About us
Welcome to The Architecting for Innovation Meet-up group.
This group was formed initially as an offshoot from the Australasian Architecture Network Group on Linkedin www.linkedin.com/groups/1822816 Then it was a group of Enterprise and Solution Architects meeting in the pub for a few beers and a chat.
Since then, we have run several formal meet-ups in Sydney and Melbourne. The subjects have changed and morphed but always with an Architecture undertone with an eye on innovation.
Meet-up subjects have included:-
- Who needs Data Architecture anyway?
- Architecting intelligent enterprises
- Business Capability Modelling - Creating a performance framework Lunch and learn
- A journey into Enterprise Architecture
- Architecting for Governance at Scale
- How architectures fail, and what to do about it
- Databricks Delta Lake Deep Dive & Roadmap
- Digital Transformation in Banking
- Customer 360
- EA for Digital - Digital for EA
- CQRS and event sourcing
- The Future of Data in a Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Environment
- Practical mechanisms to align Business Architecture with Technology Architecture
- Making sense of Data-Driven Architecture
- Modern Data Pipelines with Kafka and MongoDB
- Salesforce/Mulesoft with Telstra Track & Monitor
- First meetup of 2020! Are you Well-Architected
- Leadership, AR and (A|V|M) Crime
- Kafka with MongoDB and Confluent
- The CIO and The Start-up Founder
- Modern apps in a microservices age
- Internet of Things in the Property Market (IoT in PropTech)
- Creating a Strategic Enterprise Architecture – from Noisy to Influential
- Building a Sustainable Opensource Ecosystem
- Unveiling the Sydney IoT Landscape
- Pragmatic Approach to Microservices and Cell-based Architecture
- Open Source Technology in an Open Architecture World
- Product across NPP and Cyber-security in The Global Payments Landscape
- FinTech Sydney - Start-up to Enterprise
- Disruptive Innovation
- FinTech
- IoT Security
- Attracting and retaining Architects
- DevOps
- Wearable Devices and the Internet of Things
- Predicting The Future of Cloud
- Tom Graves Masterclass
We work hard to provide value to our community through access to pertinent market intelligence and networking platforms, creating and hosting industry thought leadership events; and presenting interesting jobs for exciting companies.
We cover a range of subjects in the Technology and Digital landscape with the focus on innovation and disruption.
If you are keen on joining a panel for any of the upcoming meet-ups, let me know.
Thanks,
Andrew Blades
www.linkedin.com/in/andrewblades
[Andrew@TheBridgeSearch.com](mailto:Andrew@TheBridgeSearch.com)
[www.TheBridgeSearch.com](http://www.thebridgesearch.com/)
Upcoming events
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Beyond Defensible Architecture: Building Enterprise OT Security Capability #84
·OnlineOnlineBeyond Defensible Architecture: Building Enterprise OT Security Capability #84
with Daniel Castillo — Director, Skadi Solutions
We’re welcoming Daniel Castillo back for Session #84 of Architecting for Innovation — and this time we’re going deeper than defensible architecture.
Critical infrastructure teams are increasingly realising that defensible architecture is only the starting point. The real challenge? Turning one‑off OT security projects into a repeatable, scalable, enterprise-wide capability.
In this interactive Lunch & Learn, Daniel Castillo will lead a practical discussion on what it actually takes to operate OT security at scale. We’ll explore how organisations move beyond isolated technical solutions to build shared services, consistent governance, and long‑term operational models that work across diverse environments.Expect a grounded, practitioner‑level conversation covering:
- Transitioning from project delivery to enterprise OT security capability
- Shared platform services — identity, secure remote access, monitoring, logging, backup & recovery, asset visibility.
- Governance & ownership across engineering, operations and cyber
- Maintaining architecture through implementation, operations and continual assurance
- Lessons learned from organisations that have scaled OT security well — and those that haven’t
Whether your organisation is building its first OT security platform or maturing an existing one, this session is designed to spark open exchange, shared learning, and practical approaches to creating OT security architectures that are not only defensible by design but also sustainable in operation.
About the Speaker
Daniel Castillo is a mechatronics engineer-turned cybersecurity specialist and the Director of Skadi Solutions, working with critical infrastructure and building automation operators across Australia. His career spans robotics, systems engineering, enterprise IT, and OT cybersecurity.
Daniel previously served as the OT specialist for the Australian Signals Directorate’s Critical Infrastructure Uplift Program (CI‑UP), supporting national resilience initiatives. Today, he helps organisations build operational cybersecurity resilience that actually sticks — through practical architecture, fit‑for‑purpose controls, and strong collaboration between security, engineering, and operations.Event Details
Thursday, 6 August
12:30 PM AEST (Online)
Duration: 1 hour (+Overrun)MC — Andrew Blades
Principal – The Bridge Search
Founder – Architecting for InnovationWith 25+ years in architecture recruitment across Europe and Australia, Andrew is a long‑standing connector of top‑tier architecture talent and an active builder of professional communities.
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