Building agent systems with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink
Whether you’re building chatbots, monitoring systems, or intelligent automation, you’ll learn how to design scalable, context-aware AI agents that operate seamlessly with streaming data.
- Timeslot: Sunday, 6th April 2025, 14:00-15:00, Room B
- Tags: AI
AI-powered agent systems are becoming essential for automation, personalization, and real-time decision-making. But how do we ensure that these agents can process information continuously, maintain context, and provide intelligent responses at scale?
This talk explores how Apache Kafka and Apache Flink can be used to build dynamic real-time agent systems. We’ll start with the basics of agent-based systems - how they work, how they communicate, and how they retrieve and generate relevant knowledge using Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Then, we’ll look into real-time streaming architectures, showing how Kafka handles message passing between agents and Flink processes events to track context and enable intelligent responses.
By the end of this session, you’ll have a clear roadmap for designing AI-driven agent systems with Python that are context-aware, efficient and work with a continuous stream of data.
Whether you’re working on chatbots, monitoring systems, or intelligent automation, this talk will provide practical insights into bridging streaming data with generative AI to power the next generation of autonomous agents. Perfect for beginners and experts alike, this session offers valuable insights for all skill levels.
Olena is a Staff Developer Advocate at Confluent and a recognized expert in data streaming and analytics. With two decades of experience in software engineering, she has built mission-critical applications, led high-performing teams, and driven large-scale technology adoption at industry leaders like Nokia, HERE Technologies, AWS, and Aiven.
A passionate advocate for real-time data processing and AI-driven applications, Olena empowers developers and organizations to use the power of streaming data. She is an AWS Community Builder, a dedicated mentor, and a volunteer instructor at a nonprofit tech school, helping to shape the next generation of engineers.
As an international speaker and thought leader, Olena regularly presents at top global conferences, sharing deep technical insights and hands-on expertise. Whether through her talks, workshops, or content, she is committed to making complex technologies accessible and inspiring innovation in the developer community.
