Hands-On Technology Strategy at Executive Level
Advising Across Regions & Industries
Deep Cross-Industry Expertise
Independent, Unbiased Architecture Advice
Senior-Level Expertise — No Agency Overhead
Consulting:
Vendor-independent advisory on technology fundamentals, the vendor landscape, industry adoption patterns, and architecture guidance
Architecture Strategy Workshop:
A full-day strategy workshop on data integration patterns, covering technology fundamentals, the vendor landscape, industry adoption patterns, and architecture guidance with a specific focus on industry specific topics & trends.
Audience: Data Platform Teams, CIOs, Data Leaders
Workshop Lead: Kai Waehner
Technology Adoption Workshop:
Full-day account-specific exercise focusing on technology adoption and expansion within enterprises through an integrated marketing and change management strategy
Audience: Platform Teams, Change Management Teams,
Workshop Lead: Evi Schneider
Marketing Strategy Workshop:
Building the bigger picture of technology and brand positioning, creating a GTM demand generation plan, while leveraging Kai’s expertise as channel and content platform
Audience: Marketing Teams, Startup & Scaleup Leadership Teams,
Workshop Lead: Evi Schneider
Consulting Hourly Rate
Architecture decisions reviewed before you commit.
Whether you’re choosing between event-driven and batch, evaluating an AI platform vendor, or designing an agent integration layer, get an expert read before the contract is signed
A live sounding board for your AI roadmap.
Not a report delivered 8 weeks later. Real-time input as your strategy evolves — including honest pushback when a direction doesn’t hold up technically.
Agentic AI scoping and governance guidance.
Define the right autonomy level for your use cases, identify data architecture gaps before they become blockers, and build the internal case for investment.
A second opinion your board will respect.
Kai’s background — Field CTO and Technical Advisor at Confluent and TIBCO, speaker at AWS re:Invent, O’Reilly, Kafka Summit — gives your internal recommendations external credibility when it counts.
3 months. Renews monthly thereafter with 30-day written notice to cancel.
Sessions booked minimum 5 business days in advance. Unused sessions do not roll over.
All sessions conducted remotely (video call). On-site workshops billed separately per engagement.
Full NDA available on request. No client names shared without written consent.
Strong message with real-world relevance:
Attendees leave with actionable and industry best practices, frameworks and trends they can bring back to their teams on Monday.
Proven Speaker on global stages:
I am a regular speaker at some of the biggest tech conferences, as well as at customer-exclusive events.
Every session is grounded in deployments across finance, manufacturing, telco and healthcare — not analyst reports. Named architectures, named failure modes.
Attendees receive clear criteria for when to use event streaming vs. batch, how to scope agentic AI autonomy, and where MCP fits in their integration stack.
Kai is one of the rare speakers who bridges architects, CTOs and business leaders in a single session — without losing technical depth or executive relevance.
Every engagement includes a curated deck, an architecture reference sheet, and a reading list — materials your team can circulate and act on after the event.
Content co-created and polished for optimal positioning:
Together we create a co-authored, case-study-driven post published on one of the most-read independent enterprise architecture blogs globally, with full distribution across my newsletter, LinkedIn, Medium, DZone, and X
Reach your audience where they search for solutions and guidance:
My blog’s audience skews heavily technical and senior: enterprise architects, CTOs, heads of engineering, and data platform leads at Fortune 1000 companies. This is not a general-interest tech blog. It is a trusted reference for real-world architecture decisions.
Landscapes are not blog posts or white papers.
They are 20–35 page independent research publications that map entire vendor markets, argue positioning decisions,
and give enterprise buyers a framework for decisions worth millions.
Leverage an independent thought leadership piece for your lead generation.
By licensing the landscape as a listed vendor your can leverage the full PDF on your webpage for your marketing efforts
EXAMPLES – LANDSCAPE REPORTS 2026:
Thought leadership speaker participation.
Let’s discuss industry and architecture trends in a podcast of your choice. This can be your own podcast or a third party offer. I am happy to join the conversation and amplify across my network.
Internal and external communication.
In the past I participated in company-internal podcast formats as well as public ones. The audience is different, the purpose is the same: Illustrate with examples from the real-world.
Complex use cases explained through a tech-known format.
Together we produce a professionally filmed lightboard explainer video. My team will handle everything from script to final cut so you receive a fully produced asset ready for your website, YouTube, LinkedIn, or event screens.
Let’s share the screen.
We can record these videos either with a company representative of yours or even with a customer. With my team we can make sure company guidelines are followed and approvals are collected.
Top of Funnel content at its best.
Those videos tend to be excellent Top-of-Funnel assets, as viewers retain 95% of a message when watching video, compared to just 10% when reading text. This is a critical advantage for technically complex topics like enterprise AI and data architecture.
Lead Generation in a trustworthy environment. In a webinar format you can not only position your solution but also directly create business from it. On average, 20–40% of webinar attendees enter the sales pipeline as qualified leads.
Story Telling to your target group. By focussing on real-life use cases and customer success stories, we will bring the value of your solution to life. The network around my blog is used to high-lavue content and together we will keep that promise.
Together we drive registrations and demand. Combined with marketing advisory we can create a broad promotional campaign to get your ideal customer profile to join the webinar, either live or on-demand.
45-60 min webinar including production or presenting in your webinar setup
Moderation can be provided if required
Slide deck reviewed, co-produced and co-branded by my team
Technical production and streaming setup handled end-to-end
Moderated Q&A session
Full recording delivered for on-demand gating and nurture use
90-sec promotional clip cut for social distribution
Promotion via LinkedIn post and newsletter
