CTO Craft Con Winter ’21: Everything you need to know

CTO Craft Con Winter ’21 is set to take place in November, here is everything you need to know ahead of the event:

When and where is it on?

CTO Craft Winter Con ’21 takes place virtually November 8th – 11th 2021
4pm – 7pm (UK time)
8am – 11am (Pacific time)

How many years has it been going?

This winter is coming up to CTO Craft Con’s first birthday.
This is the third CTO Craft Conference since it all began this time last year, Winter ’20.

What was the inspiration to start it?

Founder and Chief Coach of CTO Craft, Andy Skipper’s own lived experience and challenges of being a senior technology leader.

At the time, there were plenty of programmes for CEOs and other C Suite leaders but nothing on a similar scale to give CTOs the support they needed and to help them grow as leaders.

The Slack community grew organically and exponentially over the pandemic.  We canvassed our members about their most pressing engineering questions. CTO Craft Con is what we came up with.

What exciting things can people look forward to?

For CTO Craft Con Winter ’21, we have an expanded programme with a whole extra day packed with idea sharing, real-life case studies, how tos, lessons learned, giving you hard-earned knowledge, and experience from these leading technology and engineering minds.
50 CTOs and thought leaders, 18 exclusive sessions including:

Day 1 Monday, Nov 8th – Hiring
Cal Henderson, Co-founder and CTO at Slack: Building an All-Star Team to Scale: What I’ve Learnt

Shannon Hogue, Global Head of Solutions Engineering at Karat: Inclusive Hiring at Scale: How to Approach High-Volume Technical Hiring while Keeping DEI at the Center.

Mike Boufford, CTO at Greenhouse: Fairness in Hiring.

Day 2 Tuesday – Nov 9th – Learning & Development
Guy Podjarny, Founder and President at Snyk: Security as a Skill Set for Leaders and Engineers.

Erica Lockheimer, VP of Engineering – LinkedIn Talent Solutions: The Path to Success by Saying “Yes”.

Day 3 Wednesday – Nov 10th – Strategy & Alignment
Simon Wardley, Researcher, Creator of Wardley Mapping: Cross the River by Feeling the Stones.

Juan Pablo Buriticá, SVP Engineering at Ritchie Bros.: Engineering Metrics and Technical Strategy in Delivery.

Scott Millett, IT Director at Iglu.com: Technology Strategic Alignment in a Nutshell.

Day 4 Thursday – Nov 11th – Stress & Burnout
James Routledge, Founder at Sanctus: Thousands of People, Years of Support – Mental Health Lessons Learned at Sanctus.

Ellen Wong, Director of Engineering at Calm: Managing the Year of Burnout.

Claire Russell, Founder and CEO at Mental Health in Business: Leadership and Burnout: How to Create an Anti-Burnout Culture.

What opportunities are on offer for those attending?

Joining the conversation, and networking with CTOs, Technology and Engineering leaders from some of the world’s most successful startups and scale-ups.

Actionable Insights and Guides

Radically improve your career growth and build on leadership and management skills – learn how the best engineering leaders plan and populate teams, foster a culture of learning and continuous growth, build alignment by communicating a clear strategy, and help teams deal with periods of stress and burnout.

An Incredible Crowd

Join hundreds of CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Heads of Development, Technical Directors – and everything in between. CTO Craft is a collaborative mentoring community that is about helping our members become better leaders, sharing ideas, best practices and building connections.

Continue the Conversation

Join over 7,000 other CTOs and engineering leaders in the free CTO Craft Slack community, where we’ll host additional discussions and Q&A with the speakers.
All the sessions will be recorded and available to ticket holders after the event.

Who will be speaking?

The full list of speakers can be found here.

Where can I get tickets?

You can book tickets via Eventbrite here.

Shane Leonard

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