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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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49Voices
20Underwriters
10Exhibitors
13On the bill · sessions
50Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at CTO, in alphabetical order.
Adam Horner
CTO Coach and fractional CTO
Adelina Chalmers
CTO Strategic Advisor and Founder · The Geek Whisperer
Andy Skipper
CTO Coach, former CTO at Comic Relief and Made.com · Comic Relief and Made.com
Anton Kireev
Co-Founder & CTO · Muj Fres
Arūnas Kareckas
Head of Engineering · Tide
Ashutosh Saxena
VP of Technology at &Open · &Open
Dan Smith
Executive Coach; Tech & Product Due Diligence and M&A Advisor
David Kavanagh
CTO · Tillo
David Yakimischak
Chief Technology Officer
Dennis Pannuto
Executive Technology Leader & Coach
Dr. Ilknur Colak
CTO · Schneider Electric
Edoardo Turelli
Exited Founder/CTO • Advisor • Consultant • Coach • CTO
Eirik Pettersen
CTO · Secret Escapes
Emma Hopkinson-Spark
CTO Coach, former Chief of Staff at 101 Ways · 101 Ways
Eric Weiss
CTO, Executive Coach, Speaker and Author
Francis Lacoste
VPE Coach, former senior engineering leader at Salesforce and Heroku · Salesforce and Heroku
Geoff Watts
Business and Personal Coach to ambitious leaders
Graham Hobson
Entrepreneur. Advisor. CTO. Founder of Photobox · Photobox
Jaime De Mora
CTO, Startups & Digital Natives · Microsoft EMEA
James Conroy-Finn
Founder · Invetica
James Cook
Executive Leadership & Culture Coach
James O’Halloran
Business Coach and Founder · Sweet.Work

— and 27 more, by name unsung —

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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

What does it mean when 50 companies show up — and 9 bet on three roles at once?

50 companies. nine 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.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
9All threespeak · spons · exh
11Sponsoringsponsor only
1Exhibitingexhibitor only
29Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Axians·Bitrise·DoiT·Eleks·Nortal·OutSystems·Palark·QA.tech·re:cinq

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

84% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite3367%
  • Founder / Owner48%
  • VP-level24%
  • Director / Head of24%
  • Advisor / Investor12%
  • Other roles714%

Of 49 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01AxiansSpEx
  2. 02BitriseSpEx
  3. 03DoiTSpEx
  4. 04EleksSpEx
  5. 05NortalSpEx
  6. 06OutSystemsSpEx
  7. 07PalarkSpEx
  8. 08QA.techSpEx
  9. 09re:cinqSpEx
  10. 10Andersen LabsSp
  11. 11CloudflareSp
  12. 12CockroachDBSp
  13. 13InstilSp
  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