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Conversations Roadshow New York 2026

The Conversations Roadshow is an intimate half-day gathering for CTOs and senior tech leaders to share experiences, explore challenges, and build lasting connections. Featuring small-group, peer-led roundtables, the event is designed to foster open conversation, practical insight, and shared problem-solving among senior engineering leaders. Each session is t…

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17Speakers
7Sponsors
13On the bill · sessions
19Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Conversations, in alphabetical order.
Adam Horner
CTO · Synova Technology
Andrew Osborne
Product Marketing Manager · Sonar
Anna Hedlund
Founder & Leadership Consultant · Rubberduck Consulting AB
Anna McDougall
Field CTO · Hashicorp / IBM
Becki Wordsworth
CTO · Meela
Boomie Odumade
Fractional CTO/VPE · TechBees
Charlie Eriksen
Security Researcher · Aikido Security
Christine Miao
Founder · Technical Accounting
Claire Donald
CPTO · Rational Partners
Daniel Wagner-Hall
Head of Education · CodeYourFuture
John Kleber
CTO · BUCK
Kamil Dziublinski
CTO · Xapo Bank
Kin Lane
API Evangelist
Mike Jones
CPTO · Tasman Analytics
Paul Lunow
CTO · Vention
Rachel Case
Senior Director of Solutions Engineering · Auth0
Thomas in’t Veld
CEO + Founder · Tasman Analytics
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Aikido
Auth0
Bitrise
CTO Craft
Tasman Analytics
Vention
Vercel
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Agenda

Selected from 13 sessions on the bill.
  • 1:00pm – 1:15pm

    Welcome remarks

  • 1:15-2:15pm

    Culture Map in practice: decision-making under difference

    Cultural differences rarely show up as overt “culture problems”; instead, they emerge as slow decisions, unclear ownership, and friction within senior teams. This session uses the …

  • 1:15-2:15pm

    Navigating the “do more with less” stress

    The expectation hasn’t changed – deliver more, move faster, and prove impact – but the resources behind those expectations have. Budgets are tighter, hiring has slowed, and every e…

  • 1:15-2:15pm

    Secure Software in an Untrusted Ecosystem

    Your teams are shipping faster than ever – but they’re building on foundations they don’t fully control. Open-source dependencies, third-party services, AI-generated code, and auto…

  • 12:00pm – 1:00pm

    Arrival and welcome

  • 2:15pm – 2:45pm

    Networking Break

  • 2:45pm – 3:45pm

    Maintaining High Performance During Economic Strain: Leadership, Culture and AI

    You’re being asked to deliver more with less. Budgets are tighter, priorities are shifting, and teams are looking to leadership for clarity – but maintaining performance without bu…

  • 2:45pm – 3:45pm

    The Hidden Cost of Micro-Decisions: Building Scalable Decision Pipelines for Technology Leaders

    Your biggest leadership bottleneck might not be strategy, budgets, or hiring – it might be the hundreds of small decisions landing on your desk every week. Over time, those micro-d…

  • 2:45pm – 3:45pm

    What Actually Works? A 5-Step Path to the AI-First SDLC

    Everyone is being told to become AI-first, but few teams have a clear playbook for what that actually means in day-to-day software delivery. Experiments are everywhere, yet many or…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 19 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

Nineteen companies. three are betting more than once.

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.

Who's in the room
3All threespeak · spons · exh
4Sponsoringsponsor only
12Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Tasman Analytics·Auth0·Vention

Speakers by seniority

71% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite847%
  • Founder / Owner212%
  • Director / Head of212%
  • Research / Science16%
  • Marketing / Brand16%
  • Other roles318%

Of 17 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Tasman AnalyticsSp2V
  2. 02Auth0Sp1V
  3. 03VentionSp1V
  4. 04AikidoSp
  5. 05BitriseSp
  6. 06CTO CraftSp
  7. 07VercelSp
  8. 08Aikido Security1V
  9. 09Buck1V
  10. 10CodeYourFuture1V
  11. 11HashiCorp / IBM1V
  12. 12Meela1V
  13. 13Rational Partners1V
  14. 14Rubberduck Consulting AB1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified7
100% of 7
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.

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