Sphere Partners

Tech Debates Zurich

What every (future) CTO needs to know — survival tactics for CTOs, technical leaders, and those that aspire to lead technology departments. Join us on Thursday, 17 October 2019 from 7PM to 9PM for a lively discussion about survival tactics for CTOs, technical leaders, and those that aspire to lead technology departments.

Discussion topics

  • Managing technical debt
  • Improving culture, hiring smart and reducing defection risk
  • Forecasting talent demand
  • Understanding the opportunity cost of keeping stable technology vs adopting new technology
  • What to do in the first 90 days of your new job

Speakers

MODERATOR - René Pfitzner
MODERATOR - René Pfitzner

René is currently building experify.io, a revolution in customer experience for D2C ecommerce businesses. Before that he was an independent Data Strategy Consultant and Lead Data Scientist at Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

David Roon
David Roon

David Roon is the Chief Technology Officer of OpenLaw and the creator of JVM based tools to integrate Ethereum development as well as the creator of Cubefriendly, an open data database engine.

Nikolay Kobyshev
Nikolay Kobyshev

Assaia International Ltd is developing a solution that watches airplane turnarounds in real time using computer vision. The produced information is used to make airports a more efficient and safe place. Nikolay is a technical co-founder of two computer vision companies, and a co-founder of HackZurich.