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Shift-Left with Flink and Vertex AI: How to Unlock Real-Time ML and Generative AI Faster

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

10 AM PST | 1 PM EST | 10 AM GMT | 10:30 AM IST | 1 PM SGT | 4 PM AEDT

ML and generative AI can supercharge businesses with meaningful insights but its success depends on clean, contextual, and timely data. Traditional data architectures often rely on complex, batch-based ETL pipelines that pipe raw or partially cleaned data to downstream systems, leading to challenges with stale data and expensive processing.

Shift Left moves data processing closer to the source, bringing real-time, reusable, and reliable data anywhere needed including sophisticated ML models and GenAI LLMs.

In this demo webinar, learn from a real-world example that enhances lead scoring to help sales teams boost conversation rates with timely, accurate, and useful information.

You will learn how to:

  • Design a Shift Left architecture that enables real-time ML predictions and generative AI, and drastically reduces time to insights from 4+ hours to few seconds
  • Leverage AI model inference capabilities in Flink to process data, and invoke custom ML models and generative AI LLM endpoints
  • Integrate with Salesforce & BigQuery to seamlessly stream results for real-time and effective decision making

Register to learn, access code samples and jumpstart your real-time ML and generative AI project.

Will is a Senior Software Engineer at Confluent. He enjoys designing better systems, writing code, and providing a smooth experience to Confluent’s customers.

Matt Mangia is Director of the Corporate Systems Design & Engineering team. Before his current role leading adoption of Confluent for internal use cases, he worked to scale Partner and Field Operations programs and served as a Solutions Architect at Confluent helping design and implement data in motion use cases with customers across North America.