Fuel your morning with Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse insights
Nov 12, 2025
9:00 – 11:00 AM
Atomico, London, United Kingdom
Start your morning in London with Atomico and Aiven at a breakfast designed for data engineers, architects, and decision-makers.
Together, we’ll explore practical insights into building scalable, efficient, and open source-powered infrastructures. From Diskless Kafka to Apache Iceberg, PostgreSQL®, and ClickHouse®, you’ll see how these technologies connect to power modern, AI-ready data platforms.
Hear from Aiven experts on what’s new, what’s coming, and how leading teams are putting these technologies into practice—followed by plenty of time for discussion, networking, and fresh coffee.
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Meet our hosts
Ville Tainio
Solution Architect at Aiven
Solution Architect with a strong background in backend engineering and platform infrastructure Former Senior Software Engineer at Aiven, where he focused on developer experience and system reliability Over 10 years of experience working with distributed systems and cloud-native technologies Deep expertise in Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures Passionate about building resilient systems and helping teams get the most out of their platforms
Hugh Evans
Senior Product Advocate, Aiven
Hugh is a Senior Developer Advocate at Aiven with a background in software development, cloud infrastructure, and community building. He helps developers and data teams explore how open source technologies can power modern data and AI use cases. Outside of Aiven, Hugh organizes AI Signals, a community dedicated to real-world applications of AI, and advocates for vocational learning as an important pathway into technology careers.
Tom Burns
Account Executive at Aiven
Tom is an Account Executive at Aiven, helping organizations unlock the power of open source technologies like Apache Kafka®, PostgreSQL®, OpenSearch®, and ClickHouse®. With a background in go-to-market strategy and sales leadership, Tom has spent the past two years at Aiven supporting customers in building scalable, resilient, and AI-ready data infrastructures.
Why attend?
- Connect with local data and tech professionals
- Get practical insights into streaming, storage, and analytics with Kafka, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse
- Learn how to reduce operational overhead while scaling performance
- Bring your questions and challenges for direct discussions with experts
- Enjoy a relaxed morning with great coffee and breakfast
Benefits of Aiven Platform
Multi-cloud solutions
Aiven's capability to deploy to any cloud empowers your organization with:
- Workload and Cost Optimization: Choose the ideal cloud provider for each task to maximize performance and cost-efficiency. Benefit from competitive pricing across different cloud providers.
- Risk Mitigation: Distribute data and applications across regions and providers for enhanced business continuity.
- Streamlined Operations: Manage your data infrastructure on a centralized platform across multiple clouds to reduce complexity and ensure compliance with data residency regulations.
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
Aiven offers flexible deployment options for your data services, catering to various business needs and preferences. Choose the deployment model that best aligns with your organization's priorities, whether it's convenience, cost savings, or maximum control.
- Aiven infrastructure: A hassle-free solution where Aiven takes care of all cloud configurations, maintenance, and costs, allowing you to focus on your core business.
- Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC): Deploy Aiven services directly to your existing cloud account giving you greater control over your data and infrastructure. BYOC allows you to:
- Leverage your existing cloud investments and negotiated discounts.
- Maintain strict control over your data and comply with specific security or regulatory requirements.
- Customize your infrastructure to meet your unique needs.
- Benefit from Aiven's expertise and support while retaining full control.
Choice of integrated open source services
Build with Aiven's popular data services that best fit your specific use cases to stream, store, and serve data to your systems and applications.
- Build faster with skilled talent: Gain access to the skills of a broad community of open source experts.
- Innovation and Collaboration: Benefit from open source's collaborative culture which accelerates the development of new features and improvements.
- Security and Reliability: Improve security and reliability compared to proprietary software where the code is not publicly accessible. The open nature of open source ensures that many eyes are constantly reviewing and testing the code.
Cross-cloud and cross-region disaster recovery
Aiven enables your data infrastructure to be highly available, reliable, and operational even in the face of disruptions or failures.
- High Availability: Leverage multiple availability zones, regions, and providers to ensure your data is replicated and distributed across different locations. If one location or provider experiences an outage, your services can seamlessly failover to another, minimizing downtime.
- Automated Backups and Recovery: Aiven automatically creates backups of your data at regular intervals. In case of data loss or corruption, you can easily restore your data from these backups, ensuring business continuity.
AI database optimization to boost efficiency
Aiven's AI Database Optimizer quickly helps your organization understand how to tune your PostgreSQL and MySQL queries to save your organization engineering time, and money on your database bills.
- Accelerate development: Receive AI-driven index and SQL rewrite suggestions in minutes.
- Reduce incident resolution time: Gain real-time performance insights and optimization suggestions.
- Optimize before production: Ensure applications are performant and scalable before release.
- Free up DBA resources: Allow DBAs to focus on high-value tasks.