Webinar: Platform Engineering for Execs: Team Topologies, Tools, and Tradeoffs by OrbitalX Webinars

About This Webinar

In the current economic environment, executives are being told to “do more with less.” For parts of an organisation focused on software delivery, this often translates into consolidating tooling and processes into platforms that enable their app development teams to go faster, decrease risk, and scale effectively.

Executives must understand how to lead such platform initiatives effectively. However, building, running, and – most importantly – gaining value from a platform requires learning many things: organisational design from Team Topologies, tooling from the CNCF and open source ecosystems, and the state-of-the-art of current platform engineering methodologies.

Join this fireside chat to learn from people who have led platform-building efforts in FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 organisations, from banking to insurance, from e-commerce to logistics.

Agenda

When and how to start building a platform within an organisation
How to measure the progress and impact of platform engineering
Why and what to communicate about platform usage, from the board to the boiler room

Paula Kennedy

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso

Paula Kennedy is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso. Her previous roles include Senior Director of Tanzu Global Education at VMware, Senior Director of Platform Services EMEA at Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo.

Working in the IT industry for over 20 years, Paula is passionate about community, diversity and inclusion and has a range of speaking experience including DevOpsDays, DevOps Enterprise Summit, Velocity Conference, QCon and the LeadDev conference.

Paula is part of the organising committee for Kubernetes Community Days UK and DevOps Days London, and also organises the London Platform User Group.

Daniel Bryant

Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso

Daniel Bryant is the Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso. His technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms, and microservice implementations.

Daniel is a long-time coder, platform engineer, and Java Champion, and he contributes to several open-source projects. He also writes for InfoQ, O’Reilly, and The New Stack, and regularly presents at international conferences such as KubeCon, QCon, and JavaOne.

In his copious amounts of free time, he enjoys running, reading, and travelling.

Sarah Wells

Independent Consultant and Author

Sarah is a technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement, observability and DevOps. She has over 20 years of experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and DevOps teams. She has recently published a book with O'Reilly, "Enabling Microservice Success", based on her experience of building and operating them for over a decade at the Financial Times.