Real-Time AI Agents Powered by Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, and Google Cloud // TRAIN BRAIN

Real-Time AI Agents Powered by Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, and Google Cloud

Discover how developers and data teams can build agentic AI applications with the combined power of Google Cloud AI services and Confluent Cloud’s real-time data streaming platform.
This video showcases the joint value of integrating Apache Kafka®, Confluent Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and Apache Flink® to enable seamless, real-time communication between AI agents.
What you’ll learn:
- How to connect AI agents with fresh, governed, real-time data
- The technical architecture behind Confluent + Google Cloud AI
- Key use cases that bring agentic AI to life
- Benefits for developers, data engineers, and AI/ML practitioners
With Confluent and Google Cloud, you can go beyond AI experiments to build scalable, enterprise-ready multi-agent systems powered by real-time data.

Confluent

Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, enables organizations to harness business value of live data. The Confluent Platform manages the barrage of stream data and makes it available throughout an organization. It provides various in...

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