Impact London with Pat Kua at Signal AI

Following on from our excellent first meetup, we're planning to keep the quality sky high with our second instalment. On Wednesday 4th March, we've got talks from Patrick Kua (renowned author, leader and frequent keynote speaker) and Hugo Firth (Tech lead at Signal AI). Reshma Shaikh (Chief of Staff to the COO at Springer Nature) will also join our panel, adding an operational viewpoint to the discussion.

Agenda
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We're sticking to the same format as our first event, with two excellent speakers followed by a panel discussion.

18:30 - Snacks, Drinks and Networking
19:00 - Talks + Q & A
20:00 - Panel Discussion
20:30 - More Networking
21:00 - Finish

Talks and Panel
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Building Evolutionary Architectures - Patrick Kua

In our industry, one of the only guarantees is change. Many of today’s tools, technologies, and business models will soon cease to exist, only to be replaced by newer ones. Architects face the challenge of planning for today’s systems knowing that the problems of tomorrow will be completely different from the problems of today. Evolutionary architecture is an architectural approach that prioritises change as a first principle but balances this need with delivering value early.

About the Author:

Patrick Kua is a seasoned technology leader with almost 20 years of experience. His personal passion is accelerating the growth and success of tech organisations and technical leaders. He has had many years of hands-on experience, leading, managing and improving complex organisations and software systems as the CTO and Chief Scientist of N26 (Berlin, Germany) and as a Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is a frequent keynote and conference speaker, author of three books including The Retrospective Handbook, Talking with Tech Leads and Building Evolutionary Architectures and runs the popular newsletter for leaders in tech, “Level Up” (http://levelup.patkua.com/). You can find him online on twitter as @patkua or running his very popular “Tech Lead Skills for Developers” workshop around the world.

Everyone makes decisions - Hugo Firth

In an autonomous team we want everybody making decisions all of the time - UX, product managers, engineers, data scientists. What practices, processes and patterns can we use to help share context and knowledge to empower the whole team to quickly and confident make decisions themselves? Is fast feedback the key to building this shared understanding?

About the Author:

Hugo is a full-stack engineer with Signal AI where he spends his days building the News Monitoring product. The product is powered by a number of services primarily written in JavaScript and Clojure with a complicated web of dependencies. In previous roles at uSwitch and ThoughtWorks Australia he's experienced most mainstream languages and architectures.

Panel Discussion

Patrick & Hugo will be joined by Reshma to discuss how feedback links back to the themes of Impact. As with previous events, our panel chair Emily Bremner (VC of Operations & Ecosystem at Signal AI) will facilitate the conversation.

About Reshma Shaikh:
Reshma Shaikh is the Chief of Staff to the COO at Springer Nature, the second largest academic publisher in the world. She is responsible for driving business operations, internal communications, organisational health and planning, and execution of strategically significant initiatives in support of the COO’s agenda.

Who is this for?
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Engineers, engineering managers, product managers, UX researchers, UI designers, data scientists; Anyone interested in delivering true business impact.