Platform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now
As PlatformCon enters its fourth year - and London hosts the PlatformCon Live Day for the second time - three platform-engineering pioneers kick off the day with a reality check.
Nicki Watt, Cornelia Davis and Rickey Zachary trace the leap from ad-hoc DevOps scripts to “Platform as a Product” mindset.
They’ll dissect 2025’s checklist: discoverable golden paths, GitOps/IaC you can trust, seamless AI/ML workloads deployment, and realistic use cases of AI for supercharging platform engineering teams, but also their “customers”, developers.
Just as crucial: the human layer. Hear blunt stories about securing C-suite sponsorship, converting sceptical teams, measuring developer experience, and keeping platform crews from devolving into ticket factories.
The debate will equip you with talking points for the rest of the PlatformCon LDN Live Day.
They’ll dissect 2025’s checklist: discoverable golden paths, GitOps/IaC you can trust, seamless AI/ML workloads deployment, and realistic use cases of AI for supercharging platform engineering teams, but also their “customers”, developers.
Just as crucial: the human layer. Hear blunt stories about securing C-suite sponsorship, converting sceptical teams, measuring developer experience, and keeping platform crews from devolving into ticket factories.
The debate will equip you with talking points for the rest of the PlatformCon LDN Live Day.
Platform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now
As PlatformCon enters its fourth year - and London hosts the PlatformCon Live Day for the second time - three platform-engineering pioneers kick off the day with a reality check.
Presented by
Panelist
Cornelia Davis
Senior Staff Developer Advocate, Temporal Technologies
Panelist
Rickey Zachary
Global Lead of Platform Engineering, Thoughtworks
Panelist
Nicki Watt
CTO, Trifork UK
Moderator
Sam Barlien
Head of Ecosystem at Platform Engineering
Nicki Watt, Cornelia Davis and Rickey Zachary trace the leap from ad-hoc DevOps scripts to “Platform as a Product” mindset.
They’ll dissect 2025’s checklist: discoverable golden paths, GitOps/IaC you can trust, seamless AI/ML workloads deployment, and realistic use cases of AI for supercharging platform engineering teams, but also their “customers”, developers.
Just as crucial: the human layer. Hear blunt stories about securing C-suite sponsorship, converting sceptical teams, measuring developer experience, and keeping platform crews from devolving into ticket factories.
The debate will equip you with talking points for the rest of the PlatformCon LDN Live Day.
They’ll dissect 2025’s checklist: discoverable golden paths, GitOps/IaC you can trust, seamless AI/ML workloads deployment, and realistic use cases of AI for supercharging platform engineering teams, but also their “customers”, developers.
Just as crucial: the human layer. Hear blunt stories about securing C-suite sponsorship, converting sceptical teams, measuring developer experience, and keeping platform crews from devolving into ticket factories.
The debate will equip you with talking points for the rest of the PlatformCon LDN Live Day.
Platform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now
As PlatformCon enters its fourth year - and London hosts the PlatformCon Live Day for the second time - three platform-engineering pioneers kick off the day with a reality check.
Presented by
Nicki Watt, Cornelia Davis and Rickey Zachary trace the leap from ad-hoc DevOps scripts to “Platform as a Product” mindset.
They’ll dissect 2025’s checklist: discoverable golden paths, GitOps/IaC you can trust, seamless AI/ML workloads deployment, and realistic use cases of AI for supercharging platform engineering teams, but also their “customers”, developers.
Just as crucial: the human layer. Hear blunt stories about securing C-suite sponsorship, converting sceptical teams, measuring developer experience, and keeping platform crews from devolving into ticket factories.
The debate will equip you with talking points for the rest of the PlatformCon LDN Live Day.
They’ll dissect 2025’s checklist: discoverable golden paths, GitOps/IaC you can trust, seamless AI/ML workloads deployment, and realistic use cases of AI for supercharging platform engineering teams, but also their “customers”, developers.
Just as crucial: the human layer. Hear blunt stories about securing C-suite sponsorship, converting sceptical teams, measuring developer experience, and keeping platform crews from devolving into ticket factories.
The debate will equip you with talking points for the rest of the PlatformCon LDN Live Day.
Platform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now
As PlatformCon enters its fourth year - and London hosts the PlatformCon Live Day for the second time - three platform-engineering pioneers kick off the day with a reality check.
Presented by
Host
Sam Barlien
Head of Ecosystem at Platform Engineering
Panelist
Cornelia Davis
Senior Staff Developer Advocate, Temporal Technologies
Panelist
Rickey Zachary
Global Lead of Platform Engineering, Thoughtworks
Panelist
Nicki Watt
CTO, Trifork UK
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