The Kafka Leaders Exchange

Kafka has become a core part of enterprise data infrastructure, but scaling it effectively is where many organizations hit friction. As usage grows across teams, applications, and use cases, challenges around cost control, data protection, operational overhead, governance, and platform complexity become harder to manage.

Platform and data leaders are increasingly being asked to run Kafka as a true enterprise platform, not just underlying infrastructure. This means enabling more teams to access and share real-time data, consistently enforcing governance and security, and supporting new workloads without continually adding infrastructure or operational complexity.

At the same time, Agents are introducing new opportunities for automation across Kafka environments. Teams are beginning to explore how Agents can help reduce operational risk, identify unknowns, surface issues earlier, and automate repetitive or complex platform tasks. This creates new questions around how automation should safely interact with Kafka, what access and guardrails Agents require, and where human oversight remains important.

This roundtable will bring together platform, data, and technology leaders to discuss how they are scaling Kafka to improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, strengthen data protection, introduce automation, and support more use cases while getting more from their existing infrastructure.

Join peers to share lessons learned and practical approaches to running Kafka as a resilient, governed, and increasingly automated enterprise platform.