CTO Craft Con: The Strategic CTO 2023
2023-05-23..2023-05-24
London, United Kingdom
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Failing CTO - What we can learn from others' mistakes | Glyn Roberts | 28m |
Startling industry stats: 29% fail from running out of cash, 23% from the wrong team, 19% from being outcompeted, and the top cause is no market need. Case… | ||
| The CTO Journey So Far – How We Got Here, and Where Next? | Meri Williams | 31m |
Career path moves from corporate IT at Procter & Gamble into hyperscale startups and now a stable 250-person org, with past roles through Monzo, Moo and Helix… | ||
| Let’s Get Strategic! Stop Reacting, Start Leading | Maria Gutierrez | 45m |
Argues that CTOs must align tech with product and business strategy using a short two-page strategy with quarterly milestones, explicit metrics, and documented… | ||
| Moving Fast! | Paul Ingles | 29m |
Company grows revenue ~500% and profit ~1000% after reorganizing delivery: move from fortnightly releases to much higher cadence, migrate C# on physical… | ||
| Power to your People - Building a Team to Succeed | David Lush | 44m |
Team growth detail: zero to just over 40 engineers in three years and an 80+ tech org are used as case studies for concrete hiring and culture moves. Advice… | ||
| Cybersecurity - Protecting the Organisation's Technological Assets | Marta Jasinska, Katherine Spice, Charlotte Slingsby, Becky Pinkard, Anna Dick | 44m |
Third-party supplier breaches are rising and language models add new verification risk; companies use third-party supplier breaches tracking, threat modeling… | ||
| What do investors care about most and how to deal with it as a CTO? | Christian Larsen | 31m |
Valuations jump from ~5x to 20x earnings and investors focus on downside protection so prioritize product security as the CTO owner of that risk: implement a… | ||
| Innovating Beyond Hackathons | Aviv Ben-Yosef | 24m |
Argues to replace rare 36‑hour hackathons with recurring one‑ to two‑week intermissions every 6–8–12 weeks so engineers can try risky ideas that may fail but… | ||
| Show Me The Money! Managing Technology Investment | Jonathan Howell, Klaas Ardinois, Efua Akumanyi, Sasha Vidiborskiy, Leon Rees | 43m |
Panel explains how VCs evaluate tech with concrete benchmarks: a firm managing $5 billion fund investing $3M–$50M, early rounds under ~$20M and growth rounds… | ||
| Strategic Technology Leadership | Anna Shipman | 30m |
Defines strategy as diagnosis, vision, coherent action and gives concrete practices: 75 engineers inside a 250-person tech org, quarterly reviews with three… | ||
| Everyone Can Contribute | Steve Challis | 29m |
GitLab shows concrete results: 1→2,000 employees across 65 countries, community contributions 20→200/month from 4,000 contributors, and 30 million monthly… | ||
| Building Resilient Tech Organisations to Survive and Thrive | Milena Nikolic | 28m |
Six concrete levers: hire and train t-shaped engineers so ten backend and ten mobile hires can be redeployed into web work when usage shifts; enforce a… | ||
| Build vs. Buy - a strategic decision for systems and people | Hywel Carver | 30m |
Compares build vs buy for systems and for team skills using a Moscow analysis and a total cost of productivity model; cites 200,000 industry layoffs and a… | ||
| A Match Made in Heaven - Instilling Harmony Between Product and Engineering | Toby Knight, Rico Surridge, Mark Stanton-Bennett, Jen Beattie, Jasper Schulte | 44m |
Advice is practical: form cross-functional squads so product, engineering and UX solve the same problem together; use a single prioritized roadmap that rates… | ||
| Moving Beyond Agile? Modern Methodologies for Technology Development | Fabio Davide, Kirsten Achtelstetter, Irina Bednova, David Santoro, David Inkpen | 44m |
Panel argues that moving beyond Agile means applying concrete practices not dogma: teams replace fortnightly Sprints with continuous weekly check‑ins when… | ||
| Walking the Tightrope: Navigating Constant Change with Clarity and Empathy | Tobi Tonner | 16m |
Built a marketing-tech product used by Bacardi, Carlsberg and Diageo to design, print and ship point‑of‑sale materials, then sees revenue dropped to zero… | ||
| “We need to talk” - How to receive feedback like a boss | Marco Alabruzzo | 14m |
Argues that receiving feedback matters more than giving and offers a concrete five-step system called SERIF: solicit, embrace, repeat, investigate, follow up… | ||
| How to Build a Compensation Package | Henry Draper | 30m |
Survey of 573 respondents shows concrete pay bands: early-stage CTOs average ~£160k base and ~£279k equity, Series A ~£183–190k base and ~£321–400k equity… | ||
| How to talk about tech with boards that just don't get it | Adelina Chalmers | 11m |
A concrete method for board buy-in turns nine months of negotiation into a single approval by reframing tech as business outcomes: request 3.5 million pounds… | ||
| Self Care as Technology Leaders | Andy Skipper | 43m |
Panel argues specific practices that actually move the needle: use the Wheel of Emotion to label feelings, keep a weekly temperature check with managers to… | ||
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