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YOW!
Tech Leaders
Summit
Melbourne 2024

Bringing together tech leaders and experts to discuss & develop innovative strategies that will help build business, support sustainable personal and professional development, and look at what's on the horizon

Summit Date

Sept 13

Venue

Cliftons Melbourne - Freshwater Place

Keynote Speaker

Alex Castrounis

Founder & CEO at Why of AI, NU Kellogg MBAi Professor, Author | Former INDYCAR Engineer, Race Strategist, and Data Scientist

Maia Miller

Managing Director at Aleph Accessibility

Troy Mcilvena

Head of Architecture at SEEK

What can you expect from a YOW! conference?

What can you expect from a YOW! conference?

YOW! is my favourite conference every year. It has the best curation of speakers from around the world, bringing real world lessons and wisdom. It’s also a great place to catch up with other professions and meet new ones. I always come away from a YOW! Conference energised and inspired.
Damian Maclennan
Trainer at Stack Mechanics

YOW! is my favourite conference every year. It has the best curation of speakers from around the world, bringing real world lessons and wisdom. It’s also a great place to catch up with other professions and meet new ones. I always come away from a YOW! Conference energised and inspired.

Don't miss out!

Summit Tickets
starting from AUD $ 514.00
Regular 1-Day Summit Ticket
Full access to the 1 Summit day
AUD $ 514.00
Register today!

Group discounts for 5 or more ticket purchases are available for standard priced tickets. Email the team for more information.

YOW! Tech Leaders Summit Melbourne 2024!

YOW! Tech Leaders Summit is a forum for sharing successes and challenges with peers. It provides a unique opportunity for technical leaders to share their experiences with up and coming technical leaders. The Summit features short talks followed by discussions with time to meet and network fellow leaders as well as keynote speakers provided by YOW!.

Speakers

Technical leadership is a challenging balance of people management in the presence of demanding business and technology decisions. Share your experiences on technical management and leadership.

Keynote Speaker

Alex Castrounis

Founder & CEO at Why of AI, NU Kellogg MBAi Professor, Author | Former INDYCAR Engineer, Race Strategist, and Data Scientist

Andrew Best

Senior Principal Software Engineer at Octopus Deploy

Anton Ball

Dev Team Lead at Doist

Brigid O'Brien

Transformation Partner at Thoughtworks Australia

Gaurav Thadani

Lead Consultant at DiUS

Heiko Gerin

Head of Technology, ANZ at Thoughtworks

Kostadin Solakov

Business Applications Lead, ANZ SMB at Microsoft

Maia Miller

Managing Director at Aleph Accessibility

May Xu

Head of Technology, APAC at Thoughtworks

Keynote Speaker

Preben Thorö

Chairman for the GOTO Program Committees, Group CTO Trifork

Susan Brander

Co-Founder & CTO at Kaleida

Troy Mcilvena

Head of Architecture at SEEK

About our CFP

Our Sponsors

YOW! Tech Leaders Summit was previously known as the YOW! CTO Summit.

As a YOW! Tech Leaders Summit Melbourne Sponsor, you’ll have the chance to engage with technical leaders, coaches and managers; eager to learn more about your company.

We’ll give you the ideal platform to share your story, showcase your technology and generate quality leads at your designated exhibit area.

Email Sabine Wolf to discuss how you can get involved with YOW! Tech Leaders Summit Melbourne 2024

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YOW! Tech Leaders Summit Melbourne 2024 will be held at Cliftons Melbourne at Freshwater Place!

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Situated in Melbourne’s Southbank, Cliftons Freshwater Place is a sophisticated place to hire meeting venues, training rooms & meeting rooms in Melbourne CBD.

With breathtaking views of Melbourne and the Yarra River, discover their meeting venues to host business events, conferences and offsite training with a difference.

Learn more about the venue here.

In the meantime

Check out these videos from our past events

How I CTO • Gil Tene

How to Truly Build a Team: Remove “Dev” & “QA” from Engineer’s Titles • Cindy Xin

Remote Teams: 5 Things I'm Doing Wrong & Maybe You Should Too • Ted Tencza