Thursday, May 19, 2022 | 08:00 AM - 07:00 PM EDT
360 Madison Ave., New York, NY
The 2022 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, share problems and get answers at The 2022 New York 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 -> 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

Building technical teams for agility and resiliency

Teresa Dietrich

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Stack Overflow

Disruption: learn to play both offense and defense

Kit Colbert

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, VMware

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

Edith Harbaugh

CEO & Cofounder, LaunchDarkly

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Engineering culture: quality, velocity, innovation, and fun

Yvette Kanouff

CTO, JC2 Ventures

GSD

Colin Bodell

VP of Commercial R&D, Shopify

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Using networking as a CTO growth engine

Yvette Pasqua

CTO, Exos

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Lessons learned from 7 layoffs in 7 days

Claudius Mbemba

CTO, Spritz (formerly Neu)

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How to measure and drive technology team success

Vadim Supitskiy

CTO, Forbes

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The secret to CEO and CTO alignment

Bryan Helmkamp

Founder and CEO, Code Climate

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Disrupting power

Jeff Casimir

Executive Director, Turing School of Software & Design

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Eliminating hero culture

Brianna Mccullough

Infrastructure Program Manager, Google

Finding the metric that matters for your team

Lisa van Gelder

VP Engineering, Avvir.io

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Leading through metrics

Andrew Fong

CEO, Prodvana

Why reorgs fail

Aaron Erickson

Co-Founder and CEO, Orgspace

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The API of your team

Trace Wax

VP and technical fellow, Artium

DEI do-over

Catherine Miller

VP Research Engineering, Flatiron Health

The most bang for your blockchain: how emerging tech is relevant to your business

Andrew Haines

Global Head of Fintech, iTechArt Group

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How to grow your learning culture

Kwame Thomison

VP of Engineering, Teachers pay Teachers

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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

Disruption: learn to play both offense and defense

Kit Colbert, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, VMware

9:20 AM

Building technical teams for agility and resiliency

Teresa Dietrich, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Stack Overflow

9:40 AM

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

Edith Harbaugh, CEO & Cofounder, LaunchDarkly

10:00 AM

The secret to CEO and CTO alignment

Bryan Helmkamp, Founder and CEO, Code Climate

10:20 AM

Attracting & retaining talent - being bold

10:40 AM

break (30 mins)

11:10 AM

How to measure and drive technology team success

Vadim Supitskiy, CTO, Forbes

11:30 AM

Finding the metric that matters for your team

Lisa van Gelder, VP Engineering, Avvir.io

11:50 AM

Leading through metrics

Andrew Fong, CEO, Prodvana

12:10 PM

Why reorgs fail

Aaron Erickson, Co-Founder and CEO, Orgspace

12:30 PM

lunch

1:30 PM

Engineering culture: quality, velocity, innovation, and fun

Yvette Kanouff, CTO, JC2 Ventures

1:50 PM

Lessons learned from 7 layoffs in 7 days

Claudius Mbemba, CTO, Spritz (formerly Neu)

2:10 PM

The API of your team

Trace Wax, VP and technical fellow, Artium

2:30 PM

Disrupting power

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

2:50 PM

break (40 mins)

3:30 PM

Using networking as a CTO growth engine

Yvette Pasqua, CTO, Exos

3:50 PM

Eliminating hero culture

Brianna Mccullough, Infrastructure Program Manager, Google

4:10 PM

DEI do-over

Catherine Miller, VP Research Engineering, Flatiron Health

4:30 PM

break (30 mins)

5:00 PM

The most bang for your blockchain: how emerging tech is relevant to your business

Andrew Haines, Global Head of Fintech, iTechArt Group

5:20 PM

How to grow your learning culture

Kwame Thomison, VP of Engineering, Teachers pay Teachers

5:40 PM

GSD

Colin Bodell, VP of Commercial R&D, Shopify

6:00 PM

Closing remarks

6:10 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
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.
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
Terminal
Terminal is the leading platform used by companies to build full-time, remote engineering teams faster than any other solution on the market. The company provides tech-enabled hiring, employment, and people-management solutions to build and run world-class remote engineering teams. Terminal has hired more than 700 engineers and built teams for top tech companies such as Hims and Hers, Chime, Everly Health, and Skillz. Learn more about remote scaling at Terminal.io.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
BarRaiser
Let your teams do the actual work! Leave Interviews to BarRaiser & raise your talent bar with every hire.
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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