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Oliver and Whynde are joined by David Rees (new to Enterprise Architecture) and Eric Jager author of Getting Started with Enterprise Architecture - for a discussion of the book. You can get the book from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Enterprise-Architecture-Practical/dp/1484298578/ or directly from Springer https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-9858-9 Do refer to Eric's website for additional information about his book, reviews and testimonials, the Enterprise Architecture Implementation Wheel, and his blogs: https://eawheel.com 0:00 Introductions 3:04 - 3:37 Unboxing 19:38 - 21:04 Chapter 8 of the book 36:36 - 38:07 What's your advice 43:04 - 43:49 Key take-aways

Oliver got Chris Booth and Charles Phiri back along with Peter Gostev who has recently moved to a Head of AI role at Moonpig to discuss recent developments in the AI space. They discuss recent developments in AI, with a focus on new models like AlphaGeometry, GraphCast, and Mixtral. The participants also discuss benchmarking of models, prompting frameworks like LangChain and LangGraph, security issues like prompt injection attacks, integrating AI capabilities into enterprise architectures, prompt engineering. data architecture etc! They talk about the need to treat AI systems more like humans in terms of governance, testing, and managing unpredictability. A wide-ranging conversation touching on many aspects of AI progress and challenges. Peter also fills us in on his various AI exploits and research into the security and safeguards of popular GenAI models as mentioned on his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-gostev/

For more detailed show notes please see the YouTube version of this episode.

Penny Townsend and Oliver recap 2023 in 20 minutes, covering a range of topics (naturally including AI which is one prediction we definitely got right last time around!), but also data, working patterns, sustainability and more. We look at what we got right and wrong (also using some assistance from Claude.ai) from our previous predictions for 2023 video which you can find here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBgxc_qdGZU (and also on the audio Architect Tomorrow podcast). So what do transformation leaders and technology architects need to be thinking about as we move into 2024? What can be planned for / pre-empted? What trends do we see continuing? What will change? Less uncertainty than before? More coming in the next episode that will land in early January but this gives you a starting point. Here are the longer summaries that I mentioned on the call but didn't talk through all of: So as I said amusingly (given how much we talked about the impact of GenAI in 2023!) I’ve got the pro version of Claude to create a summary of what we covered last year (and also to recap some wikipedia content about 2023 as well: The key technology predictions made by the panellists included: A continued focus on large language models like GPT-3 and the need to address issues around intellectual property, education, and ethics related to AI. Increased consideration of sustainability in technology decisions, but a lack of concrete data and standardised metrics to truly measure impact. Risk of superficial "greenwashing" without these. Potential refocusing on some technology basics like open source software, data management, and integration amid the hype around concepts like the metaverse and web3. Legacy systems presenting growing costs and security risks that may finally drive some modernization in 2023 after years of deferral. An explosion of APIs requiring more API management discipline and event-driven architectural approaches to rationalise and integrate APIs. Greater constraints on resources (financial, labour, geopolitical) forcing a ruthlessness and focus on efficiency in technology spending and making companies show their "true colours". So in summary, a mix of revisiting some technology fundamentals while also addressing emerging issues like sustainability and the responsible use of AI. AI and Large Language Models Discussion around intellectual property, education, and ethical considerations with the rise of models like GPT-3. Potential need to rethink IP laws, fair use, and what skills should be focused on in education. Sustainability Growing consideration of sustainability in technology, but gaps remain around concrete data and measurement. Risk of "greenwashing" without standardized ESG metrics. Climate change driving very real business impacts that may spur change. People and Culture The "great resignation" and its effect on the workforce. Concerns around inequality, mental health, purpose and trust in public institutions. Predictions around increased constraints financially and on resources in 2023. Technology Hype around concepts like metaverse and web3 vs refocusing on technology basics like open source, data, integration. Legacy system costs and security risks driving some modernization. API explosion requiring more API management and event driven approaches. Technology Advances in AI lead to major international summit at Bletchley Park on managing risks. But deepfake audio and imagery also starts being used in harassment and scams. NHS COVID tracing app is discontinued. Vaccines become available commercially with age limits raised. Business Multiple retailers like Wilko go into administration leading to store closures and job losses. But some brands get rescued or reopen. Strikes heavily impact sectors like rail, leading to deal between

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Join Oliver Cronk in this captivating episode of Architect Tomorrow as he engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Faiz Hussain, an expert in design and innovation for both corporates and start-ups. Faiz takes us on a journey through his career in technology and design, sharing valuable insights on corporate innovation and highlighting its potential for success compared to start-ups. Dive into the culture of innovation and transformation within a prominent big 4 consultancy, while also exploring the concept of "Bullsh1t jobs" and the immune system that can hinder corporate change. Don't miss this enlightening discussion that offers fresh perspectives on the intersection of innovation, design, and corporate landscapes. Tune in to this episode of Architect Tomorrow and gain valuable insights from a seasoned professional who has navigated the world of corporate innovation and design, shedding light on its challenges, triumphs, and the importance of fostering a culture of innovation. Check out Faiz website here: https://faiz.design/

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The latest episode of Architect Tomorrow, featuring an incredible all-female panel! Get ready to dive into the Whynde Kuehn's remarkable book, "Strategy to Reality."

Join us as Lisa Woodall, Catherine Pratt, and Oliver talk with Whynde to share their personal experiences in enterprise, business architecture, and technology transformation initiatives.

Discover the insights, inspiration, and valuable perspectives brought forth in this relaxed and engaging discussion. From discussing the book to shedding light on Women in Architecture, this episode promises to be a must-listen for architects and strategists.

More on the book and where to buy it: https://bizarchmastery.com/strategy-reality-whynde-kuehn

Women in Architecture: https://thewomeninarchitecture.org/

Follow Whynde on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whynde-kuehn/

Check out Lisa on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-woodall-6220445/ and her Blog is here: https://whatevernext.home.blog/

Catherine is on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinepratt/and Oliver is on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cronky/ #ArchitectTomorrow #StrategyToReality #WomenInArchitecture #BusinessArchitecture #TransformationInitiatives

What components or attributes are needed in Enterprise Architecture for ML? Beyond MLOps - how do we risk manage the deployment and integration of AI/ML into our organisations. In particular the latest generation of LLM type models?

What are the architectural and risk challenges of deploying Generative AI into enterprises? In this episode we get into the details of what is needed to deploy and integrate LLMs such as GPT safely and scalably within organisations.

We welcome Chris Hodson back to the channel after 2 years! We catch up with what he has been up to and what is top of mind for him in his CISO role. 

We covered topics including: 

- What are the key things CISOs and Security Architects need to be focussing on right now (particularly in a time of cost constraints 

- How technical does a CISO need to be? 

- How do you get on top of data and privacy related security challenges? 

- How to manage the latest round of regulations and compliance challenges?  Chris's first episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAV2JiL4_Bc has been incredibly popular 

- it's no wonder as he is such an articulate and knowledgeable speaker on cybersecurity!  

Links: https://cybersecuritymatters.blog/

Web 3 Security resources that Chris mentioned: https://github.com/Anugrahsr/Awesome-web3-Security

Security Architect to CISO - Chris Hodson on his career journey and advice on cybersecurity roles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAV2JiL4_Bc 

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Serverless Computing - Sustainability and Architectural considerations. 

Oliver talks to Daniel Bass CTO and Co-Founder of Zeti (a clean vehicle financing start up) about effective Serverless Computing.  

Daniel gives a quick background of his career in Financial Services and then at Zeti. 

Talks about what Zeti do (and why he is so passionate about it) 

Goes on to cover how mad it is to run traditional servers all the time 

Then we talk about effective Serverless Architectural thinking and the architecture transformation needed to really take advantage of cloud native.  

https://zeti.co.uk/ 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763422001129

Confidential Computing and the future of the shared responsibility model. 

In this cloud native security architecture episode of #ArchitectTomorrow Oliver talks to Christophe Parisel and Pete Chamberlain.  

We start with a state of the nation on Cloud Security in 2023 and then move into different layers of Trusted Computing and then explore confidential computing and the impact it has on the shared responsibility model.  

Do check out Christophe on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parisel/

#ArchitectTomorrow community returns for the traditional 2 part look back and look ahead for the 3rd year running! This is a very natural unscripted honest conversation across tech, business and society about the year we've just had.  We look back at 2022 in review - considering what predictions we got right and wrong, what was unexpected and what were the stand out tech changes we experienced. What has stood out to each of us individually and within our business this year. We including things such as the first practical applications of Quantum technologies, Event Driven Architecture and Cloud hitting their stride, experiments with metaverse and of course AI and ML gets quite a lot of discussion.

Sally Pritchard - an Architect Tomorrow regular also returns for the 3rd time and Tom returns from the 2021 predictions video. Emma Taylor the founder of Chief Disruptor joins alongside regular host Oliver Cronk now the Technology Director at Scott Logic

Last year we asked if predictions are dead. A case in point of this is we would never have imagined there would be a significant war in Europe. This has been heart-breaking but it has also created the biggest shocks and knock on impacts of the year. Added to labour challenges this has pushed us into energy price fuelled inflation. Which in turn is getting us all to think about our energy usage a lot more.  

Do join the discussion on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12351004/

Oliver talked to Ben McCarthy founder of SalesForce Ben in London to talk about the origin story of SF Ben and his take on the Salesforce ecosystem.  NOTE! This episode was recorded earlier in 2022 when Oliver was still working for Tanium (he is now at Scott Logic). Oliver touches on Tanium a couple of times in this episode but Architect Tomorrow is no longer supported / sponsored by Tanium.  

You can check out SFBen here: https://www.salesforceben.com/

Oliver talked to Ted Neward in March 2022 about a wide range of Software Engineering career related topics. From career progression into Leadership, management and architecture (and the difference between them) to DevOps and Agile. Ted has a great voice and experiences to listen to - so whilst this is a longer episode than usual it's full of great insight and I'm confident you'll want to listen to the end! Note that there is some mild swearing in this episode. If you'd like to see this as a video podcast you can find it on YouTube on the Architect Tomorrow channel.  

You can find Ted Neward on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedneward/

If you'd like to be part of a future podcast or the #ArchitectTomorrow community go to the LinkedIn group here:  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12351004/

Mina Frost returns and joins Sanjay Joshi and Oliver Cronk to discuss the HealthTech 150, diversity in healthcare and the intersection of tech and medicine.  A fascinating conversation on how medicines and treatments could be transformed by technology and the impacts and considerations.  Whether you are a layperson or a medical professional this episode is very thought provoking!

In 2022 Enterprise Architecture is (arguably) facing yet another existential crisis. How do we move on from the rather inward focussed navel gazing and make progress on standardisation and professionalisation? So that we can really focus on delivering value for our organisations.  This Business Technology Strategy & Architecture Podcast Mash up of the below podcasts really explores what we need to do in order to make pragmatic progress on the professionalisation of Enterprise, Business and Technology Architects  

Architect Tomorrow - https://youtube.com/ArchitectTomorrow/  Business Architecture Straight Talk https://bit.ly/st-podcasts / https://bizarchmastery.com/straighttalk  Consultants Saying Things - https://www.consultantssayingthings.com  The Argument by IASA - https://iasaglobal.org/Public/Connect... Tech After Five - https://www.techafterfive.com/ Standardising the Architecture profession is too big a topic for one episode or even one podcast (or one book author for that matter!)  

Whilst Oliver Cronk leader of Architect Tomorrow hosted this second mashup episode with Paul Preiss (CEO IASA), Chris Lockhart (CST), Whynde Kuehn (Straight Talk), Phil Yanov (Tech After Five and CST) the next episode will get picked up by one of the other podcast hosts. Chris Potts of CHRIS POTTS ONLINE mentoring (and author of the Fruition Trilogy of books) joined us as well and we hope he can join us for some of the future episodes too!  Massive thanks for everyone's time and sense of humour during this recording! Find us on LinkedIn with the hashtag #ArchitectTomorrow to continue the conversation!

In 2022 Enterprise Architecture is (arguably) facing yet another existential crisis. How do we move on from the rather inward focussed navel gazing and make progress on standardisation and professionalisation? So that we can really focus on delivering value for our organisations.  This Business Technology Strategy & Architecture Podcast Mash up of the below podcasts really explores what we need to do in order to make pragmatic progress on the professionalisation of Enterprise, Business and Technology Architects  

Architect Tomorrow - https://youtube.com/ArchitectTomorrow/  Business Architecture Straight Talk https://bit.ly/st-podcasts / https://bizarchmastery.com/straighttalk  Consultants Saying Things - https://www.consultantssayingthings.com  The Argument by IASA - https://iasaglobal.org/Public/Connect/THE-ARGUMENT/Public/Events/TheArgument.aspxTech After Five - https://www.techafterfive.com/ 

Standardising the Architecture profession is too big a topic for one episode or even one podcast (or one book author for that matter!)  

Whilst Oliver Cronk leader of Architect Tomorrow hosted this first mashup episode with Paul Preiss (CEO IASA), Chris Lockhart (CST), Whynde Kuehn (Straight Talk), Phil Yanov (Tech After Five and CST) the next episode will get picked up by one of the other podcast hosts. Chris Potts of CHRIS POTTS ONLINE mentoring (and author of the Fruition Trilogy of books) joined us as well and we hope he can join us for some of the future episodes too!  

Massive thanks for everyone's time and sense of humour during this recording - so look out for the next episode where we start to dive into this topic. And as always if you'd like to join the conversation please do find us on LinkedIn with the #ArchitectTomorrow hashtag.

Oliver Cronk spoke to an all female panel about what they see coming in 2022 in terms of business, tech and society. Sally Pritchard (Ordnance Survey) returns but also introducing Jessie Bland (Harvard) and Whynde Kuehn (S2E Transformation) to the community to discuss what we need to think about as we move into 2022.

00:18 Harvard Tech Trends Report 01:18 Every business is a tech business 01:45 Technical Debt 02:01 Subcultures 03:02 Future regulation 03:42 Oliver's take on tech debt 06:55 Product over Project? 09:51 Regulation 12:20 COP26 related regulation 13:00 Driving sustainability into business 15:18 Electric Vehicles & Scandinavia 17:18 Public and Private Sector Partnership 18:28 Sustainability from consumer to cloud 22:09 Ethics and mental health impact 22:34 Product Manager data and ethical considerations 26:08 AI going bad isn't Terminator it's lots of small failings? 26:48 Mindset shifts 27:43 New definition of business 28:35 Online safety bill - Ofcom 29:44 Global vs Local communities 31:05 Metaverse 34:31 Metaverse Business opportunity vs society change 35:45 Metaverse as a solution for unsustainable living?! 36:42 Winners and losers of metaverse 41:15 Hopes for 2022 and are predictions dead?

Oliver Cronk spoke to an all female panel about what they see coming in 2022 in terms of business, tech and society. Sally Pritchard (Ordnance Survey) returns but also introducing Jessie Bland (Harvard) and Whynde Kuehn (S2E Transformation) to the community to discuss what we need to think about as we move into 2022.  This first part recaps 2021 before we dive into 2022 in the next episode.

Chris Lockhart (of Consultants Saying Things) talks about his journey into Enterprise Architecture and Architecture consulting.  Part of our Architect Interview series. Get in touch if you'd like to be a part of the Architect Tomorrow series.

Note there may be a small amount of swearing in this episode.

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