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# Bringing Clarity to Event Streams: Enabling Analytics and AI Through Rich Metadata


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 14:10–14:40 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 7
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** analytics, ai, apis, data engineering, microservices, software architecture

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1616-bringing-clarity-to-event-streams-enabling-analytics-and-ai-through-rich-metadata)

## Description

Event streams are central to delivering actionable insights for analytics and AI. However, without rich metadata to contextualize these streams, data consumers often struggle with inconsistencies, poor quality, and a lack of interpretability. By leveraging metadata as a cornerstone of event stream architecture, organizations can unlock clarity in their streaming data, bridging the gap between raw event streams and actionable insights. This clarity not only enhances the quality and usability of event streams but also ensures alignment between developers, analysts, and AI systems, enabling them to extract maximum value from data in motion.

This session explores how rich metadata transforms event streams into a reliable foundation for advanced analytics and AI workflows. We will examine the role of schema definitions, semantic annotations, and cataloging practices in improving data quality and context.

## Speaker

### [Clemens Vasters](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@clemens-vasters)

Principal Architect, Messaging and Real-Time Intelligence, Microsoft


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