In-person workshop
Pattern Cards Workshop: Diagnosing & Planning Your Transformation
A hands-on workshop to diagnose where an organisation sits in their AI Native transformation — and plan the next moves using physical AI pattern cards.
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WHAT TO EXPECT
What You'll Gain & Who It's For
Walk away knowing exactly where your organisation sits across the Waterfall, Cloud Native, and AI Native waves and which forces are blocking the next move.
Spot the transformation patterns and antipatterns already at play in your org, using a shared vocabulary that makes hard architecture conversations easier.
Leave with sequenced, concrete next moves your team builds together during the session.
See where today’s architecture decisions help or constrain the next wave, so you commit to changes that hold up as you scale.
Understand how organisations move between waves and how to time your moves, so adoption sticks rather than stalling after the pilot.
What you’ll learn
The Cards + Canvas You'll Be Working With
The same two tools we use inside client workshops — a 119-card deck for naming where your organisation is, and a large-format canvas for mapping where it goes next.
The Cards
119 physical cards, organised into five categories by evolutionary stage.
- Transformation (TF)
- Waterfall (WF)
- Cloud Native (CN)
- AI Native (AN)
- Anti-Patterns (AP)
See Us In Action
Agenda
Arrive, grab food and a drink, and meet the people you’ll be working with tonight.
Using the pattern cards and canvas, you’ll map where your organisation sits across the Waterfall, Cloud Native, and AI Native waves, and surface the forces holding it in place.
A short reset that connects what you’ve just mapped to the patterns behind it: how organisations move between waves, and why most transformations stall.
You’ll turn the diagnosis into a plan — placing patterns on the canvas, sequencing the next moves, and leaving with a roadmap your team built together.
We close the structured programme and keep the room open for follow-up conversations, questions for the facilitators, and connections with other attendees.
TESTIMONIALS
What Past Attendees Say
Not another 'AI will change everything' workshop. This one focused on how to make AI actually work inside an organisation. The framing of innovation waves — where you are in the Cloud Native to AI Native shift, and what comes next — stood out for me. I left with real energy to make AI transformation more concrete.
Workshop Facilitator
Our Facilitator
CEO & Co-founder, re:cinq
Pini is CEO and Co-Founder of re:cinq, and author of From Cloud Native to AI Native: Catching the Next Wave of Innovation — the book this workshop is built on.
He has spent over a decade guiding global organizations — including Shell, Google, Adidas, Siemens, and Tesco — through digital transformations. Before re:cinq, he co-founded Container Solutions, the Cloud Native consultancy he scaled and successfully sold, where he held CTO, CRO, and COO roles. His earlier book Cloud Native Transformation (O'Reilly) became the reference for that era.
Pini runs every Pattern Cards Workshop personally.
LOCATION
Where The Workshop Will Be Held
Venue Name:
Multatuli
Address:
Prins Hendrikkade 21-E
City:
Amsterdam
Country:
Netherlands
