From SWE to CTO - Building an engineering career in the age of AI

the lineup is in.

wednesday, september 30. datadog's nyc hq.

ivor is sitting down with three of the city's engineering leaders to talk about one thing: how you actually go from engineer to cto.

here's who's on stage:

ceena modarres, applied voice ai at deepgram
sesh nalla, vp engineering at datadog
mayada gonimah, cto & co-founder at thread ai

not the linkedin version. the real one, with the wrong turns, the lucky breaks, and the moments that mattered.

we'll get into the career decisions that actually moved the needle, what separates engineers who progress fast from everyone else, and the hardest shift in the job: going from writing the code, to leading the people who write it, to helping run the company.

and yes, we're talking ai. not "will it replace engineers," but what matters more when everyone has a coding agent, what juniors still have to learn the hard way, and what a great engineering team looks like five years from now.

wednesday, sept 30
6:00 to 8:30pm
datadog, 620 8th ave

the room is small and every rsvp is approved by hand. request your spot and send it to your most cracked engineer friends. the best rooms are the ones you help build.

see you at datadog!