You're invited to a series of four meetups leading up to Current 2024, where you'll hear from speakers who will be presenting at the conference on topics related to their sessions. The meetups are held outside Confluent's office in Mountain View, California, with outdoor activities and summer-themed food and drinks, as well as a raffle for a complimentary ticket to Current 2024. The meetups cover different aspects of Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and data streaming, including Kafka internals, the ecosystem, stream processing, and analytics. These events are an extension of Current 2024, offering bonus content and opportunities to network with speakers ahead of time.