Fluss Forward

The Apache Fluss community. In one room.
One day of practitioner talks. Fluss Forward.
One evening of networking. Fluss Forward. Dark Mode

One day of talks. One evening of community. The gathering of engineers, contributors, and early adopters shaping the future of Apache Fluss™.

What Is Fluss Forward

Apache Fluss is open-source, lakehouse-native streaming storage that makes your data lakehouse truly real-time. Fluss Forward is where the community that builds and runs it comes together. This isn't a vendor showcase. It's a community event. Deliberately timed as the pre-event to Big Data LDN. Fluss Forward is the deeper dive before the wider stage.

Fluss Forward 2026

Fluss Forward. The Day Event

A structured, content-driven conference dedicated entirely to Apache Fluss and real-time data infrastructure. Short, dense talks from engineers in production. Architecture deep dives. Honest war stories. A panel with the people actually building Fluss. No theory without numbers. No pitches. No filler.

Fluss Forward. Dark Mode

When the talks end, the real conversations begin. Fluss Forward. Dark Mode is an open-floor evening of drinks, music, and the kind of unscripted exchange that only happens when the right people are in the room. Contributors next to early adopters. Engineers next to architects. The Apache Fluss community, off the record. Networking. Drinks and food. No agenda.

Venue

Get ready to experience Fluss Forward like nothing before at the iconic Vauxhall Arches! Nestled in the heart of Central London just steps from the River Thames. This spectacular venue comprising seven historic railway arches and offers the ultimate industrial-chic backdrop for our event. During the day, our insightful talks will take center stage, high-tech spaces featuring scalable LED video walls and acoustics designed to keep you inspired. As the daytime sessions wrap up, the venue seamlessly transforms into a vibrant hub for evening networking. Mingle with peers under the immersive 360-degree lights of the legendary 'Lightbox' room, or head out to the bustling Food & Beer Garden to enjoy an electric atmosphere. Located just a 20-second walk from Vauxhall station, getting here is completely effortless—ensuring a seamless experience from your first morning coffee to the final evening toast.

FLUSS COMMUNITY.

Fluss Forward + Fluss Dark Mode

Practitioner talks. Architecture deep dives. Community panel. War stories from production. Networking and music. One ticket. Full day access. Lunch included. Evening experience to follow.

Join us for Fluss Forward at the iconic Vauxhall Arches! Housed within seven historic railway arches in Central London, this industrial-chic venue is the perfect backdrop for our event. During the day, engage with insightful talks in high-tech spaces. As evening falls, the energy shifts. Network under the immersive 360-degree lights of the 'Lightbox' or grab a bite in the vibrant Food & Beer Garden. Located just 20 seconds from Vauxhall station, it’s effortlessly accessible for a full day of inspiration and connection.

What Gets Covered

Sessions address the real challenges and the real opportunities of building on Apache Fluss.

Apache Fluss in Production

Fluss offers columnar streaming storage with millisecond-level latency, real-time update capabilities, and read performance improvements of up to 10x with reduced network costs. Hear from the early adopters who are already running it, what works, what broke, and what they'd do differently.

Streamhouse Architecture

Apache Fluss represents a new architectural approach: the Streamhouse for real-time lakehouses. Instead of stitching together separate streaming and batch systems, the Streamhouse unifies them under a single architecture. Flink as compute. Fluss as real-time storage. Paimon as the historical tier.

Real-Time AI

A conventional real-time AI stack stitches together a message broker, a stream processor, an online store, an offline store, and a synchronization layer, every boundary is an integration point where data silently diverges. Apache Fluss collapses that stack into one substrate. See what that makes possible for feature pipelines, model serving, and online inference.

Why Fluss, Why Now

Fluss officially became an Apache Software Foundation incubating project. A signal that this technology is ready for the community to build on. What this milestone means, what comes next, and how to get involved.

Community Building

Open-source contribution sessions. Meet the committers. First-time contributor workshops. The on-ramp for engineers who want to shape what Fluss becomes, not just consume it.