The 2019 New York CTO Summit

FEATURED SPEAKERS

THE SPEAKERS

Running Your Best Possible Staff Meeting

Eliot Horowitz

CTO, MongoDB

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How to Grow a Learning Culture: A Learning and Development Case Study

Kwame Thomison

Founder, Magnetic

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How parenting makes you an effective manager

Stacy Gorelik

Director Engineering, Flatiron Health

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Accelerating Engineering Teams with Data

Juan pablo Buriticá

VP Engineering, Splice

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Rachel Maddow is the new Slashdot Effect: architecting systems for extremely bursty web traffic driven by the news cycle

Ann Lewis

CTO, MoveOn.org

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The 3Cs of Technology: Hiring and managing for impact

Dmitry Koltunov

CTO & Co-Founder, Alice

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The Tech Debt Serenity Prayer

Neetu Rajpal

CTO, Conductor

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How to train your stakeholder

Nick Rockwell

CTO, New York Times

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7 ways to delegate without losing control

Kareen Kircher

Founder, DevOps Advisors

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Antidotes to Attrition

Mike Boufford

CTO, Greenhouse

Engineers Are People Too (How to get the most from those around you)

Claudius Mbemba

CTO, neu

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Culture Debt: Why Bad Culture Happens To Good People And What You Can Do To Prevent It

Debbie Madden

Founder, Stride

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Architecting Teams that Scale

Jason Warner

CTO, GitHub

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So you’ve realized you need to get serious about security...

Eleanor Saitta

Founder, Systems Structure

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Your engineering brand is a KPI

Randy Shepherd

VP Engineering, Giphy

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Run, Grow and Transform

James Kenigsberg

CTO, 2U

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Opportunity cost - the real cost of software development

Ben Wolf

VP Technology, eVestment

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Do You Even Scale, Bro?

Alexandra Sobhani

Director Engineering, Signafire

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10 things your junior engineers don’t know

Robin Ducot

CTO, SurveyMonkey

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Kickoff by host

Peter Bell

Founder, CTOconnection

What CTO’s say about CTO Summits

The CTO Summit gave me a great opportunity to step back from the daily challenges and think about broader opportunities to help my team evolve and accelerate.

Ann Funai

SVP Engineering, Under Armour

The CTO Summit series produces some of the highest-quality content, available for engineering leaders. The speaker lineup is always diverse and passionate about their areas of expertise. I'm not aware of any other event which packs this much talent and high-quality content into a single day!

Johnny Austin

CTO Till

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 Cardwell

Chief Product Officer, Looker

Johnny Austin

CTO Till

The CTO Summit gave me a great opportunity to step back from the daily challenges and think about broader opportunities to help my team evolve and accelerate." should be replaced by: "The CTO Summit was the rare event where every talk felt applicable to me as an engineering leader. The topics ranged from managing remote teams (pre-Covid!) to methods of coordinating a technical re-platforming. Talks were high quality, succinct, and always had useful takeaways.

Cat Miller

VP Engineering Flatiron Health

Almost by definition, most senior engineering leaders don't have peers at their company that they can share with and learn from. I always look forward to participating in the CTO Summit events because they offer one of those rare opportunities to learn from peers, as well as to make and renew connections with colleagues. They are well-run, collegial, and always worthwhile. I recommend them highly to any senior engineering leader.

Randy Shoup

VP Engineering eBay

The CTO Summit gave me a great opportunity to step back from the daily challenges and think about broader opportunities to help my team evolve and accelerate.

Ann Funai

SVP Engineering, Under Armour

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 Cardwell

Chief Product Officer, Looker

Randy Shoup

VP Engineering eBay

The CTO Summit was the rare event where every talk felt applicable to me as an engineering leader. The topics ranged from managing remote teams (pre-Covid!) to methods of coordinating a technical re-platforming. Talks were high quality, succinct, and always had useful takeaways.

Cat Miller

VP Engineering Flatiron Health

08:00 AM

Registration/Breakfast

08:25 AM

Kickoff by host

Peter Bell, Founder, CTOconnection

Kickoff by host

Peter Bell, Founder, CTOconnection

08:30 AM

Welcome to the Nasdaq

08:40 AM

10 things your junior engineers don’t know

Robin Ducot, CTO, SurveyMonkey

10 things your junior engineers don’t know

Robin Ducot, CTO, SurveyMonkey

09:00 AM

Antidotes to Attrition

Mike Boufford, CTO, Greenhouse

Antidotes to Attrition

Mike Boufford, CTO, Greenhouse

09:20 AM

Rachel Maddow is the new Slashdot Effect: architecting systems for extremely bursty web traffic driven by the news cycle

Ann Lewis, CTO, MoveOn.org

Rachel Maddow is the new Slashdot Effect: architecting systems for extremely bursty web traffic driven by the news cycle

Ann Lewis, CTO, MoveOn.org

09:40 AM

The 3Cs of Technology: Hiring and managing for impact

Dmitry Koltunov, CTO & Co-Founder, Alice

The 3Cs of Technology: Hiring and managing for impact

Dmitry Koltunov, CTO & Co-Founder, Alice

10:00 AM

Break

10:40 AM

Running Your Best Possible Staff Meeting

Eliot Horowitz, CTO, MongoDB

Running Your Best Possible Staff Meeting

Eliot Horowitz, CTO, MongoDB

11:00 AM

How to Grow a Learning Culture: A Learning and Development Case Study

Kwame Thomison, Founder, Magnetic

How to Grow a Learning Culture: A Learning and Development Case Study

Kwame Thomison, Founder, Magnetic

11:20 AM

How parenting makes you an effective manager

Stacy Gorelik, Director Engineering, Flatiron Health

How parenting makes you an effective manager

Stacy Gorelik, Director Engineering, Flatiron Health

11:40 AM

Accelerating Engineering Teams with Data

Juan pablo Buriticá, VP Engineering, Splice

Accelerating Engineering Teams with Data

Juan pablo Buriticá, VP Engineering, Splice

12:00 PM

Lunch

01:00 PM

How to train your stakeholder

Nick Rockwell, CTO, New York Times

How to train your stakeholder

Nick Rockwell, CTO, New York Times

01:20 PM

7 ways to delegate without losing control

Kareen Kircher, Founder, DevOps Advisors

7 ways to delegate without losing control

Kareen Kircher, Founder, DevOps Advisors

01:40 PM

Run, Grow and Transform

James Kenigsberg, CTO, 2U

Run, Grow and Transform

James Kenigsberg, CTO, 2U

02:00 PM

The Tech Debt Serenity Prayer

Neetu Rajpal, CTO, Conductor

The Tech Debt Serenity Prayer

Neetu Rajpal, CTO, Conductor

02:20 PM

Break

03:00 PM

Engineers Are People Too (How to get the most from those around you)

Claudius Mbemba, CTO, neu

Engineers Are People Too (How to get the most from those around you)

Claudius Mbemba, CTO, neu

03:20 PM

Opportunity cost - the real cost of software development

Ben Wolf, VP Technology, eVestment

Opportunity cost - the real cost of software development

Ben Wolf, VP Technology, eVestment

03:40 PM

Do You Even Scale, Bro?

Alexandra Sobhani, Director Engineering, Signafire

Do You Even Scale, Bro?

Alexandra Sobhani, Director Engineering, Signafire

04:00 PM

Break

04:30 PM

Culture Debt: Why Bad Culture Happens To Good People And What You Can Do To Prevent It

Debbie Madden, Founder, Stride

Culture Debt: Why Bad Culture Happens To Good People And What You Can Do To Prevent It

Debbie Madden, Founder, Stride

04:50 PM

Your engineering brand is a KPI

Randy Shepherd, VP Engineering, Giphy

Your engineering brand is a KPI

Randy Shepherd, VP Engineering, Giphy

05:10 PM

So you’ve realized you need to get serious about security...

Eleanor Saitta, Founder, Systems Structure

So you’ve realized you need to get serious about security...

Eleanor Saitta, Founder, Systems Structure

05:30 PM

Architecting Teams that Scale

Jason Warner, CTO, GitHub

Architecting Teams that Scale

Jason Warner, CTO, GitHub

05:50 PM

Closing

06:00 PM

Networking & Drinks

07:30 PM

End of Event

OUR PARTNERS

Event partners

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Nasdaq

DIAMOND PARTNERS

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iTechArt

Since 2002, iTechArt has been an industry-leading software development partner to 500+ disruptive startups and fast-growing companies worldwide, working on cutting-edge technology across industries. Equipping companies with dedicated engineering teams, iTechArt helps scale from Series A to unicorn status — contributing to $13B+ in acquisitions and 20+ IPOs. An engineering powerhouse headquartered in New York with 20+ offices and 3,500+ developers worldwide, iTechArt is a recognized partner to companies like AWS, Google, and Microsoft. Our developers bring extensive experience in AI/ML, application development, cloud, data analytics, DevOps, IoT, mobile, web, and more to deliver high ROI and performing products. iTechArt has been ranked consecutively as a fast-growing company by the Inc. 5000 since 2018, Financial Times since 2021, and more.

GOLD PARTNERS

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Amazon Web Services

AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products to equip technology leaders to build better and more powerful solutions, reach out to aws-cto-program@amazon.com if you’re interested in learning more about their offerings.

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LaunchDarkly

Never worry about another software launch. Unleash developer productivity for the software-powered world by fundamentally changing how you deliver software to your customers. With LaunchDarkly’s feature management platform, empowered developers can empower the business to release new features faster and more efficiently than ever. Visit https://launchdarkly.com/ to learn more.

SILVER PARTNERS

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Andela

Since 2014, Andela has been dedicated to connecting the world’s best companies -- like InVision, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS -- to the world’s best talent, especially from emerging markets like Africa, Latin America, and more.

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Flatfile

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Techgrok

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Raise.dev