Tuesday, May 21, 2019 | 09:00 AM - 07:00 PM PDT
San Francisco, San Francisco, California
The 2019 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
If you are technical and manage engineers, learn from and connect with your peers at The 2019 San Francisco CTO Summit. Whether you want to hire smarter, refine your culture, improve your processes, manage more effectively or adopt better engineering practices or architectures, the CTO Summits are designed to help you to learn from top practitioners and to share experiences with your peers. The summit is a single track, full day (9am -> 7pm) summit with. 16+ presentations along with plenty of breaks for networking.
WHY ATTEND?
Keep up to date with trends
Identify good practices
Strengthen your network
Get inspired and motivated
SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Leading Infrastructure Teams

Julia Grace

Senior Director, Slack

Critical practices, nuanced techniques

Ron Lichty

Interim VP Eng, Ron Lichty Consulting

Building ML Capabilities without compromising on Ethics

Madhura Dudhgaonkar

Senior Director, ML, Workday

What I've Learned from Building a Gender-Diverse Engineering Team

Christine Spang

CTO & Founder, Nylas

Bias in AI and the Science of Diversity

Rebecca Parsons

CTO, ThoughtWorks

The Myth of the 10x Engineer

Johnny Austin

Head of Directions, Mapbox

Turning Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt into Positivity, Inclusivity and Courage

Leslie Borrell

VP, Intersection Co

How to Protect Your Sensitive Data. Really

Arshad Noor

CTO, StrongKey

Design of Engineering Teams and Processes and Architecture to Build a Data Platform

Peeyush Rai

VP of Engineering, Ciitizen

Build a Distributed Engineering Team at Scale (and Live to Tell the Tale)

Christian Mccarrick

VP Engineering, Auth0

Open Source for a Rousing Good Enterprise

Tara Hernandez

Senior Engineering Manager, Google

Transitioning Control: What I Wish I Knew Before we Hired our VP of Engineering

Arvind Pereira

CTO & Cofounder, Markov Corporation

How to Create Emotionally Intelligent Engineering Teams

Danielle Leong

Engineering Manager, GitHub

Technical Due Diligence - What Investors Really Care About

Jason Mongue

Founder, The Clover Group

The Art of Story telling: Help your Non-technical Colleagues Understand Engineering!

Ann Funai

SVP Engineering, Under Armour

Manufacturing High Performance

Casey Rosenthal

CTO, Verica.io

How Managers Can Spark New Leaders

Nick Caldwell

CPO, Looker

Beyond Inclusion 101: Intersectionality and Systemic Change

Heidi Williams

CTO, tEQuitable

Kickoff by host

Peter Bell

Founder, CTO connection

Congratulations - BigCo is Buying Your Company! Now What?

Amit Gupta

CTO Software, IOT Cloud, Cisco

Run Engineering Meetings Using Improv Skills

Ushashi Chakraborty

Director of Engineering, Mode Analytics

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Summit agenda

8:00 AM

Registration/Breakfast

9:00 AM

Kickoff by host

Peter Bell, Founder, CTO connection

9:10 AM

Bias in AI and the Science of Diversity

Rebecca Parsons, CTO, ThoughtWorks

9:30 AM

Congratulations - BigCo is Buying Your Company! Now What?

Amit Gupta, CTO Software, IOT Cloud, Cisco

9:50 AM

Run Engineering Meetings Using Improv Skills

Ushashi Chakraborty, Director of Engineering, Mode Analytics

10:10 AM

The Myth of the 10x Engineer

Johnny Austin, Head of Directions, Mapbox

10:30 AM

40 min break

11:10 AM

How to Protect Your Sensitive Data. Really

Arshad Noor, CTO, StrongKey

11:30 AM

What I've Learned from Building a Gender-Diverse Engineering Team

Christine Spang, CTO & Founder, Nylas

11:50 AM

Building ML Capabilities without compromising on Ethics

Madhura Dudhgaonkar, Senior Director, ML, Workday

12:10 PM

Critical practices, nuanced techniques

Ron Lichty, Interim VP Eng, Ron Lichty Consulting

12:30 PM

Lunch (1 hr) - Provided by Andela

1:30 PM

Leading Infrastructure Teams

Julia Grace, Senior Director, Slack

1:50 PM

Turning Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt into Positivity, Inclusivity and Courage

Leslie Borrell, VP, Intersection Co

2:10 PM

Design of Engineering Teams and Processes and Architecture to Build a Data Platform

Peeyush Rai, VP of Engineering, Ciitizen

2:30 PM

Build a Distributed Engineering Team at Scale (and Live to Tell the Tale)

Christian Mccarrick, VP Engineering, Auth0

2:50 PM

Break (20 mins)

3:10 PM

Open Source for a Rousing Good Enterprise

Tara Hernandez, Senior Engineering Manager, Google

3:30 PM

Transitioning Control: What I Wish I Knew Before we Hired our VP of Engineering

Arvind Pereira, CTO & Cofounder, Markov Corporation

3:50 PM

How to Create Emotionally Intelligent Engineering Teams

Danielle Leong, Engineering Manager, GitHub

4:10 PM

Technical Due Diligence - What Investors Really Care About

Jason Mongue, Founder, The Clover Group

4:30 PM

Break

5:10 PM

The Art of Story telling: Help your Non-technical Colleagues Understand Engineering!

Ann Funai, SVP Engineering, Under Armour

5:30 PM

Manufacturing High Performance

Casey Rosenthal, CTO, Verica.io

5:50 PM

Beyond Inclusion 101: Intersectionality and Systemic Change

Heidi Williams, CTO, tEQuitable

6:10 PM

How Managers Can Spark New Leaders

Nick Caldwell, CPO, Looker

6:30 PM

Closing

6:40 PM

Networking & Drinks

8:00 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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