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.

This summit series is comprised of four weekly summits - every Tuesday at 10am PT/1pm ET. Each summit is just 90 minutes in length but includes between three and four, 15-20 minute talks by senior engineering leaders and a half hour, moderated panel discussion where you can share your questions and get answers tailored to your specific organizations needs.

Previous summits

• Structuring your teams

  Tuesday, October 6th 2020 - 90 minutes

• Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

  Organizing for innovation

• Heidi Helfand, Director of R&D, Excellence, Procore

  Dynamic reteaming - coaching teams through change

• Matthew Skelton, Coauthor, Team Topologies

  Accidental architects - how HR designs software systems

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• Cultivating psychological safety

  Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 90 minutes

• Glyn Roberts, CTO of Digital Solutions, iTechArt

  How to support team during periods of unrest

• Kimberly Wiefling, Cofounder, Silicon Valley Alliances

  Overcoming the global pandemic of dysfunctional workplaces & disengaged employees

• Kwame Thomison, VP of Engineering, Teachers Pay Teachers

  The wisdom of insecurity

• Adam Zimman, VP of Platform, LaunchDarkly

  Punish heros: building a culture on purpose.

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• Communicating priorities

  Tuesday, October 20th 2020 - 90 minutes

• Vivek Sagi, CTO, Eventbrite

  Pairwise prioritization - a scalable technique for organizations of all sizes

• Neetu Rajpal, VP, Engineering, Oscar Health

  Managing a large scale re-platforming effort

• Belle Walker, Founder, Belleview Consulting

  Manage like an engineer (seriously!)

• Beverly May, VP UX & Product, GE Healthcare

  Trial by test- optimizing your user research & usability testing

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• Effective management

  Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 90 minutes

• Eliot Horowitz, Founding CTO, MongoDB

  Running your best possible staff meeting

• Colin Bodell, VP Shopify Plus R&D, Shopify

  Are you a manager or a leader - and what's the difference?

• Katie Womersley, VP Engineering, Buffer

  High performance remote

• Gil Shklarski, CTO, Flatiron Health

  It is not about you and universal advice

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