--- title: The Future of Current: How the Data Streaming Community... description: Confluent's Current conference series is expanding in 2026 to serve the growing data streaming community. Key changes include replacing Current Bengaluru with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-current-how-the-data-streaming-community-is-evolving-omuhqw4oy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Future of Current: How the Data Streaming Community Is Evolving | daily.dev og:description: Confluent's Current conference series is expanding in 2026 to serve the growing data streaming community. Key changes include replacing Current Bengaluru with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-current-how-the-data-streaming-community-is-evolving-omuhqw4oy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OmUHqw4oy.png og:image:alt: The Future of Current: How the Data Streaming Community Is Evolving og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Future of Current: How the Data Streaming Community Is Evolving **[Confluent Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/conf)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Confluent's Current conference series is expanding in 2026 to serve the growing data streaming community. Key changes include replacing Current Bengaluru with a free Data Streaming World Tour event, adding a Mumbai stop, moving the flagship U.S. event to San Francisco, launching a dedicated one-day data engineering mini-conference in March, and maintaining Current London as planned. The evolution reflects how data streaming has grown from a Kafka-focused niche to a diverse ecosystem spanning AI, application development, analytics, and real-time data pipelines. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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