Yorkshire DevOps - March 2025 - Financial Conduct Authority - Leeds

Yorkshire DevOps will be hosted by Financial Conduct Authority for our March 2025 event.

You can find our code of conduct over at yorkshiredevops.dev

Please be aware with have limited capacity at this event and there will be a waitlist. Please, please only RSVP if can definitely make it and remove your RSVP if your plans change.

Speakers:

Matthew Skelton - CEO at Conflux / Co-author of Team Topologies

Platform Engineering done well: innovation, efficiency, market advantage

How can organizations get the full benefits from the discipline of Platform Engineering, popularized by the book ‘Team Topologies’?
The book ‘Team Topologies’ gave a bold new mission to platform engineering: accelerate the flow of value by reducing cognitive load for other teams. The days of slow, bloated, technology-centric platforms are in the past; now, with the fast flow lens provided by Team Topologies, platform engineers have a vital role to play in shaping innovation, operational efficiency, and driving market advantage for the entire organization.

By applying product thinking and fast flow principles to internal platforms of all kinds - technology (cloud, data, AI), but also wikis, how-to guides, and even physical resources - platform engineering teams can act as a force multiplier to detect and anticipate opportunities for first-class shared services.

However, it’s vital that platform engineering efforts pay attention to the social aspects of innovation and knowledge diffusion as part of their work, so that innovations are harvested at the optimal time via “recommoning”. Using techniques like Adapt Together™ and Enabling teams (from ‘Team Topologies’), platform engineering organizations can elevate their role within the organization from mere technologists to drivers of significant business value.

Ethan Sumner, Head of Cloud and AI @ Synyega

Here it is:

Internal DevRel: Building Technical communities that scale

DevRel isn't just external; it's a game changer for internal teams. This talk explores how organisations can build internal DevRel programs to improve engineering efficiency, knowledge sharing and AI adoption.

Timings (approx):

17:45 - Arrivals and Networking
18:10 - Welcome and introductions
18:20 - First speaker
19:05 - Break
19:10 - Second speaker
19:55 - Close
20:00 - Venue closes