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The Journey to Instant Change:
Modernising Software Delivery, with an example from Financial Services

The Journey to Instant Change: Modernising Software Delivery, with an example from Financial Services

Event Summary

Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 6:30 - 10:00 PM

The Lookout, Level 50, 6-8 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4BQ

An invitation-only networking dinner bringing together Senior Engineering, Cloud, and Platform Leaders to discuss how to deliver modernisation at scale in highly regulated environments, covering: Modern Software Delivery, Platform Engineering, and Developer Productivity. Hosted by AWS, Harness and Barclays.

Co-sponsored by
Amazon Web Services
AWS

You’ll be joined by:

Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy
Director, Principal Engineer, CTO
Barclays
Stephen Fletcher
Stephen Fletcher
Head of Engineering
Barclays
Georgia Lewis
Georgia Lewis
Technical Product Owner
Barclays
Colin Doyle
Colin Doyle
VP Northern Europe (UKI & Nordics)
Harness

About the Event

Enterprises are under pressure to deliver new features faster, improve software quality, and reduce time-to-market.

At this community event, Barclays will share insights from their engineering transformation and their platform strategy “North Star”, including how they are modernising the SDLC and enabling developers to ship quality software more efficiently.

Discussion Topics

The Barclays team will share their journey, covering:

✅ Instant change: Barclays’ North Star for software delivery

✅ Delivery bottlenecks: The SDLC challenges holding back innovation

✅ Too many tools, not enough progress: The reality of their existing approach

✅ Why Harness, not the alternatives? The decision behind the platform shift

✅ Technology isn’t the hard part: How to win people and challenge legacy processes

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This is an intimate roundtable dinner with limited capacity.

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