Masterclass : Riding the Architecture elevator with Gregor Hohpe

Riding the architecture elevator

2-Day Masterclass · Gregor Hohpe-  Paris · October 7–8, 2026

✦ Workshop Audience and Objectives

This highly interactive workshop prepares IT architects and technical leaders for a more impactful role within their organization. They will learn how to forge a crucial connection between the IT engine room and the organization’s leadership by tackling complexity, more effectively communicating with senior management, and influencing the organization.

The outcome is improved decision discipline, stronger management buy-in, and faster value delivery to the business. The workshop format affords participants extensive interaction with a Silicon Valley veteran and former chief architect of a major insurance corporation that underwent an ambitious IT transformation. The learning experience builds on many exercises and discussions, using real-life scenarios based on modern technology.

✦ What You'll Experience Over 2 Days

Two intensive days with Gregor Hohpe  author of The Software Architect Elevator and Enterprise Integration Patterns, former Chief Architect at Allianz and Google Cloud Principal and Nicolas Chevalier, founder of Gluendo, who has spent years helping large French and European organizations navigate complex transformations and advocate for Continuous Architecture approach and practices

You will learn based on real-world case studies, hands-on exercises in small groups, and open conversation about what it really means to be an architect in a complex organization that won't stand still

15 participants maximum. This isn't a conference. It's a capability-building experience.

✦ Who Is This For?

This masterclass is designed for practitioners who already work in architecture — and want to step up their impact.

• Enterprise & solution architects looking to carry more weight in strategic decisions
• CIOs, CTOs & VP Engineering steering and leading different teams and profiles
• Tech leads & senior engineers moving into architecture responsibilities
• Technical Product managers looking for the way to take better decisions
• Transformation leaders working inside complex organizations

✦Audience & Participant Take-aways

Workshop participants will be able to:

• reverse-engineer an organization’s beliefs and influence them
• clearly articulate the value of architecture in times of change and uncertainty
• communicate technical topics and their merit across the organization
• tackle the complexity of large-scale systems by using models and systems thinking
• make principle-based architectural decisions
• navigate organizational politics
• evaluate and accelearate the adoption of continuous architecture practices

✦ What's Included

• 2 days of masterclass with Gregor Hohpe
• Full course materials
• Lunch on both days
• Curated post-masterclass resource pack
• Certificate of completion
• Diner 8 October 19 to 22PM with G.Hohpe and architect + IA leaders from gluendo and continuous architecture comunity to think about the future of architecture (as an appetizer from the annual event October, 9th in Gallerie Lafayette)

✦ Practical Information