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CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025 taking place on 1 April. This event is happening in person at Excel London in London, England.

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Panel: Platform as a Product as a Transformation Enabler Within One of the Top 4 Banks in the UK - Joel King & Ashley-Jade Marshall, NatWest Group; Chris Plank, NatWest Bank; Sapphire Mason-Brown, Syntasso & Nicki Watt, OpenCredo
Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:45 - 13:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
We often hear about the usage and benefits of Platform as a Product and Internal Developer Portals to reduce cognitive load on developers and increase velocity, but we rarely hear about the benefits to other teams.

Come listen to this talk and hear from different people and perspectives involved in NatWest Bank’s Platform as a Product journey over the last 2 years.

The Transformation Lead, the Architect/Product Owner, the Lead Engineer/Private Cloud IaaS Expert, the AWS Engineer/expert and the Partner/Supplier will be onstage talking about their individual experiences and journey. Is it a panel talk, is it a case study? Actually it’s both!

Each persona will spend a couple of minutes each talking about their own adventure before the session is opened up to audience participation in choosing which topics and questions are put to the panel to answer.
Speakers
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Nicki Watt

CEO / CTO, OpenCredo
Nicki Watt currently serves as OpenCredo’s CTO and CEO, a pragmatic hands on software consultancy with specialisms in platform and data engineering as well as cloud native solution development. Her career has seen her wear many hats from Engineer, Systems & Technical Architects... Read More →
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Joel King

Principal Engineer, NatWest Group
Joel is a Principal Engineer with 20 years of experience in financial services, specializing in cloud-native platform engineering at NatWest Group. His expertise in Kubernetes and automation, combined with his ability to program in multiple languages, has positioned him as a leader... Read More →
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Ashley-Jade Marshall

Infrastructure Engineer, NatWest Group
Ashley is an AWS Infrastructure Engineer with a background in cloud computing and infrastructure. Over the past year, Ashley has had the opportunity to expand her expertise by exploring the concept of Platform as a Product. This journey has completely reshaped the way she approach... Read More →
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Chris Plank

Enterprise Architect and joint Product owner for Platform as a Product initiative within the Bank, NatWest Bank
Chris Plank is a Enterprise Architect working for NatWest Bank in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been leading a Platform as a Product initiative within the Bank over the last year looking to radically change the Banks approach to provisioning and maintaining services. Outside of work... Read More →
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Sapphire Mason-Brown

Software Engineer, Syntasso
Sapphire is a Software Engineer at Syntasso working on the Kratix, an open-source platform framework for building composable internal developer platforms (IDPs). She made the transition from software engineering after a career in charity sector communications. She has since worked... Read More →
Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:45 - 13:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
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