Kai Waehner
Global Field CTO at Confluent @Confluent
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WORK HISTORY
Global Field CTO at Confluent @Confluent
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EDUCATION
University of Bamberg
Diploma
Ehrenbürg-Gymnasium-Forchheim
Higher School Certificate
SKILLS
ABOUT KAI WAEHNER
Global Field CTO at Confluent, working with customers, partners, and analysts worldwide (AMER, EMEA, APAC). Publishing articles and speaking at global conferences and on podcasts about modern enterprise architectures and cutting-edge open-source, cloud, and AI technologies. More at (including a free book: kai-waehner.de/ebook). To learn more about my role as Global Field CTO, read this article: Follow me to explore how to modernize data architectures and deliver innovative use cases across industries like financial services, manufacturing, and gaming. Topics include data streaming, business value, modern open-source and cloud tech, hybrid integration, big data analytics, and Agentic AI powered by real-time context. Subscribe to my blog for new publications: kai-waehner.de/newsletter Some examples: The Data Streaming Landscape 2026 Financial Services: Alpian Bank’s Agentic AI in Regulated FinTech with-data-streaming-apache-kafka-at-alpian-bank/ Manufacturing: Intralogistics and Shop Floor Analytics at Siemens Digital Industries and SIemens Healthineers time-innovation-in-manufacturing-and-logistics-with-data-streaming Automotive: Connected Vehicles at Volkswagen CARIAD streaming-success-story-for-automotive-innovation-for-volkswagen-software-defined- vehicles/ Modern Integration Middleware - Apache Kafka vs. ESB, ETL, iPaaS
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