How to platform

Our last meetup for this year will take place on November 8th!

This time our special guests of the evening will be Christian Deger and our dear colleague Jakob Mayr. Find out more about our speakers of the evening below.

Sign up today and join us for the talk and as usual an evening full of interesting discussions!

Abstract
Since 2016, RIO has been working on digitalizing the supply chain of its customers with a growing product portfolio. RIO is able to provide telematics and transport management solutions as well as driver communication for carriers from a single source – regardless of the manufacturer of your vehicles. In addition, RIO is a strong partner for shippers and provides a platform for suppliers, transport service providers, and industrial companies.

"We provide an opinionated self-service platform, that enables You - the product delivery teams at RIO, MAN, and LATAM - to build, operate, and maintain compliant and secure services without hazzle."
This is the platform vision of RIO.

The RIO platform comes in two flavors, a tech platform, and a business platform. Both support the service teams and help them to focus on creating high-quality products. The platform provides services to reduce the complexity of managing the infrastructure. It simplifies the connection to the trucks and busses or provides a marketplace to monetarize the products.

In our talk, we will share our experiences in developing this platform. We will reason why RIO decided to implement this strategy. We explain how we shape our platform services and describe the principles behind our architecture.

Another part looks at the organization and the teams building the platform. We will show you how we collaborate and shared knowledge within the teams to develop a successful platform.

Speaker Bio
Christian Deger is responsible for architecture and platform at RIO The Logistics Flow. He has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering and believes in the thinnest viable platform supporting autonomous ‘you build it, you run it’ teams. He tries to align cultural changes and organizational transformation with architecture and infrastructure changes when building cloud-native microservices.

Jakob Mayr is a Fellow at Comsysto Reply GmbH. He has been gaining experience in various positions in IT for many years. Positions included Developer, Architect, Product Owner, Team Lead or CTO. Supporting teams to deliver high-quality software products is his passion.

Agenda
18:00 Uhr - Food & Drinks + Networking
18:30 Uhr- Welcome
18:45 Uhr- Talk+ Q&A + Networking

Cheers,
Selma