Discover Aiven at Tech for Retail 2025!
Nov 24, 2025 - Nov 25, 2025
9am-6pm CET
Paris Expo, Portes de Versailles, France
Aiven is attending Tech for Retail, visit us at booth E53 and discover how retailers are transforming shopping experiences through better data with Aiven and Google Cloud.
- Real-time insights - enhance the customer experience through personalized recommendations and dynamic pricing, boost operational efficiency via AI-powered supply chain optimization, store management, and demand forecasting, and ultimately drive sales and revenue by identifying trends and enabling targeted, high-conversion marketing.
- AI-ready website search - leveraging user behavior and preferences to deliver personalization and product recommendations, ultimately enhancing user engagement and encouraging repeat visits. This is achieved by implementing AI-driven search capabilities, such as those provided by pgvector to efficiently manage and make searchable large, diverse product catalogs.
- Cost-effective data scaling - ensure systems can flexibly handle spikes in web traffic and transaction volumes without crashing or slowing down during peak events like Black Friday. Preserve the customer experience and prevent lost sales and scale back to normal after the event.
- Available in Google Cloud Marketplace - deploy Aiven cloud services including Kafka, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, OpenSearch and more in just a few clicks. Purchases of Aiven services through the Google Cloud marketplace will also count towards your cloud spending commitments with Google Cloud.
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How does it all work together
Integrate real-time data with AI
Enhanced Customer Experience: Enhance customer experiences and boost sales through personalized product recommendations, dynamic pricing, and targeted promotions.
Improved Operational Efficiency: Optimize supply chains through AI-powered demand forecasting, ensure efficient inventory management and reduce waste, and streamline store operations through better resource allocation for cost reduction.
Increased Sales and Revenue: Identify emerging trends and build targeted marketing campaigns for higher conversion rates and increase repeat purchases.
How?
- Perform real-time ML inference on your Kafka stream.
- Join data from external and internal sources while removing sensitive information to get a holistic view of your business
- Provide a layer of abstraction between data sources and the AI serving layer without changing the underlying data structure
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Build a delightful search experience
Personalization: Leverage user behavior and preferences to deliver personalized product recommendations.
Enhanced User Engagement: Engage users on your site longer and encourage repeat visits with a more effective search function.
Handling Large Catalogs: Efficiently handle large and diverse product catalogs, making it easier for customers to find specific items even in extensive inventories.
How?
- Augment product catalogs on Aiven for Postgres with AI-driven search capabilities through pgvector.
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Chatbots trained on your enterprise data
Handle Routine Inquiries: Free up human agents to deal with more complex issues by handling routine and repetitive questions.
Scale: Easily handle large volume of customer inquiries simultaneously during peak times without compromising on response time or quality.
Lower Operational Costs: Augment existing customer service experience through AI powered customer service agents.
How?
- Build data pipelines on Aiven for Apache Kafka to upload your enterprise data into Aiven vector databases
- Create GenAI customer agents that integrate your data with your preferred AI model
Personalize your customer outreach
Improved Click-Through Rates: Customized outreach that resonates with your customers’ interests increases customer engagement and satisfaction.
Scale: Effectively scale AI marketing campaigns across your entire customer base making it feasible to maintain personalized communication with everyone.
Cross-Selling and Upselling: Identify opportunities for cross-selling and upselling based on customer preferences and past purchases for AI marketing campaigns.
How?
- Build real-time clickstream ingestion pipelines with Aiven for Apache Kafka to collect user behavior on your website
- Build email generation pipelines leveraging real-time and historical data stored across Aiven databases to send personalized messages to your customers
Why Aiven on Google Cloud?
Aiven accelerates your time-to-market by streamlining setup, configuration, security, maintenance, and reliability tasks, so you can focus on your core business and applications that amaze your customers.
Security
We guard your data infrastructure like our own, with dedicated virtual machines, TLS encryption and VPC peering on Google Cloud.
Support
Get your questions and tickets handled by members of Aiven core development teams, instead of outsourced support specialists.
Uptime
Aiven uptimes can't be beat - we promise to have your services running 99.99% of the time.
Easy billing
Receive a single invoice from Google Cloud, instead of two separate bills from Google Cloud and Aiven.
Consume commitment
Purchases of Aiven services through the Google Cloud marketplace will also count towards your cloud spending commitments with Google Cloud.
Sustainability
When deploying Aiven services on Google Cloud you will run your services purely on renewable energy with industry leading Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE).
Aiven on Google Cloud Marketplace
With Marketplace, Google Cloud customers can deploy Aiven cloud services with a few clicks. Fully-managed Aiven cloud services for Apache Kafka®, OpenSearch®, PostgreSQL®, MySQL, and Dragonfly are available. Apache Kafka® Connect and Apache Kafka® MirrorMaker 2.0 are also available to provide the most mature and complete open source Kafka streaming platform service on Google Cloud.