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"Event-Driven Workflow Orchestration" + TBA
When
Monday, 19 October 2026
18:00–21:00
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save the date! Agenda 18:00 doors open 18:20 doors close 18:20 intro, sponsor minute 18:30 Event-Driven Workflow Orchestration with Kestra for the Streaming Stack: Kafka, Flink, Fluss, and Beyond - Kai Waehner / Kestra 19:30 break, food, drinks 19:55 raffle 20:00 Talk 2 **Event-Driven Workflow Orchestration with Kestra for the Streaming Stack: Kafka, Flink, Fluss, and Beyond** Data streaming moves events in real time, but streaming alone does not run the business. Flink jobs need deployment and monitoring, lakehouse tables need maintenance, and events need to trigger processes with retries, human approval and an audit trail. AI agents act on events autonomously and need the same governance. This talk shows how event-driven workflow orchestration complements the streaming stack and goes beyond it, because not everything is a stream. Kestra is an open source platform built in Java under Apache 2.0. It provides unified orchestration of real-time and batch workloads across data, AI, infrastructure and business processes. A practical walkthrough connects Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Apache Fluss with APIs, databases and the lakehouse, all the way to trusted agentic AI. **About the Speaker** Kai Waehner is Global Field CTO at Kestra, the open source platform for unified orchestration across data, AI, infrastructure and business processes. In parallel, he advises enterprises, software vendors and investors as an independent consultant. Previously, he spent over nine years as Global Field CTO at Confluent, helping to build the Apache Kafka and Flink ecosystem. He writes about data streaming and workflow orchestration at [www.kai-waehner.de](https://www.kai-waehner.de).
Who's going
Sponsors & partners
- Where
- Vienna
- Organizer
- Java Vienna
- Who's going
- ~50 expected
- Registration
- 🌍 Open to all
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