Platform Engineers (ATX) Online Meetup

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How can integrating Backstage, Crossplane and Kyverno create a powerful developer platform? Join Scott Rosenberg to find out how to enhance Backstage’s extensibility with Crossplane’s flexibility.

In this talk, Scott Rosenberg will explore how custom Backstage plugins can bridge the gap between user-friendly interfaces and the robust orchestration capabilities of Crossplane. Join to learn:

- How to build a self-maintained, dynamically updated service catalog that evolves with your infrastructure, serving as a centralized hub for services and resources
- How to make Backstage useful for day 2 operations and for providing end user feedback using tools like Kyverno.
- How to deliver a streamlined developer experience, with policy enforcement and use feedback powered by Kyverno.

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:
Scott Rosenberg - Lead Architect @ TeraSky

Scott Rosenberg is the Lead Architect in the CTO office at TeraSky, where he leads platform engineering and cloud-native initiatives. With over 10 years of experience in cloud and automation, Rosenberg has extensive expertise in both legacy data centers and cutting-edge public cloud technologies. He specializes in bridging the gap between these technologies to help customers navigate the evolving cloud landscape. Rosenberg is also an active participant in the Kubernetes ecosystem, contributing to its growth and adoption.

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Platform engineering emerged in response to the growing complexity of cloud native, but it’s greatest value however is as the foundation of driving the future of AI in the enterprise.

Platform Engineering and Thoughtworks are pleased to invite you to our executive roundtable on how platforms act as the foundation layer for successful AI initiatives.

​We are bringing together a selected group of practitioners (from enterprises like Google, JP Morgan, the NBA and others) to discuss key trends in cloud-native and how you can roll out successful AI initiatives with platform engineering. There will be no presentations or product demos. Bring your stories, good or bad.

​​During this roundtable, we’ll discuss:

• ​​What the latest DORA report and State of AI in Platform Engineering reveal about AI usage (and AI value)
• The crucial symbiotic relationship of AI and platform engineering
• Key take-aways from top performing organizations on how to get real value from AI initiatives using platforms

​​*This is an invite only event. We will confirm your registration right away.
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Speakers:
Rickey Zachary - Global Engineering Platforms Lead @ Thoughtworks
For more than 15 years, Rickey has worked across both the public and private sectors, designing and developing large-scale, mission-critical software systems. He has had the opportunity to contribute to highly secure government agencies and extremely early-stage startups both environments offering unique and interesting challenges that have shaped his career.

Kaspar von Grünberg - CEO @ Humanitec
Kaspar is an early pioneer in platform engineering. Over the last decade he has been building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) at scale, and is responsible for coining the term IDP. A regular speaker on the topic of platform engineering, Kaspar is the author of several associated defining articles. He is also the founder and CEO of Humanitec, the company behind Score and the Platform Orchestrator which is now the centerpiece at the majority of dynamic IDPs.

Eric Maxwell - Practice Lead @ Google, DORA report writer
Eric Maxwell is a technology leader passionate about building high-performing engineering cultures and accelerating software delivery at scale. He currently leads the 10x Technology practice in Google Cloud Consulting, helping global enterprises modernize applications and achieve measurable business outcomes. Eric is also a long-time contributor to the DORA research program.

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This webinar looks to develop strategies for mastering cost-effective AI agent evaluation at scale using stratified sampling, risk-based testing, and multi-stage screening to cut costs while maintaining enterprise-grade quality control.

This webinar will share key insights on AI agent evaluation and highlight how to:

• Cut evaluation costs through stratified sampling across personas and risk-based prioritisation, focusing resources on high-impact, high-variance scenarios rather than exhaustive testing.
• Build progressive evaluation systems using multi-stage screening that catches obvious issues cheaply, then applies deeper evaluation only where needed - balancing "vibes" for content vs rigorous testing for critical processes.
• Implement enterprise-ready observability with OpenTelemetry telemetry, persona coverage maps, and continuous calibration frameworks that adapt as your agentic platform scales and models evolve

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:
Glyn Darkin - Global Head of Delivery @ ClearRoute

Having worked in roles ranging from cold caller, marketer and lead engineer in several start-ups to Chief Architect in a Global SI, Glyn Darkin’s jack-of-all-trades aptitude and engineer’s mindset is a winning combination in his role as Global Head of Delivery. Quick to grasp the most convoluted business issue, he has an impressive track record of using technology to solve client problems. His past achievements include developing an award-winning digital mortgage product for a leading bank, and building TescoEntertainment

Fascinated by AI, Glyn’s current obsession is staying ahead of the sweeping changes it brings. At home, he spends his evenings coding to fully understand how the technology will affect not only ClearRoute’s ways of working, but the types of products and platforms we implement for our customers.

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Discover why CI/CD pipelines weren’t built for today’s testing realities. As AI-driven development accelerates release cycles, traditional CI/CD pipelines are buckling under the weight of automated testing, leading to slower feedback, brittle environments, and rising infrastructure costs.

The truth is, CI/CD was designed for builds and deployments, not large-scale test execution. In this webinar, we’ll unpack why cloud-native leaders are moving beyond legacy pipelines and how purpose-built continuous testing platforms are helping teams achieve both speed and quality.

What attendees will learn during the webinar:

• Understand the architectural limits of CI/CD and how AI-driven development and rapid release cycles expose gaps in scalability, visibility, and reliability.
• Learn how leading engineering orgs unify test insights across tools, eliminate flaky environments with Kubernetes-native approaches, and cut infrastructure costs through smarter resource allocation.
• Discover how purpose-built continuous testing platforms, designed for speed, scale, and AI-enhanced delivery, are redefining how teams balance quality with velocity.

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Speaker:
Ole Lensmar - CTO @ Testkube

Ole started building with XML APIs in the late 90s and has since then worked with multiple technologies and startups, most notably as creator of SoapUI in 2004 and Chairman of the Swagger / OpenAPI Initiative in 2015. He joined Testkube at its inception in 2021 and is now entirely focused on ensuring its success at bringing continuous testing to the cloud-native space. When not at his laptop he can be found playing a guitar or riding a bike, but rarely both at the same time.