The exponential adoption of the event streaming platform has been remarkable over the last decade as industry and government alike seek to move towards real-time event driven capabilities. Healthcare has been no different with the approach transforming many aspects of how data is handled to improve the treatment and experience of patients. In this talk we will cover what event streaming is, and how Apache Kafka and Confluent are being applied and adopted in healthcare. We will discuss real world examples of how event streaming is helping shape healthcare; including managing benefits, sharing electronic health records, and combating pandemics.
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Will LaForest
ConfluentIn his current position, Mr. LaForest works with customers across a broad spectrum of industries and government enabling them to realize the benefits of a data in motion and event driven architecture. He is passionate about innovation in data technology and has spent 26 years helping customers wrangle data at massive scale. His technical career spans diverse areas from software engineering, NoSQL, data science, cloud computing, machine learning, and building statistical visualization software but began with code slinging at DARPA as a teenager. Mr. LaForest holds degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Virginia.