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

CTO World Congress is the definitive convergence of hundreds of CTOs and senior technology thought leaders within a single technology conference. With the explosion of technology innovation, every company is now a tech company, and the CTO is the new key strategic leader in the corporation. CTO World Congress invites delegates from across the world to join in this community forum, discuss best practices, and advance the technology industry.

Last Year’s Featured Speakers

Snehal Antani

CTO

Splunk

Kit Colbert

CTO

VMware

Chris Van Tuin

Chief Technologist

Red Hat

Last Year’s 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 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’s Attended Our Events?

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