Post by Ravindra Shandil

Some kickoffs are about numbers. This one was about something more. 🇦🇺 We just wrapped #Solace's Australia Kick Off — and the theme #MakeItReal took on a meaning none of us expected. #ClimbForAlex. Alex Kilgour — our Chief Legal Officer, our colleague, our friend — left us far too soon. So we climbed 36 floors together. An entire company. One shared resolve. To honour his memory, and give something back. That climb said everything about who we are. It also set the tone for the week. Every function was in one room — Product Engineering, Marketing, Legal, HR, AI, Finance, Customer Success, Professional Services, Developer Advocacy, COE — not to discuss outcomes, but to commit to them. Real data. Real time. Real results. Any platform — cloud, on-prem, hybrid. Any protocol. Any API. Microsecond latency, at scale, without compromise. And the next chapter is already being written: Solace Agent Mesh, connecting AI agents to real-time enterprise events. #MakeItReal, now for #AgenticAI. To the leadership team who made this happen — Denis King Sumeet Puri Jason Burke Sherrie Seward Julie Geoffroy Joshua Carroll Shawn McAllister Paul Fitzpatrick Ali Pourshahid tim wong Dan Fossum Tim O'Connell, CPA  Dishant Langayan Jonathan Bosloy Osama Laham Phil Scanlon, Floyd Davis Guhan Periasamy Robert Hsieh — thank you for bringing us together. And to our Superstars for planning, execution & delivering each Sales Kick Off with such personal touch Nigel Murphy Mar Ryan And to every colleague globally — #LetsMakeItReal. Alex believed in doing things that matter. That's the spirit we're carrying into this year If you're in #BFSI, #CapitalMarkets, #WealthManagement, #Telecom, #Manufacturing, #Aviation, #Mining, #Retail, #OilandGas, or #Automotive — and you're dealing with: * Disparate data trapped across siloed systems * Bursty, high-volume transaction loads * Sub-millisecond latency demands * Multi-protocol, multi-API complexity across hybrid environments Solace was built for exactly this. Faster outcomes. Faster ROI. Lower TCO. In real time. Struggling with any of these? Drop a comment or DM me — happy to show you what's possible. #MakeItReal #ClimbForAlex #Solace #EventDrivenArchitecture #RealTimeData #AgenticAI #DataIntegration