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July 11, 2023
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19:00
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Online
The Road to Becoming a CTO: Different Paths, One Destination
2025
Ukraine
🚀 The path to becoming a CTO isn’t just about technical skills. It’s about building teams, making tough decisions, and speaking a language the business understands.
In this discussion, we explored:
- The different roles CTOs play across company types — from startups to enterprises
- What career growth looks like: from being the strongest dev on the team to influencing business strategy
- Why it’s essential to delegate, communicate, think bigger, and embrace change
- What skills really matter: leadership, business thinking, and the ability to navigate uncertainty
The speakers shared their personal journeys, lessons, and anti-cases — honest stories full of failures, doubts, and growth.
Meetup speakers
Co-Founder and CTO @ ex-Taledo, Co-Founder & MD @ HRCast
Marcel Poelker is a founder, CTO and Startup-Advisor. Marcel founded the recruiting-tech company Taledo, which received funding from the EU for its innovative approach and won the HR innovation award.
Executive VP of Global Engineering @ Finalsite
Serg manages small and large organizations around the world, creating and delivering quality products on time, on budget, and to specification. His approach is a hands-on no BS management style, which allows him to be the key between business and development.
CTO @ ex-PredicaHost @ CTO Morning Coffee
Tomasz Onyszko having a career in the tech industry for over two decades. He leads consulting teams and strategy/architecture areas of projects with organizations up to 100k+ in size. He organizes and hosts the best online show in Poland, CTO Morning Coffee.
Director of Engineering @ Turnitin
The moderator is Yana Mykhailenko, CTO of Turnitin, an international company that ensures the integrity of education and is a leader in anti-plagiarism solutions. She is a judge and mentor at international competitions and hackathons.
Upcoming events
AI Implementation
Over the May holidays, tech leaders will meet to talk about how they are implementing AI in development and business processes.
Director of Digital Product Development @ Vodafone Ukraine
Product Lead @ Railsware, ex-CTO @ Avocado AI
Conference | How to Become Great CTO
In the last days of May, DEV Challenge, in collaboration with UNIT.City, will bring together Ukraine’s tech leaders, entrepreneurs, company and startup founders, CTOs and managers to discuss the most pressing and essential topics in technology, business, and leadership.
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