Wednesday, Dec 02, 2015 | 07:30 PM - 06:00 AM AEDT
Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
The 2015 Melbourne CTO Summit
Connect with, and learn from your peers at the Melbourne CTO Summit
*Participation is limited to CTOs, CDOs, and Directors/VPs of Software, Platform and Data/Analytics in product companies (not dev shops) with at least 200 full time employees in product/engineering
ABOUT THE MELBOURNE CTO SUMMIT
WHY ATTEND?
Keep up to date with trends
Identify good practices
Strengthen your network
Get inspired and motivated
SPEAKERS INCLUDE

The CTO's manifesto

Simon Raik allen

CTO, MYOB

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Composition vs Inheritance in a dynamically typed world - real code reuse in a python team scaling a microservice based product

David Novakovic

Co-Founder/CTO, Scrunch

Concrete Experimentation in Agile Environments

Bernd Schiffer

Agile Coach, Bold Mover

Balancing autonomy and leverage in a large agile organisation

Tomas Varsavsky

CTO, REA Group

Distupt or be disrupted - A primer on the Social Age

Karl Rohde

Head of Infrastructure & Service Delivery, Novion Property Group

Monolithic App to continuously delivered microservices: lessons from SEEK and PageUp - A business perspective

Tal Rotbart

CTO, PageUp People

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Good Enough is Good Enough - 'Minimal Viable Architecture' in a startup

Randy Shoup

Consulting CTO,

Reliability, Availability & Performance: just a simple matter of programming. Wrong!

Gregory Warden

Head of Engineering Services, Atlassian

Using React Native for Cross-Platform Mobile

Simon Wade

CTO, jTribe

My Journey as a Co-Founding CTO in Australia

Randall makin

CTO & Co-founder, RedEye Apps

Building a learning culture on a budget

Andy Kelk

Global Head of Software Engineering, New Corp Australia

Shortcuts to most wanted product

Helen Snitkovsky

CTO, 4th Party

Why you're not getting it done

Toby Tremayne

Development Consultant, The Walt Disney Company

Stop hiring - start thinking like an engineer

Tom Mcleod

CTO, Myagi

What if everything you knew about code quality is wrong?

Erwin Van der koogh

Principal Consultant, Elabor8

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Summit agenda

8:30 AM

Registration/Breakfast

9:00 AM

Introduction Jon Williams

9:10 AM

Composition vs Inheritance in a dynamically typed world - real code reuse in a python team scaling a microservice based product

David Novakovic, Co-Founder/CTO, Scrunch

9:10 AM

The CTO's manifesto

Simon Raik allen, CTO, MYOB

9:30 AM

Monolithic App to continuously delivered microservices: lessons from SEEK and PageUp - A business perspective

Tal Rotbart, CTO, PageUp People

10:10 AM

Concrete Experimentation in Agile Environments

Bernd Schiffer, Agile Coach, Bold Mover

11:00 AM

Good Enough is Good Enough - 'Minimal Viable Architecture' in a startup

Randy Shoup, Consulting CTO,

11:20 AM

Balancing autonomy and leverage in a large agile organisation

Tomas Varsavsky, CTO, REA Group

11:40 AM

Scaling agile to the enterprise - Frameworks and the debate!

Alexandra Stokes, Founder, Agily

12:00 PM

Distupt or be disrupted - A primer on the Social Age

Karl Rohde, Head of Infrastructure & Service Delivery, Novion Property Group

12:20 PM

Lunch

1:20 PM

Reliability, Availability & Performance: just a simple matter of programming. Wrong!

Gregory Warden, Head of Engineering Services, Atlassian

1:40 PM

Using React Native for Cross-Platform Mobile

Simon Wade, CTO, jTribe

2:00 PM

My Journey as a Co-Founding CTO in Australia

Randall makin, CTO & Co-founder, RedEye Apps

2:20 PM

Break

2:50 PM

Building a learning culture on a budget

Andy Kelk, Global Head of Software Engineering, New Corp Australia

3:10 PM

Shortcuts to most wanted product

Helen Snitkovsky, CTO, 4th Party

3:30 PM

Why you're not getting it done

Toby Tremayne, Development Consultant, The Walt Disney Company

3:50 PM

BREAK

4:20 PM

Stop hiring - start thinking like an engineer

Tom Mcleod, CTO, Myagi

4:40 PM

What if everything you knew about code quality is wrong?

Erwin Van der koogh, Principal Consultant, Elabor8

5:00 PM

Closing remarks

5:30 PM

Open Bar

7:00 PM

End of Event

"The sessions were high caliber and had a lasting impact on my work this year. As a single-day event in my hometown, it was easy to work into my schedule."


Jennifer Farver
CEO at 8th Light
“The summits bring together industry leaders who are passionate about sharing high-quality, practical knowledge in an environment that fosters valuable networking, learning, and growth.”


Nick Caldwell
former GM of Core Tech @ Twitter
“IT'S JUST SO RARE TO GET SUCH A DISTINGUISHED GROUP OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LEADERS TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES COMMON TO US ALL. IT'S A MUST ATTEND FOR ANYONE IN TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP.”


Robert Conrad
CTO at Crunchbase
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