The 2020 San Francisco CTO Summit

Thursday, August 6th 2020 The answers are already out there — they’re just not evenly distributed!

If you are technical and manage engineers, learn from and connect with your peers at The 2020 San Francisco CTO Summit.

We have rescheduled our Austin, Chicago and San Francisco summits for late summer, and we are working on backup dates should we need to move them to late fall.

For a short time, we will continue to offer that anyone buying a ticket to a spring 2020 event will automatically get two years for the price of one. We know there is a lot of uncertainty at the moment. Buy a ticket right now, and you get the option of attending the 2020 summit as well as the 2021 summit, so you get this year for free!

Even if you don’t attend, you get exclusive access to attendee only videos and an online, invite only community that we are rolling out for vetted engineering leaders - starting with our summit attendees.

Full COVID-19 Update

Whether you want to hire smarter, refine your culture, improve your processes, manage more effectively or adopt better engineering practices or architectures, the CTO Summits are designed to help you to learn from top practitioners and to share experiences with your peers.

Early bird tickets:

$795 - sale ends Wednesday, April 22nd

Regular tickets:

$895 - sale ends Friday, May 15th

The Julia Morgan Ballroom: 465 California St, San Francisco CA 94104

All tickets are transferrable (to another qualified engineering leader) and we will accept a raincheck for a future summit (excluding the "free" 2020 ticket for our 2 for 1 spring summit special), but unfortunately we are unable to provide refunds.

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The speakers

Speakers include the CTOs of MongoDB, Confluent, StitchFix and CicleCI and senior engineering leaders from Okta, CodeClimate, LaunchDarkly, Karat, Honeycomb.io, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Dropbox and Thumbtack

Neha Narkhede

Cofounder/CTO, Confluent

Fireside chat

Eliot Horowitz

CTO, MongoDB

Running your best possible staff meeting

Cathy Polinsky

CTO, Stitch Fix

Feedback culture

Johnny Austin

VP of Engineering, Till

Rewarding impact over effort

Bryan Helmkamp

Founder, Code Climate

Debugging your cycle time

Surabhi Gupta

Director of Engineering, Airbnb

The operational side of engineering management

Robert Zuber

CTO, CircleCI

Architectures that evolve with every stage of growth

Andrew Fong

Head of Infrastructure, Dropbox

How to scale an agile engineering org

Heather McKelvey

Sr. Dir. Eng Infrastructure: Perf & Apps, LinkedIn

Scaling engineering teams through infrastructure

Hector Aguilar

President of Technology, Okta

Cultivating a high-performance engineering team

Adam Zimman

VP of Platform, LaunchDarkly

Daughter | mother-in-law challenge: a case for progressive delivery

Emily Nakashima

Director, Engineering, Honeycomb.io

Hiring is broken: reflections on building a higher-signal, less-harmful process

Thomas Thurston

CTO, WR Hambrecht Ventures

Using Data Science to source growth opportunities

Shannon Hogue Brown

Head of Solutions Engineering, Karat

Distributed teams: how to hire software engineers at global scale

Kwame Thomison

Principal and Founder, Magnetic

How to grow a learning culture

Cat Miller

VP Engineering, Flatiron Health

Evolving the hiring process for hyper-growth

Neha Agarwal

Director of Engineering, Thumbtack

Exploring the advantages of an embedded team structure

The Schedule

The summit is a single track, full day (8am-7.30pm) experience, comprised of 17 presentations by senior engineering leaders - each 20 minutes in length - along with plenty of breaks for networking.