Kickoff by host
Peter Bell
Founder, CTO Connection
Welcome to the Nasdaq
Mike O'rourke
SVP, Nasdaq
The right amount of process to scale your engineering team
Elliot Horowitz
CTO & Cofounder, Mongo DB
Seventeen things that have bitten us but shouldn't have
Bjorn Freeman-benson
CTO, Fresnel Research
Refactoring trust on your team
Rebecca Miller-webster
Director of Software Engineering, GitHub
Setting your team up for failure
Johnny Austin
Head of Directions, Mapbox
Better communication for stronger leaders
Lena Reinhard
Director of Engineering, CircleCL
Improving diversity in tech by transforming CS education at colleges
Michael Ellison
CEO, Codepath.org
Standing on the shoulder of giants - adapting existing technologies for speed and credibility
James Kenigsberg
CTO, U2
Run engineering meetings using improv skills
Ushashi chakraborty
Director of Engineering, Backend, Mode Analytics
Your hiring pipeline is a product
Kwame Thomison
Engineering Leader Coach and Consultant , Magnetic Inc.
How to retain developers. And when to let them go.
Debbie Madden
Founder & CEO, Stride Consulting
Fully distributed & asynchronous: building eventually-coordinated teams that ship
Andrew Montalenti
CTO, Parse.ly