2025 Schedule
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Monday, April 7th, 2025
Badge pick-up & Continental Breakfast on 3rd & 5th Fl.
Coffee Break
Track:
Health Tech
Lessons Learned From Shipping AI-Powered Healthcare Products
This talk provides valuable insights into Sword Health's real-world experience implementing AI in healthcare, focusing on practical strategies for developing consistent, safe and reliable AI-powered healthcare solutions.
Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership
The Principal Engineer’s Path: Skills, Strategies, and Lessons Learned
In many organizations, the role of Principal Engineer is considered the highest level of the ‘individual contributor’ career path. But careers aren’t like ladders—short, straight, and evenly spaced. Instead, they’re long, winding, and often challenging journeys.
Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
The Tech Powering the BBC's Olympic Coverage
Details coming soon.
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Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener
What I Wish I Knew When I Started with Green IT
The path to sustainable technology involves complex technical and organizational decisions that aren't immediately obvious from industry best practices. This talk shares seven key lessons drawn from implementing Green IT at scale in a scaleup environment and in a public bank institution.
Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
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Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience
Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun
Developer satisfaction, developer joy, and business results are strongly correlated. Developer productivity frameworks like SPACE recognize this, with Satisfaction being a key metric. And yet - our jobs are frustrating, filled with mindless work, and free of joy. How do we fix that?
Coffee Break
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The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership
Leading High-Performing Teams in an AI-Driven World
Details coming soon.
Whittle (3rd Fl.)
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Developing Meta's Orion AR Glasses
Meta announced the Orion AR Glasses in September 2024. It is a time machine to demonstrate that it's possible to build an immersive augmented reality experience in a glasses form-factor. There were numerous technical challenges to make this a reality.
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Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener
Building Better AI: Resource Efficiency and Responsible Development
Details coming soon.
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Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience
Achieve Optimal Efficiency for your Developer Experience Teams
Developer Experience teams are quite popular these days as organisations understand the value of optimising for developers productivity.
Lunch & Lunch topic discussions (1st Fl.)
Women & Allies in Tech Lunch (Gielgud, 2nd Fl.) (Sign-up needed)
Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I
A Blueprint for Agentic AI Services - AKKA
We’re all excited to build and deliver agentic AI services. But what about running at theexponentially greater scale that agents create? LLMs suffer from poor latency and availabilityissues. More frequent model training drives more frequent updates to agentic services. Most of
Westminster (4th Fl.)
Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership
Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn From Junior Engineers
In many engineering teams, senior engineers make the decisions and are responsible for mentoring and teaching junior team members. This rigid hierarchical dynamic can stifle innovation, discourage fresh perspectives, and create barriers to collaboration. How can we change this?
Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener
Local First – How To Build Software Which Still Works After the Acquihire
Much of the software we use derives its value from being networked, sometimes that's about being able to use software on many devices, often it's about being able to collaborate with other people.
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Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience
Continuous Delivery Is Not Possible Without Pair Programming: Lessons From SpareBank 1 and SINTEF in Norway
In the autumn of 2021, SpareBank 1 Utvikling decided to take a new direction by significantly increasing how often we deployed to production, going from daily to hourly frequency.
Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom - SpareBank 1 Utvikling
Ola Hast - SpareBank 1 Utvikling
Churchill (Ground Fl.)
Coffee Break
Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I
Beyond Code: Building a Personal Brand To Boost Your Career
In an increasingly competitive field, software expertise alone may not be enough to stand out and drive your career forward.
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The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership
Unconference: The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Kraken's Serverless Architecture for Scale, Security, and Sustainability
The green energy transition is real, and happening, but it needs technology to make it successful. Everything from renewable energy generation onto the grid, to how consumers use energy, needs technology to be effective and keep up with today's demands.
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Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener
Beyond Uptime: What the 'Metric' Is Going On with Green Software?
Metrics such as availability and latency have long been the cornerstones of software engineering. Now, carbon emission is joining their ranks as a golden signal in a world increasingly focused on sustainability.
Track:
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience
Impact of AI in Developer Experience
After almost 2 years of high attention on coding assistants, many engineering managers are disappointed by the measurable results, and engineers are suffering from hype fatigue, even the ones who have learned to love their new AI team mate.
Coffee Break
Track:
Health Tech
The Truth About Developing an AI Software for Longevity
Details coming soon.
Windsor (5th Fl.)
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The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership
Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations
When I took on the Director of Engineering role at Nubank, I had no idea just how many times I’d need to reinvent my leadership style.
Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Improving Efficiency with Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval
Details coming soon.
Fleming (3rd Fl.)
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Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener
Unconference: Performance and Sustainability in Practice
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience
Modern Tooling for the Modern Developer
Details coming soon.
Churchill (Ground Fl.)
Coffee Break
Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I
AI Developer Tools Are Focused on the Wrong Problem
For all the claims about AI increasing developer productivity, why aren’t developers seeing more of an impact?
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The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership
Shine Bright as an IC: Growing Yourself As Your Company Grows
Being part of a growing company is a fantastic opportunity to level yourself as an individual very rapidly, if you choose to grasp it. You've already immersed yourself with context and you might be the go to person for a key area of the organization.
Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
The Sound of Innovation: A Symphony of Features in Digital Audio Workstations
Details coming soon.
Fleming (3rd Fl.)
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Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener
The Efficiency Paradox and How to Save Yourself and the World
Inefficiency is ruining our planet and our lives. Efficiency is ruining our happiness, and weirdly, it’s also ruining our efficiency. Heeeeelppp!? What’s a techie to do?
Track:
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience
Unconference: Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
Continental Breakfast on 3rd & 5th Fl.
Coffee Break
Track:
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures
Building Distributed Event-Driven Architectures Across Multi-Cloud Boundaries
“Event-driven architecture” is a frequently discussed topic in architectural conversations. However, in today’s multi-cloud landscape, the more pressing question is: “How can we implement these patterns across cloud boundaries without compromising reliability?
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Sponsored Solution Track II
Sponsored talk - ING
Details coming soon!
Westminster (4th Fl.)
Track:
Building a Culture that Works
Identifying and Tracking Cultural Indicators in Your Startup
Details coming soon.
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Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats
Supply Chain Security and the Real World: Lessons From Incidents
Supply chain security is becoming more and more important, but it is often talked about in abstract and general terms that do little to help the average organization.
Track:
AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights
Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM
While text-based RAG systems have been everywhere in the last year and a half, there is so much more than text data. Images, audio, and documents often need to be processed together to provide meaningful insights, yet most RAG implementations focus solely on text.
Coffee Break
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Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures
Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure
In this talk, Matthew will describe lessons learned from over 20+ years of building cloud-based scalable, secure and stable infrastructure platforms for mission critical software in financial services (electronic trading, credit card processing etc.).
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Sponsored Solution Track II
From Concept to Code: Navigating Agentic AI Services - AKKA
Those who embrace agentic AI will reap the rewards. Building on the strategic insights from thefirst session (“A Blueprint for Agentic AI Services”), this presentation delves into the technicalintricacies of harnessing agentic AI. Attendees will explore practical code examples that
Westminster (4th Fl.)
Track:
Building a Culture that Works
Creating Impactful Teams Across Diverse Work Environments
Culture is the backbone of any thriving organization. It shapes how we work, how we connect, and the products we create. Yet, culture often feels like an intangible, immovable force beyond our control. What if that perception is wrong?
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Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats
Empower Your Developers: How Open Source Dependencies Risk Management Can Unlock Innovation
As security practitioners, we face the challenge of driving innovation whilst needing to balance security risks.
Track:
Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM
Using Server Side Swift and Java Interop for Apple Services
Details coming soon.
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AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights
How to Unlock Insights and Enable Discovery Within Petabytes of Autonomous Driving Data
For autonomous vehicle companies, finding valuable insights within millions of hours of video data is essential yet challenging.
Lunch
Track:
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures
Unconference: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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Sponsored Solution Track II
Building a Streaming Agentic AI Pipeline with Redpanda and Snowflake
In this technical talk for developers, architects and the technically curious, Paul will cover recent developments within Redpanda Connect.
Track:
Building a Culture that Works
Beyond the Code: Hiring for Cultural Alignment
Technical interviews typically focus on coding skills, but cultural alignment is equally crucial for team success.
Track:
Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats
Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust
Can you truly trust your software supply chain? As cloud-native software development surges, threat actors increasingly target the supply chain, exploiting vulnerabilities in CI/CD pipelines, dependencies, and container images.
Track:
Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM
The Universal Runtime for the Next Generation of Applications
Details coming soon.
Windsor (5th Fl.)
Track:
AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights
AI for Food Image Generation in Production: How & Why
In this talk, we will conduct a technical overview of a client-facing Food Image Generation solution developed at Delivery Hero.
Coffee Break & Lightning Talks (Abbey, 4th Fl.)
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Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures
Things SaaS Builders Keep Getting Wrong
Building, deploying, and operating software is hard, and that goes double when you're building SaaS.
Track:
Building a Culture that Works
Unconference: Building a Culture that Works
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
Track:
Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats
Secure by Design: Building Security into Engineering Workflows and Teams
Security doesn't have to be a blocker- it can be an enabler. In this session, we’ll explore how to seamlessly integrate secure development practices into engineering workflows while fostering a culture of collaboration and shared ownership.
Track:
Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM
Unlocking the Web's Potential with Memory-Safe Languages
Details coming soon.
Windsor (5th Fl.)
Track:
AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights
Foundation Models for Recommenders: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned
Recommender systems are an integral part of most products nowadays and are often a key driver of discovery for users of the product.
Coffee Break
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Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures
The Untamed Frontier of Multi-Cloud Networking
Details coming soon.
Track:
Building a Culture that Works
Achieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success
Join Matthew as he explores the essential role of inclusive leadership in building high-trust, resilient, and engaged teams. Drawing from real-world experience, this talk will uncover how leaders can create a culture that not only motivates but sustains long-term success.
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Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats
Securing AI Copilots: Strategies and Practices for Protecting Data
The data behind AI copilots is not only their most critical asset but also a key strategic consideration for enterprises and SMBs alike.
Track:
Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM
Unconference: Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights
Building Embedding Models for Large-Scale Real-World Applications
Embedding models are at the core of search, recommendation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, transforming data into meaningful representations.
Coffee Break
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Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures
Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies From chase.com, #1 Banking Portal in the US
As businesses increasingly rely on cloud applications, efficient scaling becomes essential. This talk presents real-world strategies from Chase.com's cloud transformation, showcasing effective approaches to building resilient and high-performing systems.
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Sponsored Solution Track II
ICSAET Cohort Special Session
Only available to attendees with a “Conference (3 days) + Certification (half day)” ticket.
Track:
Building a Culture that Works
The Ripple Effect: How Individual Actions Drive Culture Change
Details coming soon.
Churchill (Ground Fl.)
Track:
Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats
Unconference: Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM
Performance Optimization with WASM and Native Code
Details coming soon.
Windsor (5th Fl.)
Track:
AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights
Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant
In October 2024, we announced LinkedIn’s first agent, Hiring Assistant to a select group of LinkedIn customers.
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Continental Breakfast on 3rd & 5th Fl.
Coffee Break
Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III
Developer Experience’s New Frontier: Agentic Experience
Just as companies were beginning to come to terms with why developer experience is important to their business, a new frontier has appeared: Agentic Experience (AX).
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Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile
So You’ve Decided To Do a Technical Migration
It seems like there’s always a hot new library or framework promising great things. But people often forget about the pain and effort required to move from an old technology to a new one. How long will it take? If you finish, will it be worth it?
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The Changing Face of Architectural Practice
Holistic Engineering: Organic Problem Solving for Complex Evolving Systems
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.
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Modern Data Architectures
Reliable Data Flows and Scalable Platforms: Tackling Key Data Challenges
There are a few common and mostly well-known challenges when architecting for data. For example, many data teams struggle to move data in a stable and reliable way from operational systems to analytics systems.
Track:
The Tech of FinTech
How to Build a Database Without a Server
Modern data analytics workflows rely on scaling out to huge numbers of users and compute nodes. Managing database installations to handle this scale can be unsustainably complex and expensive.
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Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
Timeouts, Retries and Idempotency In Distributed Systems
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again” - this quote attributed to Einstein warns us of the danger of magical thinking, hoping that trying something just one more time will achieve success when before we failed. But is this really insanity?
Coffee Break & Lightning Talks (Abbey, 4th Fl.)
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Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile
Scaling the BBC Design System: Tooling, Community, Governance and Gardening
Do you have experience managing or contributing to a Design System that has to support multiple teams, disciplines’ priorities and competing product requirements? Wondering how to meet the long-term goals of the system without getting in the way of your stakeholders’ needs?
Track:
The Changing Face of Architectural Practice
The Friction Fix: Building Collaborative Relationships Between Teams
In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, the friction between product and technology teams often feels inevitable.
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Modern Data Architectures
Achieving Precision in AI: Retrieving the Right Data Using AI Agents
In the race to harness the power of generative AI, organizations are discovering a hidden challenge: precision.
Track:
The Tech of FinTech
Unleashing Kubernetes for Secure Bare-Metal Workloads
Kubernetes is great for general cloud-native workloads but struggles with low latency and high-performance computing (HPC) due to its abstraction overhead, lack of optimized scheduling, and network inefficiencies.
Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix
Managing media workflows at the Netflix scale is both thrilling and daunting. With millions of workflow executions across hundreds of types and over 500 million CPU hours consumed quarterly, costs can skyrocket, and encoding issues can disrupt the streaming experience.
Lunch
Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile
Mobile Server-Driven UI at Scale
Delivering changes to mobile applications is always painful: dealing with store reviews, users that don't update their apps and multiple concurrent versions being used at the same time.
Track:
The Changing Face of Architectural Practice
Security and Architecture: To Betray One Is To Destroy Both
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.
Track:
Modern Data Architectures
Building a Global Scale Data Platform with Cloud-Native Tools
As businesses increasingly operate in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, managing data across these complex setups presents unique challenges and opportunities. This presentation provides a comprehensive guide to building a global-scale data platform using cloud-native tools.
Track:
The Tech of FinTech
Fighting Financial Crime with AI
Details coming soon.
Churchill (Ground Fl.)
Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
Scaling API Independence: Mocking, Contract Testing & Observability in Large Microservices Environments
Microservices promise faster deployments and team autonomy. In reality, engineers are often blocked waiting for APIs, dealing with broken sandboxes, or wrangling test environments.
Coffee Break
Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile
Speed at Scale: Optimizing the Largest CX Platform Out There
In a world with a wide variety of network connections, any user can have a slow experience, and apps that delight users on fast connections can barely be usable on slow ones.
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The Changing Face of Architectural Practice
Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, centralised architectural decision-making can become a bottleneck to delivery performance and innovation.
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Modern Data Architectures
The Data Backbone of LLM Systems
Any LLM application has four dimensions you must carefully engineer: the code, data, models and prompts. Each dimension influences the other. That's why you must learn how to track and manage each. The trick is that every dimension has particularities requiring unique strategies and tooling.
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Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
From Dashboard Soup to Observability Lasagna: Building Better Layers
Let's be honest - observability can suck. Ever feel like you're swimming in dashboard soup? You know the feeling: tons of single-use dashboards, building new ones during every incident only to lose them in the chaos, and spending ages creating visualizations that no one ever looks at again.
Coffee Break
Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile
The Ideal Micro-Frontends Platform
Micro-frontends can help organizations scale frontend development, but without the right foundations, they often lead to unnecessary complexity and performance issues. How can you implement them effectively while avoiding common pitfalls?
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The Changing Face of Architectural Practice
Panel: Taking Architecture Out of the Echo Chamber
Architecture is increasingly about ensuring that the right conversations are happening at the right time and involving the right people in the right ways.
Windsor (5th Fl.)
Track:
Modern Data Architectures
Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems
Many organizations mistake the adoption of a data warehouse, like BigQuery, as the golden ticket to solving all their data challenges. But without a robust data strategy and architecture, you’re simply shifting chaos into the cloud.
Track:
The Tech of FinTech
Latency: The Race to Zero...Are We There Yet?
Low and predictable latency have been an edge in financial trading. Aeron has been pushing the limit on what is possible for IPC, on-premise, and in the cloud messaging. Can we do better?
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Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code
As microservices and complex platforms become the standard, ensuring secure connectivity while maintaining a smooth developer experience is a significant challenge. Traditional security models often introduce friction, slowing down innovation and deployment.
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Breakfast
Certification
09:00AM BST - 12:00PM BST (3 hours)
Become an InfoQ Certified Software Architect in Emerging Technologies (ICSAET)
Wes Reisz - Equal Experts
Olivier (2nd Fl.)
Lunch in Westminster (4th Fl.)