Neha Narkhede is the co-founder and CEO of Oscilar, an AI Risk Decisioning™ platform helping fintechs and banks fight fraud, manage credit risk, and ensure compliance at scale. She previously co-founded Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT), a leading data infrastructure company with a market cap of over $8 billion. As one of the original creators of Apache Kafka, Neha helped build the open-source technology that now powers real-time data pipelines for over 80% of the Fortune 500. She is also an active investor and advisor, with deep expertise in building mission-critical systems that power real-time decisioning and innovation in financial services.