CTO Craft Con returns to Toronto in 2027 for two days of practical leadership conversations. Senior technology and engineering leaders from across Canada and North America will gather to explore topics ranging from AI adoption and organisational design to scaling teams, platform strategy, and leadership under pressure. The conference is built exclusively for…
Programmed at CTO, in alphabetical order.
The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Selected from 18 sessions.
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.
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 …
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 M…
Large organisations kill good ideas slowly. Approval cycles, risk aversion, and competing priorities turn promising initiatives into long-delayed projects or quiet cancellations. T…
The leaders who thrive in this era won’t do it by keeping pace with the technology alone. The capabilities AI cannot replicate, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, the ability …
Every engineering org using AI coding tools has hit the same tension. Velocity is up. PRs ship faster than ever. But confidence in what’s reaching production hasn’t kept up. The kn…
Hywel has led a wide range of dev teams for the past decade (including two VC-backed start-ups), and is a published curriculum author. He wrote his first program in C aged 9, and i…
Being a CTO means making decisions with incomplete information, under pressure, about people. Most of those decisions don’t have a clean answer. Bringing together technology leader…
AI writes more of your code every week. Your attack surface is growing faster than your security team. And somewhere between the developer, the CTO, and the CISO, nobody is quite s…
What does it mean when 61 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?
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