Thursday, Apr 21, 2022 | 09:00 AM - 07:30 PM CDT
800 Congress Ave., Austin, Texas
The 2022 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
If you are technical and manage engineers, share problems and get answers at The 2022 Austin CTO Summit. Whether you want to figure out how to return to the office in a sustainable way, avoid the "great resignation", think through the practicalities of hiring and managing international teams or just learn how to improve your engineering effectiveness using approaches such as DORA metrics, 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 day (9:00 AM -> 7:00 PM), single track summit with 15+ 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

All the world’s a staging server: the lifecycle of a feature

Edith Harbaugh

CEO & Cofounder, LaunchDarkly

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Fulfilling the promise of continuous delivery

Charity Majors

CTO, Honeycomb

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Transforming your engineering culture

Vivek Sagi

CTO, Eventbrite

GSD

Colin Bodell

VP of Commercial R&D, Shopify

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Lessons learned from 7 layoffs in 7 days

Claudius Mbemba

CTO, Spritz (formerly Neu)

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The secret to CEO and CTO alignment

Bryan Helmkamp

Founder and CEO, Code Climate

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Office schmoffice - why distributed engineering teams are the future

Dalia Havens

VP Engineering, Replicated

R.A.M.P.

Anupama Sharma

VP of Engineering, ALICE - Hospitality Operations Platform

Criminal background = kickass developer

Jonathan Moore

Founder & CEO, RowdyOrb.it

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Lessons learned in engineering

Carolyn Vo

Partner, Head of Engineering, Oliver Wyman

How to make product and engineering work together effectively

David Subar

Managing Director, Interna

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Disrupting power

Jeff Casimir

Executive Director, Turing School of Software & Design

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Technical due diligence, what investors really care about

Jason Mongue

Founder & Tech Diligence Principal, The Clover Group

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Synthesizing failure: simplicity in modeling

Aaron Bedra

Global Head of Engineering, Cumberland DRW

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The future of the engineering org

Peter Bell

CTO & Founder, CTOconnection

Accessing talent in a remote first world

Dinesh Balasubramaniyan

AVP of Digital Transformation, Turing.com

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Summit agenda

8:00 AM

Registration opens

8:50 AM

Opening remarks

9:00 AM

The future of the engineering org

Peter Bell, CTO & Founder, CTOconnection

9:20 AM

Office schmoffice - why distributed engineering teams are the future

Dalia Havens, VP Engineering, Replicated

9:40 AM

Lessons learned in engineering

Carolyn Vo, Partner, Head of Engineering, Oliver Wyman

10:00 AM

Transforming your engineering culture

Vivek Sagi, CTO, Eventbrite

10:20 AM

Facilitated session

10:30 AM

Break (30 mins)

11:00 AM

The secret to CEO and CTO alignment

Bryan Helmkamp, Founder and CEO, Code Climate

11:20 AM

How to make product and engineering work together effectively

David Subar, Managing Director, Interna

11:40 AM

Fulfilling the promise of continuous delivery

Charity Majors, CTO, Honeycomb

12:00 PM

Lunch (1 hour)

1:00 PM

Technical due diligence, what investors really care about

Jason Mongue, Founder & Tech Diligence Principal, The Clover Group

1:20 PM

Criminal background = kickass developer

Jonathan Moore, Founder & CEO, RowdyOrb.it

1:40 PM

Synthesizing failure: simplicity in modeling

Aaron Bedra, Global Head of Engineering, Cumberland DRW

2:00 PM

Facilitated session

2:20 PM

Break (30 mins)

2:40 PM

Accessing talent in a remote first world

Dinesh Balasubramaniyan, AVP of Digital Transformation, Turing.com

3:00 PM

Lessons learned from 7 layoffs in 7 days

Claudius Mbemba, CTO, Spritz (formerly Neu)

3:20 PM

All the world’s a staging server: the lifecycle of a feature

Edith Harbaugh, CEO & Cofounder, LaunchDarkly

3:40 PM

Facilitated Session

3:50 PM

Break (30 mins)

4:20 PM

GSD

Colin Bodell, VP of Commercial R&D, Shopify

4:40 PM

R.A.M.P.

Anupama Sharma, VP of Engineering, ALICE - Hospitality Operations Platform

5:00 PM

Disrupting power

Jeff Casimir, Executive Director, Turing School of Software & Design

5:20 PM

Closing remarks

5:30 PM

Evening reception

7:00 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
DIAMOND PARTNERS
Turing
Free Two Week Trial with Turing. Designed by engineering leaders from Facebook, Google, Uber and Stanford, Turing uses machine learning to actively vet developers to a Silicon Valley hiring standard. This allows vetting based upon actual skills vs. self-reported experience from traditional resumes or job interviews. Over 200 companies in a wide variety of verticals are using the Turing Intelligent Cloud to spin up their engineering teams, including Johnson & Johnson, Coinbase and more. Visit www.Turing.com.
PLATINUM PARTNERS
CircleCI
CircleCI is the leading continuous integration and delivery platform for teams looking to shorten the distance between idea and delivery. CircleCI offers support for Linux, macOS, Docker, and Windows, in the cloud or behind your firewall.
Capgemini Engineering
World leader in engineering and R&D services, Capgemini Engineering combines its broad industry knowledge and cutting-edge technologies in digital and software to support the convergence of the physical and digital worlds. Coupled with the capabilities of the rest of the Group, it helps clients to accelerate their journey towards Intelligent Industry. Capgemini Engineering has more than 55,000 engineer and scientist team members in over 30 countries across sectors including Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Naval, Automotive, Rail, Infrastructure & Transportation, Energy, Utilities & Chemicals, Life Sciences, Communications, Semiconductor & Electronics, Industrial & Consumer, Software & Internet.
GOLD PARTNERS
Honeycomb
Honeycomb is the observability tool that helps modern development teams understand the systems they build and operate in production. Develop better instrumentation as you write code to reduce toil and delight your users. With Honeycomb, guess less and know more.
StackHawk
Automate Application Security in Your CI/CD Pipeline. StackHawk makes application and API security testing part of software delivery. Click on our logo to read our guide to learn how automated security testing in CI/CD can drive efficiency across your team.
CTO.ai
CTO.ai helps development teams put the Dev back into their DevOps by empowering their workflows with intuitive, measurable and event driven CI/CD tools and accelerating developer productivity with our Developer Control Plane to enable them workflow smarter, not harder. Our platform was built with feedback from innovative startups who depend on agility in their software delivery practices as their competitive market advantage. We at CTO.ai seek to deeply understand developer productivity in terms that software development leaders and their teams can stand behind and objectively present to stakeholders.
GLOBAL PARTNER
Code Climate
SUSTAINING PARTNERS
Karat
Karat is the world's largest interviewing company. Engineering leaders using Karat spend team time interviewing, create flexible scheduling options for candidates, and reduce bias in the hiring process with consistent interviews and unlimited bandwidth. Organizations like Robinhood, Coinbase, Indeed, and Wayfair all use Karat to hire the right software engineers faster. Learn more at https://hubs.la/Q017nFsL0 or download the white paper, Interview and Innovate in the Interviewing Cloud, here - https://hubs.la/Q017nFnz0
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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