CTO School – Fall 2010
What is it?
CTO School is a seminar series to help techies who find themselves in a technical leadership role at a startup learn some of the skills needed to excel and share experiences . It is organized by the New York Tech Community and NextNY, Charlie O’Donnell & Jean Barmash.
When: The series will run in the Fall of 2010, dates are below next to sessions. All sessions are 6:30PM - 8:30PM.
Where: AOL Ventures has generously donated space for CTO School.
770 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY
Who Is This For? This course is meant for somebody who has development experience, and possibly even some team leadership experience who is now working for a web startup in leadership capacity. You are the technology guy responsible for the product, whether your title is Lead Developer, CTO, or VP Engineering, or "The technical guy".
Your role is to support the business strategy of your business by formulating and executing technical strategy.
Video Stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cto-school-fall-2010
How Do I Sign Up?
Next Event:
Talk 1: Infrastructure decisions:
Picking hosting environment
Server technologies - app servers, load balancers, proxies, caches, storage, etc.
Disaster Recovery and Backups
Running Production Systems
Talk #1: Role of CTO - Jean Barmash, CTO, EnergyScorecards & Pete Miron, CTO, Knewton
Introduction to the role of CTO / VP Engineering / Tech Lead
Progression of CTO Role as the company matures
Working with Business Stakeholders
Working with other members of the product team (and what to do if you don't have them)
Being An Effective Part of the Executive Team
Talk #2: Tips & TriX of the Trade
10/11 (Mon) S2 - Key Technical Decisions
Talk #1: Creating a technology environment for building a startup
Prototyping
Development Tools Overview
Key Technical Building Blocks You Should Know About
Talk #2: Key Technology Decisions
Languages & Platforms
Persistence
Web Layer
Luke Melia (VP. Engineering, WePlay).
Project Management for CTOs
Quality Assurance
Estimation
Panel Members:
Zubin Wadia, CEO & Co-Founder at CiviGuard
Harry H, Engineering Lead, FourSquare
Gerald MacKenzie, Director of Engineering, Etsy
Kiran Keshav, CTO, Betterment
Nathan Hurst, Founder, Hirelite
Hagos Mehretea, Director of Engineering, AppNexus