CTO Summit

Tuesday, May 16, 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

What your "First Team" needs from you. Metrics that matter to your leadership peers

Josh Knowles, VP of Strategy and Operations, Code Climate

What your "First Team" needs from you. Metrics that matter to your leadership peers

Josh Knowles, VP of Strategy and Operations, 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

Building bridges: the art of storytelling for managing stakeholder relationships

Gayatri Iyenger, Head of Logistics Engineering, Doordash

Building bridges: the art of storytelling for managing stakeholder relationships

Gayatri Iyenger, Head of Logistics Engineering, Doordash

11:00 AM

Stakeholder management in hard times

Julia Grace, Former VP of Engineering, Netflix

Stakeholder management in hard times

Julia Grace, Former VP of Engineering, Netflix

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

Building an enduring culture

Edith Harbaugh, Executive Chair and Cofounder, LaunchDarkly

Building an enduring culture

Edith Harbaugh, Executive Chair and Cofounder, LaunchDarkly

1:20 PM

Reorgs in wartime

Aaron Erickson, Co-Founder and CEO, Orgspace

Reorgs in wartime

Aaron Erickson, Co-Founder and CEO, Orgspace

1:30 PM

TOPIC: The future of Software engineering

1:30 PM

What is everything if execution is cheap?

Jonathan Graham, CTO, Knowledge Supply

What is everything if execution is cheap?

Jonathan Graham, CTO, Knowledge Supply

1:45 PM

LMK about LLMs: the inner and outer workings of a new fundamental technology

Liam Yafuso, CTO, Artium

LMK about LLMs: the inner and outer workings of a new fundamental technology

Liam Yafuso, CTO, Artium

2:00 PM

What if this works?

Tara Hernandez, VP Developer Productivity, MongoDB

What if this works?

Tara Hernandez, VP Developer Productivity, MongoDB

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

Leading in the aftermath of layoffs

Belle Walker, Founder and Lead Consultant, Belleview

Leading in the aftermath of layoffs

Belle Walker, Founder and Lead Consultant, Belleview

4:00 PM

The coming death, and life of your hybrid team

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

The coming death, and life of your hybrid team

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

4:15 PM

Structured discussions

5:00 PM

The innovation factory

Prith Banerjee, CTO, ANSYS, Inc.

The innovation factory

Prith Banerjee, CTO, ANSYS, Inc.

5:15 PM

"You build it you run it" as a hidden catalyst for culture

Vlad Cretu, VP Engineering, Sentry

"You build it you run it" as a hidden catalyst for culture

Vlad Cretu, VP Engineering, Sentry

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.

platinum Partner

Pangea

Pangea offers the first Security Platform as a Service (SPaaS) unifying the fragmented world of security into a simple set of APIs for developers to call directly into their apps

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

platinum Partner

Amberflo

Usage Metering and Usage-Based Billing Made Easy! Amberflo provides the most advanced and comprehensive platform for metering and building usage-based pricing.

diamond Partner

Sentry

We’re so much more than error monitoring software. We’re also performance monitoring software. Our platform helps every developer diagnose, fix, and optimize the performance of their code. With Sentry, developers around the world save time, energy, and probably a few therapy sessions. Sentry supports more than 30 coding languages, which means it probably supports yours. We also integrate with a whole bunch of useful tools (and a few necessary evils), including but definitely not limited to GitHub, Slack, and Jira.

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!

gold Partner

Bito

Bito helps developers dramatically accelerate their impact by bringing ChatGPT to your IDE and CLI. It is actively used by over 50,000 developers since launching late in 2022, to do everything from writing code, explaining code, fixing bugs, writing test cases. It’s a Swiss Army knife of capabilities that can 10x your developer productivity, and save an hour a day. Bito increases the productivity of developers significantly by shortening the time to quality code, reduces bugs, improves devs understanding unfamiliar code, and allows developers to spend more time on critical thinking and less time on dull and irksome work.

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

CNCF

We look forward to attending CTO Connection and want to see you at our booth! CNCF brings together the world’s top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences. See us in San Francisco and learn more about CNCF and what we offer our members and the community. We hope to see you there — be sure to register today!

gold Partner

Glean

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