Thursday, May 12, 2022 | 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM CDT
333 North Green Street, Chicago, IL
The 2022 Chicago CTO Summit
Connect with, and learn from your peers at the Chicago 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 CHICAGO CTO SUMMIT
If you are technical and manage engineers, share problems and get answers at The 2022 Chicago 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 (8:00 AM -> 6:00 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

Fulfilling the promise of continuous delivery

Charity Majors

CTO, Honeycomb

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Build vs buy at scale

Ann Lewis

CTO, Next Street

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Criminal background = kickass developer

Jonathan Moore

Founder & CEO, RowdyOrb.it

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Beyond the four most common devOps metrics

Michael Stahnke

VP Platform, CircleCI

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The secret to CEO and CTO alignment

Bryan Helmkamp

Founder and CEO, Code Climate

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Why reorgs fail

Aaron Erickson

Co-Founder and CEO, Orgspace

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Security from zero

Eleanor Saitta

Principal Consultant, Systems Structure

You succeeded as a senior tech leader. Now what?

Joseph de Castelnau

Chief Data Officer & Founder, Syncresia

How to make product and engineering work together

David Subar

Managing Director, Interna

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Giving engineering teams superpowers with serverless

Jay Zeschin

VP of Technology, Highwing

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Micro-services: don’t forget to plan for the imperfect

Bjorn Freeman-benson

CTO, Ambassador Labs

Trust at scale: intentional communication for engineering leaders

Mercedes Bernard

Principal Software Engineer, Cloud City Development

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Synthesizing failure: simplicity in modeling

Aaron Bedra

Global Head of Engineering, Cumberland DRW

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How to science the product

Emad Khazraee

Senior Director of Product Data Science, Turing.com

The API of your team

Trace Wax

VP of Product, Artium

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Summit agenda

8:00 AM

Registration opens

8:45 AM

Opening remarks

8:50 AM

“One question” - what do you want to learn?

9:00 AM

The secret to CEO and CTO alignment

Bryan Helmkamp, Founder and CEO, Code Climate

9:20 AM

How to make product and engineering work together

David Subar, Managing Director, Interna

9:40 AM

Micro-services: don’t forget to plan for the imperfect

Bjorn Freeman-benson, CTO, Ambassador Labs

10:00 AM

Attracting & retaining talent - being bold

10:20 AM

break (30 mins)

10:50 AM

Fulfilling the promise of continuous delivery

Charity Majors, CTO, Honeycomb

11:10 AM

How to science the product

Emad Khazraee, Senior Director of Product Data Science, Turing.com

11:30 AM

Security from zero

Eleanor Saitta, Principal Consultant, Systems Structure

11:50 AM

DevSecOps - A fireside chat/AMA

12:10 PM

lunch

1:00 PM

Synthesizing failure: simplicity in modeling

Aaron Bedra, Global Head of Engineering, Cumberland DRW

1:20 PM

Build vs buy at scale

Ann Lewis, CTO, Next Street

1:40 PM

Giving engineering teams superpowers with serverless

Jay Zeschin, VP of Technology, Highwing

2:00 PM

break (30 mins)

2:30 PM

Trust at scale: intentional communication for engineering leaders

Mercedes Bernard, Principal Software Engineer, Cloud City Development

2:50 PM

Criminal background = kickass developer

Jonathan Moore, Founder & CEO, RowdyOrb.it

3:10 PM

Why reorgs fail

Aaron Erickson, Co-Founder and CEO, Orgspace

3:30 PM

break (30 mins)

4:00 PM

The API of your team

Trace Wax, VP of Product, Artium

4:20 PM

You succeeded as a senior tech leader. Now what?

Joseph de Castelnau, Chief Data Officer & Founder, Syncresia

4:40 PM

Beyond the four most common devOps metrics

Michael Stahnke, VP Platform, CircleCI

5:00 PM

Closing remarks

5:10 PM

Evening reception

6:00 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.
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.
PLATINUM PARTNERS
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.
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.
GOLD PARTNERS
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.
Optimizely
Creating digital experiences that transform your company takes data-driven decisions, continued experimentation and constant invention. Optimizely Digital Experience Platform helps you unlock your digital potential.
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.
Orgspace
Conway’s law states your architecture will resemble your org structure. If this is true, it follows that it’s critical to get it right! Orgspace helps you plan org structure, hiring plans, headcount allocation, cost projection, career ladders, and more. Visit orgspace.io and sign up for the beta!
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.
SILVER PARTNERS
Cloudbees
CloudBees provides the leading software delivery platform for enterprises, enabling them to continuously innovate, compete, and win in a world powered by the digital experience. Designed for large organizations with complex requirements, CloudBees connects with other best-of-breed tools and enables software development organizations to deliver scalable, compliant, governed, and secure software from the code a developer writes to the people who use it.
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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