# What's New in Conduktor: Back to School Webinar

### New term, new syllabus

Straight from the team that builds Conduktor: Christoph Schubert and Ron Kapoor walk through everything we shipped this summer, plus a first look at next semester.

**You'll walk away able to:**

- Answer "who's actually using this topic?" in seconds, not Slack threads
- Put per-team Kafka cost in front of finance with chargeback
- Let teams self-serve Kafka while your guardrails hold

While everyone was on holiday, we did the homework.

You run Kafka as a service, which means you're expected to know who produces to what, prove it to an auditor, charge it back to a business unit, and never become the ticket queue that slows delivery down. This session covers what shipped this summer to help with all four, and where Conduktor goes next.

### On the syllabus

- 🗺️ **Chapter 1: See your estate, live.** Lineage now shows real traffic, not just static wiring. "Who is actually using this topic?" answered in seconds, not in Slack threads.
- 📡 **Chapter 2: Client telemetry without touching client code.** KIP-714-style metrics collected at the Gateway, so you spot the misconfigured consumer before it pages you at 2am.
- 👥 **Chapter 3: Group work, done properly.** Resource templates, a public API for consumer group and connector lifecycle, and self-service requests with outcome notifications. Your teams do the work; your guardrails hold.
- 🧮 **Chapter 4: Show your workings.** Chargeback turns shared-cluster usage into per-team cost you can actually put in front of finance.
- 🔒 **Chapter 5: House rules at the door.** SASL/SCRAM for Gateway-managed security, multiple listeners, Schema Registry proxy, and centralized Schema Registry and KMS connections.
- ⭐ **Extra credit: beyond Kafka.** Flink statement management for Confluent Cloud, plus a first look at Conduktor for Agents, REST produce and self-service encryption.

We finish with office hours: live Q&A with the product team.

> 🎓 **No pop quiz. No group project. Cameras optional.** Just 45 minutes on what shipped and what's next.

### Roll call: who should attend

Kafka service and platform owners, SRE and infrastructure engineers, data platform leads, and architects evaluating how to govern Kafka at scale. All welcome: existing customers, Community Edition users, and anyone still comparing options.

### Event details

**Date:** Tuesday, September 15, 2026
**Time:** 4:00 PM CEST
**Duration:** 45 minutes
**Language:** English

> **Prefer German?** We're running the same session in German at [11:00 AM CEST](https://www.conduktor.io/events/webinars/whats-new-back-to-school-de).

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