Wed, Jan 14, 2026 · 6:30 PM GMT
For our January meetup, we're back at the fabulous Accurx offices. We are finalising our full speaker lineup and the agenda will be:
6:30pm - arrive, drinks, networking
7:00pm - Welcome & Housekeeping
7:15pm - Talk 1: Measuring your Platform Engineering impact
Platform Engineering is gaining traction, but its value is often lost in translation. To engineering teams, it means golden paths and reusable pipelines. But how do you make its impact resonate with a CEO, a Head of Product, or even Security and Change Management? In this talk, Christopher will explore how the same platform capabilities, such as environments as a service and Continuous Delivery pipelines, can move the needle for different types of stakeholders. The key is choosing the right metric and telling the right story. He will share real examples from working with platform teams at large enterprises, showing how he's helped:
Explain platform engineering in the language of different stakeholders
Define outcome-based KPIs that align with each sponsor’s priorities
Track those metrics over time to demonstrate value and build accountability
He will walk through:
Strategic metrics such as faster market entry and fewer launch failures
Delivery metrics such as lead time and deployment frequency
Enabling metrics such as pipeline reliability and environment readiness
Governance metrics such as change success rates, policy coverage, and audit time
Speaker: Christopher Bater, CTO @ Core Engineering Consulting Group Over 20 years Christopher has spent time in most areas of software delivery, product development, JVM library development (concurrency/distributed systems), Infrastructure engineering, architecture & system design and most recently Platform Engineering. He has a passion for speed and stability, focusing on what we need to do next to speed up the software delivery lifecycle. Over the years he’s contributed to many open source projects including Akka & Kubernetes.
7.45pm - food, more drinks & networking
8.00pm - Talk 2: "TBC"
Speaker: Lewis Denham-Parry, Staff Solutions Engineer @ Edera Lewis Denham-Parry orchestrates containers by day and puts them through rigorous security testing by night. As Staff Solutions Engineer at Edera, he leverages his diverse background to deliver the robust security and isolation that modern systems demand. A dynamic speaker at KubeCon, OSS, SANS, and BSides, Lewis enthusiastically shares his expertise with the global tech community, though his heart remains in the Welsh tech scene. You can easily find him online, just search for his surname.
8.30pm onwards - drinks and networking.
So, please come and join us, we look forward to seeing you there.
Food and drinks provided
Good time will be had by all
