Tuesday, Apr 09, 2019 | 08:00 AM - 11:30 PM CDT
Austin, Austin, Texas
The 2019 Austin CTO Summit
Connect with, and learn from your peers at the Austin 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

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ABOUT THE AUSTIN CTO SUMMIT
WHY ATTEND?
Keep up to date with trends
Identify good practices
Strengthen your network
Get inspired and motivated
SPEAKERS INCLUDE

9 Whys

Douglas Ferguson

Founder, Voltage Control

How We've Scaled Our Hiring Process

Allison Mchenry

Director of Engineerin, Games, The New York Times

Deployless environments and live values: what it really means to work in production

Ellen Chisa

Cofounder/CEO , Dark

Building Distributed Systems of People

Juan pablo Buritica

VP Engineering, splice.com

Raising the bar - Using your interview process as a competitive edge

Vivek Sagi

CTO, RetailMeNot

Run Engineering Meetings Using Improv Skills

Ushashi Chakraborty

Director of Engineering, Mode Analytics

I Don’t Read Books: Guiding Principles for Building a Leadership Style

Jack Humphrey

VP Engineering, Indeed

Narrowing the gap between engineers and customers

Sarah Kampman

VP Products, Square Root

How to be happily acquired: Thoughts from an experienced buyer

Jim Colson

Independent Advisor, IBM

Beyond Diversity & Inclusion 101: Intersectionality and Systemic Change

Heidi Williams

CTO & Cofounder, tEQuitable

I Built a Front-End Team and You Shouldn't Too

Engineering Lead, Indeed

Accidental Cybersecurity

Marcus Carey

Founder, Threatcare

Building an Open Source Engineering Brand

Daniel Doubrovkine

Principal Engineer, Amazon Web

How to Onboard Junior Devs Without Slowing Down Production

Sara ines Calderon

React Native Lead, Musx

AI: from art to engineering

Neil Dholakia

CPO/CTO, Keller Williams

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Summit agenda

8:00 AM

Registration/Breakfast

8:50 AM

Welcome

9:00 AM

9 Whys

Douglas Ferguson, Founder, Voltage Control

9:20 AM

How We've Scaled Our Hiring Process

Allison Mchenry, Director of Engineerin, Games, The New York Times

9:40 AM

Deployless environments and live values: what it really means to work in production

Ellen Chisa, Cofounder/CEO , Dark

10:00 AM

Building Distributed Systems of People

Juan pablo Buritica, VP Engineering, splice.com

10:20 AM

Break

10:40 AM

Raising the bar - Using your interview process as a competitive edge

Vivek Sagi, CTO, RetailMeNot

10:55 AM

Run Engineering Meetings Using Improv Skills

Ushashi Chakraborty, Director of Engineering, Mode Analytics

11:15 AM

I Don’t Read Books: Guiding Principles for Building a Leadership Style

Jack Humphrey, VP Engineering, Indeed

11:35 AM

Table Discussions: Have you learned anything that you would like to see your team consider tomorrow?

11:55 AM

Lunch

12:15 PM

Narrowing the gap between engineers and customers

Sarah Kampman, VP Products, Square Root

12:35 PM

How to be happily acquired: Thoughts from an experienced buyer

Jim Colson, Independent Advisor, IBM

12:55 PM

Beyond Diversity & Inclusion 101: Intersectionality and Systemic Change

Heidi Williams, CTO & Cofounder, tEQuitable

1:15 PM

Break

1:30 PM

I Built a Front-End Team and You Shouldn't Too

, Engineering Lead, Indeed

1:50 PM

Accidental Cybersecurity

Marcus Carey, Founder, Threatcare

2:10 PM

Building an Open Source Engineering Brand

Daniel Doubrovkine, Principal Engineer, Amazon Web

2:30 PM

Table Discussions: How can we best measure engineering teams in a way that is integrated with business objectives?

2:50 PM

Break

3:05 PM

How to Onboard Junior Devs Without Slowing Down Production

Sara ines Calderon, React Native Lead, Musx

3:25 PM

AI: from art to engineering

Neil Dholakia, CPO/CTO, Keller Williams

3:45 PM

25/10 Crowdsourcing

4:25 PM

Reception

"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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