CTO Summit

Thursday, May 11, 9:30am - 6:00pm

CTO summit is a chance for a range of senior engineering leaders working at larger companies to connect with and learn from their peers with a full day of presentations, participation and networking. The summit is comprised of two keynotes, three short “hot takes” on the future of engineering leadership, and three in-depth topics where we take 90 minutes to do a deep dive into a key challenge common to most engineering leaders. We kick off each topic with three short fifteen minute presentations from practitioners sharing their experiences and then spend the last 45 minutes in peer discussions and exercises designed so we can leave the summit with a specific, actionable plan tailored to our circumstances ready for implementing when we get back to work.

9:30 AM

Registration

10:00 AM

Summit kickoff / Exercise

10:10 AM

Using principles of observability to drive your professional growth

James Mcgill, VP of Engineering, Code Climate

Using principles of observability to drive your professional growth

James Mcgill, VP of Engineering, Code Climate

10:30 AM

Topic: Managing stakeholder expectations

10:30 AM

Engaging effectively with your board

Tyler Jewell, Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital

Engaging effectively with your board

Tyler Jewell, Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital

10:45 AM

You just don’t understand - navigating tough conversations with your boss

David Subar, Founder and Managing Partner - Interim CTO and CPO, Interna

You just don’t understand - navigating tough conversations with your boss

David Subar, Founder and Managing Partner - Interim CTO and CPO, Interna

11:00 AM

Build trust and navigate uncertainty by setting and managing expectations

Maria Belousova, Chief Digital Officer, Indigo

Build trust and navigate uncertainty by setting and managing expectations

Maria Belousova, Chief Digital Officer, Indigo

11:15 AM

Structured discussions

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

Hot takes (3 x 10 minute talks)

1:00 PM

What is ingress as a service?

Alan Shreve, Founder & CEO, ngrok

What is ingress as a service?

Alan Shreve, Founder & CEO, ngrok

1:10 PM

The problem with re-orgs is that you’re not doing enough of them

Brian Guthrie, Founder, Orgspace

The problem with re-orgs is that you’re not doing enough of them

Brian Guthrie, Founder, Orgspace

1:20 PM

Threat modeling for prioritizing your AppSec

Frederic Rivain, CTO, Dashlane

Threat modeling for prioritizing your AppSec

Frederic Rivain, CTO, Dashlane

1:30 PM

Topic: The future of Software engineering

1:30 PM

Software engineering - from profession to skillset?

On Freund, Co-Founder & CEO, Wilco

Software engineering - from profession to skillset?

On Freund, Co-Founder & CEO, Wilco

1:45 PM

Getting up to speed on AI as a non-expert

Michael Boufford, CTO, Greenhouse

Getting up to speed on AI as a non-expert

Michael Boufford, CTO, Greenhouse

2:00 PM

AI & the future of software engineering

Hywel Carver, Founder, CEO, Skiller Whale

AI & the future of software engineering

Hywel Carver, Founder, CEO, Skiller Whale

2:15 PM

Structured discussions

3:00 PM

Break

3:30 PM

Topic: Strengthening culture in uncertain times

3:30 PM

Managing culture at scale

Kwame Thomison, Senior Director of Engineering, Alma

Managing culture at scale

Kwame Thomison, Senior Director of Engineering, Alma

3:45 PM

Post-pandemic performance culture

Cat Miller, CTO, Flatiron Health

Post-pandemic performance culture

Cat Miller, CTO, Flatiron Health

4:00 PM

Why the grand hybrid experiment is (probably) going to fail

Mona Soni, CTO Sustainable1, S&P Global

Why the grand hybrid experiment is (probably) going to fail

Mona Soni, CTO Sustainable1, S&P Global

4:15 PM

Structured discussions

5:00 PM

Building (and retaining) resilient teams

Jared Mcclain, GM, NYC, Artium

Building (and retaining) resilient teams

Jared Mcclain, GM, NYC, Artium

5:20 PM

What we learned

5:30 PM

Networking

6:00 PM

End of event

OUR PARTNERS

diamond Partner

ngrok

Loved by more than six million developers, ngrok is simplified, API-first ingress-as-a-service. ngrok inverts traditional application networking by decoupling ingress from infrastructure. With one line of code, developers get instant ingress to services with authentication, observability, and other critical controls — all without provisioning legacy proxies, load balancers, or VPNs. ngrok’s simplicity has made it a de-facto standard tool among developers and industry-leading companies such as GitHub, Okta, Shopify, and Twilio recommend it throughout their documentation.

global Partner

Code Climate

From day one, Code Climate's Software Engineering Intelligence platform, Velocity, maximizes engineering impact for all levels at the engineering organization to gather data-driven visibility into teams' capacity, delivery, quality, culture, costs, and progress toward key goals. Velocity uses trusted and actionable insights to enable teams to drive change and predictably deliver business impact using a single platform.

diamond Partner

Skiller Whale

Free skills analysis or live training session. Skiller Whale’s skills analysis is a test of breadth and depth of capabilities within a given technology (e.g. JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL etc.). Results are visualised for you in interactive graphs so you can see the distribution of strengths and weaknesses, enabling you to prioritise how to support each individual, and help grow your team as a whole. If you’d prefer to see how our live, hands-on, 1-hour sessions look and feel, you can choose a taster session, just click on our logo to request your free taster session.

gold Partner

Chronosphere

Chronosphere is the only observability platform that puts you back in control by taming rampant data growth and cloud native complexity, delivering increased business confidence.

gold Partner

Multiverse

At Multiverse, we’re building an alternative to university and corporate training through professional apprenticeships that meet today’s business challenges. We work with businesses to help them embrace digital transformation, close skills gaps and develop a diverse talent pipeline. Our mission is to source, train and reskill exceptional under-represented talent to become future leaders

gold Partner

FusionAuth

platinum Partner

Tryolabs

Tryolabs is a cutting-edge AI consulting firm that specializes in scaling and strengthening data science teams to accelerate AI adoption. With over 12 years of experience, we have collaborated with industry leaders like The RealReal, Bain & Co, NVIDIA, Hyundai, Harbor Freight Tools, AllianzGI, as several other Fortune 500. Our expertise encompasses predictive analytics, MLOps, computer vision, natural language processing, and AI for edge devices. We pride ourselves on transforming niche industries, such as the resale market, by delivering tailored AI and data-driven solutions. Tryolabs supports companies from the early stages of their AI journey, offering guidance, building models, and deploying them in production in a scalable manner.

platinum Partner

QA Wolf

Kiss bugs goodbye with QA Wolf. Get 80% automated test coverage in 4 months, with unlimited parallel runs and zero flakes — guaranteed.

gold Partner

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!

platinum Partner

Stride

Stride is an agile software development company. We stand alongside tech teams in a non-dogmatic, collaborative, transparent way, to deliver software products to market that solve the highest value problems. And, we model agile engineering and product best practice, to upskill teams, increase team efficiency, and ultimately deliver profit driven development

diamond Partner

Artium

As a top-tier software consultancy, Artium builds incredible products, recruits high-performing teams, and helps you achieve the culture of craft you need to build great software long after we’re gone

gold Partner

Wilco

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