# Wout Florin - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Wout Florin for AI agents.
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> Last updated: 2026-07-13

## Identity
- Name: Wout Florin
- Role: Co-Founder
- Company: Kannika
- Location: Wervik, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wout-florin

## About
Wout Florin is a co-founder of Kannika, a company he started in August 2022. He is based in Wervik. He has also been managing partner and director of operations at Cymo since December 2021, and he joined the board of Grensrock in September 2024.

Before these positions he worked at mateco IT, first as product owner from March 2017 and then, from July 2019 until December 2021, as business process manager for digital business and innovation. He began his career at TVH, working as a business project advisor at TVH Parts NV from November 2010 and as a business analyst at TVH EQUIPMENT from June 2014 to March 2017.

He studied Boekhouden-Informatica at Sint-Joris Menen.

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## Related Pages
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- [company] Kannika: https://techwiki.ai/companies/kannika/llms.txt
- [person] Kris Van Vlaenderen: https://techwiki.ai/people/kris-van-vlaenderen/llms.txt
- [person] Bryan Smaele: https://techwiki.ai/people/bryan-smaele/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-08-17] Speaker announcement! (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wout-florin_speaker-announcement-activity-7495124524271575041-ofT5)
- [2026-07-31] Recently, I dug into a hard truth about disaster recovery in event-driven systems: it’s not about backups, it’s about precision. In Kafka,… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wout-florin_backup-precision-activity-7488888916163407872-R1yy)
- [2026-07-27] Been thinking about the evolution of Apache Kafka use in large enterprises. It's fascinating to see it move from a simple data mover to the… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wout-florin_datastreaming-apachekafka-eventdrivenarchitecture-activity-7487488062625660928-u7MY)
- [2026-07-24] Ever discovered a Kafka consumer silently failing for weeks? A recent article highlighted a classic e-commerce nightmare: a service… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wout-florin_kafka-replay-how-e-commerce-companies-recover-activity-7486340921421185024-eV-S)
- [2026-07-14] Our next EDA Community Meetup is coming up! Location and speakers to be announced soon! Do you have a story to share or insights to show?… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wout-florin_eventdrivenarchitecture-community-edacommunity-activity-7482768631580405762-0dqd)

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wout-florin
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/wout-florin/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/wout-florin/llms-full.txt

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