FREE SUMMIT
Startup CTO Summit
Building the Tech Teams. Top Trends to Follow. Alignment with the Business.
Wednesday-Thursday, May 25-26 from 8.45 am to 2.00 pm EST.
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12 industry-leading speakers from the best international companies
Valuable insider information you can implement to your business today
10+ hours of content about startup growth and development
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Speakers:
12 Top Experts will Give a Talk
Schedule
Day 1 - Wednesday - May 25 (Eastern Time UTC-5)Eastern Time UTC-5
opening Opening by host
Andrei Kasyanau
About speaker
Andrei Kasyanau
Co-founder and CEO at Glorium Technologies
Andrei leverages his 20+ years of experience in the industry to help tech startups bolster their teams with agile product development services on demand. His vision of custom software development & management can reduce time to market by up to 30% with 40% in savings compared to in-house teams.
introduction Introductory Speech
Rishab Nayak
About speaker
Rishab Nayak
Founder and CTO@Mount | Sr. Project Manager@Spark!
Founded a Travel Tech SaaS company, raised >$1M pre-seed funding with GC as lead investor. Experience managing and leading several teams as a Project/Product Manager, helping create data driven policies and laws in Massachusetts. Architected the SaaS offering for an up and coming medical device company. Led a successful hackathon event, attracting 600+ participants
talk Assembling a Kickass Founding Engineering Team
- Our hiring adventures, what worked, what didn’t?
- About hiring on story, pitch the company to them, gauge their interest, dedication, how important this is
- Hiring techniques and tips
- If not paying market rate, importance of explaining what equity is
- Importance of culture fit and cohesion
- Building a team from then on
Preet Raj
About speaker
Preet Raj
Co-founder & CTO @ Bakstage | Top 10 CTOs To Watch 2022 - Entrepreneur. Ex-Goldman Sachs | JP Morgan | Morgan Stanley
Preet Raj is the CTO & Co-founder of Bakstage. He’s a seasoned engineering leader, an industry speaker & a wall-street tech veteran having worked with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley & JP Morgan. He was recently featured as one of the Top 10 CTOs to Watch in 2022 by Entrepreneur Magazine. He’s an expert in building technology that reaches millions. He has headed engineering for Fin-tech, Consumer tech and SaaS startups, scaled teams from 2 to over 20+employees, & helped generate multi-million dollars in revenue.
talk Building Technology That Adapts & Scales Easily with Product Market Fit
- Why Engineering Leaders & Engineers need to think about product market fit while building systems
- Working with the business to understand the "One Key Metric That Matters".
- Importance of sharing that key metric with the entire engineering team to instill a sense of urgency and quality
- Helping the business pivot with the help of adaptable & scalable technology, if necessary, after finding the right product market fit
- These learnings helped us a lot when we pivoted from a B2C product to a B2B SaaS offering
Aman Naimat
About speaker
Aman Naimat
Entrepreneur | ex-CTO Demandbase | Advisor McKinsey
Aman is Founder and CEO of Regrello where he is building an operating network of manufacturers to solve supply chain problems. He was previously an External Advisor to McKinsey in data science and supply chain. Before McKinsey, Aman was CTO of Demandbase, where he helped grow the company to over 120M+ in revenue while serving Fortune 500 clients. Prior to Demandbase, he was co-founder and CTO of Spiderbook, one of the earliest AI-driven B2B startups. Aman has a MS in Computer Science and MA in Public Policy, both from Stanford University.
talk Building an effective Data Science Organization
- How to structure culture and organization for success in data science?
- Who to recruit and attract data scientists? What to look for?
- How to approach getting to success in data science?
break Break
Sam Kann
About speaker
Sam Kann
CTO at LINC and Founder at MyColLife.com.
IT Evangelist for value added technology investments in K-20. Visionary, resourceful and service-oriented enterprise technology architect and CIO/CTO with diverse experience ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations. Founder @ www.mycollife.com - World's First Student Social Relationship Management (SRM) Service. MyColLife (MCL) stands for My Life.My Choice.My Education.
talk Rebuilt your K-12 learning culture into an adaptable powerhouse
- Professional Development for teachers in a fast moving world and how technology can help
- Saas, IaaS, PaaS - how does it all come together
- Qualitative and Quantitative models
- Content Rich and Critical Mass
- Consolidation of administrative technology
Konstantin Vilk
About speaker
Konstantin Vilk
CXO and Founder of QuSecure
Konstantin Vilk, CXO and Founder of QuSecure, is an Information systems executive who is an experienced CEO, COO, CISO, CTO. He has created and sold award-winning companies in addition to teaching university-level courses in information technology. He loves working with people and is passionate about helping companies create incredible products, amazing brands, powerful marketing stories, and high-performance teams. Kosta has extensive experience in Quantum Computing, Quantum Cryptography, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Cloud, Innovation, Marketing, Sales, M&A, in addition to a wide background in the implementation of enterprise-wide systems.
talk Quantum threat and defense against it
- Understand and quantify the risks posed by quantum computing as it relates to them
- Understand how quantum computers work, what they are and how they are being used in the near future and expected to develop
- Understand the new processes in the industry, NIST and NSA leadership around cryptography and cryptographic standards
- Understand new methods of protection needed to be effective against Quantum as well as Classical threats to cryptography
Rachit Lohani
About speaker
Rachit Lohani
Chief Technology 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 Scaling is hard but selling is harder
- You are seeing challenges scaling the people, tech, and processes.
- You see the problem and wonder why no one else is stepping up and taking the problem head on. Why are we stuck in the old way, why are we still talking about the past when the future is so clear.
- If you are seeing that, you have done a good job of identifying the issues, and now rather than scaling you need to do the selling.
- Next step is, selling your brand, your ideas, and concepts and making them theirs. You need to get out of the way and coach them from the sidelines, be their cheerleader their coach but not the problem solver.
closing Final word
Day 2 - Thursday - May 26 (Eastern Time UTC-5)Eastern Time UTC-5
opening Opening by host
Joseph Reth
About speaker
Joseph Reth
CEO/CTO of RethDigital
Joseph Reth is the Founder & current CEO/CTO at RethDigital, one of the nation's fastest-growing digital agencies represented by TheMachine (Ranked 7th most trending marketing company in the US in October of 2020 by Crunchbase)
talk The Singularity is Here(ish)
- Futurist, Ray Kurzweil predicts that the singularity-the time when the abilities of a computer overtake the abilities of the human brain-will occur in 2045 but what if I told you it's already here in ways we could have never imagine.
- How ad tech is transforming our perception of people online and poisoning our societies.
- How LLMs like GPT-3 and Gopher aren't true AGI but just good enough to trick the human mind.
- Why I think LLMs with the help of automation have already passed the Turing Test.
Kelly Peng
About speaker
Kelly Peng
CEO & CTO at Kura Technologies
Kelly Peng is the founder, CEO & CTO of Kura Technologies, a company that is making the best performing augmented reality glasses and platforms for global telepresence. Kura's first product Kura Gallium - is solving the biggest industry mass adaption bottleneck through a performance of 150° field of view, 95% see-through, high brightness, 8K resolution, and comes in a compact form factor. Kura's performance is achieved through a series of inventions, innovations, and designs for the manufacturing process, that includes fully customized displays (Micro-LED), multiple customized ASICs, customized optics, system integrations, and ergonomic design. She's also an inventor with 10+ patents. Kura has 40 people on the team now, HQ in Bay Area, and is a winner of both CES 2022 Innovation Award, and the Best of CES award.
talk Leading and inventing as the CEO and CTO, for building the world's best performing Augmented Reality glasses and platform from the chip level
- CTO at an early stage growing startup, from the founding of Kura to now
- Running and growing a multi-disciplinary engineering and product team, from optics, chip, display, and software to design
- Inventions and unconventional decision making
- Company organization for scale
- Product market fit and working with customers
- Kura's product and technology and business model
Ali Salhi
About speaker
Ali Salhi
CTO at LOOP | Forbes 30u30 2022
Ali Salhi is a creative engineer specializing in scalable systems, serverless infrastructure, data engineering, big data and machine learning systems. He is the Chief Technology Officer at LOOP (ridewithloop.com), an insurance technology company that leverages AI and data to create more fairly priced auto insurance products for all. Prior to LOOP, Ali was the Head of Product at Ometry where he married innovation with risk management; developing a process to efficiently produce risk scores for roads. This complex system, combined multiple data sources and predicted the probability of a crash both geospatially and temporally.
talk How LOOP built a $100M+ company using GCP
- Introduction to LOOP
- LOOP by the numbers (Journey and Team)
- The startup infrastructure needs
- Managed Services
- How does LOOP use GCP to satisfy those needs
- Conclusion
break Break
Lasse Andresen
About speaker
Lasse Andresen
Founder and CEO of IndyKite
Lasse Andresen is a serial entrepreneur and a 20+ year digital identity veteran. In his most recent startup venture, Lasse is founder and CEO of IndyKite, co-founder and CTO of indyRIOT and joon. Previously Lasse founded identity and access management company, ForgeRock, which became a publicly traded company in September of 2021. He led as CEO through the startup phase, achieving 100% year-over-year growth and securing top-tier venture funding totaling $230 million. He continued in leadership as CTO, growing the company to over 750 employees in offices around the world, and establishing a customer base of over 1300 Global Fortune 5000 companies. When he's not dreaming up the next big thing in identity, Lasse is a passionate keyboard player and cyclist, and has toured countries around the world.
talk Gather the right people and cool things will happen
- How to create a space to let cool things happen
- Who are the ‘best people’ and how to find and keep them
- Importance of your product/tech/service
- Disrupting and building
- Do you need a plan B
- Idea or execution
Julia Valentine
About speaker
Julia Valentine
FinTech Advisor | COO | CTO | ESG | AI&ML
Julia Valentine is a solution-focused FinTech Advisor to boards and management teams. Throughout her executive career, Ms. Valentine has held leadership positions at JPMorgan Chase, D. E. Shaw and Mousse Partners, one of the largest family offices in the world. Julia serves on the Board of Directors - Operations & Technology and Financial Crimes Compliance Committees - of the Apple Bank. She's an advisor to startups, and is currently CTO & COO at AlphaMille.
talk Successful Startups Build an Ecosystem
- Building the tech teams: 6 models you can use and how to choose the right one.
- What's an agile business model and how to build it.
- How to speed up your design phase and be efficient with the build phase and the tool we see being used the most.
- How to pick the right advisors and what they should be able to do for you.
- Why successful startups build an ecosystem and how to do it.
Dmitriy Stepanov
closing Final word
About Dmitriy
Hosts
Javy Martinez
About Javy
Javy Martinez
Hosting Dope Startup Events for Early Stage Founders & Startups
Javy is a dynamic entrepreneur and philanthropist with a wealth of experience and a dedication to helping others succeed. He is the Co-Founder of Javannah Capital International, a startup studio that supports early-stage founders as they launch or scale their businesses. In addition, Javy founded The Single Parent Family Foundation, which provides family support programs and resources to single-parent families in Dallas County living in poverty. As the Managing Director for Founder Institute North Texas, Javy is committed to helping other entrepreneurs thrive. He is also the Co-Founder of Sports Media Promotions, the parent company behind the popular Dallas Cowboys Player Talk Show "Inside The Huddle," where he serves as Executive Producer. In addition, he serves as a Board Member for Alstrom Angels, a nonprofit that supports individuals with Alstrom Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder.
April White
About April
April White
President & Founder of Trust Relations | TEDx Speaker | Forbes Agency Council, Entrepreneur and Newsweek
A seasoned communications specialist, official TEDx speaker and writer with both B2B and B2C experience, April is as creative as she is strategic. With nearly 20 years of experience representing Fortune 100 companies and their executives at leading public relations agencies including Weber Shandwick, Edelman, Spong and Rubenstein Public Relations, she is skilled at developing targeted communications programs that convey strategic messaging, compelling narratives, intangible brand attributes and subtle points of differentiation. April is an official member and contributor of the Forbes Agency Council, Entrepreneur and Newsweek. She is also a co-host of The PR Wine Down podcast, HypeBusters and TR: The Podcast, as well as national mentor for SEED SPOT and OneValley Startup.
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