Mara Cajar Robinson

About Mara

Global Director, AI-Enabled Platform Ecosystems at Thoughtworks

With more than 20 years as a futurist, strategist and corporate executive, Mara partners with organizations to architect growth and design transformation journeys that unlock resilience and new value.

At Thoughtworks, she leads technological innovation, strategic transformation and change management — helping leaders harness exponential technologies to reimagine how their enterprises create, deliver and capture value.

Her expertise lies in reframing challenges as opportunities for ecosystem advantage: enabling businesses to work smarter, serve customers more meaningfully and scale impact. Pragmatic yet future-focused, she ensures technology acts not just as an enabler but as a catalyst for business growth, competitive edge and societal progress.
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Programmable 2026 Presentation

The Architecture of Advantage: From Linear Products to Composable Enterprises

Melbourne & Sydney
Digital Product & Startup Dev Stories
We’ve spent a decade perfecting agile rituals, delivery pipelines, and “velocity” metrics — yet most digital systems remain rigid, siloed, and reactive. We optimise for output, not adaptation. The result? Faster delivery of diminishing returns.

This talk challenges the orthodoxy of speed and scale as the hallmarks of progress. Winning with AI demands more than adoption — it requires becoming a composable enterprise, where architecture, operations, and product strategy are rewired for learning, not just delivery.

Drawing from real-world transformation stories, we’ll explore how intelligent and composable architectures enable organisations to recompose capabilities, orchestrate outcomes across teams, and earn algorithmic trust — where systems, not screens, determine visibility and value.

Bridging the divide between Product, Operations, and Technology, this talk shows what it takes to evolve from feature factories to adaptive systems — where governance, data, and design work in concert to create enduring advantage.

Key takeaways:
  • Why speed without composability locks organisations into fragility
  • How intelligent composable architectures enable system-level learning and responsiveness
  • Practical steps to evolve from product delivery to capability orchestration