BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T020000 RDATE:20190310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190408T064616Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190510T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190510T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190408T064616Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190408T064616Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250475405 DESCRIPTION:Come spend a day with fellow CTOs based in Portland for a sin gle track\, one day conference touching on product management\, leadersh ip and technology. \;\n \;\n# Agenda \;\n \;\n## 8:00 am Ch eck In/Registration \;\n## 8:45 am Welcome! \;\nEtienne de Bruin\, Founder 7CTOs \;\n## 9:00 – 9:45 am Keynote: Making the Product Engi neering Marriage Thrive \;\nVidya Dinamani\, Founder &\; Partner P roduct Rebels \;\nHeather Samarin\, Co-Founder/Principal Product Reb els \;\nWhat makes a great product family work is having the product parents\, Product &\; Engineering\, in a great relationship. So\, wha t goes into making this work? This talk explores the root causes of most dysfunctions and provides the product perspective in not just identifyi ng and overcoming\, but put you on the path to thriving. \;\n \;\n ## 10:00 – 10:30 am Distributed team: Benefits and Challenges \;\nOle g Pashigorev\, CTO Promomash \;\nHow to assemble team on a small budg et\, without sacrificing speed or quality? We usually hear 2 type of ans wers: it’s impossible or go hire dev shop from India and we all know wha t to expect from it. But sometimes we do hear a story that somebody mana ged to build a great product with offshore team. How did they do it? \;\nIn this talk I will share with you what it took to create a successf ul distributed development team. We will go over benefits and challenges as well as restrictions that we had to put in order to work with people from countries that are at WAR. We will also discuss specifics in the h iring process and practices that help us create the culture we all despe rately seek and want. \;\n## 10:45 – 11:15 am Degeneracy\, Code\, and Innovation\, or: How to Fail By Succeeding \;\nAaron Longwell\, Lead Technical Advisor U.S. Department of State \;\nWhen we write softwar e\, we are “encoding” our observations about the present for use in the future. But we don’t know much about the future\, and our observations a bout the present are often incomplete and biased. Every organism on the planet faces this problem\, and Evolutionary Biology is the study of how organisms have attempted to solve it. In this talk\, we’ll explore how we can take inspiration from the natural world and apply it to software and organizational design. \;\n## 11:30 am – 12:00 pm Design Thinking and Agile for Family Life \;\nAlex Zub\, CTO Handsome \;\nMany of us use the Agile methodologies and the Design Thinking approach in desi gn and development activities at work. What if we could apply things tha t make our work so effective and efficient to family life? This talk wil l discuss the value of leveraging professional methodologies in our ever yday life. \;\n## 12:00 pm Break for Lunch \;\n## 1:30 – 3:00 pm W orkshop: Building Products that Customers (and your team) Love \;\nHe ather Samarin\, Co-Founder/Principal Product Rebels \;\nVidya Dinama ni\, Founder &\; Partner Product Rebels \;\nBuilding products that customers love is the goal of every product team. In this workshop\, we work through three core components that every leader can take back to t heir teams to sharpen product focus\, improve team collaboration\, and r aise overall engagement. This highly interactive workshop is fun\, immed iately applicable and will help you develop a better rapport and partner ship with your product leader. \;\n## 3:15 – 3:45 pm \;\nJerome Bo nhomme\, CTO American Specialty Health \;\n## 4:00 – 4:30 pm \;\n Sergey Sundukovskiy\, Co-Founder\, CTO and Chief Product Officer at Rake n\, Inc. \;\n## 4:45 – 5:15 pm Mechanical Confidence \;\nAdam Cupp y\, COO ZEAL \;\nMore often then not “confidence” is taught as a prac tice of positive self-talk\; that confidence is the result of belief and time. While this appears to be true\, it isn’t. Confidence can be devel oped\, mechanically. We can be more confident without having to solely b elieve we’re confident. \;\nConfidence\, in fact\, is the result of e ngrained habit. This talks looks at how you can develop a process to ins till what so many of us wish we had more of. \;\n## 5:15 pm Closing & amp\; Thank you \;\n## 5:30 pm Break for Cocktails\n\nTags: cto\, tec hnology\, leadership\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/12504 75405 URL:https://0111conf.com/pdx SUMMARY:0111 Portland CTO Conference LOCATION:World Trade Center Two: 25 SW Salmon Street\, Portland OR 97204 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR