About us
Welcome to the Wellington Architects Forum, a community for technology architects, aspiring architects, and anyone interested in building a career in technology architecture.
Whether you're an Enterprise, Solution, Integration, Security, Data, Cloud, Digital or Domain Architect (or something else entirely), you'll find people here facing similar challenges, opportunities, and questions. Building architects are welcome too, but you may find the conversation gets technical/boring pretty quickly 😄.
We're a technology and vendor-neutral community focused on sharing experiences, learning from each other, building professional networks, and having open and honest conversations about architecture, strategy, delivery, and careers.
The forum welcomes people at all stages of their careers, from experienced practitioners through to those just starting their architecture journey or considering architecture as a future career path.
With Mike's move to Aussie, the community is now being led by Pete and Georgina. Like any community, we rely on our members to keep things vibrant and relevant.
We're always looking for:
- Speakers willing to share lessons learned and real-world experiences
- Suggestions for topics you'd like to see covered
- Recommendations for great speakers from New Zealand and beyond
- Organisations willing to host events
- People who simply want to join the discussion and expand their professional network
- Volunteers to help with leading the group
As the name suggests we're Wellington-based, but our members come from across New Zealand.
Join us on:
Featured event
The Organisation as Code
Guest speaker: Chris Barlow! Chris Barlow | LinkedIn
Chris is currently Architecture Practice Manager at MSD as well as Regional Ambassador for Agentics NZ.
Chris' approach combines architecture practitioner depth with entrepreneurial and innovative flair. This should be a fascinating session - join us for a lively discussion and the usual opportunity to network with fellow tech strategists!
Today's orgs mostly run on knowledge in people's heads, diagrams that go out of date and approval steps designed for a different pace.
While technology is changing faster than at any point in our careers, the slow part is no longer doing the work. The bottleneck shifted to the edges. The work itself is fast; deciding what to do and signing off what was done or not, and most organisations aren't built to speed up either end.
The roles are blurring too. Engineering, design, product and analysis are collapsing into each other as everyone works with agents. Almost nobody is planning for what that means, and we need to rethink what architecture is for when the work no longer divides up the way our org charts assume.
I would rather show something working than describe it, so I've been using my own projects as a test bed. I hold an organisation as a live model rather than a set of diagrams. I capture the facts once and let the approval documents write themselves. Our local Agentics NZ community demonstrated a distributed swarm infrastructure that proved maths theorems at scale with nothing behind it but a git repository.
In this talk I'll share what those experiments have taught me, what they mean for how organisations need to change, and where that leaves the role of architecture.
Upcoming events
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The Organisation as Code
Deloitte Wellington, Level 12/20 Customhouse Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Wellington, NZGuest speaker: Chris Barlow! Chris Barlow | LinkedIn
Chris is currently Architecture Practice Manager at MSD as well as Regional Ambassador for Agentics NZ.
Chris' approach combines architecture practitioner depth with entrepreneurial and innovative flair. This should be a fascinating session - join us for a lively discussion and the usual opportunity to network with fellow tech strategists!Today's orgs mostly run on knowledge in people's heads, diagrams that go out of date and approval steps designed for a different pace.
While technology is changing faster than at any point in our careers, the slow part is no longer doing the work. The bottleneck shifted to the edges. The work itself is fast; deciding what to do and signing off what was done or not, and most organisations aren't built to speed up either end.
The roles are blurring too. Engineering, design, product and analysis are collapsing into each other as everyone works with agents. Almost nobody is planning for what that means, and we need to rethink what architecture is for when the work no longer divides up the way our org charts assume.
I would rather show something working than describe it, so I've been using my own projects as a test bed. I hold an organisation as a live model rather than a set of diagrams. I capture the facts once and let the approval documents write themselves. Our local Agentics NZ community demonstrated a distributed swarm infrastructure that proved maths theorems at scale with nothing behind it but a git repository.
In this talk I'll share what those experiments have taught me, what they mean for how organisations need to change, and where that leaves the role of architecture.
57 attendees
Past events
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