“Data-driven” is SO last decade. Kurrent (formerly Event Store) CEO Kirk Dunn recently shared his thoughts with SandHill’s MR Rangaswami on how the future of business entails being “event-driven” rather than “data-driven.” Kirk explains why businesses must capture, replay and understand the complete context behind their data in real time to compete and win in the age of AI. Kurrent provides a highly complementary addition to the modern tech stack that serves up valuable business context — in high fidelity, in real-time — for AI, application development and analytics. The company’s event-native data platform is ideal for all kinds of downstream applications and services and is deployed in high-stakes industries worldwide, including finance, retail tech, oil and gas, manufacturing, healthcare, automotive and government. Read the interview below on the challenges that emerge when database and streaming functionality is not unified and how Kurrent is uniquely positioned to solve this for developers and businesses.
I recently shared my thoughts with SandHill’s MR Rangaswami on how Kurrent is transforming the way businesses and developers handle data with context in real-time for AI, application development and analytics. We discussed how Kurrent is solving an age-old problem in a new way: by unifying database + streaming functionality and simplifying data pipelines, our uniquely event-native data platform keeps businesses and applications from missing out on valuable context that would otherwise be “lost in translation.” Storing the full historical context AND making it easy to replay on demand from an immutable source of truth makes Kurrent’s event-native data platform a gamechanger for all kinds of downstream applications and services – from analytics and agentic AI to telemetry and compliance. You can read the interview below for more on why I believe Kurrent is powering a shift in how modern businesses view themselves as “event-driven” instead of just “data-driven” to future proof their tech stack and compete successfully in our digitally transformed world.