Kickoff by host
Peter Bell
Founder & CTO, CTO Connection
How to run your development team like you only have a year to live
Drew Batshaw
CoFounder and CTO, Waggl
Making Your Dream (Team) Come True
Ron Lichty
Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting
Toughest words a CTO says - Hold on the code
Cherise Esparza-gutierrez
Co-Founder and CTO, SecurityGate
Cheat Codes for Managing Application Performance
Kwame Thomison
Principal, Magnetic Management Consulting
Seventeen things that have bitten us but shouldn’t have
Bjorn Freeman-benson
CTO, Fresnel Research
Words Matter - Ubiquitous Language & Throughput
Rob Zuber
CTO, Circle CI
What I Learned from 4 Years of Researching the Crap out of devOps!
Jez Humble
CTO, DevOps Research and Assessment
Angst Aikido - The Art of Making Scary Engineering Culture Change
Tara Hernandez
, Engineering Manager
10 Lessons Learned from Building Engineering Teams Under Pressure
Julia Grace
Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering, Slack
RPC - Remote People Call - Managing Globally Distributed Teams
Johnny ray Austin
Head of Navigation Data , Mapbox
Diversity Is the Bar
Beth Andres-beck
Software Engineering Manager, The Long-Term Stock Exchange
Registration/Breakfast
Kickoff by host
Peter Bell, Founder & CTO, CTO Connection
Kickoff by host
Peter Bell, Founder & CTO, CTO Connection
How to run your development team like you only have a year to live
Drew Batshaw, CoFounder and CTO, Waggl
How to run your development team like you only have a year to live
Drew Batshaw, CoFounder and CTO, Waggl
So it turns out you do need product managers
Cathy Polinsky, CTO, Stitch Fix
So it turns out you do need product managers
Cathy Polinsky, CTO, Stitch Fix
My experiments with Conway’s law
Laks Srini, CTO, Zenefits
My experiments with Conway’s law
Laks Srini, CTO, Zenefits
Making Your Dream (Team) Come True
Ron Lichty, Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting
Making Your Dream (Team) Come True
Ron Lichty, Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting
Break
Lessons from our doomed pull requests
Bryan Helmkamp, Founder/CEO, Code Climate
Lessons from our doomed pull requests
Bryan Helmkamp, Founder/CEO, Code Climate
Cheat Codes for Managing Application Performance
Kwame Thomison, Principal, Magnetic Management Consulting
Cheat Codes for Managing Application Performance
Kwame Thomison, Principal, Magnetic Management Consulting
Toughest words a CTO says - Hold on the code
Cherise Esparza-gutierrez, Co-Founder and CTO, SecurityGate
Toughest words a CTO says - Hold on the code
Cherise Esparza-gutierrez, Co-Founder and CTO, SecurityGate
Seventeen things that have bitten us but shouldn’t have
Bjorn Freeman-benson, CTO, Fresnel Research
Seventeen things that have bitten us but shouldn’t have
Bjorn Freeman-benson, CTO, Fresnel Research
Lunch
Words Matter - Ubiquitous Language & Throughput
Rob Zuber, CTO, Circle CI
Words Matter - Ubiquitous Language & Throughput
Rob Zuber, CTO, Circle CI
The wrong way to feature flag
Edith Harbaugh, CEO/Cofounder, LaunchDarkly
The wrong way to feature flag
Edith Harbaugh, CEO/Cofounder, LaunchDarkly
What I Learned from 4 Years of Researching the Crap out of devOps!
Jez Humble, CTO, DevOps Research and Assessment
What I Learned from 4 Years of Researching the Crap out of devOps!
Jez Humble, CTO, DevOps Research and Assessment
Angst Aikido - The Art of Making Scary Engineering Culture Change
Tara Hernandez, , Engineering Manager
Angst Aikido - The Art of Making Scary Engineering Culture Change
Tara Hernandez, , Engineering Manager
Break
10 Lessons Learned from Building Engineering Teams Under Pressure
Julia Grace, Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering, Slack
10 Lessons Learned from Building Engineering Teams Under Pressure
Julia Grace, Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering, Slack
RPC - Remote People Call - Managing Globally Distributed Teams
Johnny ray Austin, Head of Navigation Data , Mapbox
RPC - Remote People Call - Managing Globally Distributed Teams
Johnny ray Austin, Head of Navigation Data , Mapbox
Quality vs. QA
Russell Smith, CTO, Rainforest
Quality vs. QA
Russell Smith, CTO, Rainforest
Diversity Is the Bar
Beth Andres-beck, Software Engineering Manager, The Long-Term Stock Exchange
Diversity Is the Bar
Beth Andres-beck, Software Engineering Manager, The Long-Term Stock Exchange
Break
Lessons from the Black Box
Heather Rivers, CTO, Mode Analytics
Lessons from the Black Box
Heather Rivers, CTO, Mode Analytics
A tale of two companies
Robert Stewart, CTO, Castlight Health
A tale of two companies
Robert Stewart, CTO, Castlight Health
Matching product validation strategy to company stage
Ellen Chisa, CEO/Cofounder, Dark
Matching product validation strategy to company stage
Ellen Chisa, CEO/Cofounder, Dark
Moving fast at scale
Randy Shoup, VP Engineering, WeWork
Moving fast at scale
Randy Shoup, VP Engineering, WeWork
Closing
Networking & Drinks