MAY 17 · 9AM - 4PM EST · Virtual Summit
Startup CTO Summit 2023
From Code to Culture: The CTO's Journey
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Main topics we covered
- The role of the CTO in defining company strategy
- Leading and managing technology teams for success
- Tactics to be a successful CTO
- Maximizing performance and scalability of tech teams
- How to balance technical decisions with business goals
- Creation of a diverse and inclusive engineering culture
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8 Top Experts will Give a Talk Keynote Speaker
Rachit Lohani
Chief Technology and Product Officer, SVP (Engineering and Product) at Paylocity
8 Top Experts will Give a Talk
Host
Murat Ozturan
Technical Advisor, ex-CTO of APJ Services at Microsoft
ABOUT HOST
Murat Ozturan
Lead PM in CSA CTO Team, ex-CTO of APJ Services at Microsoft
Surviving? Learn-Unlearn-Relearn is the only way for a CTO. With four decades of IT experience, Murat Ozturan is a technology strategist and keynote speaker who has lived in eight cities on four continents. Extensive background in IT and leadership, his career expanded over several industries, including finance, healthcare, and automotive. While a geek, he is known to solve business problems without geeking on technology. He started his career building IT solutions in Renault France for their Formula 1 team and moved to finance to develop award-winning solutions. He is a thirty-year veteran of Microsoft who worked in engineering, corporate and field technical leadership, focusing on databases, development and AI. He was part of the early development of business solutions on the cloud; he set the direction for the architecture of high-priority customer projects, developed and executed early technology adoption programs, built and supported technical communities, driving IP creation and usage, as well as contributing to overall quality assurance. Murat was involved in culture and methodologies since the beginning of Microsoft Services; he was instrumental in developing and adopting foundational principles which ultimately contributed to technology-aspired culture. Additional to his speaking engagements, he is the technical advisor to several startups.
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CTO’s of tech startups
Professional who want to become a CTO
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Schedule
MAY 17
opening Opening by host
introduction Introductory Speech
Dmitriy Stepanov
Dmitriy Stepanov, Co-founder and CTO at Glorium Technologies
About speaker
Dmitriy Stepanov
Co-founder and CTO at Glorium Technologies.
Experienced Chief Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Scrum, Embedded Software, Object Oriented Design, SQL, and Medical Devices. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Master of Science (MS) focused in Product Development from Rochester Institute of Technology.
talk How To Be an Effective CTO
How the CTO role evolves based on the state of the company.
Key pillars of the role and how the composition evolves
Rule of 3 and 10, why is it important
What can you do to be a successful CTO
Rachit Lohani
Keynote Speaker Rachit Lohani, Chief Technology and Product Officer, SVP (Engineering and Product) at Paylocity
About speaker
Rachit Lohani
Chief Technology and Product Officer, SVP (Engineering and Product) at Paylocity
CTO of a $10B public company running a successful product with a team of love 1500 people growing at 30% + Ran engineering for Atlassian and helped them scale the offering for Jira, confluence and trello. Led the knowledge engineering revolution at Intuit to make Turbotax smarter. Helped scale netflix's engineering and infra.
talk The Product Gap
Defining the Product
Specifying Product Requirements
Tacking Assumed Product Features
Product Experience and Product Evolution
John Randall Bentley
John Randall Bentley, II, CTO & CPO at 10XTS
About speaker
John Randall Bentley, II
CTO & CPO at 10XTS
John Bentley, II is Chief Product Officer and founding CTO of 10XTS, Inc. In his role as CTO and CPO of 10XTS, John has been delivering FinTech and RegTech solutions for regulated securities on blockchains. He has been a technical adviser to many startups, such as SpotOn.pet and EnterActiv, helping oversee the delivery of MVPs and follow-on product releases. John has been developing software professionally for over 30 years.
talk Maximizing Performance and Scalability with Architectural Patterns
How to define performance and scalability?
Overview of common architecture patterns
Case studies
Call to Action to encourage the audience to explore architectural patterns and experiment with different approaches
Sireesha Chilakamarri
Sireesha Chilakamarri, CTO at AdMedia
About speaker
Sireesha Chilakamarri
CTO at AdMedia
Sireesha has more than 17 years of software architecture expertise. She is a member of Forbes Technology Council and a Hands On Coding CTO for AdMedia, a 22-year-old AdTech company. Apart from championing others to bring out their inner tech beast, she is a public speaker on technology and general mental health issues.
talk 10x Tactics for the New Engineering Org
Priorities & constraints for a successful engineering org have changed.
Problems can no longer be solved by throwing money at them.
CTOs will be measured by ability to deploy (or adjust to) a profitable org: keeping costs low and value production high.
Strategic deployment of capital is no longer enough; CTOs must now have expertise at determining deep investments vs. 80/20 or zero-to-1 solutions on a case-by-case basis.
Remainder of presentation: Actual examples that will move the needle for all orgs requiring increased scrutiny.
Shawn Holmes
Shawn Holmes, CTO at Wrapmate
About speaker
Shawn Holmes
CTO at Wrapmate
Shawn Holmes is a technology professional with over 27 years of experience in the industry, having spent 17 years focused on web application development. He wrote his first program at just 11 years old, sparking his lifelong passion for programming. Shawn's reputation as a "10x developer" was well-established for his exceptional productivity and expertise, which allowed him to deliver solutions across various verticals, including Food/Restaurant, Sports/Entertainment, Government/Education, Healthcare, Real Estate, Finance, Security, and Automotive. After years of hands-on development work, Shawn transitioned into a leadership role, leveraging his extensive knowledge and expertise to lead and manage development teams. For the past 10 years, he has been building and leading teams to success. Shawn is passionate about fostering productive, efficient, and happy development teams while also striving to eliminate customer pain at scale.
break Coffee break
talk Zen and the Art of Startup Management: How to Say No to Distractions and Focus on What Matters Most
Introduction
Section 1: The Challenges of Startup Management
Section 2: Zen and Personal Management
Section 3: Zen and Product Management
Section 4: Zen and Team Management
Conclusion
Tanmay Kayande
Tanmay Kayande, CTO at Respond Crisis Translation
About speaker
Tanmay Kayande
Ex-CTO, Startup Advisor, and Sr. Enterprise Architect at Google
Tanmay Kayande is the CIO/CTO of Respond Crisis Translation, a multinational nonprofit dedicated to language justice. He has been nominated Forbes 30 under 30 for Sustainability and is an active mentor for Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A startups in North America. Over the last decade, Tanmay has transformed enterprise architectures and driven organizational strategy across industries.
talk Leading and Managing Technology Teams
Introduction and Background
Scaling Your Team and Technology for Your Organization
Learn, Adapt, Focus
Plan for the Next Disturbance
Greg Solt
Greg Solt, Director Of Technology at DigiKerma
About speaker
Greg Solt
Director Of Technology at DigiKerma
Greg worked in technology for almost twenty years for companies like IBM, United Parcel Service, and Sun Microsystems. He has over ten years of experience in distributed systems and solution architecture. Through effective data collection and system analysis, Greg has proven his expertise in identifying areas for improvement to design and implement project teams to improve overall technical performance.
talk "Why" Is the Toughest of All!
Drinking water from a fire hydrant.
Next: …quantum? …AR? …VR? …
Patterns, not patents
Stay top of the "Why"
Murat Ozturan
Murat Ozturan, Technical Advisor, ex-CTO of APJ Services at Microsoft
About speaker
Murat Ozturan
Lead PM in CSA CTO Team, ex-CTO of APJ Services at Microsoft
Surviving? Learn-Unlearn-Relearn is the only way for a CTO. With four decades of IT experience, Murat Ozturan is a technology strategist and keynote speaker who has lived in eight cities on four continents. Extensive background in IT and leadership, his career expanded over several industries, including finance, healthcare, and automotive. While a geek, he is known to solve business problems without geeking on technology. He started his career building IT solutions in Renault France for their Formula 1 team and moved to finance to develop award-winning solutions. He is a thirty-year veteran of Microsoft who worked in engineering, corporate and field technical leadership, focusing on databases, development and AI. He was part of the early development of business solutions on the cloud; he set the direction for the architecture of high-priority customer projects, developed and executed early technology adoption programs, built and supported technical communities, driving IP creation and usage, as well as contributing to overall quality assurance. Murat was involved in culture and methodologies since the beginning of Microsoft Services; he was instrumental in developing and adopting foundational principles which ultimately contributed to technology-aspired culture. Additional to his speaking engagements, he is the technical advisor to several startups.
talk How a CTO Be Part Of the Strategic Decision of Your Organization?
What are the main (raw) learnings of CTO in the last 10 years
What is our current reality in our companies
What are some advice you can receive to change the status quo
Edgar Escobar
Edgar Escobar, CTO at Grupo ALTO
About speaker
Edgar Escobar
CTO at Grupo ALTO
Edgar has practical experience within multiple industries within the North-Central and South American business as well as practical Experience with the European Market. This includes experience in Risk Management, Data Management, and IT Solutions within the Banking, Logistics, Communications, Retail, and services industries at different levels including an analytical, strategic, technical, operational Data Governance and Officer of Security level. His experience consists of developing analytical, technological, data teams and solutions along with sustainable product solutions
panel Panel Discussion: The Role of the CTO in Building a High-Performing, Scalable, and Innovative Tech Team
John Randall Bentley
Edgar Escobar
Shawn Holmes
Murat Ozturan
Greg Solt
8 Top Experts will Give a Talk
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