Speakers: Andrew Harmel-Law, Diana Montalion, Mike Rozinsky, Gayathri Thiyagarajan and Dan Young

This year we’ve architected an alternative approach to the keynote at DDD Europe. We’ve designed an opening session that aims to spark connection, as well as welcome participation, ideas, and conversation as everyone comes together at the beginning of the conference.

Meet Andrew. As an architect Andrew thinks a lot about architecture. Mostly he thinks about how irrelevant architecture is if it doesn’t get shipped to production. He worries a lot too. He worries about how to help all the teams he’s supposed to be helping, without slowing them down, getting in their way, or making their lives harder rather than easier.

Andrew’s worries have led him to explore the potential offered by a different mindset; one that tells a different story about the role of "Architects", while bringing the practice of "Architecture" to the fore.

As you learn about this practice of doing architecture, we’ll invite you to reflect on the meaning of this to you, and to share your own thoughts and ideas. You’ll also have the opportunity to discuss things with others if you want to.

We’ll be asking questions like, ‘How can everyone contribute to architecture, without things reducing to chaos?’, ‘How might this succeed or fail in my context?’, and ‘How might we improve these ideas?’

During the session Andrew, Diana and Gayathri will bring their own reflections and perspectives into the attendee-wide conversation, as Dan and Mike manage the process for everyone in the room.