Thursday, Dec 12, 2019 | 08:00 AM - 07:30 PM EST
Nasdaq, 4 Times Square, New York, NY
The 2019 New York CTO Summit
Connect with, and learn from your peers at the New York 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 NEW YORK CTO SUMMIT
If you are technical and manage engineers, learn from and connect with your peers at The 2019 New York 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 (8am -> 7pm) summit with. 19 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

How parenting makes you an effective manager

Stacy Gorelik

Director Engineering, Flatiron Health

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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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Accelerating Engineering Teams with Data

Juan pablo Buriticá

VP Engineering, Splice

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How to train your stakeholder

Nick Rockwell

CTO, New York Times

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Run, Grow and Transform

James Kenigsberg

CTO, 2U

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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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7 ways to delegate without losing control

Kareen Kircher

Founder, DevOps Advisors

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Antidotes to Attrition

Mike Boufford

CTO, Greenhouse

The Tech Debt Serenity Prayer

Neetu Rajpal

CTO, Conductor

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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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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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Architecting Teams that Scale

Jason Warner

CTO, GitHub

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The 3Cs of Technology: Hiring and managing for impact

Dmitry Koltunov

CTO & Co-Founder, Alice

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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

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Summit agenda

8:00 AM

Registration/Breakfast

8:25 AM

Kickoff by host

Peter Bell, Founder, CTOconnection

8:30 AM

Welcome to the Nasdaq

8:40 AM

10 things your junior engineers don’t know

Robin Ducot, CTO, SurveyMonkey

9:00 AM

Antidotes to Attrition

Mike Boufford, CTO, Greenhouse

9:20 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

9:40 AM

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

11:00 AM

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

11:40 AM

Accelerating Engineering Teams with Data

Juan pablo Buriticá, VP Engineering, Splice

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

How to train your stakeholder

Nick Rockwell, CTO, New York Times

1:20 PM

7 ways to delegate without losing control

Kareen Kircher, Founder, DevOps Advisors

1:40 PM

Run, Grow and Transform

James Kenigsberg, CTO, 2U

2:00 PM

The Tech Debt Serenity Prayer

Neetu Rajpal, CTO, Conductor

2:20 PM

Break

3:00 PM

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

Claudius Mbemba, CTO, neu

3:20 PM

Opportunity cost - the real cost of software development

Ben Wolf, VP Technology, eVestment

3:40 PM

Do You Even Scale, Bro?

Alexandra Sobhani, Director Engineering, Signafire

4:00 PM

Break

4:30 PM

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

Debbie Madden, Founder, Stride

4:50 PM

Your engineering brand is a KPI

Randy Shepherd, VP Engineering, Giphy

5:10 PM

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

Eleanor Saitta, Founder, Systems Structure

5:30 PM

Architecting Teams that Scale

Jason Warner, CTO, GitHub

5:50 PM

Closing

6:00 PM

Networking & Drinks

7:30 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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