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Free CTO Accelerator Webinars

Workshop Overview

Our free CTO webinar series covers the same topics as our in-person private workshop. The series is targeted to current and aspiring CTOs and CIOs, engineering and product leaders, and technical architects.

The 1 hour webinar is held twice/month and the entire series is 20 separate sessions. Recordings of previous sessions are available on our website and on YouTube.

Sign up now - Our next webinar is July 11, 2025

The following topics will be covered in our CTO Webinars:

Date	Session Topics	Key Takeawys
November 8, 2024 View on YouTube	Role of the CTO Management and Leadership	Role of CTO vs CIO and CDO Career paths and spheres of influence The skills of a transformational leader and highly effective manager
November 22, 2024 View on YouTube	Accounting for CTOs	Fiduciary duty of executives Introduction of 3 common financial statements used by the CFO
December 6, 2024 View on YouTube	Technical Debt and Repayment	Business impact of technical debt Determining how much debt payment to allocate
December 20, 2024 View on YouTube	Organization Design for Innovation	How to organize product and engineering teams that continually Innovate
January 3, 2025 View on YouTube	OKRs - Outcomes and Key Results	Best practices Common mistakes and remediation Dupont diagrams to communicate and align
January 17, 2025 View on YouTube	Risk Model for Availability Availability Math	Drivers of downtime - architecture and process Estimating techniques to calculate probability and impact of downtime
January 31, 2025 View on YouTube	Anti-Patterns and Patterns	Common Anti-Patterns that cause downtime Common Patterns to remediate Anti-Patterns
February 14, 2025 View on YouTube	Availability and Scalability Cubes	Our framework to simplify approaches to improve availability and scalability
February 28, 2025 View on YouTube	Architecture Principles	Subset of principles that CTOs need to instill in teams Empower teams to make architectural decisions without a central committee
March 14, 2025 View on YouTube	Monitoring & Operations	Core processes to detect incidents and manage problems Running Engineering like a business
March 28, 2025 View on YouTube	Agile vs Waterfall vs KanBan	When to use each approach to managing work
April 11, 2025 View on YouTube	Intro to Product Management for CTOs	Role of Product Management in different business models Common Product Management Frameworks
April 25, 2025 View on YouTube	Product Management Techniques	When to use Jobs-to-be-Done, Personas, and Journey Maps
May 9, 2025 View on YouTube	Induction vs Deduction Moneyball in your organization	Inductive and deductive analysis - which architectures and roles support each Overcoming organizational obstacles to making decisions supported by data
May 23, 2025 View on YouTube	DIKW Architecture Internal and External Analytics	Data -> Information -> Knowledge -> Wisdom Architectural components and best practices
June 6, 2025 View on YouTube	ML Introduction and Models Part 1	Supervised vs unsupervised learning linear vs polynomial regression training via gradient descent neural networks deep neural networks back propogation Generative AI Stable diffusion Large language models
June 20, 2025	AKF ML Maturity Model ML Roles and Governance	When to implement governance based on your stage of maturity Key roles and skills for your organization Hunting for ML opportunities
July 11, 2025	Agentic User Experience	Intent driven vs. navigation Outcome driven agent flows Trust in the agentic UX Pitfalls to avoid Where we are headed
July 25, 2025	Change Management - ADKAR model	Leading changes through 5 stages: Awareness -> Desire -> Knowledge -> Ability -> Reinforcement
August 8, 2025	Domain Driven Design Event Storming Exercise	Approach to splitting and/or merging monoliths Gamified approach with a live event storm for a mobile gaming app

Free CTO Accelerator Webinars

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