Real-Time Analytics Summit 2025 Call For Speakers — We’re Going Virtual!

The next Real-Time Analytics Summit will be held May 14, 2025. We took into account the desire for global participation, so this year’s summit will be held online, virtual, and free for all to attend. The call for speakers (CFS) is open starting immediately until January 5, 2025.

The 2024 Summit in San Jose, California brought together users and vendors from across the ecosystem. Prominent companies like Uber, Stripe, DoorDash, Atlassian, Slack, Magic Eden, Dialpad, Confluent, Microsoft, Snowflake, Redpanda, Timeplus, Alluxio, Decodable, StreamNative, and, of course, StarTree got to share their knowledge, expertise, and insights with an energetic audience. It was a place developers like you could come to learn what other people are doing in this emerging field, and to build the kind of connections that can drive unparalleled advances in your career. You can read my recap blog from the event, and watch all of the sessions on-demand here.

Join us at Real-Time Analytics Summit 2025

The advantage of a face-to-face conference has always been the social networking and connections you can make. The disadvantages are the travel costs and logistics, meaning face-to-face events can only be attended by a very small portion of the global audience of interest. As the worldwide demand for real-time analytics increases, we know an ever-growing global audience wants to participate in the conference. For example, in this past year the Apache Pinot community has grown to over 5,000 members. Therefore this year we are returning Real-Time Analytics Summit to a free virtual event that anyone around the world can attend live online or watch on-demand.

For attendees, registration isn’t open yet, but you can sign up for updates as the program firms up, including a notification for when registration opens.

Speak at Real-Time Analytics Summit 2025

The heart of any show is the quality of the speakers. Given the conversations we’ve seen in Slack and the user stories we’ve covered over the past year, we know the real-time analytics industry is doing amazing stuff. Now is your chance to share your successes, insights, lessons learned, and achievements with a global community of interest.

This year our program will be built around two content tracks:

Track One: Developing Real-Time Applications

This track is dedicated to developers who want to deepen their expertise in real-time analytics. Through technical demonstrations, programming deep dives, and expert-led sessions, participants will learn how to design, implement, and optimize real-time analytics. Attendees will explore advanced topics like data ingestion, query performance tuning, and integrating real-time systems with existing architectures. By the end of this track, developers will walk away with actionable skills to build faster, more efficient analytics solutions that can scale with demand.

Track Two: Scaling Real-Time Analytics for Maximum Business Impact

Tailored for engineering leaders and data architects, this track focuses on strategic approaches to incorporating and scaling real-time analytics in enterprise data platforms. Attendees will gain insights into aligning real-time analytics with business objectives, managing resources effectively, transformative use cases, and ensuring sustainable, high-performance data solutions. Industry leaders will share insights on overcoming common challenges and achieving high impact outcomes. Attendees will gain a clear roadmap for implementing scalable real-time solutions that boost capabilities and optimize resource usage.

Suggested topics for speakers

If you’d like to submit a talk, here’s what we’re looking for:

• Case studies / user stories — What are you using real-time analytics for? Business insights? Observability? Anomaly detection? Fraud? Clickstream analysis? We’d love your tales from production environments, proof of concepts (POCs), use cases, data modeling and sizing, workloads and query patterns, how many terabytes (or petabytes) you have under management, your QPS and P99s, competitive bake-offs and benchmarks, migration before-and-after stories, and tales of operations at scale
• Ecosystems and architectures — No real-time analytical database is an island. What’s upstream and downstream to it? How do your data streaming pipelines work? What sort of transformations does your data need to go through to be consumable? How do you visualize your insights? How do you manage real-time data products and schema changes? What sort of applications are you using to visualize or act upon your data? Show us your block diagram, and the wall of logos of all the projects powering your real-time analytics ecosystem!
• Innovations in systems, tools, and processes — We’re seeing and hearing of relentless innovation coming from open source software (OSS) contributors, software developers and cloud vendors, and, of course, internal project teams. What’s a great new capability to the field you’ve contributed that others should hear about? What’s a great new system you’ve adopted — or invented? How are you accelerating and scaling your business with new best practices to back these tools and systems? How are you pushing boundaries with AI? We’d love to hear just as much from engineers using and managing these systems in production as from the software engineers designing and coding these systems in their respective development communities.
• Business impacts — How did your use of real-time analytics affect the bottom line? TCO/ROI analysis, cost savings or increased revenue due to a shift from batch to real-time processing. How did you make existing customers happier, or enable bringing new customers to the business?

Remember to be authentic, targeted to technical audiences, and avoid being “pitchy.” (Keep proposals free of marketing jargon and hard sells.) And as always, I’d like to encourage people from underrepresented groups to submit. We want to see your session!

If you’re new to speaking, don’t let that stop you from participating. We have experts ready to help you craft your abstract standing by in the #rtasummit-submissions channel of StarTree Community Slack. Drop by anytime to talk about your idea for a session, or for feedback on the abstract you’re working on.

Summit sessions are recorded on video, so your presentation will live online as a permanent asset for you to use to showcase your own work and help continue to grow the real-time analytics community.

The CFS will remain open until 11:59pm PST on January 5, 2025. Help us spread the word by sharing this article on social media, and set a calendar reminder to get your abstract in. We’d love for 2025 to be your year to speak at the Real-Time Analytics Summit.