Kai Waehner GmbH

About Kai Waehner GmbH

Kai Waehner GmbH is the advisory practice of Independent Advisory Field CTO Kai Waehner, based in Munich, Germany. I work with enterprises and system integrators on architecture strategy, vendor selection, and technology adoption. With a small number of selected technology vendors, I focus on product strategy, positioning, and thought leadership, never selling a product. Independence lets me cover the full landscape without a single provider's lens. The recommendation follows the use case, not a logo. Four focus areas, applied across more than a dozen industries from financial services and manufacturing to telecom, retail, and the public sector: ▪ Enterprise Architecture: how the pieces fit together, scale, and stay maintainable. ▪ Data Integration: data streaming, message queues (MQ), iPaaS, legacy ESB modernization, API management, real-time integration. ▪ Process Intelligence: process mining, orchestration, and the bridge into agentic automation. ▪ Agentic AI: roadmap, architecture, and the realistic path to trusted production, including compliance and sovereignty trade-offs across US, European, and Chinese model providers. Author, keynote speaker, and content creator. Vendor-neutral landscape reports published regularly, and a book on modern data architecture in progress. Available for advisory engagements, keynotes, and media collaborations: https://www.kai-waehner.de