Mark Silvester is Platform & Architecture Manager at Griffiths Waite, where he leads platform strategy and architecture for organisations operating in complex enterprise environments. With over a decade at the company and deep experience across cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and large-scale system design, Mark focuses on the engineering foundations that determine whether technology investments deliver lasting value — or stall before they reach production.

Mark specialises in making AI operational. While many organisations have successfully experimented with AI, few have built the platforms required to run it reliably at scale. His work centres on closing this gap — designing and implementing the infrastructure, delivery patterns, and platform capabilities that enable AI systems to move from proof of concept into production-grade services that teams can run, evolve, and trust.

His perspective is grounded in the realities of enterprise environments, where legacy systems, governance constraints, and operational complexity must all be accounted for. Mark helps organisations build platforms that integrate with existing ecosystems, support rapid iteration, and deliver measurable outcomes without compromising reliability, security, or long-term maintainability.

Alongside his client work, Mark is an editor at InfoQ, one of the most respected publications in the global software engineering community. There, he covers DevOps, platform engineering, and the evolving role of AI in modern technology stacks. This dual perspective — as both practitioner and industry commentator — gives him a unique vantage point across what leading organisations are building and what is actually working in practice.

On stage, Mark brings a clear and pragmatic voice to conversations around AI and engineering — cutting through hype to focus on how organisations can build the platforms and systems required to deliver intelligent capabilities that work in the real world.