As technical practitioners move into senior, staff, or principal roles, the number of people inside their organization who can challenge their reasoning often gets smaller. The decisions they are asked to make also become harder to reverse: architectural boundaries, platform strategy, AI infrastructure, team design, and the trade-offs behind long-term technical direction.<\/p>\n
InfoQ\u2019s Online Certification Programs<\/a> are expanding around that problem. The cohorts are designed to give senior engineers, architects, technical leads, and engineering managers a confidential peer group where they can apply frameworks from QCon talks to real decisions from their own work, alongside practitioners from other companies and contexts.<\/p>\n The latest addition is the InfoQ Certified AI Engineering Program<\/a>, a production AI-focused cohort for senior practitioners working on RAG, agents, AI platforms, evals, and reliability.<\/p>\n InfoQ has also launched the InfoQ Certified Organizational Architect Program<\/a>, covering the organizational decisions that shape how engineering work gets done, team structure, value stream design, and platform strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n These cohorts join the existing InfoQ online certification portfolio, which already includes the Certified Architect Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n A Shared Cohort Format<\/p>\n The format is designed for practitioners who already have deep technical experience. The emphasis is not on introductory instruction, but on making better decisions in areas where the trade-offs are difficult to reverse.<\/p>\n Across all programs, each week follows the same practical, five-week structure:<\/p>\n
The cohorts give participants a way to compare approaches with senior peers from different industries, validate decisions they are already making, and improve how they articulate trade-offs to stakeholders.<\/p>\n Upcoming online cohorts and certifications<\/p>\n Software Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n Dives into the sociotechnical side of architecture. Topics include distributed systems and resilience patterns, decentralized architectural decision-making, platform engineering, and integrating AI into architecture practice.<\/p>\n
Starts June 10, 2026. Reserve your place<\/a>.<\/p>\n Organizational Architect (New)<\/a><\/p>\n This cohort is exploring the non-technical decisions that shape whether the technical strategy gets adopted. Topics include leadership communication, value stream architecture, architecting for flow, platformization, and managing cognitive load.<\/p>\n
Starts June 19, 2026. Reserve your place<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n AI Engineering (New)<\/a><\/p>\n Focuses on building AI systems that hold up in production. Topics include AI-native engineering, RAG and context pipelines, agent design, AI platform infrastructure, inference cost, and system reliability.<\/p>\n
Starts July 25, 2026. Reserve your place<\/a>.<\/p>\n Program Details<\/p>\n The cohorts require a weekly commitment of four hours of live session time, plus up to two hours of time-boxed homework.<\/p>\n
\n\tIndependent preparation: Participants watch a curated QCon talk on their own time before the session.
\n\tLive workshop: Participants join a weekly, four-hour live workshop with the facilitator and a senior peer group.
\n\tReal-world application: The group applies the framework to an active decision from the participant\u2019s own work, discussing trade-offs in a confidential peer setting.
\n\tApply at work: Participants leave with an approach, framing, or trade-off analysis they can use with their team that week.
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\n\tFacilitator: Luca Mezzalira, Principal Solutions Architect and O’Reilly author of Building Micro-Frontends.
\n\tStarts: Wednesday, June 10. Choice of BST or EDT cohorts.
\n\tSyllabus: View the full week-by-week overview<\/a>.
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\n\tFacilitator: Manuel Pais, Co-author of Team Topologies and Director of the Team Topologies Academy.
\n\tStarts: Friday, June 19, 2026, at 9:00 AM CEST.
\n\tSyllabus: View the full week-by-week overview<\/a>.
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\n\tFacilitator: Hien Luu, Sr. Engineering Manager at Zoox and author of MLOps with Ray and Beginning Apache Spark 3.
\n\tStarts: Saturday, July 25, 2026, at 09:00 AM PDT.
\n\tSyllabus: View the full week-by-week overview<\/a>.
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