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CTO Craft Con 2027 London

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TO Craft Con 2027 celebrates 10 years of CTO Craft, bringing together engineering leaders from around the world. The three-day in-person gathering at the QEII Centre in London offers curated talks, workshops, and networking for CTOs, VPs, senior leaders, and aspiring tech executives. The event emphasizes learning, sharing, and community, covering themes lik…

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12Voices
20Underwriters
0Exhibitors
13On the bill · sessions
32Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at CTO, in alphabetical order.
Arūnas Kareckas
Head of Engineering · Tide
David Kavanagh
CTO · Tillo
Dr. Ilknur Colak
CTO · Schneider Electric
Eirik Pettersen
CTO · Secret Escapes
Jaime De Mora
CTO, Startups & Digital Natives · Microsoft EMEA
James Stanier
CTO, Veterinary · Nordhealth
Khalil Dimachkie
CTO · Blue Light Card
Lee Provoost
CTO · Flagstone
Michael Kinloch
SVP Engineering · Xceptor
Neeha Curtis
Chief of Corporate Affairs · Lyric
Sathya Nandakumar
CTO · Holland & Barrett
Simone Steel
Central Data & AI CIO for Corporate Bank · Deutsche Bank
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Andersen Labs
Axians
Bitrise
Cloudflare
CockroachDB
DoIT
Eleks
Instil
Nortal
Outsystems
Palark
QA.tech
Recinq
Screen Share
She Bytes Back
Sonar
T5 Digital
Temporal
The Office Massage
Vention
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The Programme

Selected from 13 sessions on the bill.
  • 07:45-08:30

    Morning Gentle Flow Yoga

    Start the day with a short, gentle flow yoga session designed to loosen up the body and settle the mind. This optional session is open to all levels and offers a calm way to ease i…

  • 08:15-09:10

    Women in Tech Breakfast

    Start your day with great coffee and even better company. This breakfast gathering is a relaxed space for women in tech leadership to connect, share experiences, and build relation…

  • 09:10-09:15

    CTO Craft Welcomes You!

  • 09:15-09:20

    Chair’s Opening Remarks

    Neeha works at the intersection of technology, strategy, and communication. She brings deep experience helping organisations explain the value of their technology decisions and ali…

  • 09:20-09:50

    Keynote – AI as a Thinking Partner: Leading with Clarity and Confidence

    Beyond faster coding, AI can act as a writing partner, coach, and sounding board, helping leaders sharpen their thinking and test assumptions. Using AI for prompts, deep research, …

  • 09:50-10:20

    From Rollout to Results: Why AI Coding Tools Alone Won’t Transform Your Engineering Organisation

    Early studies promised 20-55% productivity gains from AI coding assistants, yet recent research reveals developers feel 20% faster while actually taking 19% longer, and Google’s DO…

  • 10:20-10:45

    Owning the Stack: A CTO’s Guide to Building In-House Systems

    A first-hand account of leading Holland & Barrett’s tech transformation since 2020, moving away from legacy systems toward building in-house platforms. Lessons on balancing speed, …

  • 11:15-11:40

    Engineering 2028: Leading Human + AI Teams Responsibly

    AI is transforming software delivery faster than leadership models, governance, and culture can adapt. Productivity gains are uneven, and traditional roles and structures are being…

  • 11:15-12:15

    Building Skills Pathways for Fast Flow

    We will explore how to design joined-up skills pathways that cut across the business, avoiding duplicated efforts, siloed initiatives, and misaligned team development. Hear how sen…

    Roundtable
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 32 companies, parsed from the program.

32 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
20Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
12Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

92% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite975%
  • VP-level18%
  • Director / Head of18%
  • Other roles18%

Of 12 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Andersen LabsSp
  2. 02AxiansSp
  3. 03BitriseSp
  4. 04CloudflareSp
  5. 05CockroachDBSp
  6. 06DoITSp
  7. 07EleksSp
  8. 08InstilSp
  9. 09NortalSp
  10. 10OutsystemsSp
  11. 11PalarkSp
  12. 12QA.techSp
  13. 13RecinqSp
  14. 14Screen ShareSp
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
unspecified20
100% of 20
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions