Rip Out Legacy

Most organizations aren't running legacy systems by choice. They're running them because ripping them out is harder than living with them.
Legacy is expensive to maintain, slow to change, and full of logic nobody fully understands. The real obstacle to modernization isn't technical: it's that ownership is unclear, dependencies are hidden, and the assumptions were never written down.
This meetup is for the people actually doing the work of replacing them. We'll share how organizations have moved off legacy platforms step by step, without breaking what the business depends on.
We look at modernization from two sides:
What breaks when you migrate (war stories from the trenches)
How to build a foundation that actually lasts (how to do it right)
Talk 1: The Migration Traps Nobody Warns You About
Underestimated complexity, logic buried in message transforms, integrations that were never meant to survive this long. Pär walks through the real pitfalls organizations run into when moving off legacy platforms, drawn from hands-on experience with the decisions that delay projects and the assumptions that quietly break things mid-migration.
Pär Turborn at Irori
Talk 2: Connecting Legacy and AI Agents with One Layer
You don't have to finish the migration before you start moving forward. Godwin walks through how organizations can layer modern API management on top of existing systems, incrementally exposing and governing integrations while the underlying migration happens at its own pace. Real steps, real tradeoffs, and a practical path toward connecting legacy infrastructure to modern AI agents and automation.
Godwin at WSO2
Drinks and food will be provided.