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From AI to Empathic Leadership: Your Journey at FutureIT Toronto 2024 Begins Here

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Take a journey through the realms of cloud technology, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and tech leadership and join in for a day filled with insightful discussions, meaningful connections, and unforgettable insights that will help shape the future of your business. Artificial Intelligence, Events, IT Leadership

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5 hot IT leadership trends — and 4 going cold

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Here tech leaders discuss how they’re innovating in an uncertain world by returning to the basics of good leadership, building trust, promoting transparency, and leaning into strategy over skillset. But this year, with the seeming ubiquity of AI initiatives, I foresee a significant change, with IT leadership being pulled into the fray.”

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Modernizing your resume for executive IT leadership

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To give an example of this in practice, we paired a CIO with an eye on continuing their executive leadership career at a new company with Stephen Van Vreede, president, executive resume writer, and coach for ITtechExec.com, to help improve their resume and modernize the overall look and feel.

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The CIO’s fatal flaw: Too much leadership, not enough management

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Because what’s frequently missed in the perennial leadership vs. management fracas is that management is about getting work out the door. Leadership is an important collection of techniques managers use to get the people in their organization to embrace the direction they’re trying to set. Which does help get work out the door.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

In this talk, Beekey will cover: How to have productive conversations about estimates, goals, and commitments with stakeholders to get alignment and ultimately deliver better products. He'll walk us through the value of estimates, how to overcome the hesitancy many have in giving them, and how to provide better estimates.

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5 key leadership skills an executive coach can help you master

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So, like a lot of IT people who find themselves taking on corporate leadership roles, Cantrell needed help communicating differently, understanding business needs, building and managing teams, and fostering confidence in his own abilities. Once I saw those variances, I could reframe the way I talked and thought about business needs.

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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

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Brian Lillie is president of Private Cloud at Rackspace and had previous technology leadership roles at Equinix, Verisign, SGI, and the United States Air Force, so he’s worked hard to define his leadership style. With these values clearly defined, Lillie had a new question: “How do I apply these values to leadership?”

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Schema Evolution Patterns

Speaker: Alex Rasmussen, CEO, Bits on Disk

If you want to make your development team squirm, ask them about database schema changes or API versioning. Knowing what questions to ask to help your teams reason about schema evolution up-front. Most development teams struggle with changing database schemas and updating API versions without breaking existing code.

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Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy

Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

We are excited to welcome Ron Lichty, co-author of a seminal book on managing software teams and a well-known speaker, who will walk us through the latest thinking, best practices, and on-the-ground experiences structured around key questions about effective organizational structures: How, when and how often do we split teams?

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

Roy Osherove, the author of Elastic Leadership, is going to provide some answers that come from his experience seeing this across many different organizations. And the answers focus on leadership. Which leadership styles are most effective for each mode. When and how to encourage learning in your team. February 21 2019 12.30

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The Future of Product Management

Speaker: Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, Founder and CEO of The Product School

Like many product professionals, The Product School was curious about the same question, so they surveyed thousands of product leaders to get their take. While product teams are continuing to excel in these unprecedented times, many people are asking: Where is Product Management headed?