The practitioner community for engineers building the Agentic AI era.
Monthly webinars, practitioner-written content, and peer discussion — led by the Scientific Committee behind ARC 2027. Free to join. For engineers working through hard problems together.
Practitioner-grade content, delivered to your inbox and live every month.
ARC Community is the year-round programme that runs alongside the conference. Everything here is free. Everything comes from engineers who run production systems, not people selling to them.
Monthly community webinars
Live sessions led by Scientific Committee members and invited practitioners. Six topics across the four conference tracks — July through December 2026. Recordings available to all members.
ARC Monthly newsletter
Practitioner-written pieces, curated reading, and original data from the ARC community. Written by engineers, for engineers, covering software architecture, Agentic AI, platform engineering, and engineering leadership.
The ARC Practitioner Pulse
A bi-annual survey report on the state of Agentic AI and software architecture across MENA. Community members shape the data. The full report is free to members before it goes public.
Priority access to ARC 2027
Community members get early access to speaker announcements, programme updates, and when the time comes, a pre-public window on conference registration at discount before general availability.
Six sessions*. Four tracks. All practitioner led.
AI in Production: What Architects Actually Ship
Real integration patterns, failure modes, and system trade-offs when AI becomes a runtime dependency.
Microservices vs Modular Monolith in 2026
When to decompose, when to consolidate. Honest trade-offs from teams that have done both in production.
Platform Engineering: Building IDPs That Teams Actually Use
IDP design, golden paths, developer experience metrics, and avoiding the build-it-and-they-don't-come failure pattern.
Securing AI-Enabled Systems: Threat Models Architects Must Own
Prompt injection, model supply chain risks, data leakage vectors — and how architecture decisions shape security posture.
Engineering Org Design for the AI Era
How AI is reshaping team topology, the role of the staff engineer, and what senior leaders must change.
Building at Scale in the Gulf: Architecture Lessons from MENA
Real experience reports from engineers building critical infrastructure, fintech, govtech, and AI platforms across UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
*Webinar topics are subject to change
Built for the engineers making production decisions right now.
ARC Community is not a general tech newsletter. It is written for practitioners who are making real architecture and engineering decisions and who want peer-level, no-fluff content from people doing the same.
CTO & Technology Leader
Governance models and team structures for Agentic AI adoption
Software Architect
Patterns and trade-offs for non-deterministic, trust-boundary systems
Engineering Manager
Roadmap intelligence 12 months ahead of the market
Senior Software Engineer
Real systems that failed instructively, real Agentic AI in production
Platform & Cloud Engineer
Observability, latency, and operational patterns for running agents at scale
Researcher & Applied Scientist
The bridge between academic research and production-grade engineering
Community webinars and content are led by researchers and practitioners from Università degli Studi di Milano, City St George's University of London, Khalifa University, Qatar University, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, and ARAMCO Digital — the same committee that peer-reviews the ARC 2027 conference programme.
Free to join. No commitment.