Catrina Baker-Bassett

(she/her)

Catrina Baker-Bassett

DabApps

Managing Director

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Catrina Baker-Bassett is Managing Director at DabApps, one of the UK’s leading software agencies, building AI-powered mobile and web applications that matter. With more than 15 years’ experience leading and supporting teams, she brings a strong blend of delivery, leadership, client partnership and cross-functional team experience. At EVOLVE [26], Catrina will bring a practical agency leadership perspective, drawing on her experience helping organisations turn business goals into well-delivered digital products. She is also passionate about diversity and equity in tech, leading with compassion, and creating teams that deliver meaningful work with clarity, care and impact.

Sessions

Karl Robinson

Kieren Johnstone

Sam Jeremiah

Dominic Champion

Catrina Baker-Bassett

10:40

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11:20

Panel

Builders Stage

The Invisible Infrastructure: How Cloud Decisions Are Quietly Shaping Everything

Cloud has moved on. What was once an engineering decision is now a business, risk and AI decision, shaping how organisations operate, scale and compete. This session looks at what is actually happening on the ground. Many companies are starting to question whether they still have control of their architecture and spend, as complexity grows and costs become harder to predict. At the same time, decisions around multi-cloud, consolidation and platform strategy are no longer theoretical, they are being tested in real environments, often with mixed results. As AI becomes a core part of the stack, the role of cloud becomes even more critical. When the foundations are not right, things break, whether that is performance, cost efficiency or the ability to move quickly. Alongside this, questions around sovereignty, security and where data actually lives are becoming harder to ignore, particularly for organisations operating across regions. The conversation is also shifting. It is no longer just about build versus buy, but how teams compose and orchestrate systems across an increasingly fragmented landscape. Led by Karl from Logicata, this panel brings together perspectives from enterprise, scale-up and platform leadership to explore the trade-offs being made in real time, where control is being lost or regained, and what good actually looks like now. If you were starting again today, would you build the same cloud stack?

Karl Robinson

Kieren Johnstone

Sam Jeremiah

Dominic Champion

Catrina Baker-Bassett

10:40

-

11:20

Panel

Builders Stage

The Invisible Infrastructure: How Cloud Decisions Are Quietly Shaping Everything

Cloud has moved on. What was once an engineering decision is now a business, risk and AI decision, shaping how organisations operate, scale and compete. This session looks at what is actually happening on the ground. Many companies are starting to question whether they still have control of their architecture and spend, as complexity grows and costs become harder to predict. At the same time, decisions around multi-cloud, consolidation and platform strategy are no longer theoretical, they are being tested in real environments, often with mixed results. As AI becomes a core part of the stack, the role of cloud becomes even more critical. When the foundations are not right, things break, whether that is performance, cost efficiency or the ability to move quickly. Alongside this, questions around sovereignty, security and where data actually lives are becoming harder to ignore, particularly for organisations operating across regions. The conversation is also shifting. It is no longer just about build versus buy, but how teams compose and orchestrate systems across an increasingly fragmented landscape. Led by Karl from Logicata, this panel brings together perspectives from enterprise, scale-up and platform leadership to explore the trade-offs being made in real time, where control is being lost or regained, and what good actually looks like now. If you were starting again today, would you build the same cloud stack?