About us
Welcome to The Architecting for Innovation Meet-up group.
This group was formed initially as an offshoot from the Australasian Architecture Network Group on Linkedin www.linkedin.com/groups/1822816 Then it was a group of Enterprise and Solution Architects meeting in the pub for a few beers and a chat.
Since then, we have run several formal meet-ups in Sydney and Melbourne. The subjects have changed and morphed but always with an Architecture undertone with an eye on innovation.
Meet-up subjects have included:-
- Who needs Data Architecture anyway?
- Architecting intelligent enterprises
- Business Capability Modelling - Creating a performance framework Lunch and learn
- A journey into Enterprise Architecture
- Architecting for Governance at Scale
- How architectures fail, and what to do about it
- Databricks Delta Lake Deep Dive & Roadmap
- Digital Transformation in Banking
- Customer 360
- EA for Digital - Digital for EA
- CQRS and event sourcing
- The Future of Data in a Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Environment
- Practical mechanisms to align Business Architecture with Technology Architecture
- Making sense of Data-Driven Architecture
- Modern Data Pipelines with Kafka and MongoDB
- Salesforce/Mulesoft with Telstra Track & Monitor
- First meetup of 2020! Are you Well-Architected
- Leadership, AR and (A|V|M) Crime
- Kafka with MongoDB and Confluent
- The CIO and The Start-up Founder
- Modern apps in a microservices age
- Internet of Things in the Property Market (IoT in PropTech)
- Creating a Strategic Enterprise Architecture – from Noisy to Influential
- Building a Sustainable Opensource Ecosystem
- Unveiling the Sydney IoT Landscape
- Pragmatic Approach to Microservices and Cell-based Architecture
- Open Source Technology in an Open Architecture World
- Product across NPP and Cyber-security in The Global Payments Landscape
- FinTech Sydney - Start-up to Enterprise
- Disruptive Innovation
- FinTech
- IoT Security
- Attracting and retaining Architects
- DevOps
- Wearable Devices and the Internet of Things
- Predicting The Future of Cloud
- Tom Graves Masterclass
We work hard to provide value to our community through access to pertinent market intelligence and networking platforms, creating and hosting industry thought leadership events; and presenting interesting jobs for exciting companies.
We cover a range of subjects in the Technology and Digital landscape with the focus on innovation and disruption.
If you are keen on joining a panel for any of the upcoming meet-ups, let me know.
Thanks,
Andrew Blades
www.linkedin.com/in/andrewblades
[Andrew@TheBridgeSearch.com](mailto:Andrew@TheBridgeSearch.com)
[www.TheBridgeSearch.com](http://www.thebridgesearch.com/)
Upcoming events
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Great Architects Don’t Get Hired Anymore — They Get Seen #82
·OnlineOnlineGreat Architects Don’t Get Hired Anymore — They Get Seen
The rules of the game have changed, and most architects are still playing by the old ones.
In today’s market, technical capability alone isn’t enough. The architects who consistently secure opportunities aren’t always the most qualified on paper — they’re the ones who stay visible, relevant, and trusted before opportunities even exist.
In this session, Trevor Churchley will unpack the reality of modern hiring and why professional branding is no longer optional for architects who want true career sustainability.Because career sustainability isn’t about landing one role and hoping it lasts.
It’s about staying employed or engaged by actively creating and maintaining a pipeline of opportunities — permanent roles, contract work, and increasingly, fractional engagements — reducing reliance on job boards, recruiters, timing, and luck.Trevor will explore:
- Why visibility now matters more than credentials
- How career disruption happens quietly — and how to stay ahead of it
- What career sustainability really looks like in today’s market
- The rise of fractional and flexible engagements as a continuity strategy
- The difference between being “available” and being “in demand”
- Practical ways architects can build and sustain a professional brand without feeling like they’re selling themselves
This isn’t about becoming an influencer.
It’s about becoming findable.## About the Speaker — Trevor Churchley
Founder & Chief Talentologist, Talentology
Trevor Churchley is the Founder of Talentology a people‑first consultancy redefining how experienced IT professionals and organisations connect, engage, and create opportunity across Australia.
With nearly three decades inside the IT recruitment and professional services industry, Trevor has seen firsthand who the system works for — and who it quietly leaves behind. His work focuses on one of the most overlooked realities in the Australian tech market: the growing disconnect between highly experienced (+45) professionals and modern hiring practices.
Talentology was built as a response to that gap.Not a recruitment agency.
Not a job board.
Not another platform built on keywords, CVs, or volume.Instead, Talentology operates as a Career Operating System — helping experienced IT professionals stay visible, trusted, and commercially relevant before, during, and between roles, while giving organisations direct access to proven, delivery‑ready talent.
Through initiatives like CareerAGILITY, the Hustle Game, CareerAGENT, and Fractional+45, Trevor has built an ecosystem that challenges traditional hiring models and restores the human layer that automation and speed have stripped away.His philosophy is simple — and confronting:
- Visibility now matters more than credentials
- Momentum matters more than applications
- Algorithms don’t understand experience, context, or value
Trevor is known for his straight‑talking, no‑BS perspective on hiring, job seeking, and the future of work — particularly as AI reshapes roles across architecture, delivery, and engineering.
At the Architecting for Innovation lunch and learn, Trevor will share real‑world insights on how architects can position themselves beyond technical capability — staying visible, relevant, and in demand in a market that’s shifting faster than most realise.
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## Event Details
Thursday, 11 June
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM AEST (Online)
⏱ Duration: 1 hour🎤 MC: Andrew Blades
Principal – The Bridge Search
Founder – Architecting for Innovation28 attendees
Past events
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