Architecture is increasingly about ensuring that the right conversations are happening at the right time and involving the right people in the right ways. More and more it’s important that those conversations involve a broader range of skillsets and perspectives that those of software and systems architects. This panel will bring together the presenters in this track so you can hear their perspectives in conversation, and present them with some of your own questions and puzzlers.
Panel: Taking Architecture Out of the Echo Chamber
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Holistic Engineering: Organic Problem Solving for Complex Evolving Systems
Wednesday Apr 9 / 10:35AM BST
Every day developers have to work with code influenced by past decisions made by non-technical departments. Every day there are defects and other obstacles caused by non-technical factors that are nonetheless reflected in your code.

Vanessa Formicola
Principal Engineer @FloHealth, Ex Thoughtworks & Microsoft, Community Builder and Social Change Advocate
Security and Architecture: To Betray One Is To Destroy Both
Wednesday Apr 9 / 01:35PM BST
Flawed architecture introduces vulnerabilities that even the best security cannot mitigate. Likewise, a well-architected system without robust security remains a ticking time bomb in the face of modern threats.

Shana Dacres-Lawrence
Senior Principal Architect @6point6 | Part of Accenture, Founder for ArchitectHer
The Friction Fix: Building Collaborative Relationships Between Teams
Wednesday Apr 9 / 11:45AM BST
In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, the friction between product and technology teams often feels inevitable.

Cat Morris
Staff Product Manager @Syntasso, Previously Platform and Enterprise Modernization Specialist @ThoughtWorks

Diana Montalion
Founder @Mentrix Group, Systems Architect, and Author of "Learning Systems Thinking"
Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making
Wednesday Apr 9 / 02:45PM BST
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, centralised architectural decision-making can become a bottleneck to delivery performance and innovation.

Peter Hunter
Head of R&D, Tech Architect @OpenGI, Led the Transformation of a Legacy Solution Into a Modern Cloud-Based SaaS Platform

Elena Stojmilova
Technical Lead @Open GI