About us
The Confluence is a peer group for people around the Twin Cities who are responsible for getting software and technology work out the door and into the real world.
There are already plenty of (great!) groups in town for specific tools, coding topics, vendor talks, and getting a bunch of tech people into the same brewery for a couple hours. There's nothing wrong with all that but this isn’t meant to be another one of those groups.
Most of our events will be small, invite-based dinners built around specific topics.
The mix of attendees will be kept intentionally small and relevant so the conversations have a real chance to be useful. Peer discussions vs. sales presentations.
Upcoming event discussion topics include:
- Product execution
- Engineering capacity
- Modernization
- Cloud complexity
- Technical debt
- Data and platform bottlenecks
- AI pressure
- Vendor decisions
- Roadmap tradeoffs
- The systems that help teams ship
- The systems that somehow manage to make everything more difficult
The group is open to people working across software, product, platform, data, and technology delivery. Practitioners are absolutely welcome.
However, most of the conversations are going to be geared toward folks who have a level of responsibility for the roadmap, the team, the architecture, the execution, the operational outcome, or some combination of all of it.
The basic idea is pretty simple: get people in a room who are responsible for moving software work forward and have useful conversations about what makes that work easier, slower, more expensive, more political, more complicated, or occasionally all of the above at the same time.
Facilitated by John Thorstad from Tarmac.io
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