The Build vs Buy Paradigm Shift
Microsoft Teams
Agenda
- 14:00-14:30: Webinar presentation
- 14:30-14:45: Q&A
About this webinar
Build it yourself or buy it off the shelf? It's one of the heaviest decisions a tech leader makes, and the honest answer is rarely the one the vendor demo suggests. Buy too eagerly and you bend your business to fit someone else's product. Build too eagerly and you end up owning a codebase nobody asked for.
This session is about telling the difference. Not as a one-time verdict, but as a call you can keep making with a clear head: which problems are worth custom software, and which are better handed to a major SaaS vendor who has already solved them a thousand times over.
What we'll cover
- The questions worth asking before you write a line of code or sign a contract
- Where custom software genuinely pays off, and where it quietly turns into a liability
- The real cost of buying: licensing, lock-in, and the work that never makes it into the sales deck
- How the calculation is shifting now that AI can build a surprising amount for you, including the choice between a ready-made assistant and one shaped around your own data and workflows
Who should attend?
CTOs, Heads of Data, software and product leaders, and enterprise architects who keep landing on the same build-versus-buy question and want a sharper way to answer it.
Registration
Official registration opens soon. Contact us to be notified when seats become available.
Speaker
Joran Vergauwen
AI Lead at Plainsight with over five years of hands-on AI experience. Founded his own GenAI startup and co-founded the Generative AI Belgium meetup (3,000+ members). Focused on solving real problems rather than chasing trends.