# Aloha, Redpanda FY27 company kick-off

DevFeed: [Aloha, Redpanda FY27 company kick-off](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/aloha-redpanda-fy27-company-kick-off-12744.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.redpanda.com/blog/redpanda-company-kickoff-fy27>)

Author: Jenny Medeiros

Published: 2026-02-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Redpanda](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/redpanda.md>)

Topics: [AI Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-infrastructure.md>), [Redpanda-Connect](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redpanda-connect.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Disaster Recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/disaster-recovery.md>), [MCP Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp-server.md>), [Graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphs.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-infrastructure.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [disaster-recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/disaster-recovery.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphs.md>), [mcp-server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp-server.md>), [redpanda-connect](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redpanda-connect.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>)

## AI overview

Redpanda's FY27 company kick-off brought more than 160 employees together in San Diego to reflect on the company's progress and direction. The article highlights the Agentic Data Plane, Redpanda Cloud, Redpanda Serverless on AWS, disaster recovery in Redpanda 25.3, MCP server development, and new Redpanda Connect connectors, alongside talks about company culture and using AI to reshape work.

## Source excerpt

From AI hackathons to hakas, here's what happened at our fourth company kick-off.