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:
11/22 (Mon) S4 - Deployment Infrastructure & Operations - Brian Adams, CTO, AdMeld
Full Curriculum
9/27 (Mon) S1 - What does CTO do?
10/11 (Mon) S2 - Key Technical Decisions
10/27 (Wed) S3 - Getting Technical Stuff Done (and Well)
- Panel Discussion - (Peter Miron, CTO, Knewton, Oliver Hurst-Hiller (CTO, Donors Choose),
Luke Melia (VP. Engineering, WePlay).
- Talk #1: Development Process
- Talk #2: Creating a successful culture on your tech team
12/07 (Tues) S5 - Hiring & Scaling Your Team
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
- Recruiting
- Organizational Planning
- Hiring (Comp, onboarding)