An Evening for CTO’s, Architects and Technology Leaders
Technology leadership, architecture and more...
The Architecture and Tech Leadership Social
Presented by Silicon Yorkshire
Real Conversations. Real Community.
Join us for a relaxed evening of drinks, insight, and connection with Yorkshire’s most forward-thinking tech architects, CTOs, and technology leaders.
Whether you’re defining cloud strategy, scaling systems, or just want to meet others who live and breathe technology architecture – this is your room.
What to expect:
- A guest speaker giving real-world architecture insight
- Thoughtful networking (no sales)
- Drinks, conversation, and real value in every chat
- A community growing across Yorkshire
This isn’t another generic meetup. It’s architecture and technology focused, curated for people who build with intent, and backed by Silicon Yorkshire – the region’s fastest-growing tech community.
POLITE NOTICE:
This event is for CTO’s CIO’s, Engineering and Development leaders, technology architects, Data Leaders and so on.Â
If you don’t fit the attendee profile, we very kindly ask you not to register
02
Jul
Wednesday
17:00 - 23:00
Banyan
2 City Square, Leeds LS1 2ES
Attending
Andy Stewart
SVP of Engineering
Tide
Geoff Shepherd
Chief Executive
iSource Group
Daniel Hodgson
MD
Urban Sparks Sales Enablement
Mohammed Hussain
Enterprise solution architect
BT
Emmanuel Yeku
Data Analyst
Unilever
Steve Mellor
Senior Quality Engineering Architect
Roq
Ajaz Ahmed BEM
Ajaz@sosavvy
Sosavvy
John Lucas
Director
IT Director 4 Hire
Frank Nitenberg
VP of Engineering
Qoria
Colin Willis
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Wayne Field
In between roles: previously Head of Personalisation and CRM
In between roles: previously ASDA
Farina Mackay
Head of Revenue and Operations
dotnext Europe
Rogerio da Silva
Technical Director
Ethisys.co.uk
Rich Mason
Operator, Advisor, Investor
Various
Ganesh Adapa
AWS Solutions Architect
Lifebit
Khalid Rasool
Director, Architecture and Technology Strategy
Silicon Valley Bank
David McKee
Group CTO
Counterpoint Technologies (Crysp, Dashe AI, iTechoHealth, MyPerformanceLearning, Digital Twin Consortium)
Jason Meyers
MD for Cloud - Scotland & Yorkshire
AND Digital
Robbie Jackson
Senior Solutions Architect
Burberry Ltd
Daniel Asuzu
Director
SyncoTech Digital Ltd
Andy Tyack
Deputy Director for Delivery
Department for Work and Pensions
Jason Crispin
CEO
AUDITSU
Jumana Bohra
Software engineer
Smoothwall
Callum Wright
Founder
Quantum Risk Solutions
Chris Buckley
Head of Engineering
SmartSearch
Jonathan Lyth
CTO
TBC
Yann Golanski
Co-Founder and Director
Firmamentum Consulting Ltd.
Mark Kitching
Director of Engineering
Compare The Market
Adam Linford
Head of Engineering
AXA
Andy Burton
CTO
esure
Sabira Damji
Engineering Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
Chris Reid
Senior Partner
AnotherTrail
Geraint Jones
Senior Manager
Burberry
Niall Monk
Enterprise Architect
Capgemini
Amardeep Sirha
Director
amarti
Denise Dourado
Sr Director Apps & Data & AI
Microsoft UK
Simon Whittam
Head of Architecture
InfraTech Systems
Sharanjit Singh
sr solutions architect
TCS
Steve Ayres
Managing Director
Logicality
Junyue Jin
Senior Data Scientist
Resolver
Rich McIntyre
Chief Engineer
BJSS
Vicky Jaiswal
Software Architect
NHS England
Ben Hioco
Sales Director
Hotel Indigo Leeds
Andrew Dare
Group CTO
STRAT7
Tirumala Namballa
Project Manager
Ex-QBE
Amanda Haigh
Founder
Inspired-Nation CIC
Amit Kumar
Sr Solution Architect
Mastek Ltd.
Mike Pemberton
Architect/SME Primary Care Support England
GPPP Solutions Ltd
Tom Miller
Director
Devstack Consultancy Limited
Kieran Morten
Director Software Engineering
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
