes down to human connection. This week on Grit, Dan Lee shares how Nooks automates busywork like research and dialing for thousands of sales teams, letting reps focus on the conversations that close deals. He also shares his “do more with less” approach, why cold calls still convert, and how to maximize human impact alo…