The author has attended seven Kafka Summits in their career, starting before they worked for Confluent, and attributes the event's growth to its passionate community and high-quality sessions that stay true to developers who make Confluent possible. The second day of the summit began with a keynote by Jay Kreps, discussing how companies are becoming software, and how software is eating the world, with applications executing end-to-end without human interaction. The author introduced their stuffed bear, "Bear", on stage, and then discussed various sessions, including Confluent Cloud, which presents Kafka made serverless, with barriers to cloud usage removed. The summit also featured AI Day's keynote, panel discussions, hackathons, and demos at AWS re:Invent 2024.