Business of Software Conference

MARCH 5, 2021

I joined Business of Software in September 2017 as a fresh-faced and inexperienced marketer. On my 5th day in the job we flew to Boston to run BoS USA 2017. Lesson #2 – You Are Not An Impostor. It was a bit of a whirlwind first week. Don't miss out - sign up now: Mark – thank you Paddy, for everything.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Read on to find out who is returning and to watch their previous knockout talks. 1 // Mikey Trafton. Mikey is an expert in building high-performance teams with amazing cultures. 3 // Bob Moesta.

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Unfortunately the outcome was far from great, so when Jake Knapp (creator of design sprints) was listed to present at the conference Mind The Product 2017 I was not excited. I thought “maybe a chance to catch up on the mountain of emails growing from being out of the office”. which was one of my mistakes the first time round.

CTO 40

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

BASE FOOD officially launched in April of 2016 in Japan and became Amazon Japan’s top seller of the year in the food category for 2017. He met BASE FOOD’s US CEO, Atsuya Takahashi, and BASE FOOD’s CTO, Takafumi Shimada, when he attended a conference hosted by TechCrunch in San Francisco. #####.

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UX Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

The shift was dramatic: global AI adoption rocketed to 78% of all organizations — up from just 20% in 2017 — while an extraordinary 91% of bank boards formally approved Gen-AI programs, according to NTT and McKinsey. The payoff is already visible in richer digital experiences, sharper personalization and faster, safer service.

Data Visualization 73

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

<code/media> – on February 13-14th, 2017 in CA, Recode senior editor Peter Kafka, in conjunction with Kara Swisher, host this exclusive conference which features candid, unscripted onstage interviews with the best-known names in the business. 2017 details have yet to be announced. Mind the Product. Interaction.

Events 40

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

<code/media> – on February 13-14th, 2017 in CA, Recode senior editor Peter Kafka, in conjunction with Kara Swisher, host this exclusive conference which features candid, unscripted onstage interviews with the best-known names in the business. 2017 details have yet to be announced. Mind the Product. Interaction.

Events 40

Events User Testing Product Research Product Manager 40

DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

<code/media> – on February 13-14th, 2017 in CA, Recode senior editor Peter Kafka, in conjunction with Kara Swisher, host this exclusive conference which features candid, unscripted onstage interviews with the best-known names in the business. 2017 details have yet to be announced. Mind the Product. Interaction.

Events 40

Events User Testing Product Manager Product Management 40

Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I took the Tes product team to Mind The Product conference 2017 in London where Jake spoke on design sprints. We recruited a cross departmental team (including the CTO and CEO), cleared out 5 days in the calendar, purchased a heap of healthy snacks, bought a Time Timer and kicked off the first design sprint at Tes.

Customer Experience 45

Customer Experience CTO Books Blog 45

StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

Marilyn McDonald , Head of Product, Design, TPM & Interim Co-CTO (San Francisco, CA): A “balanced” workplace boils down to two important topics: people and inclusion. This comes from a 2017 McKinsey Report. I have a very crazy work life and an even crazier home life. to list a few. Marilyn McDonald: Two words: conscious action.

CTO Coach 40

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 14, 2019

In 2017, they introduced Jetpack as an alpha version and encouraged developers to submit feedback on how it could be improved. In 2017, Google introduced ConstraintLayout as a replacement for RelativeLayout. In contrast, when I watched the sessions at Google I/O, I was impressed. In 2018, many of the components were good to go.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

If you haven’t seen his talk it’s about these sort of post-tax it feelings and it’s from London 2017. Now he’s the CTO. He says that he wish he had read this while he was still owning the company that he eventually sold. I highly recommend it. Then I spoke with Jason Cohen and you know him he started SmartBear.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

There was a recent study – “The State Of UX In 2017” – and it acknowledges that we have so many job titles between so many things. And at the conference I met a man called Rafiq who was the man who set up the engineering team at Twitter and was going to be the CTO for The Democrats. So this is a quote.

Weak Development Team 40

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Nick: Making Reddit more welcoming was a theme for all of 2017 and most of 2018. Nick: Snooze Day was actually started by the original Reddit CTO, Marty Weiner, and the idea was to give Reddit employees some creative freedom. What does that mean in practice, and what the role of engineering is in helping accomplish that?

Engineering 141

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 8, 2023

P.S. Ironically, Gruber skewered Medium back in 2017 about an early form of enshittification, the dickbar. That would look great on a UX designer’s resume, no? “I invented the dickbar.”

Customer Experience 75

Customer Experience Naming UX Blog 75

Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. Episode 2 of the relaunched Podcast looks at Natalie Nagele’s 2017 BoS USA talk “Keeping the Fun in your Business” Listen Now. Here’s the ultimate BoS ‘jobs-to-be-done’ cheat sheet. See the answer. Listen Now. Upcoming Events.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Fractional CTO Data Visualization 40

Roman Pichler

JUNE 9, 2025

The technology strategy and roadmap, finally, are owned by the CTO together with senior architects. 23 and Lawrence Freedman, 2017, “The Meaning Of Strategy, Part I: The Origin Story,” Texas National Security Review: Volume 1, Issue 1. [2]

Strategy 250

Strategy CTO Coach Product Research Feedback Software 250