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2026
- Events Evaporate, Patterns Persist: Lessons from Eddie Obeng on Navigating Complexity Written by Oliver Cronk (using quotes from the episode with Eddie, with some AI editing)
- Whatever Next? Why Transformation Needs to Get More Human Recorded live at Chief Architect Network London 2026 in April, Oliver brought together Lisa Woodall (Enterprise Architect, Transformation Strategist and Auth...
- AI Sleepwalking Risks V2, including Automation Fallacies As we published "Are We Sleepwalking Into Tomorrow's AI Challenges?" just over a year ago I decided to reflect and go deeper on this topic. A big reflection ...
- Mythos: What Enterprise and Security Architects Need to Know about Agentic AI Whilst there has been a lot of chatter about Anthophic Mythos / Glasswing, I wanted to cut through the noise and summarise what you need to care about from a...
- GreenIO London and Architecture Governance Episodes Firstly apologies for the radio silence from Architect Tomorrow. We've been cooking up plans and are in the process of rebooting the community and podcast (a...
2025
- Architecting Human-Centered AI In a world drowning in AI announcements and proclamations about technological transformation, Selena Evans (attorney and certified business architect based i...
- Practical & Pragmatic AI Principles for AI Autumn What do you need to consider to prepare your organisation for AI Autumn and avoid AI winter? This article is more directly aimed at Chief / Enterprise Archit...
- Royal Society Event: 75 Years of the Turing Test and AI Reality Check The Royal Society's event marking 75 years since Alan Turing's 1950 paper could have been a simple celebration. To me it was something far more significant: ...
- From Zoology to Systems Thinking with Jenny Wilson Key snippets of the conversation with Jenny Wilson, Chief Architect at Kingfisher PLC. Full episode below (and on most audio podcast platforms), or continue ...
- NeuroSymbolic AI: The Grounding Enterprise AI Actually Needs? Currently seeing something interesting happening in AI conversations - is this finally the moment for grounding and neurosymbolic approaches?
- Navigating the Cone of AI Uncertainty As walking through this cone has been one of my most popular talks this year, I thought I'd share it in an edition of the newsletter. Regular readers will re...
- Green Software: Making Progress, But Let's Be Honest About Where We Are My conversation with Wilco Burggraaf at VoxxDays Amsterdam
- Why Data Centres Belong in Elderly Homes (Not Isolated Warehouses) From the Architect Tomorrow podcast: A conversation with David from Leaf Cloud about rethinking data centre locations for vastly improved sustainability
- When Waste Becomes Wealth: Using Data Centre Heat. This edition covers the conversation with Mark Bjornsgaard from Deep Green at Data Centre World London. We explore a fascinating—and largely untapped—approac...
- Futuring Architectures: Embracing Mindset Shifts in a World of Ecosystems and AI In this edition of the newsletter I will summarise the recent episode speaking with Ron Kersic. Ron is the mind behind Futuring Architectures and a thought l...
- Help Choose the New Slogan for Architect Tomorrow! 1️⃣ "Strategy & Architecture for a Better Future" • Directly connects our core focus on both strategy and architecture • Emphasises the positive impact we're...
- It's not the messiah, it's just a very naughty chatbot! A poem by Oliver and Claude.ai
- Architect Tomorrow turns 5! Next month (March 2025) the #ArchitectTomorrow podcast & community turns 5 years old! To commemorate this, I have finally pulled together a playlist for all ...
- There is more than one way to architect AI Is the UK and Europe really behind in AI as some have been claiming on here?
- Are we sleepwalking into tomorrow's AI challenges? Even if you are cynical and/or sceptical on AI, I'd urge you to engage in this one - your opinions will be valuable.
- Getting Deep and Meaningful with DeepSeek R1 Last night I decided to give one of this weeks most hyped models a thorough test running locally. I decided to ask it some of what I consider are the toughes...
2024
- Where is AI leading us? Possibilities for Business and Society Note I have now evolved my thinking and have a "Cone of AI Uncertainty" that has been a popular talk track. This article is an earlier version of that thinki...
2023
- A Brief History of the Future of the Web? A somewhat silly take on where the internet was and where it might go (that does not represent the views of any current or former employer!) \ seeing as the ...
- GenAI Architectural Challenges Apologies for the newsletter silence! Not a reflection of the activity in the community - there has been a lot going on across Generative AI, Sustainable Tec...
- Cloud Security and Sustainability Oops it is March and the newsletter for Feb didn't get out of drafts! Well better late than never here it is! And it features 2 great episodes - both relatin...
2022
- Twenty Two in Review & Sustainable Software Architect Tomorrow now has an annual routine of reflecting on the year that's just been and thinking ahead to what we think the next year has in store. Here ...
- Update on the community and recent episodes Firstly apologies for the lack of newsletters in the last few months. Hopefully you've seen the recent podcast episodes? In case you haven't do check out the...
- Arabian Insights & Nordic Nostalgia Following on from last months edition of back to business as usual March '22 has been about back to business international travel for me and so that features...
- Back to business as usual? Welcome to the February edition of the #ArchitectTomorrow newsletter. In this edition I cover some personal experiences of the UK relaxing restrictions, chal...
- Resolutions, Rules & Regulations Welcome to the first edition of the #ArchitectTomorrow newsletter in 2022! Talking of 2022 do check the previous installment on 2022 trends. At the end of th...
2021
- Architecture of Tomorrow Welcome to the first edition of the Architect Tomorrow Newsletter! My thinking is that some of these will be updates on what we are doing as a community othe...
2020
- Architect Tomorrow 2020 round up Original titled "#ArchitectAdvent 2020 Calendar" rounding off 2020 with some of the great #ArchitectTomorrow content we recorded in 2020.
- Architect Tomorrow - Shaping the Future We are living in a "world after midnight", as Eddie Obeng puts it — a world in which our environment is changing faster than we can understand it, and archit...