The Future of Internal Platforms: From Landing Zones to Team Topologies

Thursday November 27th our next meetup will be hosted by Lionville in The Hague.

Internal platforms are evolving, from rigid cloud foundations to adaptive ecosystems that serve developers.

Join us for an evening of talks exploring how Platform Engineering and Team Topologies principles are shaping the next generation of developer platforms.

Agenda
18:00 - 19:00 Come in, food & refreshments
19:00 - 19:10 Welcome from the hosts
19:10 - 19:40 Ziad AbdelGhany - Invisible Platforms: Landing Zones That Scale Without Getting in the Way
19:40 - 19:50 Break
19:50 - 20:20 Thomas Krag - The Team Topologies approach to Platform evolution
20:20 - Drinks and networking
21:00 Doors closed

Invisible Platforms: Landing Zones That Scale Without Getting in the Way

Landing zones should be like oxygen for your cloud teams, always there, quietly enabling life and motion. When they work, you don’t notice them. When they don’t, nobody can breathe. But too often, landing zones create friction instead of flow: one-off setups, manual ticket queues, and inconsistent environments that slow delivery and push developers toward workarounds. This talk explores how to build modular, secure-by-default landing zones that scale with product teams, not against them. We’ll show how Platform Engineering principles unlock developer autonomy through consistent interfaces, embedded guardrails, and automation that keeps compliance in check without blocking innovation. The goal: platforms that empower teams to move fast, stay secure, and build without ever waiting on a platform ticket again.

About Ziad;
Ziad AbdelGhany is a Cloud & DevOps engineer who builds platforms that help business and developers move faster with confidence. He has designed AWS landing zones and developer experience platforms across fintech, government, and product organizations always focused on autonomy, speed, and consistency. Ziad works with Lionsville, helping clients adopt the cloud securely at scale through modular landing zone capabilities and simple, consistent interfaces.

The Team Topologies approach to Platform evolution
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