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CTO Craft MiniCon

[May 31st 2022, 4 - 7pm UK time]

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Screening

Interviewing

The Hiring Arc

Hiring

[A MiniCon for CTOs]

The Complete Hiring Arc – In under 3 Hours

Remember when it was the candidate who got the rejection email?

Competition in finding and hiring engineers is more intense than ever.

Demand from start-ups through to corporates is outstripping supply and pushing wage inflation and candidate rejections.

You need to stay competitive!

Join us on May 31st for 3 hours of in-depth insights from some of the world’s leading experts in the Hiring Arc, and learn how they’ve sustained successful team growth through COVID and the Great Rethink.

See Who's Coming

The World's Best CTOs & Engineering Leaders

Join the conversation, and network with CTOs from some of the world's most successful startups.

Continue The Conversation

Join over 4,000 other CTOs and engineering leaders in the free CTO Craft Slack community, where we'll host additional discussions and Q&A with the speakers.

Session Recordings to Watch When You Want

All the conference sessions will be available as recordings after the event to watch at your convenience.

A Conference For CTOs, by CTOs

We've been where you are - all speakers and content have been selected and lined up by experienced CTOs and engineering leaders.

Speakers

[Our Speakers]

Who's Speaking?

Join us for an afternoon of inspiring keynotes and fireside chats with some of the best engineering leadership thought leaders in the world.

Luca Rossi

Founder at Refactoring.fm

Laura Tacho

Engineering Leadership Coach and Consulting CTO/VPE

Jessica Zwaan

Chief Operating Officer at Whereby

Roy Rapoport

Director of Corporate Engineering at Netflix

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Security Consultant, co-creator of Django, and engineering leader

Ola Sitarska

Senior Development Manager at Shopify

Aline Lerner

Founder & CEO at interviewing.io

Michal Juhas

Tech Recruiting Consultant, former CTO at HotelQuickly

Andy Skipper

Founder and Chief Coach at CTO Craft

Joel Chippindale

CTO Advisor and Coach at Monkey’s Thumb

Emma Hopkinson-Spark

Chief of Staff at 101 Ways

Zoe Cunningham

Director at Softwire

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Amazing Speakers

Talks and Panels

Hours of Expert Insights

1500+

Engineering Leaders

Schedule

[Conference Timetable]

What's on the cards?

The Engineer Hiring Arc

May 31st, 2022

4:00pm - 4:05pm GMT

Welcome to the MiniCon!

Andy Skipper, Founder of CTO Craft, introduces the day's speakers and topics, networking and the CTO Craft community and Mentoring Circles.

4:05pm - 4:30 pm GMT

Keynote session: Title TBC - Aline Lerner, Founder and CEO at interviewing.io

TBC!

4:30pm - 4:50pm GMT

Talk: How To Find and Headhunt Tech Talent Remotely - Michal Juhas, Tech Recruiting Consultant, former CTO at HotelQuickly

Michal will talk about strategies and hands-on techniques on how to use LinkedIn and GitHub to find qualified candidates to join your IT teams. He’ll share boolean search filters that you can copy-paste when you’re looking for full-stack developers, data engineers, and other IT specialists.

4:50pm - 5:05pm GMT

Talk: Hiring Diverse Teams: Ola Sitarska - Senior Dev Manager at Shopify

Best practices of nurturing a representative hiring pipeline, objectively assessing the best candidates and improving the diversity of your tech team in a way that's both effective and pragmatism. Ola will share her experience of hiring women and other minorities from startups, through scale-ups to Shopify.

5:05pm - 5:25pm GMT

Fireside chat: The Perfect Job Post - Luca Rossi of Refactoring.fm

5:25pm - 5:40pm GMT

A Short Break!

Grab a tasty beverage and check your emails - we'll be back shortly!

5:40pm - 6:00pm GMT

Fireside chat: Better Technical Assessments - Laura Tacho, Engineering Leadership Coach

How do you design a technical challenge that can accurately assess a candidate's skills? Recognise common pitfalls with technical assessments, like the belief that an anonymous coding challenge will eliminate bias from your interview process, and evaluate different techniques that can take your own assessments from good to great.

6:00pm - 6:15pm GMT

Talk: Assessing Culture Fit and Add - Jessica Zwaan, Whereby

How to build a scalable performance and cultural assessment mechanism.

6:15pm - 6:35pm GMT

Fireside chat: Candidate Experience Design - Roy Rapoport, Director of Corporate Engineering at Netflix

TBC

6:35pm - 7:00 pm GMT

Keynote session: Title TBC - Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Engineering Leader and Co-Creator of Django

TBC

7:00pm - 7:05pm GMT

Outro and Thanks

Closing thoughts and key takeaways

Feedback

[Attendee Feedback]

Here's What Previous Attendees Think

CTO Craft Con was amazing, the best virtual conference experience so far. Thank you for organizing it!

Boris Penck

[CTO at Productsup]

It was a very thought-provoking event, and good to see a people-centric approach.

Mike Yorwerth

[CTO at Marks and Spencer]

So much great content. I was surprised by how good a talk on Imposter Syndrome could be for example.

Davy McGeorge

[Head of Tech Ops at iwoca]

I was happily surprised to see that the struggles I encounter in my job are, in fact, common. It's reassuring.

Théo Bocquelet

[Technical Director at Domoscio]

I will be referring back to some of the talks. Such good quality content and discussion.

Nicholas Botes

[Head of Engineering at OfferZen]

The content was very topical. Some of it really firms up some of the changes I'm making at Giacom.

Russell Hunt

[Head of Development at Giacom]

I really enjoyed the event. My list of things to read/study has increased considerably.

Maurizio Pedriale

[Director of Technology at Emakina]

The conference was awesome. I am going back and watching some of the missed sessions. Great work.

Ashraf Jahangeer

[Senior Director of Engineering at Stitch Fix]

It was the first time I've attended a CTO Craft event, really interesting and engaging!

Sean King

[Head of Engineering at Zego]