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How to talk to your board about tech debt

CIO

Suboptimal integration strategies are partly to blame, and on top of this, companies often don’t have security architecture that can handle both people and AI agents working on IT systems. Instead of focusing on single use cases, think holistically about how your organization can use AI to drive topline growth and reduce costs.

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What a 500-Year-Old Brewery Can Teach Us About Modern IT Architecture

Xebia

Their journey offers valuable lessons for IT leaders seeking scalable and efficient architecture solutions. This story may sound familiar to many IT leaders: the business grows, but legacy IT architecture cant keep up limiting innovation and speed. Thats how you preserve operational heritage while preparing for the next chapter.

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Transitional Architecture

Martin Fowler

Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis explain how to build and evolve a Transitional Architecture that supports this collaboration as it changes over time. For this to work, intermediate configurations may require integrations that have no place in the target architecture of the new system.

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AI’s data problem: How to build the right foundation

CIO

With data existing in a variety of architectures and forms, it can be impossible to discern which resources are the best for fueling GenAI. With the right hybrid data architecture, you can bring AI models to your data instead of the other way around, ensuring safer, more governed deployments.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward. May 20th, 2025 at 12:30 PM PDT, 3:30 PM EDT, 8:30 PM BST

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO

Innovator/experimenter: enterprise architects look for new innovative opportunities to bring into the business and know how to frame and execute experiments to maximize the learnings. Solution architecture: Crafting an enterprise architecture that meets both technical and business requirements.

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How to plan for a new business technology operating model

CIO

The impact of agentic AI on enterprise architecture, interoperability, platforms, and SaaS has yet to be fully scoped, but the changes will be fundamental. And the demands will change as agentic AI systems continue to reshape the future business and enterprise architectures, as well as their interoperability.

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Build Your Open Data Lakehouse on Apache Iceberg

Speaker: Veena Vasudevan and Jason Hughes

With data stored in vendor-agnostic files and table formats like Apache Iceberg, the open lakehouse is the best architecture to enable data democratization. In this webinar, Dremio and AWS will discuss the most common challenges in data architecture and how to overcome them with an open data lakehouse architecture on AWS.

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Serverless and Containers: How to Choose the Right Application Strategy

Speaker: Tolga Tarhan, Senior Vice President, GM AWS Services at Onica

How to make the right architectural choices given particular application patterns and risks. Join us to learn how you can unlock the benefits of the modern tech stack! The session will cover a lot of ground, including: An overview of Containers and Serverless technologies with a focus on key differences.

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Best Practices for Deploying & Scaling Embedded Analytics

Read more about how to simplify the deployment and scalability of your embedded analytics, along with important considerations for your: Environment Architecture: An embedded analytics architecture is very similar to a typical web architecture.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

In this paper, we explore the top considerations for building a cloud data lake including architectural principles, when to use cloud data lake engines and how to empower non-technical users. Read this paper to learn about: The value of cloud data lakes as the new system of record.

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Your Team's Pragmatic Guide to Security

Speaker: Naresh Soni, CTO, Tsunami XR

Whether you need to rework your security architecture, improve performance, and/or deal with new threats, this webinar has you covered. Naresh Soni, CTO of Tsunami XR, will take us through critical information to make smart choices in how to protect our organizations. How to evaluate pros and cons of different processes.

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Microservices: The Dark Side

Speaker: Prem Chandrasekaran

In his best-selling book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler famously coined the first law of distributed computing—"Don’t distribute your objects"—implying that working with this style of architecture can be challenging. How these strategies can be applied in different size engineering organizations.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Amazon's journey to its current modern architecture and processes provides insights for all software development leaders. In this fast paced talk, he will cover: How to decompose for agility. How Amazon thinks about metrics. We are excited to be joined by Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.

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Building Evolvable Architectures

Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks

It’s no surprise many CIOs and CTOs are struggling to adapt, in part because their architecture isn’t equipped to evolve. This webinar will discuss what’s at stake if companies continue to use long term architecture plans. Join Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO at ThoughtWorks, as she presents: How to build evolvable solutions.