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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
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.
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.
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.
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
Business Security Strategies
In the first summer evenings, the 19th meetup of the series will take place, where technical leaders will discuss cybersecurity in business and product development.
CEO and Founder @AmonSul
Coordinator of the Cyber Security Program at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
AI Implementation
Over the May holidays, tech leaders will meet to talk about how they are implementing AI in development and business processes.
Founder @ Stealth AI Startup, @ XSight
Director of Engineering @ Turnitin
Conference | How to Become Great CTO
In the last days of July, 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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