Canadian Tech @ Scale

A one day event for Canada’s top tech leaders.

Growing the Canadian tech ecosystem together

Back for the second year, Canadian Tech @ Scale brings together Canada's top tech leaders to learn from each other's successes and failures as our companies have scaled.

We keep hearing the same questions from CTOs and VPEs. Questions like:

How do we interview leads?How do we grow people and technical leaders? How do we structure the team?
How can I be a great manager or great architect? Should I still be coding? How should I spend my time?
How do we scale infrastructure? How do we tackle technical debt?
How do your teams keep making good technical decisions?

So now there's no need to leave Canada (because really, who wants to?) to learn from and network with our country's brightest tech minds!

This is an invite-only event and space is limited. If you are interested in attending, please email us at: info@canadiantechatscale.com.

This is a joint venture between Jean-Michel Lemieux (SVP of Engineering, Shopify), Boris Chan (Managing Director, Pivotal Labs) and Bruce Dorland (Managing Director, Grossman Dorland Recruiting).

We listened to the feedback from last year's attendees and made improvements to...

Diversity across the event
Format to ensure there is plenty of time for networking (including a pre-party meet & greet the night prior) and discussions (breakout sessions all afternoon).
Venue which is far more spacious and we've also stepped up the food quality

Here's a look at last year's event!

The Details

Wed, June 14, 2017

5:30pm - 7:00pm: Welcome I Meet & Greet

The night before Canadian Tech @ Scale and for those travelling into Toronto there is a pre-event ‘ice-breaker’ so that you can meet all your peers in advance of the full day.

Shopify Toronto
Join us at Shopify’s (80 Spadina Ave) rooftop patio for drinks and munchies

Thurs, June 15, 2017

9:00am - 5:00pm: Canadian Tech @ Scale

Toronto Reference Library
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon
789 Yonge St
Toronto

The Agenda

Thurs, June 15, 2017

9:00am - 9:25am: Registration + breakfast

9:25am - 12:55pm: Keynotes

Tony Savor, Lessons from Scaling CD at Facebook/OANDA

Inmar Givoni, Machine Learning for the rest of us

Johnathan Nightingale, Scaling Teams + Coaching

Jean-Michel Lemieux, Leading your teams with maps

12:55pm - 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm - 4:00pm: Workshops + Breakout Sessions

We want to get to the topics that are most important to you. We've left the afternoon open for workshops & breakout sessions & and 1:1 time and it will be customized based on live discussions of the morning.

4:00pm - 5:00pm: Networking

speakers

Inmar Givoni - Director of AI, kindred

Inmar is the Director of Machine Learning at Kindred, where her team develops algorithms for machine intelligence, at the intersection of robotics and AI. Prior to that, she was the VP of Big Data at Kobo, where she led her team in applying machine learning and big data techniques to drive e-commerce. Inmar is particularly interested in outreach activities for young women, encouraging them to choose technical career paths.
Tony Savor - Engineering Director, Facebook

Tony is an Engineering Director at Facebook where he manages the invention, development and operations of Facebook’s online data storage and access infrastructure — some of the largest of its kind in the world. Prior he was CTO of OANDA Corporation, managing the engineering of the trading platform processing billions of dollars per day.
Johnathan Nightingale - Founding Partner, Raw Signal Group

Johnathan has built and operated in organizations from 2 people to 1200. He was the Vice President of Firefox for Mozilla during a period of intense turmoil inside Mozilla and knows what scale feels like for products and for organizations. After Mozilla he joined Hubba as their Chief Product Officer, and helped that team triple in size while improving their diversity stats instead of watching them slide. He is proud to sit on the board of Creative Commons, and is a big believer in the power of mission-based organizations. He has strong opinions about your coffee infrastructure.
Jean-Michel Lemieux - SVP Engineering, Shopify

Jean-Michel Lemieux is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Shopify and joined the company in 2015. Prior to joining Shopify, he served as the Vice President of Engineering at Atlassian. He's made all the mistakes possible but is still fanatical about products and platforms, building teams, and growing people who build companies.