Lyndon Hedderly

This article was published in Finextra - June 2020

https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/18925/what-covid-19-has-taught-banks-about-moving-to-the-cloud

Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, my nine-year-old daughter’s adoption of digital technology accelerated overnight. She sudde...

This article appeared in Financial IT in June 2020

https://financialit.net/content/delivering-new-real-time-customer-experiences 

An interview with  Lyndon Hedderly, Director Customer Solutions at Confluent.

Can you please tell us more about Confluent and your b...

A version of this article appeared in Global Banking and Finance in March 2020

https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/event-streamings-magic-powers-in-fs-regulatory-compliance/

By Lyndon Hedderly, Director Customer Solutions at Confluent.

Conjure up the frustra...

This article appeared in ITProPortal in Dec 2019 (has 390K active monthly users):  

https://www.itproportal.com/features/event-streaming-a-vehicle-for-it-modernisation/

Event-streaming platforms can act as a key accelerator of IT modernisation by accessing business...

In Nov 2019 I presented at a series of Confluent Streaming Events - Madrid, Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris.  

Here's a summary of my talk. 

Hi, I’m Lyndon (from London) and I’ve been working at Confluent at a Customer Solutions Director for the past...

This article was published in ITProPortal in Oct 2019

What is event streaming and how can it be applied to all organisations?

Relational database management systems (RDBMSes) have dominated large-scale data processing applications since the late 1970’s. They now have a y...

Talk at Kafka Summit in London:  DRAFT NOTES 

Connecting Kafka to Cash (CKC):  May 13, 2019, 4:15 pm - 4:55 pm

https://kafka-summit.org/events/kafka-summit-london-2019/

https://kafka-summit.org/speakers/lyndon-hedderly-2/

Summary: 

Hello, my name is Lyndon Hedderly, I...

I talked at the CDO Exchange in London in March 2019. 

https://chiefdataofficerexchange.iqpc.co.uk/speakers

Overview of the talk. 

Abstract:

There is a significant shift underway in data infrastructure and application architecture –Event Streaming.  This talk will develop...

This is a rough transcript of the talk I gave at Kafka Summit in San Francisco Pier 27 in October 2018. 

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Intro blurb... Hello, I’m Lyndon Hedderly,  I’m a Director of Customer Solutions in Confluent.  

I’m going to talk about the VALUE of Kafka and...

As I prepare for a Kafka Summit talk in October 2018, I've started reading a few articles around extracting value from data.  

I recently come across these three McKinsey papers: 

1. McKinsey Five Fifty: The Data Disconnect

2. Achieving business impact with data

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