Jon McCullagh-Vines

For decades, enterprise strategy has been throttled by the "Data Mess"—a brittle web of point-to-point integrations and slow batch processes that create systemic friction and stall innovation. For the modern tech executive, the challenge is no longer just managing data at rest, but enabling the High-Velocity Enterprise: an organisation capable of making intelligent, data-driven decisions in the moments that matter. This session introduces the Data Streaming Readiness Framework, a diagnostic, socio-technical methodology designed to move organisations beyond the "Data Mess". Based on the results of many sessions with technology leaders, we move past technical hype to address the core strategic pillars of streaming readiness: Value from Data, through a Unified Platform, guided by Purposeful Adoption. In this talk, we dive into the architectural shifts required to dissolve the wall between operational and analytical planes. We will discuss: - Data as a Product: Transforming "just data" into intentionally shared, discoverable, and governed assets with clear ownership. - The Internal Developer Platform (IDP): Providing a "golden path" for engineers that abstracts technical complexity…