The Fast Track to VP of Engineering (VPE)
Details
The Speaker
Wade Chambers (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wadechambers/), VPE @ Twitter (https://twitter.com/), will speak at this event. Wade is a renowned engineering leader in Silicon Valley with extensive experience (previously VPE @ TellApart, Yahoo, Opsware, AOL, etc). I was fortunate to meet him once, and I was totally blown away by how much I learned about engineering leadership in just one hour.
Check out Wade's recently interviews by Greylock to learn more about him: Increasing Your Team's Capacity to Win (https://news.greylock.com/increasing-your-teams-capacity-to-win-podcast-1edc049109c6#.6d58sfh5d), The Art of Interviewing 10x Engineers (https://news.greylock.com/the-art-of-interviewing-10x-engineers-b0032ce9e4d9#.y3q9aojyg).
The Talk
The fast track to VP of Engineering (VPE)
"Over my 25 of years of experience including being a VP of Engineering at both public and private companies, I have invested a lot of time to both understand how to become a VPE, grow ICs into VPEs, and coach VPEs. Over this period of time, I paid attention to what accelerated or retarded progress and started to build/test theories around what makes a great VPE and skills to be mastered to become one. I would like to present some of these lessons learned the hard way in hope they can accelerate your career and help you avoid the 'trial and error' approach that is so prevalent in today's market." - Wade
Breakout Sessions
As always, we will break out the audience into small groups after the talk, to discuss topics covered in the talk, share learnings, or talk about what keeps you up at night, and see how others handle that. It's been proven to be a great way to learn and develop deep connections.
To participate, sign up through this simple form (https://docs.google.com/a/bluedesks.com/forms/d/1aHx5H4aMBx8QM4VNPMiCqd9QdjddN8X721N3Iz70ELU/edit). It will help us learn more about you, and match you to the right group.
Agenda
5:30PM - 6:30PM Registration + networking
6:30PM - 7:30PM Wade's talk + Q&A
7:30PM - 8:30PM Breakout sessions
Sponsor
This event is sponsored by Zillow Group (http://www.zillowgroup.com/). Food and drinks will be served during the event.
Building Access
Please note no entrance to the building will be allowed after 7PM for security purpose.
