Google Cloud Next ’19 Speakers: Gaetan Castelein, Confluent Product Marketing Kir Titievsky, Google Product Management Confluent Cloud for Apache Kafka® was a session conducted at Google Cloud Next ’19 on the topic of how Confluent and Google are partnering to give you a complete event-streaming platform that extends Kafka with essential capabilities for developers and enterprises. Confluent is available as a fully managed, first class service on GCP, or can be deployed on-premises on Google Cloud Services Platform. Developers can deploy Confluent Cloud™ in minutes right from the Google Cloud Console to start building event-driven applications. Enterprises can build hybrid cloud streaming solutions with a common platform that spans from on-premises to GCP, streaming data to GCP to leverage best-of-breed services such as BigQuery and TensorFlow. Review this presentation to learn about Confluent and GCP services, and see how you can get started in just minutes with no upfront commitment.