Day 1
Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Time | Main Conference |
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08:00 | |
08:45 | |
08:50 | |
09:00 |
Keynote Fireside Chat: The CTO Journey So Far – How We Got Here, and Where Next?
In this Fireside chat Lee-Jon and Meri discuss the challenges of the CTO Role, how they’ve changed and where they think they’re going, how we can prepare ourselves for a change in role, and how we can prepare ourselves for the CTO role as we move into it |
09:30 |
Keynote: The Failing CTO – What we can learn from others’ mistakes
Glyn Roberts is a seasoned technology professional with years of experience working with hundreds of companies at various stages of their business. During this talk, he will share practical examples that demonstrate how the absence of strategy and leadership can result in costly financial and time-related consequences for businesses. Attendees will gain valuable insights on how to avoid common pitfalls and steer their organisations towards success. |
10:00 |
Panel Discussion: Let’s Get Strategic! Stop Reacting, Start Leading
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10:45 | |
11:15 |
Presentation: Moving Fast!
In 10 years, we overhauled technology and process at Uswitch to move faster than our competitors, and the results followed. Since then, we’ve bought many businesses and are applying the same learnings to help us move quickly. This talk will cover some stories of what worked and what didn’t to provoke thought on making progress in your organisation. |
11:45 | |
12:15 |
Panel Discussion: Power to your People – Building a Team to Succeed
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13:00 | |
14:00 |
Panel Discussion: Cybersecurity – Protecting the organisation’s technological assets
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14:45 |
Presentation: What do investors care about most and how to deal with it as a CTO?
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15:15 | |
15:45 |
Community Showcase: How to talk about tech with boards that just don’t get it
Game changing technology projects proposed by CTOs are often disregarded because “the board just didn’t get it”. Affectionately known as the “The Geek Whisperer”, Adelina Chalmers will share insights on how CTOs can secure buy-in from the CFO, CEO and Board of Directors for their proposals. Through drawing upon various case studies, Chalmers will address key challenges faced by CTOs including:
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16:00 |
Community Showcase: Innovating Beyond Hackathons: Building a Culture of Creativity in Your Tech Team
Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful tech company, but too often it’s treated as a one-time event rather than a continuous process. Many companies rely on hackathons or other sporadic events to generate new ideas and spur innovation, but these approaches are often ineffective at producing lasting results. In this talk, we’ll explore how to create a culture of continuous innovation in your tech team, where creativity and problem-solving are habits rather than occasional events. You’ll learn practical strategies for breaking out of the hackathon mindset and fostering creativity every day to create a sustainable culture of innovation. |
16:15 |
Panel Discussion: Show Me The Money! Managing Technology Investment
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17:00 | |
17:15 | |
20:00 |
Day 2
Wednesday 24th May 2023
Time | Main Conference |
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08:00 | |
08:45 | |
09:00 |
Keynote Fireside Chat: Strategic Technology Leadership – Defining a Clear Vision for Long-Term Success
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09:30 |
Keynote Presentation: Everyone Can Contribute -Exploring Strategies to Accelerate Rate of Innovation
During this presentation, we will discuss how GitLab realises its philosophy of “everyone can contribute”. We will delve into the significance of this approach for digital enterprises and demonstrate how you can implement some of our insights to encourage contributions from everyone within your own organisation. |
09:45 |
Panel Discussion: Out with the Old, In with the New – Managing the Technology Lifecycle
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10:45 | |
11:15 |
Presentation: Building Resilient Tech Organisations to Survive and Thrive through the Periods of Change
Technology leaders are often focused on solving today’s challenges, and yet – as the past year has taught us – business context can and does change year after year. Sometimes that requires significant growth, or reducing the investment into tech, or pivot in terms of the technology being built. In order to adapt, our tech organisations need to be thoughtfully built with resilience principles in mind. Key takeaways:
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11:45 |
Presentation: Build vs. Buy – a strategic decision for systems and people
In an economic downturn, technical leaders have to be even more careful with every resource they have. In this talk, Hywel will look at the questions of building vs buying, and provide a framework for considering the long term and short term costs and payoffs. Then, he’ll extend the question beyond systems and products to people and their capabilities, and propose a framework for thinking about team capability, comparing “buying” through hiring and “building” through learning. |
12:15 |
Panel Discussion: A Match Made in Heaven – Instilling Harmony Between Product and Engineering Strategies
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13:00 | |
14:00 |
Panel Discussion: Moving Beyond Agile? Modern Methodologies for Technology Development
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14:45 |
Presentation: Integrated outsourcing – maximising your software development partnership
Learn how to select, contract, engage and work with an offshore outsourcing partner. Get real-world insights about outsourcing software development to an external team, including tips about:
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15:15 | |
15:45 |
Community Showcase: Walking the Tightrope – Navigating Constant Change with Clarity and Empathy
Most successful technology startups regularly break their teams! At first, this sounds counterintuitive – how would success lead to dysfunction and misalignment? By their very nature, startups need to move fast to capture a market. This requires constant change and adaptation. Contrast this with how people and systems work: just like families or communities, we need stability to thrive. Technology teams are most successful if their environment is predictable! So how can startups walk this tightrope? In this talk, I will explore how continuously creating clarity with empathy is the glue that allows constant change to sit side-by-side with predictable environments. |
16:00 |
Community Showcase: “We need to talk” – How to receive feedback like a boss
In teamwork, a culture of feedback is necessary to archive good collaboration and high performance. Nonetheless, these skills are seldom overlooked in training programs. This is a step-by-step guide to getting the best out of every feedback session. Each step will be explained, with the concepts of collaboration and conflict resolution that are behind it. |
16:15 |
Panel Discussion: Self Care as Technology Leaders – Building Resilience to Stress and Improving Wellbeing
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17:00 | |
17:15 |