Tuesday, May 09, 2017 | 08:00 AM - 07:30 PM PDT
San Francisco, San Francisco, California
The 2017 San Francisco CTO Summit
Connect with, and learn from your peers at the San Francisco 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 SAN FRANCISCO CTO SUMMIT
WHY ATTEND?
Keep up to date with trends
Identify good practices
Strengthen your network
Get inspired and motivated
SPEAKERS INCLUDE

When logs and metrics fail us: the future of observability

Charity Majors

Co-founder, Honeycomb

Building a self-driving team

Raffi Krikorian

, Former Engineering Director

The awkward adolescence of an engineering team

Rob Zuber

CTO, CircleCI

Kickoff by host

Peter Bell

Founder, CTO Connection

When are you? Managing engineering across multiple time zones

On Freund

VP Engineering, WeWork

Tech and inclusion. Why so difficult?

Leslie Miley

Former Director of Engineering, Slack

CTB: Chief Technology Bot as assistant for CTOs

Yi Zhang

CTO, Rulai

The Twelve Factors of QA

Russell Smith

CTO, RainforestQA

Re-architecture and tech debt: When do you take the leap to microservices?

Rohini Pradeep

SVP, Head of Technology and Engineering, Blurb

How to merge UX and lean market tests with software development and continuous delivery

Bev May

Managing Director, Oxford Tech Consulting and The Concepts Lab

Startups, software development & the art of bicycle maintenance

Edith Harbaugh

CEO & Co-founder, LaunchDarkly

How do I ally?

Aimee Lucido

Software Engineer II, Uber

Small Data: practical machine learning for startups

Gabor Angeli

CTO, Eloquent Labs

Your Culture Story: How epic story telling during onboarding builds stronger culture than 'corporate values'

Cathy Polinsky

CTO, Stitch Fix

Embracing AI at a startup

Sowmiya chocka Narayanan

CTO, Lily

Your first five technical hires

Adam Dill

Co-founder, DailyDrip

From Web to Chatbots and Conversational UI: A Journey

Alex Sopinka

CTO, Tasytt

Building Organizations that Scale

Jason Warner

VP Engineering, Heroku/Salesforce

Securing Containers for Startups

John Kinsella

CTO, Layered Insight

The Rise of our Robot Overlords

Bjorn Freeman-benson

CTO, InVision

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Summit agenda

7:00 AM

Registration/Breakfast

7:50 AM

Kickoff by host

Peter Bell, Founder, CTO Connection

8:00 AM

The awkward adolescence of an engineering team

Rob Zuber, CTO, CircleCI

8:40 AM

Building a self-driving team

Raffi Krikorian, , Former Engineering Director

9:00 AM

Getting acquired, lessons learned

Francois Richard, VP Engineering, Yahooo! Inc.

9:20 AM

When logs and metrics fail us: the future of observability

Charity Majors, Co-founder, Honeycomb

10:20 AM

Break

10:50 AM

When are you? Managing engineering across multiple time zones

On Freund, VP Engineering, WeWork

11:10 AM

The Twelve Factors of QA

Russell Smith, CTO, RainforestQA

11:30 AM

Re-architecture and tech debt: When do you take the leap to microservices?

Rohini Pradeep, SVP, Head of Technology and Engineering, Blurb

11:50 AM

Tech and inclusion. Why so difficult?

Leslie Miley, Former Director of Engineering, Slack

12:10 PM

CTB: Chief Technology Bot as assistant for CTOs

Yi Zhang, CTO, Rulai

12:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

Startups, software development & the art of bicycle maintenance

Edith Harbaugh, CEO & Co-founder, LaunchDarkly

1:50 PM

How to merge UX and lean market tests with software development and continuous delivery

Bev May, Managing Director, Oxford Tech Consulting and The Concepts Lab

2:10 PM

How do I ally?

Aimee Lucido, Software Engineer II, Uber

2:30 PM

Small Data: practical machine learning for startups

Gabor Angeli, CTO, Eloquent Labs

2:50 PM

Break

3:30 PM

Your Culture Story: How epic story telling during onboarding builds stronger culture than 'corporate values'

Cathy Polinsky, CTO, Stitch Fix

3:50 PM

Embracing AI at a startup

Sowmiya chocka Narayanan, CTO, Lily

4:10 PM

Your first five technical hires

Adam Dill, Co-founder, DailyDrip

4:30 PM

Break

5:10 PM

Building Organizations that Scale

Jason Warner, VP Engineering, Heroku/Salesforce

5:30 PM

From Web to Chatbots and Conversational UI: A Journey

Alex Sopinka, CTO, Tasytt

5:50 PM

Securing Containers for Startups

John Kinsella, CTO, Layered Insight

6:10 PM

The Rise of our Robot Overlords

Bjorn Freeman-benson, CTO, InVision

6:30 PM

Closing

6:40 PM

Networking & Drinks

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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