Platform Events(PE) are part of Salesforce’s enterprise messaging platform. This feature allows us to stream data between SFDC and other 3rd party apps. PE offers the benefits of event-driven software architectures. Using PE we can eliminate polling request and give near real time updates.

Platform Events(PE) for streaming data without polling

The objective of session is to introduce Platform Events. It will help community members to improve user experience and make the application faster.
Platform Events can also be used for integrating 3rd party applications with salesforce. It can send data outbound as well as inbound.

Here is complete agenda of the session:

+What is Platform Events (PE) +How to create PE +How to use PE in classic and lightening +Code walk through +How to use PE in 3rd party apps +Code walk through +Live Demo +Use cases +QA

I think PE have great potential and every community member should be aware about it. It will be another new shiny tool for all salseforce developers.
I being Salesforce architect have used PE to good extend and looking forward to this opportunity to showcase this awesome feature.