Platform Engineers Poland

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Modern applications aren’t just “lift-and-shift” workloads running in Kubernetes. They’re built on a set of principles that span architecture, delivery, operations, and platform readiness. In this webinar, we’ll break down each of these principles and connect them to concrete examples.

- Recognize and apply the 5 core principles of modern applications across design, delivery, and operations.
- Learn how GitOps, observability, and zero-trust security fit together into a coherent operating model.
- See an example of these principles in practice.

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.

A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.
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Speaker:
Jad El-Zein - Technologist @ VMware by Broadcom

Jad El-Zein is a technology leader with more than 26 years of experience in the IT industry, covering technology adoption, implementation, and the development of advanced emerging solutions. His background includes 11 years with Lockheed Martin Corp and over 15 years at VMware and Broadcom.

Jad has led major IT transformation initiatives for U.S. Federal agencies and global enterprises. His expertise spans full-stack datacenter and cloud architectures, systems and network engineering, cloud management and automation, AI and ML development, and modern application platforms. He is the inventor of two U.S. patents focused on machine learning approaches to cloud optimization.

He is also experienced in technical writing, technical marketing, and product marketing, and is recognized as a speaker, mentor, team leader, and advocate for the technology community.

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Join Loreli Cadapan and Ajay Chankramath as they break down the unexpected consequences teams face during platform and tooling migrations, why modernization efforts often create more complexity, not less, and what platform teams can do to better protect developer experience, security, and operational efficiency.

In this webinar, we will cover:

- Why migrations frequently lead to increased tool sprawl, integration friction, and new security gaps
- The human cost of modernization, including burnout and organizational drag
- Patterns that separate successful modernization efforts from disruptive ones
- Practical strategies platform teams can use to reduce migration risk and improve long-term resilience

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event
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Speakers:
Loreli Cadapan - VP of Product Marketing @ Cloudbees

Loreli brings 25+ years of experience leading product strategy across DevOps, DevSecOps, and developer platforms, with a track record of building high-performing teams and shaping market-defining products at organizations like JFrog, Oracle, ActiveState and Liquibase.

Ajay Chankramath - Founder & CEO @ Platformetrics

Ajay has 3+ decades of technology leadership experience and currently the CEO of platformetrics. He is the co-author of Effective Platform Engineering, a unique platform Engineering practioner's book from Manning Publications. A regular speaker and panelist, as well as a prolific writer of blogs and other relevant publications, his current interests are around improving developer productivity using domain-driven platform engineering. Ajay is a trained computer scientist with significant technology leadership experience and advanced degrees in business and technology management.

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AI is transforming software engineering, but results rarely match the hype. Why do some teams double productivity while others stall? Join Jellyfish researchers Nicholas Arcolano and Nik Albarran as they share insights from 20M pull requests across 200K developers, revealing what’s actually driving real AI impact at scale.

In this webinar, Nicholas and Nik will discuss:

• What effective AI adoption actually looks like at scale, how to measure it, and what productivity gains you can realistically expect
• How AI is changing PR throughput, cycle time, and developer workflows, and why code architecture drives uneven results across teams
• What to do when AI adoption underdelivers, and how to move from experimentation to accountable outcomes in 2026

After a 30-minute talk there will be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speakers:
Nicholas Arcolano, Ph.D - Head of Research @ Jellyfish
Nicholas is Head of Research at Jellyfish, where he leads Jellyfish Research, a multidisciplinary department that focuses on new product concepts, advanced ML and AI algorithms, and analytics and data science support across the company.

Nikolas Albarran - AI Product Lead @ Jellyfish
Nik Albarran is AI Product Lead at Jellyfish, focused on helping software teams navigate AI transformation through research and product development.

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The majority of platform teams are struggling with bad alignment, missing success metrics & ROI proof, or low adoption / weak developer experience, and more. Join Mallory Haigh for a practical walkthrough of the Platform Benchmarking Survey to help understand that pain, and how to avoid it. She will reveal your platform’s friction and maturity, and how to turn “pain” into a clear, prioritized roadmap for adoption, alignment, and measurable impact.

In this webinar, we will cover:

• How platform benchmarking helps quantify misalignment, silos, and invisible friction
• Why lack of success metrics and ROI proof keeps platform teams stuck
• How to turn platform pain into a clear, aligned roadmap for impact

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

Disclaimer: We use Zoom for the webinar stream. The link to the webinar will be sent upon your registration to your email.
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Speaker:
Mallory Haigh - Workshop host @ Platform Engineering

Mallory is a workshop host for Platform Engineering community, and a platform therapist at Humanitec. With a background in customer success, full-stack software engineering, and engineering management, she focuses on the strength of intersection of humans and technology. She brings a passion for education, the anthropological approach to human-computer interaction, and improving developer experience to her work on dozens of platforms of all sizes over the last few years. When not connecting people with their platforms, Mallory is an avid equestrian and hobby farmer, and also a cat and dog mom