Data Streaming Awards London San Francisco FAQ Past Sessions JudgingEligibilityWinners Presented by Confluent at View Winners Winners announced at the Day 2 Keynote at Current NOLA 2025 Recognizing achievements with Data Streaming Technology The Data Streaming Awards recognizes organizations that are harnessing the power of Data Streaming to transform their business and provide amazing value to their customers, and communities. The 2025 Judging Panel LinkedIn Adem Efe Gencer Engineering Manager University of Waikato Albert Bifet Professor of AI GM Financial Amar Deep Singh AVP IT Architecture Uber Ankit Sultana Staff Software Engineer @ Real Time Analytics Platform Confluent Anna McDonald Distinguished Technical Voice of the Customer Imply Dave Klein Developer Advocate Amazon Deepak Yadav Engineering Manager, Data Dojo Elad Leev Staff Engineer OpenAI Jigar Bhati Member of Technical Staff Brink AI Labs Kushal Khandelwal CTO & Founder Red Hat Mickael Maison Senior Principal Software Engineer Kinetic Edge Neil Buesing CTO & Co-founder Lenses Tun Shwe Staff AI Engineer Judging The Judging process is designed with fairness and transparency in mind. Confluent is the main organizer of the Data Streaming Awards, but winners are chosen solely by a panel of data streaming experts spanning the entire category. Every effort is made to ensure there is no undue bias towards any vendor or technology. If you are interested in becoming a judge, please email us at [email protected]. We select judges who we deem are experts and community leaders of the data streaming industry. Choosing Judges The judges will be chosen, to complete a judging panel which has representation from many businesses directly involved with the Data Streaming Industry. Nominations Nominations are public. Any case study with any data streaming technology, product, service or vendor is elligible to win! Choosing Winners No one but the Judges will be choosing winners. Each judge will be able to place votes, and will not have received indication of what other judges voted for previously. Eligibility and Criteria We want to ensure that the absolute most deserving companies and practitioners are rewarded. This is why we prescribe a set criteria for judges to evaluate nominations and also have some rules and definitions for which companies can win awards. What are the Judges looking for? These are guidelines to ensure that you are focusing on the right things during the nomination process. Innovation Show us how this team has come up with new ideas for the Streaming Industry, and their own industry. Impact How has this project made an impact at their company, in their community, or on the world? Interest Is this project interesting to people who are both Technical and Non-technical? There is more advice regarding your submission within the Nomination form. What companies are eligible to win these awards? No Data streaming vendors Data Streaming Vendors aren't elligible to compete for these awards, UNLESS they are using a Data Streaming Technology for project within their own company. No company can win two in one year. Winners from previous years can enter, but it must be for a separate case study, from that which they won with. The Data Streaming Event Organized by Terms and ConditionsPrivacy PolicyDo Not Sell My InformationModern Slavery PolicyCookie Settings Copyright © Confluent, Inc. 2014-2026. Apache®, Apache Kafka®, Kafka®, Apache Flink®, Flink®, Apache Iceberg®, Iceberg® and associated open source project names are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation