diff --git a/kogito-quarkus-examples/process-performance-client/pom.xml b/kogito-quarkus-examples/process-performance-client/pom.xml
index 28f21b8d57..45ddd48ed6 100755
--- a/kogito-quarkus-examples/process-performance-client/pom.xml
+++ b/kogito-quarkus-examples/process-performance-client/pom.xml
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.kie.kogito</groupId>
       <artifactId>kogito-events-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/kogito-quarkus-examples/process-performance-client/src/main/java/org/kie/kogito/performance/client/KafkaDispatcher.java b/kogito-quarkus-examples/process-performance-client/src/main/java/org/kie/kogito/performance/client/KafkaDispatcher.java
index 119cdc3f40..0e12a697ad 100644
--- a/kogito-quarkus-examples/process-performance-client/src/main/java/org/kie/kogito/performance/client/KafkaDispatcher.java
+++ b/kogito-quarkus-examples/process-performance-client/src/main/java/org/kie/kogito/performance/client/KafkaDispatcher.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
 
 public class KafkaDispatcher implements RequestDispatcher {
 
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ public ObjectCloudEvent(String trigger, Object data) {
 
     public KafkaDispatcher(String trigger) {
         this.trigger = trigger;
-        this.objectMapper = ObjectMapperFactory.get();
+        this.objectMapper = ObjectMapperFactory.get().disable(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS);
         Map<String, Object> properties = Collections.singletonMap(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG,
                 "localhost:9092");
         kafkaProducer = new KafkaProducer<>(properties, new ByteArraySerializer(), new ByteArraySerializer());