Roundtables

Platform Engineering Executive Roundtable during Microsoft Ignite, Chicago

November 20, 2024

4:00 pm

CET

EDT

45 min

2hrs

Bi-weekly

Platform engineering has emerged in response to the growing complexity of cloud native and the challenge of scaling DevOps to the enterprise.

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Thoughtworks and Humanitec are pleased to invite you to our executive roundtable on the impact of platform engineering in Chicago.

We are bringing together a selected group of practitioners (from enterprises like McDonald’s, Boeing, Target, Mondelez International and others) to discuss key trends in platform engineering and how you can roll out a successful platform engineering initiative. There will be no presentations or product demos. Bring your stories, good or bad.

During this roundtable, we’ll discuss:

Blueprints distilled from looking at 100s of platform setups to design your Internal Developer Platform to be truly enterprise ready and secure
What is the impact of platform engineering done right on your time to market
How to measure ROI of your Internal Developer Platform
Minimum Viable Platforms, platform orchestration and other key trends in platform engineering

** This is an invite only event. We will confirm your registration right away.

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Rickey Zachary

Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, Cloud Native Tooling, and FinOps @ Thoughtworks

For more than 15 years, Rickey has worked across both the public and private sectors, designing and developing large-scale, mission-critical software systems. He has had the opportunity to contribute to highly secure government agencies and extremely early-stage startups—both environments offering unique and interesting challenges that have shaped his career.

Currently, Rickey is working at Thoughtworks, where he focuses on helping digital scale-ups and startups identify and resolve bottlenecks and areas of friction on their growth journeys. He has collaborated with clients across multiple domains, with a particular focus on architecture, developer effectiveness, engineering platforms, and organizational transformation.