One of the most enjoyable aspects of our role as Architect Advisors in DPE is helping support the local customer and partner architecture community.

As part of this our team host quarterly Architect Council events in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.  For the councils we line up some great speakers from the local and international Architecture community to present a topic and spark a roundtable discussion amongst the council members.

The previous two Architect councils have featured Glenn Smyth (Enterprise Architect, Adelaide Bank) and Gianpaolo Carraro (Director, Architecture Strategy, Microsoft Corporation).  Copies of their presentations can be found here:

This week we are joined by Dr Bohdan Szymanik (Chief Architect, Kiwibank) who is delivering a talk entitled: Kiwibank in Transformation: Startup to Enterprise

As Kiwibank has progressively moved from startup mode to an established corporate entity the structure, focus and strategies of the company are also having to change. This presentation examines the contribution of technology to achieving Kiwibank’s current success, the challenges the bank now faces and why technology and especially architecture will be critical to future success.

It should be another great architecture discussion so if you're an enterprise or senior solution architect working here in Sydney and not already receiving invites to these events drop me a note and I'll add you to the list.