About

Why should I attend?

EventCentric will be:

• A champion of the less-explored, novel ideas in the events space. Vendor conferences only cover subjects which relate to their technology. EventCentric will cover the more eccentric ideas that provide innovative solutions to real-life use cases.
• A conference that is more than just new tooling. Talks will give actionable tactics and strategies for managing large event-driven systems.
• Curated by industry practitioners Ralph Debusmann (Lead Enterprise Kafka Engineer at Migros) and Oskar Dudycz (Author of Architecture Weekly, maintainer of Marten)
• For the builders of these systems to meet and exchange ideas with other developers, architects and CTOs designing large scale systems

Events have become central to how enterprise teams build their critical software systems. As the patterns and technologies mature and proliferate, there’s a need for clarity on the current best practices, told by those working on large-scale enterprise systems. We don’t favour one tool, technology or practice over another. Instead we will gather to learn from the practitioners at the coalface to unpick what’s working for teams building in complex environments.

Who is curating the line-up?

We’re working with Ralph Debusmann, lead enterprise Kafka Engineer at Migros, Switzerland’s largest retailer. He’s also a co-author of “Streaming Databases” and a former CTO. Alongside Ralph, we’re also working with Oskar Dudycz, author of the popular newsletter, Architecture Weekly, and an event-driven architecture specialist.

Who are the organisers?

EventCentric is organised by Aardling, a software agency focused on strategy, design and architecture. Aardling is the organiser and host of Domain-Driven Design Europe, the much-loved software design and architecture conference.

Aardling’s conferences are curated by the community and executed by a dedicated, professional events team. Their conferences are noted for talk quality and attendee experience, with incremental improvements made year-on-year by a full-time staff.

EventCentric will be co-located with DDD Europe and Data Mesh Live.

What’s Aardling history with the Event-Driven community?

Aardling was the organiser behind EventSourcing Live, a conference for the EventSourcing community. We’ve been organising EventSourcing and Messaging training courses for a number of years, helping enterprise teams get to grips with the fundamentals of building with events at the heart of how they system operates.