9:00am – 10:00am: Emerging Technology and Evaluating Impact

Paul Preiss

CEO & Founder of Iasa: The Global Architect Profession

In this session, we will discuss using the BTABoK structured canvas approach to evaluate technology for its impact on our business and technology landscape.

Tools under discussion
– Using sensing and future casting in understanding emerging technology
– Using business cases and OKRs to evaluate investment prioritization
– Using Decision Records to understand product and pattern application in solution design

10:00am – 11:00am: CTO Insights: Taming the AI Beast with a Doctor’s Mindset

Anandan Kumaran

CTO – TinyMagiq

In this talk, Kumaran will explore the pivotal shift in AI development from an “Engineer’s Mindset” to a “Doctor’s Mindset.” This change is vital for technical leadership, focusing on adaptive, probabilistic thinking rather than deterministic methods. Kumaran will discuss the importance of embracing uncertainty in AI systems, choosing the right use cases, and ensuring data quality. Through personal and industry examples, he will show how these elements influence AI project success and guide technology leaders in navigating this dynamic field with a medical-like decision-making approach.

12:00pm – 01:00pm: Multi-Cloud Intelligence: A Multi-Dimensional AI Architecture

Ayisha Tabbassum

Certified Multi-Cloud Architecture Enthusiast

Embark on a transformative journey through the cosmos of technology with “Multi-Cloud Intelligence: A Multi-Dimensional AI Architecture.” This captivating exploration unveils a symphony of possibilities where artificial intelligence meets the dynamic realms of multiple cloud environments. Imagine a landscape where AI evolves in multi-dimensions, seamlessly navigating diverse cloud providers to orchestrate an intelligent ecosystem. It’s more than an architecture; it’s a dynamic fusion of computational dimensions, propelling us into a future where AI adapts, collaborates, and thrives across the interconnected horizons of the multi-cloud universe. Join us in unraveling the multi-dimensional tapestry of innovation, where intelligence knows no bounds and the potential for transformative breakthroughs is limitless.

01:00pm – 02:00pm: The Morning After: Managing Sprawl And Debt

Charles Betz

VP Principal Analyst

As the tech boom slows and economic challenges rise, it’s crucial to reassess and streamline your tech portfolio. Complexities in supply chains, reduced leverage, and security risks grow as products diversify, making rationalization key in tight financial times. Achieving this isn’t straightforward due to data management difficulties and underestimated risks from even minor or open-source solutions. Charles Betz, Forrester Analyst with extensive experience, offers insights into navigating these complexities.

3:00pm – 4:00pm: A Cautiously Optimistic Journey to GenAI

James Wilt

Voraciously Curious Distinguished Architect

How you approach disruptive & emerging technologies will directly affect the level of benefit/reward once engaged with it. It is far too easy to engage early only to be burned by either trusting too soon in its maturity or missing out on its abilities. On the Technology axis, we’ll journey down a unique path of Drink-the-Kool Aid – Break-the-Mold – Engage Optimally. On the Human Dynamics axis, we’ll leverage learnings to navigate skeptics, opposers, and fanatics and then choose those who are best to lead innovative initiatives.
Finally, we wrap it in an approach framework that establishes the ability to make directional decisions with confidence through inside to outside prioritization.

4:00pm – 5:00pm: A Cautiously Optimistic Journey to GenAI

Vandhana Veerni

Senior Principal, Global Technology Strategy, Slalom Consulting

How to identify Innovation opportunities in your organization, implement them and sustain them.
It is never enough to just do innovation for innovations sakes. An effective innovation practice needs to be sustained even after an idea has been approved and spun off. The innovation teams will and should move on to the next idea. But how are these ideas conceptualized? There is hype around innovation and a pie in the sky approach. There is a lot of initial excitement and a badge of honor for starting an innovation program and employees clamor to be part of it. Then the hype settles down and most people are daunted by the sheer volume of grit and work it takes to continue the pace. Been there, done that and here to tell the story.

05:00pm – 06:00pm: Knowledge-Centered Design for Generative AI in Enterprise Solutions

Walson Lee

Recently retired from Microsoft

In this session, I will introduce a Knowledge-Centered Design (KCD) pattern, an extension of Human-Centered Design (HCD). KCD emphasizes various forms of human and enterprise knowledge, such as institutional know-how and intellectual property, in conjunction with artificial knowledge produced by GenAI. To ensure the effectiveness of this proposed KCD design pattern for GenAI-based solutions, I will introduce two crucial design concepts: the knowledge life cycle process and the feedback loop process. These concepts aim to enhance the continuous self-learning and improvement of GenAI solutions.

06:00pm – 07:00pm: Architectural Observability: Paving the Way to Fast Engineering Velocity and 10x Scale

Amir Rapson

CTO and Co-Founder at vFunction

Adam Safran Turo,

Senior Manager, Engineering

The push to continually modernize applications is causing organizations to accumulate technical debt, resulting in reduced engineering velocity, limited performance at scale and poor application resiliency. The race to modernize combined with architecture drifts and poor architecture choices make applications fragile and rigid. Join vFunction with Turo, who’s putting the world’s 1.5B cars to better use, as we explore how architectural observability helps engineering leaders, IT executives and software architects accelerate engineering velocity and scalability by unraveling monolithic architectures to deliver increased performance and resiliency while supporting growth in a rapidly-moving market.

07:00pm – 08:00pm: Riding the Wave: Ensuring Your Workforce is Ready for the Exponential Change of Emerging Tech

Fran Mether

Co-founder & Design Lead at Arteri

In today’s fast-changing business and tech environment, organizations need to align workforce development with strategic goals to navigate disruptions caused by emerging technologies. This presentation will outline practical strategies to cut through the hype of new technologies, focusing on organizational readiness, human-centered design thinking, and business architecture to drive change. We’ll share case studies demonstrating successful technology integration and enhanced collaboration. Attendees will gain insights on evaluating their current state, identifying skill gaps, and creating a workforce development roadmap to leverage emerging technologies for organizational success.