Wednesday, Dec 09, 2015 | 07:30 PM - 04:00 PM AEDT
Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales
The 2015 Sydney CTO Summit
Connect with, and learn from your peers at the Sydney 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 SYDNEY 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

Building a technology product innovation capability using iterns!

Wes Sonnenreich

CEO, Intersective

Graph databases - what's all the fuss and why should you care?

Peter Whitfield

CTO, LawPath

The internet of orphaned things

Pete Chapman

Director, Ernst & Young (EY)

The power of creative and engineering working together

Josh Graham

CTO, Simple Machines

If you want to ship software, you need to Fail Fast

Adam Stephenson

Solution arquitect and general manager, QLD, SSW

Lessons learned from building and scaling intelligent/analytics systems

Daniel Harrison

Founder, Amplif.ai

Designing better problems

Robin Hilliard

CTO, Rocketboots

A world without servers (or instances)

Richard Glew

CTO, Literacy Planet

How Jetty harvested use cases from its users and clients

Greg Wilkins

Jetty project leader, Eclipse Foundation

Lightening talk - Scarcity as a driver of innovation

Greg Willis

CTO, LeanSlate

Building a learning culture on a budget

Andy Kelk

Head of Software Engineering, Digital products, New Corp Australia

Scaling agile to the enterprise - Frameworks and the debate!

Alexandra Stokes

Founder, Agily

Blame. Language. sharing: Learning from accidents in your orgs

Lindsay Holmwood

Infrastructure and Platforms Lead, Digital Transformation Office

Priming your teams for microservice deployment to the cloud

Matt Callanan

Applications Engineer, Expedia

A survival guide for running and managing a distributed team

Toby Hede

CTO, Fame & Partners, Distributed developers

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

Gregory Warden

Head of Engineering Services, Atlassian

Moving to Teal - our experiences with non-traditional engineering management

Russ Smith

CTO, RainforestQA

What to do when things go wrong

Kurt Brown

Client Engagement Principal, DiUS Computing

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Summit agenda

7:40 AM

Moving to Teal - our experiences with non-traditional engineering management

Russ Smith, CTO, RainforestQA

8:30 AM

Registration/Breakfast

9:00 AM

Introduction Jon Williams

9:10 AM

The CTO's manifesto

Simon Raik allen, CTO, MYOB

9:30 AM

Building a technology product innovation capability using iterns!

Wes Sonnenreich, CEO, Intersective

9:50 AM

Graph databases - what's all the fuss and why should you care?

Peter Whitfield, CTO, LawPath

10:10 AM

The internet of orphaned things

Pete Chapman, Director, Ernst & Young (EY)

10:30 AM

Break

11:20 AM

If you want to ship software, you need to Fail Fast

Adam Stephenson, Solution arquitect and general manager, QLD, SSW

11:40 AM

Lessons learned from building and scaling intelligent/analytics systems

Daniel Harrison, Founder, Amplif.ai

12:00 PM

The power of creative and engineering working together

Josh Graham, CTO, Simple Machines

12:20 PM

Lunch

1:20 PM

Designing better problems

Robin Hilliard, CTO, Rocketboots

1:40 PM

A world without servers (or instances)

Richard Glew, CTO, Literacy Planet

2:00 PM

How Jetty harvested use cases from its users and clients

Greg Wilkins, Jetty project leader, Eclipse Foundation

2:20 PM

Break

2:40 PM

Lightening talk - Scarcity as a driver of innovation

Greg Willis, CTO, LeanSlate

2:50 PM

Building a learning culture on a budget

Andy Kelk, Head of Software Engineering, Digital products, New Corp Australia

3:10 PM

What to do when things go wrong

Kurt Brown, Client Engagement Principal, DiUS Computing

3:30 PM

Scaling agile to the enterprise - Frameworks and the debate!

Alexandra Stokes, Founder, Agily

3:50 PM

Break

4:05 PM

Blame. Language. sharing: Learning from accidents in your orgs

Lindsay Holmwood, Infrastructure and Platforms Lead, Digital Transformation Office

4:25 PM

Priming your teams for microservice deployment to the cloud

Matt Callanan, Applications Engineer, Expedia

4:45 PM

A survival guide for running and managing a distributed team

Toby Hede, CTO, Fame & Partners, Distributed developers

5:05 PM

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

Gregory Warden, Head of Engineering Services, Atlassian

5:25 PM

Closing remarks

5:25 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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