Join us at our next in-person Tech Leadership meetup. There will be drinks and snacks to kickoff the evening.

The event will be hosted at the Bash offices in Century City, Cape Town.

**The agenda for the evening will be as follows:**
17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival: Drinks and snacks.
18:00 - 18:15 - Introduction and house rules.
18:15 - 19:00 - Main speaker - Tristan Joseph.
19:00 - 19:30 - Networking and wrap-up.

**Topic of Main Talk** \- Modern Retail Meets Legacy Systems: Innovating In\-Store Tech

In this session, we'll explore how StoreTech is reimagining in-store retail experiences while deeply integrated with legacy infrastructure. We'll unpack real-world challenges and solutions around:

1. Interfacing with Legacy POS: How we've modernized physical card-present payment flows by building an MQTT-based Agent Management Service, acting as a bridge between legacy OneX POS, on-prem agents, and cloud-native systems.

2\. The Next Frontier – Unified Cart and Checkout: A look at upcoming complexities as we evolve toward a hybrid commerce engine—one that supports mixed baskets\, combining online and in\-store stock\, sales\, and returns\.

Expect practical takeaways from our journey toward modular, event-driven systems—all while living in the real world of legacy constraints and ambitious retail transformation.

Tristan Joseph is an Engineering Manager at Bash, leading the StoreTech team focused on building modern in-store retail experiences. His team works like a small labs group, exploring new and emerging technologies while integrating with complex legacy systems. With a product-led mindset and a background across startups and enterprise, Tristan is passionate about creating practical, engaging tech that makes a real impact in South African retail

**Thank you to our sponsors Peach Payments, MoonPay, and OfferZen**

[Peach Payments](https://www.peachpayments.com/) make online commerce and digital payment acceptance easier and more accessible across all Africa. We believe in the potential of Africa and aim to grow into more countries. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, we work with small and large merchants in South Africa, Kenya and Mauritius to provide a complete toolkit to accept, manage and disburse payments through web and mobile. Our merchant partners include your favourite food delivery services, whether you are ordering in or using a meal kit, travel services that can help you book your next getaway adventure and even your neighbour’s side-hustle e-commerce store. For these partners and their customers, we aim to provide brilliant experiences that make it as easy as possible to facilitate online payments.

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[MoonPay](https://www.moonpay.com/) believes in building a world where you own your digital future, giving you control of your identity, money, property and data.
We are the market leader in end-to-end solutions simplifying access to the crypto economy for 20M+ people across 180+ countries, and trusted by iconic global brands including wallets, marketplaces, exchanges and leading web2 enterprises.

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[OfferZen](https://www.offerzen.com/) is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.

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