Apache Flink & Fluss Conference in London | Fluss Forward

One day of talks. One evening of networking. The gathering of engineers, contributors, and early adopters shaping the future of data with Apache Fluss™.
Apache Fluss offers open-source, lakehouse-native streaming storage that makes your data lakehouse truly real-time. Fluss Forward is an event organized by Ververica around Apache Fluss, where practitioners that build and run it come together to learn from peers and showcase their real-time journeys. Deliberately timed as the pre-event to Big Data LDN. Fluss Forward is the deeper dive before the wider stage.
A structured, content-driven conference dedicated entirely to Apache Fluss and real-time data infrastructure. Short, dense talks from engineers in production. Architecture deep dives. Honest war stories. A panel with the people actually building mission-critical systems around Fluss. No theory without numbers. No pitches. No filler.
When the talks end, the real conversations begin. Fluss Forward. Dark Mode is an open-floor evening of drinks, music, and the kind of unscripted exchange that only happens when the right people are in the room. Contributors next to early adopters. Engineers next to architects. The experts, off the record. Networking. Drinks and food. No agenda.
Get ready to experience Fluss Forward like nothing before at the iconic Vauxhall Arches! Nestled in the heart of Central London just steps from the River Thames. This spectacular venue comprising seven historic railway arches and offers the ultimate industrial-chic backdrop for our event. During the day, our insightful talks will take center stage, high-tech spaces featuring scalable LED video walls and acoustics designed to keep you inspired. As the daytime sessions wrap up, the venue seamlessly transforms into a vibrant hub for evening networking. Mingle with peers under the immersive 360-degree lights of the legendary 'Lightbox' room, or head out to the bustling Food & Beer Garden to enjoy an electric atmosphere. Located just a 20-second walk from Vauxhall station, getting here is completely effortless—ensuring a seamless experience from your first morning coffee to the final evening toast.
Fluss Forward + Fluss Dark Mode
Practitioner talks. Architecture deep dives. Expert panel. War stories from production. Networking and music. One ticket. Full day access. Lunch included. Evening experience to follow.
Join us for Fluss Forward at the iconic Vauxhall Arches! Housed within seven historic railway arches in Central London, this industrial-chic venue is the perfect backdrop for our event. During the day, engage with insightful talks in high-tech spaces. As evening falls, the energy shifts. Network under the immersive 360-degree lights of the 'Lightbox' or grab a bite in the vibrant Food & Beer Garden. Located just 20 seconds from Vauxhall station, it’s effortlessly accessible for a full day of inspiration and connection.
Sessions address the real challenges and the real opportunities of building on Apache Fluss.
Fluss offers columnar streaming storage with millisecond-level latency, real-time update capabilities, and read performance improvements of up to 10x with reduced network costs. Hear from the early adopters who are already running it, what works, what broke, and what they'd do differently.
Apache Fluss represents a new architectural approach: the Streamhouse for real-time lakehouses. Instead of stitching together separate streaming and batch systems, the Streamhouse unifies them under a single architecture. Flink as compute. Fluss as real-time storage. Paimon as the historical tier.
A conventional real-time AI stack stitches together a message broker, a stream processor, an online store, an offline store, and a synchronization layer, every boundary is an integration point where data silently diverges. Apache Fluss collapses that stack into one substrate. See what that makes possible for feature pipelines, model serving, and online inference.
Fluss recently graduated and officially became an Apache Software Foundation top-level project. This technology is ready for the community to build and rely on.
Meet real-life users and active contributors. Find the on-ramp to contribute to the project and shape what Fluss becomes, not just consume it.
Ververica are longtime contributors to Apache Flink and Apache Fluss, the open-source unified streaming storage layer designed to optimize real-time data processing. Fluss Forward is organized by engineers who work on these systems, for the people that run them.
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Fluss Forward is organized and hosted by Ververica. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or organized by the Apache Software Foundation. Apache Fluss™ is a project of the Apache Software Foundation. Apache, the names of Apache projects, and the feather logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other marks mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.