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Organized by Ververica, the original creators of Apache Flink®, Flink Forward is THE conference dedicated to Flink and stream processing communities.

You can now watch every available session from Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 on-demand.

All videos are organized by track. Access each session by clicking “start,” or navigate to a specific session by clicking on the track under “list of content”. 

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List of content
    About Flink Forward
    1. Background

    2. Flink Forward Sponsorship

    3. Flink Forward 2026
  1. Flink Forward Opening Sessions
    1. Opening Session - Full Length
  2. Special Announcements
    1. Special Announcement Session VERA-X: Native Vectorized Flink
  3. Agentic AI & Advanced Analytics Track Sessions
    1. My tokens are limited. You must use the right context: An agent builders guide to Apache Flink

    2. From Stream to Sentence: Real-Time Generative AI with Apache Flink

    3. How Streaming Fixes Your Batch - An Introduction to Event Based Data Quality Management

    4. Enabling Apache Flink Management Platforms as a Service in the AI Stack

    5. Agentic Flink: Real-Time Data Exploration with LangGraph & Model Context Protocol

    6. Unifying Batch and Streaming: Scalable Feature Engineering at Pinterest

    7. Petabytes, Pipelines & PyFlink: How We Stream, Enrich & Validate Billions of Events

    8. Streaming toward Agentic AI: How Flink, Kafka, and CDC Fuel your agents

    9. Real-Time Deduplication at Scale with Apache Flink from S3 to Snowflake

    10. Flink Agents: The Agentic AI Framework based on Apache Flink

    11. Accelerating Intelligence - Unlocking the Power of Realtime AI
  4. Mastering Flink SQL & Connectors Track Sessions
    1. *It should not feel like rocket science*: Decoupling configuration from logic in Flink SQL

    2. Bridging the Gaps: The State of Flink Connectors and Why You should Care

    3. Streaming Down the Fluss: Taming CDC Streams with Flink, Fluss, and Paimon

    4. Towards Transactional Buffering of Change Data Capture Events

    5. Build Real-time Data Ingestion with Flink CDC

    6. Dynamic, Scalable, and Schema-Evolving: Introducing the Flink Dynamic Iceberg Sink

    7. Democratizing Flink SQL at Shopify: Scaling Streaming for Every Developer

    8. Unframed: Stream Processing Without Windows

    9. Beginners guide to Flink SQL query optimization

    10. Building AI Agents for Complex Event Processing with Flink SQL

    11. Flink SQL 2025: Powering Real-Time AI and Stream Processing Innovations

    12. Powering Stateful Joins at Scale with Flink SQL at LinkedIn

    13. Flink SQL++: User-defined SQL Operators with PTFs
  5. Performance, State & Reliability Track Sessions
    1. Shepherd: Large-Scale, Low-Latency AI and ML with Flink at Stripe

    2. The *Big State* Monster: Taming State Size in Multi-Way Joins with FLIP-516

    3. Log Pattern Mining at Scale - A Journey from PoC to Prod

    4. From Logs to Logic: A Structured Event System for Flink Observability and AIOps

    5. Flink State: What We Miss, What We Need

    6. Apache Paimon: Unified Lake Storage for Data + Multimodal AI with Apache Iceberg Compatibility

    7. Keep Calm and Flink On: Disaster-Proofing Apache Flink

    8. The Flink Mistake Playbook: 2 Years of Real-World Debugging

    9. Redefining Flink Reliability — Blue/Green Deployments in Production

    10. Taming Large Flink State

    11. Charting New Territory: LinkedIns Early Bet on Flink Batch for Large-Scale Workloads

    12. Optimizing Flink Applications on GKE: Infrastructure Decisions at Shopify

    13. Does Your Code Really Work? Testing Apache Flink Applications
  6. Real-World Use Cases & Best Practices Track Sessions
    1. Under the Hood: The Future of Streaming with Ververica and Aiven

    2. A Flink Story: Overcoming Windowing Constraints

    3. Apache Fluss: Making Your Lakehouse Truly Real-Time

    4. HALO Jumping into Flink: Lessons learned from managing real-time data at Daimler Truck

    5. From Batch to StreamHouse: How Peru Largest Bank is Modernizing Mainframe Workloads

    6. Zero Trust or Bust: Bring Your Own Cloud to Real-Time Data

    7. Preventing Blackouts with Flink: Power Grid Data Processing for Millisecond-Level Fault Handling

    8. Real-time Fixed Income Pricing with Apache Flink

    9. Flink for logistics: Kuehne+Nagel's journey to building a solution for near real-time shipment data

    10. Driving Innovation at Scale: Operational Insights & Advancements in Netflixs Data Mesh Platform

    11. Achieving High-Throughput & Robustness: Intesa Sanpaolos JDBC Sink and Error Management

    12. Accelerating and protecting shoppers payments with Apache Flink at Adyen

    13. Real-Time Data, Zero Friction: How Ververica + Aiven Accelerate Time to Value
  7. Mainstage Expert Sessions
    1. Apache PMC Panel Session

    2. Panel: AI in Motion
  8. Flink Forward Closing Session
    1. Closing Session - Full Length