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CTO Craft Con 2027 London

CTO 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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131Speakers
43Sponsors
12Exhibitors
31On the bill · sessions
88Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at CTO, in alphabetical order.
Adam Horner
CTO Coach and fractional CTO
Adelina Chalmers
CTO Strategic Advisor and Founder · The Geek Whisperer
Alex Lukashevich
Alex Shegda
Alice Driscoll
Andrew Ellam
Andy Kennedy
Andy Skipper
CTO Coach, former CTO at Comic Relief and Made.com · Comic Relief and Made.com
Anna McDougall
Anton Kireev
Co-Founder & CTO · Muj Fres
Arbaaz Dossani
CTO - Cookbook · HelloFresh
Arunas Kareckas
Head of Engineering, Tide · Tide
Arūnas Kareckas
Head of Engineering · Tide
Ashutosh Saxena
VP of Technology at &Open · &Open
Becki Wordsworth
CTO · Meela
Carol Palombini
Coach & Consultant · Palombini Consulting & Coaching
Ceri Newton Sargunar
Chris Parsons
Chris van Es
Clem Pickering
Craig Smiley
Dan Smith
Executive Coach; Tech & Product Due Diligence and M&A Advisor
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AI Leadership LabPlatinum
DamilahGold
LavinMQGold
Skiller WhaleGold
SonarSourceGold
AikidoSilver
Albany PartnersSilver
Forte GroupSilver
InstilSilver
VentionSilver
Andersen Labs
andersen-labs
ArchitusBreakout Discussion Sponsor
AxiansAfter Party
BitriseExhibitor
Cloudflare
cockroach
CockroachDB
Cockroach LabsExhibitor
DoIT
DoiT InternationalExhibitor
ELEKSExhibitor
Imaginary CloudExhibitor
NortalExhibitor
OutSystemsAfter Party
PalarkExhibitor
QA TechExhibitor
qa-tech
QA.tech
Re-CinqExhibitor
Recinq
Screen ShareCommunity Partner
screen-share
She Bytes Back
she-bytes-back
SheBytesBackCommunity Partner
Sonar
sonar-2
T5 DigitalCoffee Cart Sponsor
t5-digital
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Agenda

Selected from 31 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…

  • 08:30-09:25

    Women in Tech Breakfast

    A staple at CTO Craft Con events, this is a space for women in technology leadership to come together, share experiences, and build meaningful connections with others who get it.

  • 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, …

  • 09:35-10:05

    Keynote – Communicating Effectively with Non-Technical Leaders

    One of the hardest and least appreciated challenges for a CTO is communicating with, negotiating with, and building trust with non-engineering leaders. There are three independent …

  • 09:40-10:10

    Keynote – Owners Not Renters: How We Build an Intelligent Future That Belongs to Everyone

    Your AI stack is built on infrastructure you don’t control. Models, platforms, data pipelines: all rented from companies whose interests don’t always align with yours. Drawing on …

  • 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…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 88 companies show up, and 18 bet on three roles at once?

88 companies. eighteen 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
18All threespeak · spons · exh
16Sponsoringsponsor only
1Exhibitingexhibitor only
53Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

QA.tech·Axians·Bitrise·Cockroach·DoiT·Eleks·Imaginary Cloud·Nortal·OutSystems·Palark·re:cinq·Aikido·Albany Partners·Architus·Cockroach Labs·Damilah·Skiller Whale·Vention

Speakers by seniority

58% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite5542%
  • Founder / Owner75%
  • VP-level75%
  • Director / Head of75%
  • Manager / Lead11%
  • Product11%
  • Engineer · IC43%
  • Advisor / Investor11%
  • Other roles4837%

Of 131 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01QA.techSp·EEx1V
  2. 02AxiansSp·AEx
  3. 03BitriseSp·EEx
  4. 04CockroachSpEx
  5. 05DoiTSpEx
  6. 06EleksSp·EEx
  7. 07Imaginary CloudSp·EEx
  8. 08NortalSp·EEx
  9. 09OutSystemsSp·AEx
  10. 10PalarkSp·EEx
  11. 11re:cinqSp·EEx
  12. 12AikidoSp·S1V
  13. 13Albany PartnersSp·S1V
  14. 14ArchitusSp·B1V
Sponsors by tier
platinum1
2% of 43
gold4
9% of 43
silver5
12% of 43
community partner2
5% of 43
exhibitor9
21% of 43
after party2
5% of 43
breakout discussion sponsor2
5% of 43
coffee cart sponsor1
2% of 43
unspecified17
40% of 43
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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