Team Toplogies :
21. Juli 2022
Frankfurt am Main
Re-think and re-fuel your organization’s flow inspired by forward-thinking peers and experts!
Every company is now a software company and face ever-changing customer demands. This means that flow in software development impacts every aspect of the business. The challenge for leaders is around improving team dynamics and delivery flow to help their IT teams meet demands.
Our guests had the opportunity to share insights, trends, best practices and successful use cases between a selected group of technology and other leaders who are engaged in a digitalization journey. They also enjoyed to network and to socialize with peers.
Team Topologies
Valtech, Contentful and commercetools have partnered with Matthew Skelton, the award-winning author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow, to discuss the key ideas around organisation dynamics and technology teams for fast flow. Matthew Skelton provided practical advice and adaptive models for organisational design and team interaction that can be applied immediately across every team, department and organisation.
Breakout sessions
To catch the audience’s reflections on the session we later on discussed some predefined topics in the Breakout Sessions.
- Devops at Scale
- Business Agility
- From Legacy to Fast Moving Tech
- Commerce Flow
Agenda
- 15.30 Arrival and Welcome Session
- 16.00 Keynote "Team Topologies" presented by Matthew Skelton (remote)
- 17.00 Panel Discussion
- 17.45 Breakout Sessions
- 18.30 Dinner and drinks on the rooftop terrace
- 19.30 Networking
- 21.30 End of Event
Exclusive, invite-only event
This exclusive event was highly recommended for CIOs, CTOs, CPOs, Heads of Departments or any leader running large scale digital projects who is looking for guidance around collaborative processes and systems for efficient and effective delivery.
Keynote (remote)
Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and techno logy teams for fast flow. Recognised by TechBeacon in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps, Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com. He is Head of Consulting at Conflux and specialises in Continuous Delivery, operability, and organisation dynamics for modern software systems.
Panel discussion
Following Matthew Skelton's insights, we have hosted a panel discussion with various interesting guests, as follows:
Marnix Lannoije, Head of Department E/E Systems Engineering, Schmitz Cargobull AG
Marnix has worked for various companies such as Tyco Electronics, Audi AG or Flander’s MAKE. In the meantime, he could gather more than 20 years of experience in electronics and automotive engineering. Since 2019, Lannix is the Head of E/E System Engineering Product at Schmitz Cargobull AG while also leading the Product Line Digital Services at Cargobull Telematics GmbH.
Dr. Martin Strunk, Tech Lead Curbside Management & BizDevOps Evangelist, DB Systel
Martin has been working for more than 22 years in different expert and management roles in development and operations at DB Systel, the digital partner of Deutsche Bahn AG. In 2018 he initiated and lead the DevOps-Transformation Project “Two Deployments per Day (2D/d)” at DB Systel, where the technical, organizational and cultural foundations for a DevOps IT delivery model have been created. Currently, Martin works as an Agility Master in the corporate venture “DB Curbside Management” where a joint BizDevOps-team builds and runs a SaaS-solution for cities, who need to manage and orchestrate their public space for sharing mobility. He also works as a strategic consultant and DevOps-Evangelist
Kristin (Montag) Brown, Head of Partnerships EMEA & Asia, Contentful
Kristin has more than 15 years of experience in the tech industry in various sales, partner management, product management, marketing as well as leadership roles. At Contentful, she is leading Partnerships in EMEA and Asia. With her team, she is responsible for building a partner ecosystem that enables businesses to build digital experiences based on composable architectures. She is passionate about innovative technologies and their use to create efficiencies and growth.
André Menegazzi, Head of Sales Central Europe, commercetools
André is responsible for commercetools' sales activities in EMEA. He has more than 15 years of experience in selling Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions both in multichannel e-commerce and the media industry.
Host and Moderator : Dirk Lässig, Head of Transformation Consulting, Valtech
Dirk is an agile coach, software engineer and digital consultant at Valtech. He has worked throughout the software lifecycle as a software engineer, software systems architect, team lead, business analyst and enterprise IT architect delivering major software systems. Today, Dirk is leading the transformation consulting practice in Germany working across EMEA.