Kenneth Chen
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sverige
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Kenneth Chen har omdelat dettaKenneth Chen har omdelat dettaI’ve just spent an incredible two days in Croatia with Finnish tech company Aiven for their annual conference. From a tech start up 11 years ago, it has grown to be a leading provider in managed open-source data infrastructure behind some of the apps and online services we use every week. This event was about setting the direction and speed of travel for the future, and I was invited to deliver my keynote ‘Altitude & Attitude - why mindset matters’. It’s always great when my story and message generate deeper questions and conversations and thanks to the fantastic hospitality, I was able to continue engaging with their brilliant international team beyond the stage. I loved the vibe, I loved the conversations. Thank you again for inviting me and for the incredibly warm welcome. This photo with event MCs Steph & Caio certainly captures the mood of Crab Week 2026. Steph made their outfits (seriously impressive) and I was intrigued to discover that Caio is not only a Welsh name, but also a popular Brazilian name too. It was great to meet you. Kaisa Sosala Tom Burns Helen Teppo Juulia Orimus Maiju Wickström Oskari Saarenmaa Ed Ross Kenneth Chen Samuel Tervaskanto Kyle Kearns Noaman Ali Ville Lehto Caio B. Stephanie Rubin Olivia Bodle Elizabeth W. Chartwell Speakers
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Kenneth Chen har delat dettaWe’re currently in the middle of our annual Crab Week at Aiven, and I’ve been reflecting on the energy from yesterday’s Hackathon. What really struck me wasn't just the ideas being pitched, but the fact that the entire team was involved. We had people from every part of the business, tech and non-tech alike, working together to build something new. The hackathon had two tracks: Building on Aiven and The Future of Work Seeing that kind of participation from everyone is a great reminder of why the culture here works. It’s not about your job title; it’s about the collective effort to move things forward.
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Kenneth Chen har omdelat dettaKenneth Chen har omdelat dettaWe're excited to announce the Limited Availability launch of Aiven Apps! Aiven Apps allows you to unify your code and data, and deploy stateless applications inside your secure Aiven data perimeter, eliminating the need for complex networking, minimizing costly egress fees, and accelerating your path to production for your internal applications. What does this mean for your team? - Deploy anywhere: Run your containerized apps on any cloud, inside your Aiven secure perimeter. - Zero complexity: Avoid the integration costs and complexity of setting up VPC peering and IAM roles. - Native tooling: Use standard Docker Compose, keeping your familiar tooling and workflows. - MCP Integration: Create apps with your favourite AI agents Ready to accelerate your development without the infrastructure headache? Learn more and express your interest here: https://lnkd.in/eq8BU3pw
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Kenneth Chen har lagt upp dettaWe're hiring a Head of Legal at Aiven — and I couldn't be more excited about it. Legal is often treated as a gatekeeper. At Aiven, we believe it should be a business accelerator. That's the kind of leader we're looking for: someone who finds paths forward, works shoulder-to-shoulder with stakeholders, and brings genuine partnership to every conversation. This person will report directly to me, partner with our exec team, and own Aiven's global legal strategy — from complex SaaS and enterprise deals to M&A, compliance, and open-source licensing. If you're a commercially sharp, in-house legal leader who's built at pace and wants to do it again at a company with real ambition, I'd love to hear from you. 🔗 Link in comments
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Kenneth Chen har omdelat dettaKenneth Chen har omdelat dettaBig moves in the Kafka ecosystem this week. With IBM’s acquisition of Confluent officially closing, many data leaders are asking what’s next for the streaming market. For those looking at the future of independent, open-source-powered infrastructure, the timing couldn't be better to connect. I’ll be in the Bay Area next week and would love to see you there. We’re hosting a deep dive into Diskless Kafka architecture, the next frontier for scaling and cost-efficiency. We will be hosting a Fireside Chat with OpsHelm, Inc. on how they removed disk bottlenecks to transform their data platform. I’ll be joined by our Chief of Staff, Ville Lehto, Director of Databases, Marko Bocevski and VP Americas, Clayton Sammüller. I am particularly excited for you to meet Greg Harris (Staff Engineer) and Eric Gong (Senior Solution Architect). Both are ex-Confluent and bring an incredible perspective on how the ecosystem is evolving and why Diskless Kafka is the logical next step for the industry. RSVP: https://luma.com/zp3duo7n
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Kenneth Chen har omdelat dettaKenneth Chen har omdelat dettaLast month, we hosted Context is King in Helsinki - a small, curated AI developer meetup on building agents that actually work on real data. Turns out a lot of teams are dealing with the same problems around context, metadata, and data quality for agents - and want a room to talk about it honestly. On March 25, we're running the second edition in San Francisco with Flow AI. Same format: practitioner talks, no product pitches, real implementation stories. Event link in the comments.
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Kenneth Chen har omdelat dettaKenneth Chen har omdelat dettaMigrate to Aiven risk-free: 2–6 months free, Tier 1 support, zero downtime. Keep Kafka performing while we handle the transition.
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Kenneth Chen har omdelat dettaKenneth Chen har omdelat dettaWe’re hosting a small AI developer meetup in Helsinki on February 12: Context is King. It’s an evening focused on how teams are actually building AI agents on top of real data - with speakers from Aiven, Flow AI, ConfidentialMind, and Realm. Builder-focused and intentionally small so the discussions stay concrete! 👉 Apply via the event page – link in the comments.
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Kenneth Chen har omdelat dettaKenneth Chen har omdelat dettaExecution >> Strategy But execution often hits a wall: friction. Let's be honest, most "Free or Developer Tiers" are traps; time-limited sandboxes that serve as a tax on curiosity. We are changing this. We are optimizing for your time to code, not our conversion funnels. New tiers available now: Free Aiven for Apache Kafka: Fully managed. Not a trial. $5 Developer Aiven for PostgreSQL® & Aiven for MySQL: 99.99% availability and backups. We want to see your "Hello World" turn into the next big thing. Link to the full blog in the comments. Thanks team 🦀 🚀
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Kenneth Chen har gillat dettaKenneth Chen har gillat dettaTurns out the best onboarding isn't a slide deck - it's a week in Croatia with 400+ new colleagues and MEGA vibes 🦀 I joined Aiven recently, and my first stop was Crab Week in Šibenik last week. Here's what I'm taking home: → A masterclass in high agency - people here don't wait for permission. They spot a problem, pick it up, and ship. → Insightful conversations from hallway chats to dinner tables. → A hackathons where we built cool demos - zero to working prototype in hours, with some teammates I'd met only a day before. → Deal reviews that pulled me straight into the customers’ world. No better way to learn the business. → A keynote from Tori James, the first Welsh woman to summit Everest. Her lesson on teamwork: on a mountain, you have to trust your teammates enough to let them pack your bag. → And a lot of fun with a group of absurdly talented, dedicated, high-energy people who care about what they're building. Crab Week was five days of alignment and ambition. The roadmap is bold, the challenges ahead are real, the opportunities are bigger, and the pace will be fast. Exciting time ahead! #CrabWeek2026 #Aiven #OpenSource #DataInfrastructure
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Kenneth Chen har reagerat på dettaKenneth Chen har reagerat på dettaLast week we had the most amazing Aiven Crab Week 2026 in Croatia. Our team worked so hard to make this event happen and despite airline strikes and many changes etc. we pulled it through. Almost 350 Aiveners joined this annual offsite. Special shout out to our event agency Jolos and from Aiven, Juulia Orimus, Jaana Meriläinen, Helen Teppo, Sonakshi Pahwa. Also really strong recommendation to the venue, Amadria Park in Sibenik. Check out our open positions and join us to be there for next Crab Week!
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Kenneth Chen har gillat dettaKenneth Chen har gillat dettaLast week, Matthew Scott and I had the pleasure of joining the Aiven team in their annual 'Crab Week' offsite, and what a week it was. It was amazing to immerse ourselves in the culture: from inspiring talks from senior leaders on the future of Aiven, to a 'hackathon for all event' (in which there were multiple People Team winners), and just really getting to know people in between. The whole week was so perfectly executed from start to finish, and with such a stunning backdrop in Croatia too. Credit to Kaisa Sosala and her team for all their hard work in organising! And if you're interested, Aiven are hiring across many teams and locations - careers site link in the comments below! 👇
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Kenneth Chen har reagerat på dettaKenneth Chen har reagerat på dettaInkless keeps expanding. After launching on GCP recently, we’re excited to bring Inkless to Azure, making it even easier to get started without BYOC. Spin up Inkless services on Azure in just a few clicks and focus on building. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eYKQbEnV #Aiven #Inkless #MicrosoftAzure #Cloud #DevTools
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Kenneth Chen har gillat dettaKenneth Chen har gillat detta🦀 Crab Week, Šibenik, Croatia — what a week. Last week I attended my first Aiven company kickoff — and it's a very different experience to a sales kickoff. When you bring the entire organisation together, something special happens. I got to spend real time with colleagues I don't always get to connect with — engineers, support, legal, FP&A, different regions, leadership and execs. Those relationships matter. The clarity on product strategy and direction was genuinely exciting. Aiven has shifted from a database platform to a data and application cloud — the backbone for agentic applications that simply weren't possible two years ago. Hearing directly from CEO Oskari Saarenmaa about why that shift happened made it land differently. The energy and passion across the organisation was infectious. A week of sharing experiences, collaborating and learning from each other — across every function and every region. Incredibly well structured and delivered, with so much to take away. Kyle Kearns Sinead McSweeney Clayton Sammüller Ed Ross Incredible customer stories, honest leadership, and a whole company aligned on what comes next. Aiven has been too quiet for too long — that's changing. I also got to experience my first Crabweek closing party — Crabfest 🦀, a DJ, a live band, and the Aiven karaoke tradition in full swing. Some performances I doubt I'll forget 🤩 🎤 James Bradbury Now we move from vision to velocity. 🦀 Next stop: #GoogleNext, Las Vegas. I'll be there Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd — come and find me at booth 6401. Would love to connect! 👋 #Aiven #CrabWeek #CompanyKickoff #DataCloud #AI #GoogleNext Kyle Kearns Conor Forde Conor O'Brien Markus Jaensch Ian Whiteside Mike von Speyr Amine Slimane Eero Tuomikoski Aurélien Pedrocchi Natascha Jespersen Galo Freile Tom Burns Ed Ross
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Kenneth Chen har gillat dettaKenneth Chen har gillat dettaThe future of law is collaborative. We've thought so for a while. Took us a bit longer to convince Jude Law.
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Kenneth Chen har gillat dettaKenneth Chen har gillat dettaWriting from Split airport, heading home from Crab Week 2026 in Šibenik, Croatia. 5 days with the full Aiven Cast, all aligned. A few things I'm bringing home to the Americas with me - The product story just shifted. We are no longer "managed open source data infrastructure." We are the data and application cloud, the substrate for the agentic applications that were literally impossible to build two years ago. Watching Francesco Tisiot & Thomas from Kamino Retail vibe-code a production Postgres app on stage in 5 minutes, it's the shape of the next decade of application development, and the infrastructure underneath it has to be production-grade from minute one, this means multi-cloud, multi-region, secure by default, with the open source services engineers already trust: Kafka, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, Valkey, Grafana. Aiven for DataHub drops next and i'm here for it! - The customer stories we heard were honestly incredible. Wolt's Samuel Tervaskanto on seven years of scaling Kafka from hypergrowth through today. Dojo, Equativ, and WEX engineering leaders on how AI is rewriting what a technical moat even looks like. These are the teams building the applications most of us use every week. - The people are the reason. Tori James, the first Welsh woman to summit Everest talking with us on altitude and attitude. A hackathon with every function in the company shipping code against "Building on Aiven" and "The Future of Work." & just generally catching up with colleagues and friends, relationships that make it all worth while! Finally, we are hiring in Americas, Sales Directors, Inside Sales Directors, Enterprise, Commercial and Inside AE's & Key Account Director, please get in touch if you would like to learn more #CrabWeek2026 #Aiven #Hiring #OpenSource #DataInfrastructure
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Kenneth Chen har gillat dettaKenneth Chen har gillat dettaWhat a lineup! The Context is King Vol 3 meetup will be happening next week and the agenda is out! Six talks from Hugging Face, F-Secure Corporation, ConfidentialMind, Aiven, GitHits, and Kaiku, each approaching context engineering for AI coding agents from different directions. If you've been to the previous editions, you know what to expect: builder stories, live demos, and sharp Q&A. Link in comments!
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Kenneth Chen har gillat dettaKenneth Chen har gillat dettaHosting a fireside chat not with 1 guest, but with 3 engineering leaders was a new experience for me! My stage guests were our customers from Dojo, Kamino Retail (now Equativ) and WEX. In the audience 300 Aiveners. Needed to make this conversation memorable to them. At Aiven we often get opportunities to challenge ourselves. This was one of those opportunities at the annual Crab Week we just wrapped up. I wanted to talk with my guests about AI, but not superficially. I really wanted to discuss change and how they were coping with it. Is there a topic more important than this one right now? In the past, companies relied on strong tech and strong implementation that was difficult for others to replicate. However, implementation speed has increased, and product features converge already in weeks, so replication costs are now close to zero. Where is the business moat now? Great conversation on this topic with my guests. Key insights: ➡️ In the AI world, “strong implementation” remains a moat but its nature is changing. The moat is shifting away from skillful code implementation to custom features implementation. Quoting Emmanuel V.: “Understanding the context and the problem space allows developers to focus more on great product features, building better products instead of spending their time on writing unit tests.” Ke X. defined what he called the “shift left AI opportunity” for the developers in his team. Developers will spend less time reading and writing documentation. The documentation will be written by agents and consumed mostly by agents. Developers now have the opportunity to spend more time designing products and working on what matters. ➡️ In the AI world, trust in the product will increase its distribution. Paulo Caldeira spoke about the great features they were implementing in the "Dojo Intelligence" product with AI. But “what happens if something goes wrong, we can't allow that” for the customer? Great customer feedback and trust will be picked up and amplified, magnified instantaneously by AI agents and recommendation engines. Missteps will be known immediately. Trust and reliability are key, even more than before for the product to expand its audience. 💡 So the moat has shifted, it has not gone away. Companies have the context, they own the business logic, the knowledge about their customer needs. The LLMs don't have that part of the context. 💡 The future is perhaps about rediscovering the value proposition again and allowing software engineers to move fast to create new products, as "co-designers", and not anymore (only) as builders.
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