2025 Schedule

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Sunday, April 6th, 2025

Monday, April 7th, 2025

07:15AM BST

Badge pick-up & Continental Breakfast on 3rd & 5th Fl.

09:00AM BST

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

A Thirteen Billion Year Old Photograph

Dr. Kenneth Harris

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)

10:10AM BST

Coffee Break

10:35AM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Architecture in the Lead: Scaling Today, Shaping Tomorrow

Matthew Clark - BBC

Ian Arundale - BBC

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

The Principal Engineer’s Path: Skills, Strategies, and Lessons Learned

Sophie Weston - ClearBank

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience

Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun

Holly Cummins - Red Hat

Trisha Gee

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener

What I Wish I Knew When I Started with Green IT

Ludi AKUE - Bpifrance

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Health Tech

Lessons Learned From Shipping AI-Powered Healthcare Products

Clara Matos - Sword Health

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Interview Available
11:25AM BST

Coffee Break

11:45AM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Developing Meta's Orion AR Glasses

Jinsong Yu - Meta

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

How to Always Get Invited to Big Strategic Conversations

Mark Allen - Isometric

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience

Continuous Delivery Is Not Possible Without Pair Programming: Lessons From SpareBank 1 and SINTEF in Norway

Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom - SpareBank 1 Utvikling

Ola Hast - SpareBank 1 Utvikling

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener

Ecologies and Economics of Language AI in Practice

Jade Abbott - Lelapa AI

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Health Tech

In person only

Unconference: Health Tech

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only

Zero Trust or Bust. Bring Your Own Cloud To Real-Time Data

Karin Landers - Ververica

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
12:35PM BST

Lunch Located on 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Fl. & Lunch Topic Discussions Located on 1st Fl.
Women & Allies in Tech Lunch (Gielgud, 2nd Fl.) (Sign-up needed)

01:35PM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

In person only

Connecting the Dots: Architectures (Limited Space - Registration Required)

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn From Junior Engineers

Beth Anderson - BBC

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience

Achieve Optimal Efficiency for your Developer Experience Teams

Fabien Deshayes - Monzo

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener

Local First – How To Build Software Which Still Works After the Acquihire

Alex Good - Ink & Switch

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Health Tech

Transforming Primary Care: A Case Study in Evolving From Start-Up To Scale-Up

Leander Vanderbijl - Kry/Livi

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only

A Blueprint for Agentic AI Services

Duncan DeVore - Akka

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
02:25PM BST

Coffee Break

02:45PM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Kraken's Serverless Architecture for Keeping the Grid Green

Kevin Bowman - Kraken Technologies

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

In person only

Unconference: The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience

Impact of AI in Developer Experience

Birgitta Böckeler - Thoughtworks

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener

Beyond Uptime: What the 'Metric' Is Going On with Green Software?

Sarah (Chun-Wei) Hsu - Goldman Sachs

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Health Tech

Remote Collaboration in Surgery

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only

Building a Streaming Agentic AI Pipeline with Redpanda and Snowflake

Paul Wilkinson - Redpanda

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
03:35PM BST

Coffee Break

03:55PM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Fast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations

Thiago Ghisi - Nubank

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience

Your Platform is Not an Island: Embracing Evolution in Your Ecosystem

Rachael Wonnacott - Fidelity International

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener

In person only

Unconference: Performance and Sustainability in Practice

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Health Tech

The Truth About Developing an AI Software for Longevity

Windsor (5th Fl.)

04:45PM BST

Coffee Break

05:05PM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

The Sound of Innovation: A Symphony of Features in Digital Audio Workstations

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Shine Bright as an IC: Growing Yourself As Your Company Grows

Suhail Patel - Monzo

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience

In person only

Unconference: Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener

The Efficiency Paradox and How to Save Yourself and the World

Holly Cummins - Red Hat

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Health Tech

From Symptom Checkers to Smart Chatbots: The Role of AI in Virtual Care

Andre Riberio - Healthily

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only

AI Developer Tools Are Focused on the Wrong Problem

Dennis Pilarinos - Unblocked

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Tuesday, April 8th, 2025

07:15AM BST

Continental Breakfast on 3rd & 5th Fl.

09:00AM BST

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

The Form of AI

Savannah Kunovsky - IDEO

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available
10:10AM BST

Coffee Break

10:35AM BST

Track:
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

Building Distributed Event-Driven Architectures Across Multi-Cloud Boundaries

Teena Idnani - Microsoft

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights

Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM

Stephen Batifol - Zilliz / Milvus

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Building a Culture that Works

Platform Engineering as a Practice of Technical Leadership

Lesley Cordero - The New York Times

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats

Supply Chain Security and the Real World: Lessons From Incidents

Adrian Mouat - Chainguard

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM

Questioning Convention: C# as a Shortcut to Startup Velocity

Sam Cox - Tracebit

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only

Engineering Excellence at ING: Balance Autonomy with Standardization

Daniele Tonella - ING

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
11:25AM BST

Coffee Break

11:45AM BST

Track:
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Matthew Liste - American Express

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights

How to Unlock Insights and Enable Discovery Within Petabytes of Autonomous Driving Data

Kyra Mozley - Wayve

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Building a Culture that Works

Creating Impactful Teams Across Diverse Work Environments

Natan Žabkar Nordberg - topi

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats

Empower Your Developers: How Open Source Dependencies Risk Management Can Unlock Innovation

Celine Pypaert - Johnson Matthey

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM

Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

Cory Benfield - Apple

Windsor (5th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only

From Concept to Code: Navigating Agentic AI Services

Alan Klikic - Akka

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
12:35PM BST

Lunch Located on 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Fl. & Lunch Topic Discussions Located on 1st Fl.

01:35PM BST

Track:
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

In person only

Unconference: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights

AI for Food Image Generation in Production: How & Why

Iaroslav Amerkhanov - Delivery Hero

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Building a Culture that Works

Beyond the Code: Hiring for Cultural Alignment

Alicia Collymore - incident.io

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats

Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust

Emma Yuan Fang - EPAM Systems

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM

WASM in the Enterprise: Secure, Portable, and Ready for Business

Andrea Peruffo - Red Hat

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

Beyond Code: Building a Personal Brand To Boost Your Career

Roland Meertens - Wayve

Steef-Jan Wiggers - Team Rockstars IT

Westminster (4th Fl.)

02:25PM BST

Coffee Break & Lightning Talks (Abbey, 4th Fl.)

02:45PM BST

Track:
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

Things SaaS Builders Keep Getting Wrong

Jon Topper - The Scale Factory

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights

Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned

Moumita Bhattacharya - Netflix

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Building a Culture that Works

In person only

Connecting the Dots: Culture & Teams (Limited Space - Registration Required)

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats

Secure by Design: Building Security into Engineering Workflows and Teams

Stefania Chaplin - DevStefOps

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM

How WebAssembly Components Enable Safe and Portable Software Extensions

Alex Radovici - Wyliodrin

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only

Streaming Really Large Data With Flink and Fluss

Ben Gamble - Ververica

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
03:35PM BST

Coffee Break

03:55PM BST

Track:
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required

Louis Ryan - Solo.io

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights

Building Embedding Models for Large-Scale Real-World Applications

Sahil Dua - Google

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Building a Culture that Works

Achieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success

Matthew Card - BBC

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats

Securing AI Copilots: Strategies and Practices for Protecting Data

Andra Lezza - Sage

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM

In person only

Unconference: Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

Certification only

ICSAET Cohort Special Session

Wes Reisz - Equal Experts

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
04:45PM BST

Coffee Break

05:05PM BST

Track:
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies From chase.com, #1 Banking Portal in the US

Durai Arasan - JP Morgan Chase

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights

Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant

Karthik Ramgopal - LinkedIn

Daniel Hewlett - LinkedIn

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Building a Culture that Works

Panel: Building a Culture that Works

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats

In person only

Unconference: Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM

WASM Components are a FaaS' Best Friend

Laurent Doguin - Couchbase

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only

Unlock Continuous Testing with AI Test Agent Workflows

Animesh Mishra - Diffblue

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Wednesday, April 9th, 2025

07:15AM BST

Continental Breakfast on 3rd & 5th Fl.

09:00AM BST

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

Advanced Message Queuing Politics

John O'Hara

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)

10:10AM BST

Coffee Break

10:35AM BST

Track:
Modern Data Architectures

Reliable Data Flows and Scalable Platforms: Tackling Key Data Challenges

Matthias Niehoff - codecentric AG

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
The Changing Face of Architectural Practice

Holistic Engineering: Organic Problem Solving for Complex Evolving Systems

Vanessa Formicola - Flo Health

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

Timeouts, Retries and Idempotency In Distributed Systems

Sam Newman

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Tech of FinTech

How to Build a Database Without a Server

Alex Seaton - Man Group - ArcticDB

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile

So You’ve Decided To Do a Technical Migration

Sophie Koonin - Monzo

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

In person only

Developer Experience’s New Frontier: Agentic Experience

Nolan Di Mare Sullivan - Speakeasy

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
11:25AM BST

Coffee Break & Lightning Talks (Abbey, 4th Fl.)

11:45AM BST

Track:
Modern Data Architectures

Achieving Precision in AI: Retrieving the Right Data Using AI Agents

Adi Polak - Confluent

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Changing Face of Architectural Practice

The Friction Fix: Building Collaborative Relationships Between Teams

Cat Morris - Syntasso

Diana Montalion - Mentrix

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix

Sujana Sooreddy - Netflix

Naveen Mareddy - Netflix

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Tech of FinTech

Latency: The Race to Zero...Are We There Yet?

Amir Langer - Adaptive Financial Consulting

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile

Scaling the BBC Design System: Tooling, Community, Governance and Gardening

Sophie Beaumont - BBC

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Interview Available
12:35PM BST

Lunch Located on 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Fl. & Lunch Topic Discussions Located on 1st Fl.

01:35PM BST

Track:
Modern Data Architectures

Building a Global Scale Data Platform with Cloud-Native Tools

George Peter Hantzaras - MongoDB

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Changing Face of Architectural Practice

Security and Architecture: To Betray One Is To Destroy Both

Shana Dacres-Lawrence - ArchitectHer

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

Scaling API Independence: Mocking, Contract Testing & Observability in Large Microservices Environments

Tom Akehurst - WireMock

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Tech of FinTech

Bringing DevOps Principles to Controls and Audit

Ian Miell - Container Solutions

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile

Mobile Server-Driven UI at Scale

Rafael Ring - Nubank

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Interview Available
02:25PM BST

Coffee Break

02:45PM BST

Track:
Modern Data Architectures

The Data Backbone of LLM Systems

Paul Iusztin - Decoding ML

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
The Changing Face of Architectural Practice

Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

Peter Hunter - Open GI

Elena Stojmilova - Open GI

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

From Dashboard Soup to Observability Lasagna: Building Better Layers

Martha Lambert - incident.io

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Tech of FinTech

Unleashing Kubernetes for Secure Bare-Metal Workloads

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile

Speed at Scale: Optimizing the Largest CX Platform Out There

Matheus Albuquerque - Medallia

Windsor (5th Fl.)

03:35PM BST

Coffee Break

03:55PM BST

Track:
Modern Data Architectures

Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems

Sarah Usher - Tech Risers Women

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
The Changing Face of Architectural Practice

Panel: Taking Architecture Out of the Echo Chamber

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code

Jim Gough - Morgan Stanley

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Tech of FinTech

Extreme DevOps Automation

Sérgio Amorim - Revolut

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile

The Ideal Micro-Frontends Platform

Luca Mezzalira - AWS

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available
05:15PM BST

Evening Keynote:

Making AI Agents Work For You (and Your Team)

Hannah Foxwell

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Thursday, April 10th, 2025

08:00AM BST

Continental Breakfast in Burton/Redgrave (2nd Fl.)

09:00AM BST

Certification

09:00AM BST - 12:30PM BST (3 hours)

[SOLD OUT] Become an InfoQ Certified Software Architect in Emerging Technologies (ICSAET)

Wes Reisz - Equal Experts

Gielgud (2nd Fl.)

12:30PM BST

Lunch in Burton/Redgrave (2nd Fl.)