Kai Waehner is Field CTO at Confluent. He works with customers and partners across the globe and with internal teams like engineering and marketing. Kai’s main area of expertise lies within the fields of Data Streaming, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Hybrid Cloud Architectures and Internet of Things. Kai is a regular speaker at international conferences, writes articles for professional journals, and shares his experiences with industry use cases and new technologies on his blog: www.kai-waehner.de. Contact: kai.waehner@confluent.io / @KaiWaehner / linkedin.com/in/kaiwaehner.