Overview
Kannika started inside Cymo as a project supporting mateco, a global aerial work platform rental company that was rolling out an event streaming platform called Q.one. Didier Dhaenens, CIO at mateco, pushed for a proper backup capability once no existing tool could reliably back up and restore event-driven data, so the Cymo team built one. That solution became Kannika Armory, and in 2023 Kannika was spun off from Cymo as an independent software company. Armory now protects event streams for organisations including Engie, mateco and KOR Financial.
Wout Florin is one of three co-founders of Kannika, alongside Kris Van Vlaenderen and Bryan De Smaele. As COO he drives the company's strategy and growth, while Van Vlaenderen serves as CPO and De Smaele as CTO. Kannika sells Kannika Armory, a platform that backs up, restores, migrates and clones Apache Kafka event streams, and lists its office at Bellevue 1/101 in Gent. Florin is also listed on the Cymo team as co-founder with responsibility for sales operations, and Cymo works from the same address in Ghent.
Career history
In the news
- Hi San Francisco! 👋 Together with Kris and Yves, we are here with Kannika for Current, the Data Streaming Conference, organised by Confluent, an IBM Company. If you want to know more about data protection for your Kafka data, come and speak with us at our booth! See you tomorrow! #current26 #kafka #datastreaming
- Every data hero needs a backup plan. 🦸 Next week, Wout Florin and Kris Van Vlaenderen will be back at Current San Francisco on November 4 and 5. Find them at booth 402 for a live demo, the coolest merch, and a chance to win a free 4-hour Kafka backup assessment with our CTO Bryan De Smaele. And on November 3, join them and Conduktor for the Night Before Current: cocktails, food, and a superhero-themed night out. 🕺 Find all the details on our landing page and meet us there! 👇 https://lnkd.in/e99n_dsn See you there? 👀
- Looking for speakers!
- Save the date: the EDA Community is getting together again on Wednesday, December 2! From 5:20 to 8 PM, join us at Brouwerij Timmermans in Dilbeek for an evening about Event-Driven Architecture and Kafka: use cases, knowledge sharing, and networking over a good Belgian beer. Two speakers are already confirmed, including Perry Krol on Turning Intelligence into Action with Context and AI-Ready Data and Jeroen van Disseldorp on building a streaming use case live from prompt to power grid. For the third slot, we're looking for you. Got
- Every failed EDA transformation had a perfectly good architecture diagram. The diagram was never the problem. The problem is running an event-driven transformation as a technology project when it's a cultural one: governance nobody actually follows, teams that still think synchronously, and a rollout that tries to deliver everything at once instead of value step by step. So Wout Florin wrote up the three pillars he sees behind the transformations that do land: strong governance, a people-centric shift toward asynchronous
- Why do so many Event-Driven Architecture projects fail to deliver on their promise? Because they are treated as technology projects, not as the cultural shifts they truly are. In this strategic guide, our Managing Partner Wout Florin explains that a successful transformation rests on three key pillars that balance strategy, people, and execution. He breaks down how to build: 1. A foundation of strong Governance to prevent chaos. 2. A People-Centric Mindset Shift towards asynchronous thinking. 3. A Pragmatic, Step-by-Step Approach
- Final call! Join us with interesting speakers like Stephanie De Smet, Product Owner at Cymo, Mathias Verraes, founder of Aardling & Christoph Schubert, Product Manager at Conduktor! Also shout out to our sponsor of the EDA Community Meetup: Conduktor! Hope to see you there!
- One week to go!
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