The Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 in London brought together thousands of data leaders and innovators to explore the impact of data-driven strategies with emerging technologies. Ververica was proud to be a key sponsor of this event, showcasing our impact in real-time AI capabilities and insights on how enterprises can unlock the full potential of streaming data through decision intelligence methods.
Here are three key takeaways from the summit:
1. Real-time decision-making is endorsed as a business imperative
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, there is a shift from batch processing toward real-time. At the Gartner conference, it was evident that we are seeing this shift affect all industries from key discussions and attending talks. For example, traditional manufacturing and medical industries are in the early stages of adoption, pushing this change throughout the organizational systems and processes to transform data into actionable insights in real-time. At the Ververica booth, we demonstrated how Ververica’s Unified Streaming Data Platform, powered by our VERA engine, enables our organization to process and analyze data in real-time. As stated by Ben Gamble, Field CTO at Ververica: "Real‐time intelligence is no longer optional for enterprises that want to compete.”
2. Agentic AI is transforming enterprise workflows
AI was a hot topic! The rise of AI has been increasingly adopted by businesses to scale their operations and resources; we’re seeing an increasing demand for systems to identify any inaccuracies that may occur. Ben Gamble addressed this well in his talk “Ververica: Empowering AI to Make Decisions You Can Trust.” In his talk, Ben addressed how real-time AI-powered pipelines give businesses a competitive edge, moving beyond traditional ETL, CDC and data lakes to agentic AI workflows where data and decisions become indistinguishable. Ben demonstrated how scalable, real-time AI agents enhance fraud detection, personalize customer experience and optimize operations. To learn more about this topic, check out our use case with KartShoppe.
3. The competitive advantage of decision intelligence to drive businesses at scale
It was thrilling to see the various use cases that capitalized on decision intelligence for real-world solutions. At the Ververica booth, we held numerous conversations with attendees about the benefits of our Unified Streaming Data Platform, particularly with industries in manufacturing and health care. Attendees were delighted to discover the various use cases Ververica solutions extend to, from fraud detection to personalized customer experience to optimizing operations in supply chain and manufacturing. Attendees were delighted to get demos and insightful talks about solutions to their challenges.
The conference offered valuable insights that affirmed our commitment to helping enterprises scale through the power of data and real-time AI solutions. We're excited to continue our partnership with Gartner as sponsors at future events.
Learn how Ververica’s Unified Streaming Data Platform can accelerate real-time decision-making for your business.