The event
What the room explored
The morning opened at the infrastructure layer. Nokia engineers shared both an implementation path for moving Kubernetes-hosted Kafka clusters from ZooKeeper to KRaft and measured evidence about the temporary resource cost of running both control planes during migration.
The second half moved above the platform. Solace examined why a single orchestrator becomes a bottleneck in multi-agent systems, while Confluent demonstrated how Kafka and Flink can evaluate transaction streams quickly enough to identify suspicious behavior before a payment clears.