Streaming Meets Governance: Building AI-Ready Tables With Confluent Tableflow and Unity Catalog
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Learn how Databricks and Confluent are simplifying the path from real-time data to governed, analytics- and AI-ready tables. This session will cover how Confluent Tableflow automatically materializes Kafka topics into Delta tables and registers them with Unity Catalog — eliminating the need for custom streaming pipelines. We’ll walk through how this integration helps data engineers reduce ingestion complexity, enforce data governance and make real-time data immediately usable for analytics and AI. Talk By: Kasun Indrasiri Gamage, Senior Product Manager, Confluent ; Victoria Bukta, Member of Technical Staff, Databricks Here’s more to explore: Production ready data pipelines for analytics and AI: https://www.databricks.com/solutions/data-engineering The Big Book of Data Engineering: https://www.databricks.com/resources/ebook/big-book-data-engineering-2nd-edition See all the product announcements from Data + AI Summit: https://www.databricks.com/events/dataaisummit-2025-announcements Connect with us: Website: https://databricks.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/databricks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/databricksin…
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