ApiumhubOn October 3-4 we organized and hosted the Global Software Architecture Summit in Barcelona. Over 450 software professionals from different countries including Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain, Lithuania, Norway, and Romania attended our event to improve their skills, share knowledge and connect with other peers in the industry.
The event took place at the Barcelona International Convention Center, which has become a benchmark in Europe as a venue for the organization of events and congresses. This year the event was focused on Software Architecture Metrics as they are key to the maintainability and architectural quality of a software project.
From the first day, we enjoyed talks from well-known experts in the industry and also hands-on parallel workshops where attendees had the opportunity to put their skills into practice and get to know other experts. It was a very exciting two days where we were able to get to know the attendees and support the software architecture community.
Speakers Profiles
At GSAS 2022 we hosted more than 450 software professionals from 33 different countries. Here’s a breakdown of the profiles:
- Software Architects – 53%
- Developers – 18%
- Senior developers – 15 %
- Tech Leads – 6%
- Head of Engineering – 4%
- Principals – 2 %
- CTOs – 2%
The attendees origin was also very diverse: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates & United States of America.
Main speakers at the event
We are proud to have had a lineup of speakers from different nationalities, including:
Mark Richards, co-author of the book “Fundamentals of Software Architecture” with his talks Testing Software Architecture & Understanding Modularity vs. Granularity.
Sonya Natanzon, Solutions Architect at Guardant Health, and Vladik Khononov, Author of the books “Learning Domain-Driven Design” and “Balancing Coupling in Software Design”, with their talk Pragmatic Approach to Architecture Metrics.
Michael Feathers, Chief Architect of Globant, with his talk Aligning Architecture with Responsibility Indices.
Carola Lilienthal, Senior Software Architect and author of the book “Sustainable Software Architecture” with her talk Improve your architecture with the Modularity Maturity Index (MMI)
Alexander von Zitzewitz, serial entrepreneur in the software business and co-founder of hello2morrow, with his talk Metrics for Architects.
Pranjal Bathia, Principal Architect within the PnT Operations and Infrastructure team at Red Hat, with her talk Quantitative measures for software Architecture quality evaluation.
Jacqui Read, Hands-on Architect and Founder at Read The Architecture, with her talk Mastering Visual Communication for Software Architecture.
Eswaran Thandi, Principal Architect with over 2.5 decades of experience in the IT industry, with his talk Continuous Modernization.
Riccardo Zanussi, Chief Architect at WeFox, and Marc de Palol, Distributed Systems Engineer & Architect, with their talk How is an architect’s success measured in a fast-growing, agile, strategy-driven organization?
Sven Peters, software developer and software advocate at Manfred, with his talk The Effective Software Architect – Work Smarter, not Harder.
Christian Ciceri, Apiumhub´s co-founder and software architect, with his talk Private Builds and Metrics to survive not ideal scenarios.
*Workshops *
As we mentioned above, this year we had hands-on parallel workshops included in the ticket. The workshops offered were:
- Evolving organizations using socio-technical architecture by Joao Rosa, Principal Consultant, and Interim CTO.
- Become a software design company by George Fairbanks, Software Engineer at Google & Michael Keeling, Author of the Book “Design It!: From Programmer to Software Architect”.
- Thinking Architecturally by Nathaniel Schutta, author of the book “Thinking Architecturally”
We are preparing GSAS 2023
If you are interested in sponsoring GSAS next year, don´t hesitate to reach out to us via email at gsas@apiumhub.com. We have different sponsorship packages available for you to choose from based on your budget.
Overall, we are very satisfied with the great results of the event and will soon start planning the next edition! If you want to be among the first to know all the details of the next edition, make sure you follow GSAS on Twitter.
