In his book Flow Architectures, James Urquhart envisions a “worldwide flow” delivering real-time information across enterprise boundaries. It’s a future many would love to see, but will it arrive on schedule in 2034? Will it arrive at all? Joining James to discuss and debate are two enterprise architects trying to push the vision into reality: Clemens Vaster (Messaging Architect at Microsoft) and Jesse Menning (Architect in the CTO’s office at Solace).

Speakers

Clemens Vasters

Clemens Vasters

Principal Architect messaging Services and Standards

Microsoft

Clemens Vasters is a Principal Architect for Microsoft, working on the Microsoft Azure product engineering team. His expertise lies in laying the groundwork for future development work and driving technical strategy for Service Bus, Event Hubs, Event Grid, and Relay. Clemens represents Microsoft in the CNCF CloudEvents Working Group and is a member of the OASIS AMQP and MQTT technical committees.
James Urquhart

James Urquhart

Global Field CTO

VMWare

Jesse Menning

Jesse Menning

CTO Architect

Solace

Jesse Menning is an architect in Solace’s Office of the CTO. He helps organizations of all kinds design integration systems that take advantage of event-driven architecture and microservices to deliver amazing performance, robustness, and scalability. Prior to his tenure with Solace, Jesse was an independent consultant who helped companies design application infrastructure and middleware systems around IBM products like MQ, WebSphere, DataPower Gateway, Application Connect Enterprise and Transformation Extender.