DECEMBER 9 - 12, 2024 CLEARWATER, FL 78 SESSIONS

THE SESSIONS

Name: ArchConf
Start: 2024-12-09T08:00-0500
End: 2024-12-12T14:30-0500
Location: Opal Sands Resort

Four days of deep, practitioner-led technical sessions — agentic AI, architecture patterns, security, cloud, and the craft of being an architect. No fluff, no vendor pitches.

01 / SESSION CATALOG

Adam Tornhill

FOUNDER OF CODESCENE & AUTHOR OF "YOUR CODE AS A CRIME SCENE"

03 SESSIONS

01 Benchmarking Code Quality Excellence: Gain the Competitive Edge → 02 The productivity trap: Meet the perils and promises of AI-assisted coding → 03 Treat your code as a crime scene →

Adi Polak

DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY AND DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE ENGINEERING, CONFLUENT

03 SESSIONS

01 Mastering the Art of Streaming Infrastructure → 02 Mastering the Art of Streaming Infrastructure → 03 How Do You Get AI Into Production? →

Venkat Subramaniam

FOUNDER @ AGILE DEVELOPER, INC.

11 SESSIONS

01 Communication Patterns for Distributed Architectures → 02 Designing for Resilience and Scale → 03 Impact of Asynchronous Communication on Scalability → 04 Monoliths or Microservices? → 05 Patterns for Microservices → 06 Qualities of a Highly Effective Architect → 07 Seven Essential Practices for Effectively Maintaining Microservices → 08 ADRs: The Why and How → 09 Applying Design Patterns → 10 Creating Evolutionary Architecture → 11 Role (not Title) of an Architect in an Agile Team →

Jeremy Deane

DIRECTOR OF ARCHITECTURE

04 SESSIONS

01 Architecture Documentation DOCUMENTATION → 02 Architecture Trade-offs ARCHITECTURE → 03 Architecture Resiliency HIGH AVAILABILITY → 04 Technology Innovation Diffusion INNOVATION →

Daniel Hinojosa

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

07 SESSIONS

01 Architectural Patterns Focus: EventDriven Architecture & Messaging EVENT SOURCING → 02 Event Driven Architecture EDA → 03 Architectural Patterns Focus: Data PINOT → 04 Architectural Patterns Focus: Security SASL → 05 Architectural Patterns Focus: Transactions TRANSACTIONS → 06 Architectural Patterns Focus: Fault Tolerance ARCHITECTURE → 07 From DDD to Delivery DDD →

Rohit Bhardwaj

DIRECTOR OF ARCHITECTURE, EXPERT IN CLOUD-NATIVE SOLUTIONS

07 SESSIONS

01 ChatGPT for Software Architects & Developers 2025 — Build Agentic, Secure AI CHATGPT → 02 Enterprise Architecture 2026–2028: AI-Native, Agentic & Governed ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE → 03 Resilient Cloud Architecture Design Patterns CLOUD → 04 AI-Enhanced Big Data: Integrating Private LLMs and Vector Databases AI IN BIG DATA → 05 Revolutionizing Design: ChatGPT's Role in Next-Generation Software Architecture → 06 Mastering Microservices: A Seven-Step Process → 07 Graph Mastery to AI: : Unleashing the Power of Connections →

Raju Gandhi

FOUNDER, DEFMACRO SOFTWARE

03 SESSIONS

01 Documenting your architecture → 02 Measuring your architecture → 03 Modular Monoliths: A happy middle ARCHITECTURE →

Pratik Patel

DEVELOPER ADVOCATE @ AZUL SYSTEMS

01 SESSIONS

01 Serverless and Cloud Function Architecture →

Michael Carducci

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT & MAGICIAN

09 SESSIONS

01 Agile Architecture ARCHITECTURE → 02 An Architect's Approach to API Strategies REST → 03 Architecture Patterns for AIPowered Applications ARCHITECTURE → 04 Architecture Patterns for AIPowered Applications ARCHITECTURE → 05 Holistic Software Architecture → 06 DataCentric in Action → 07 Mastering Software Architecture Deep Dive ARCHITECTURE → 08 Digital Knowledge Management for Architects → 09 The Illusion of Logic: Technology Through a Magician's Eyes →

Ken Sipe

CLOUD ARCHITECT & TECH LEADER

07 SESSIONS

01 Architectural Awareness: Engineering Super-skill → 02 Becoming an Architect: Nurturing Essential Skills for Success → 03 Standing up Enterprise Architecture → 04 The World of Architects → 05 Architectural Principles: Building the Foundations of Design Excellence → 06 Mastering Solutions: Unraveling the Role of Solution Architects → 07 Navigating the Cloud as a Cloud Architect →

Travis Gosselin

PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, GITHUB

04 SESSIONS

01 API Design First: Succeeding with API Governance API DESIGN → 02 Compelling Code Reuse in the Enterprise ARCHITECTURE → 03 Crafting Consistent APIs at Scale: Embracing Linting & Reusable Models → 04 API Essentials Toolkit: Tools that Power APIs Developers Love →

Paul Preiss

CEO & FOUNDER OF IASA

03 SESSIONS

01 Architecture Core Concepts: The end to end Architect → 02 Living in Legacy: Delivery of technology value in a legacy world → 03 The Edge of Engineering and Architecture: Navigating agile, engineering, and delivery →

Alexander von Zitzewitz

FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, HELLO2MORROW

02 SESSIONS

01 Why Big Balls Of Mud Keep Happening And How To Stop Them → 02 Fundamentals of Software Architecture: Designing and Analyzing Software Systems →

Brian Sletten

FORWARD LEANING SOFTWARE ENGINEER @ BOSATSU CONSULTING

08 SESSIONS

01 Vector Databases : Accelerating Learning and Discovery DATABASES → 02 Vector Databases : Accelerating Learning and Discovery DATABASES → 03 Advanced RAG : Multimodal and Agentic Systems AGENT → 04 Advanced RAG : Multimodal and Agentic Systems AGENT → 05 RAG Systems : Using LLMs with Guardrails AI → 06 RAG Systems : Using LLMs with Guardrails AI → 07 Security of Machine Learning Systems CYBERSECURITY → 08 Useful Strategies for AI →

Jeffrey Lee

PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT AT NATERA

02 SESSIONS

01 Defining Modular Boundaries in Cloud-Native Architectures for Scalability → 02 Enhancing High-Performance Computing in the Cloud: Evolutionary Strategies and Insights →

Sam Snyder

VP OF ENGINEERING @ MODERNE

04 SESSIONS

01 AI’s Big Leap: From Sidekick to Autonomous, Multi-repo Refactoring Powerhouse → 02 Migration Engineering with OpenRewrite: The Recipe for Success → 03 Migration Engineering with OpenRewrite: The Recipe for Success → 04 The State of Large-Scale Code Modernization: AI, Languages, Security →

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DECEMBER 9 - 12, 2024 · OPAL SANDS RESORT · CLEARWATER, FL