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Wednesday July 23 2025 Guest Focus: Streaming analytics expert and Kafka-Flink integration specialist Ben Gamble from Ververica will be joining our host Hugh Evans. Ben has been at the forefront of driving Kafka-Flink integration and the streaming analytics revolution. What we’ll cover: As always we’ll offer a free coffee voucher to all attendees. Get Kafka-Nated!

In the August edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the version 3.3 release as well as the plan for upcoming features. Finally, we end with a packed Q&A full of great questions.

Structured investigations rely on proven models to guide analysis. This segment explores how frameworks like the Diamond Model and Kill Chain help analysts connect evidence, identify attacker behavior, and build a clear timeline of events.

We’re rolling out some interesting AI innovations and workflow enhancements in the cloud version of ServiceDesk Plus. You can now use the native Zia LLM hosted in our own data centers as a GenAI provider (in addition to ChatGPT and AzureOpen AI), track AI adoption with the new Zia dashboard, and enable user transitions within workflows. Meanwhile, the on-premises version supports seamless user import from Microsoft Entra ID. Watch the video as our product experts walk you through each of these updates in detail.

Subscribe. Fuel your curiosity. This webinar gives a detailed exploration of an open source data lakehouse architecture and how we implement it at Canonical. Watch to discover how Spark’s scalable processing engine and Kyuubi’s user-friendly SQL gateway enable efficient, secure, and high-performance analytics on unified data sets. Let’s dig deeper into how this combination simplifies big data storage, interactive analytics, and ETL – all through a single, streamlined open source lakehouse architecture.

Here's an early look at user-created AI agents with external tool support in Mattermost — designed to integrate AI into daily workflows while maintaining governance and security. We’d love your feedback on this design. Contact the Fast Futures team at fastfutures@mattermost.com.