Conference

CTO World Congress: The nation’s definitive senior tech executive conference.

CTO World Congress (Feb. 16-17, San Francisco) is the definitive gathering place for hundreds of the nation’s leading CTOs and senior tech executives. The goal of CTO Talks is to exchange best practices about the role of a CTO or Head of Technology all the way from a startup to a Fortune 5000.

Featured Speakers

Snehal Antani

Snehal Antani

CTO

Splunk

Kit Colbert

Kit Colbert

CTO

VMware

Chris Van Tuin

Chris Van Tuin

Chief Technologist

Red Hat

Schedule

Day One Tuesday
MORNING
TALKS: Making Technology Decisions
  • Rise of Open Source in the technology stack
  • Docker, Containers, and Microservices
  • Scalability and Security
AFTERNOON
TALKS: From Developer to CTO
  • Should a CTO code?
  • CTO, CIO, and Chief Architect
  • Is a CTO a technical manager, hiring manager, or corporate manager?

TALKS: Managing Innovation
  • How to encourage innovation in the company
  • Managing R&D with open innovation tools and hackathons
Day Two Wednesday
MORNING
TALKS: Building a Technology Team
  • The engineering team mix
  • How to hire (and retain) awesome developers
  • Training teams on new technologies
AFTERNOON
TALKS: CTO Perspective on Emerging Technologies
  • Perspectives on IoT and the tech industry
  • Role of big data in making company decisions
  • Strategies on APIs and Open Data

Who attends our events last year?

Accenture
AddThis
Adobe
Alcatel-Lucent
American Express
AOL
Apple
AT&T
ATT
Battery Ventures
Bessemer Venture Partners
Blackboard
Braintree
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
Cisco Systems
Dev Bootcamp

Dun & Bradstreet
GigaOM
Joyent
LinkedIn
Microsoft
Nestlé
NetApp
Netflix
NetSuite
New Relic
Nokia
O’Reilly Media
oDesk
Oracle
PayPal
Playdom

Rackspace
Revolution Analytics
RIM
Salesforce
SAP
Silicon Valley Bank
Symantec
Tesla Motors
Thomson Reuters
Trulia
Wells Fargo
Yelp
Zendesk
Zillow
Zynga