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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. Instead, given a startup project, they’ll default to building everything in-house, using technologies that they’re already familiar with.

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3 steps to get your data AI ready

CIO

While many organizations have already run a small number of successful proofs of concept to demonstrate the value of gen AI , scaling up those PoCs and applying the new technology to other parts of the business will never work until producing AI-ready data becomes standard practice. This tends to put the brakes on their AI aspirations.

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The lazy CIO’s guide to better IT investment

CIO

Youre under this pressure unless youve given up and relinquished responsibility for formulating the organizations technology vision to a chief digital officer, chief technology officer, or some other titled individual whose job is to make promises you as CIO are supposed to keep. Dont do that.

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Vision Zero and the Quest for Sustainable Technology Products

Agile Alliance

This experience report examines the culture shift at the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) leading digital transformation and developing sustainable products to improve interactions between regulators and regulated entities.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy for the future.

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Redefining customer experience: How AI is revolutionizing Mastercard

CIO

In an era where technology reshapes entire industries, I’ve had the privilege of leading Mastercard on an extraordinary journey. When I think about the technology we started working with early in my career and look at what we’ve been able to do since, it truly is amazing, a global transformation led by and driven through technology.

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Essential CTO Tools in 2025 for Bridging Vision and Operations

CTO Academy

This article provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date list of essential CTO tools, categorising them based on their functionality and use cases. For Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) in start-up […] The post Essential CTO Tools in 2025 for Bridging Vision and Operations appeared first on CTO Academy.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

In the world of ever-changing technology, customer representation has become a key factor for a product’s success. As the CTO, it is your job to determine how to implement these important features. Sign up now to learn how to: Reexamine what processes your QA & Dev teams already have.

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Schema Evolution Patterns

Speaker: Alex Rasmussen, CEO, Bits on Disk

This is an important topic for technology leaders to understand in order to understand and help their teams navigate one of the tougher issues they face. Alex will go through both general principles like schema compatibility and specific techniques to help you learn: Recognizing what makes schema changes easy or hard.

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The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: How to Go From Concept to Reality

Speaker: Dr. Joe Perez, Chief Technology Officer at SolonTek and Senior Systems Analyst at NC Dept. of Health & Human Services

As a CTO, you see the end result of those concepts but will they ever become reality? Anyone can make a pretty bar graph, but can you make sound decisions based on that graph? Is it actionable or is it only fluff? Do you have the vision to combine beauty with brains, thereby driving decisions with data? What value do you see in your data?

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Software Delivery Metrics for the C-Suite

A key challenge for all technology leaders is building a strong relationship with internal stakeholders and customers. Often, senior stakeholders view technology delivery as a ‘black box’. As a result, CTOs may find it difficult to build dialogue, understanding and trust.

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Your Team's Pragmatic Guide to Security

Speaker: Naresh Soni, CTO, Tsunami XR

As technology leaders, it's time to rethink some of your product security strategy. We are excited to be joined by a CTO who is an expert in pragmatic choices around security. Naresh Soni, CTO of Tsunami XR, will take us through critical information to make smart choices in how to protect our organizations.

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The Six Principles of Persuasion

Speaker: Michael Carducci, CTO, Mago:Tech

We might be trying to get our CEO on-board with investment in a new technology or a rearchitecture effort, or we might want culture or process changes by our team. This knowledge and the related skills are essential to success as a technology leader. Our “good idea” is simply the beginning.

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Best Practices for Micro-Services Management, Traceability and Visualization

Speaker: Robert Starmer, Cloud Advisor, Founding Partner at Kumulus Technologies

Moving to micro-services, or even working with distributed applications in a traditional environment, brings with it a host of interactions that are often difficult to understand.