Secrets of Building a Winning Engineering Culture

This in-person workshop is coordinated by Amanda Du Toit of Corporate Recruiters.

The Harvard Business Review noted that companies with Winning Engineering Cultures are 20% more productive that the industry average. They also noted a direct relationship between productivity and retention.

The demand for engineering talent is still extremely high. We estimate that there are 10 Vancouver-based, software engineering openings for EACH software engineer that was recently laid off.

Getting the best-fit engineering skills on board is hard enough, retaining them to get the full ROI is even harder. With remote work more acceptable, our top tier talent remains in the eyesight of companies across North America and even globally, and they are circling around with large budgets and attractive benefits.

We are fortunate to offer the views of an amazing group of presenters, with successful track records of scaling exceptional engineering teams in start-ups, scale-ups and established enterprise environments. They will offer their inside ‘secrets’ of what it takes to build and sustain a Winning Engineering Culture.

PRESENTERS:

• Keith Cerny; Partner at Fresh Founders
• Miranda Alldritt; Chief Business Officer at Bioform
• Andre Viljoen; VP, R&D at Change Healthcare
• Noel Pullen; CEO at Map Labs
• Mehrsa Raeiszaden; Co-Founder/COO at MintList

TICKET PRICES:

• Acetech Member - FREE!
• Leadership Team - $15 per person; max of 2 per member company
• Regular Ticket (non-member) - $249

Members can email chelsea@acetechleadership.com for the promocodes to access your FREE member ticket and discounted leadership team tickets.

BIOS:

Keith Cerny: Partner at Fresh Founders

Keith Cerny is the former CTO/CPO at Galvanize where he helped create a Canadian tech unicorn growing the business to US $1b valuation with a successful exit in 2021. He has been published in Fast Company and has a passion for building high performing teams and growing leaders that deliver results while staying healthy. He focuses now on investing in and helping coach Canadian technology startups as a Partner at Fresh Founders and member of the C100. Prior to Galvanize, Keith led R&D at Vancouver based technology firms: Sage, Pivotal (exit to CDC Software) and Chancery (exit to Pearson).

Miranda Alldritt: Chief Business Officer at Bioform; previously President at Copperleaf

Miranda has been in the tech space building products and teams for the last 20 years. She believes that culture and purpose are the glue that unites a team to do great things.

Miranda spent much of her early career at Creo and then, when Creo was acquired by Kodak, built an integrated team across former Creo, KPG and Kodak product teams. More recently, Miranda spent 9 years with Copperleaf where she was responsible for building out the worldwide professional services team from scratch and then for developing a new business unit serving the Americas region before finally serving as president of Copperleaf. Miranda is currently Chief Business Officer at Bioform technologies, a startup that is delivering an alternative to single use plastic manufactured from kelp, wood fibre and water.

Andre Viljoen: VP, R&D at Change Healthcare

André is a technology leader, driven to solving complex problems, and loves designing and building products, and organizations that are scalable, secure and innovative. His current focus is Healthcare where, as VP, RnD at Change Healthcare, he is responsible for the Medical, Dental, and Pharmacy Benefits Networks that constitutes the largest medical transaction clearinghouse in the U.S Healthcare system.

Previously, André built high-performing teams and products in Social Media with Hootsuite, served as CISO for ION Trading in London, developed SaaS Treasury solutions with Wallstreet Systems and Thomson Reuters. He also spent significant time in startups and mid-sized companies throughout his career.

André holds various patents and served on non-profit boards.

Noel Pullen: CEO at Map Labs; previously President at SEDNA

Noel helped scale Hootsuite's technical teams through 25 to 200 product development team members through hypergrowth. He helped kickstart growth at SEDNA Systems, where revenue and customer base tripled over two-and-a-half years until Series A. At Commit, he partnered with startups to understand their culture and growth plans; most importantly, he did what was best for engineers and tripled their employee NPS scores. He is now at Map Labs to enable marketers and local businesses to unlock the revenue potential of Google Maps.

Mehrsa Raeiszadeh: Co-Founder/COO at MintList

Mehrsa, with a Ph.D. in Process Engineering from Georgia Tech, has a background in technology development & operations management, including working for large corporations and early stage startups. She has 10+ patents & disclosures and 20+ scientific publications under her belt. She is the only person who has won 1st place in the New Ventures BC competition twice in its 20 year history.

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