George Nikolaropoulos

Managing individual contributors is an entirely different task from managing managers. As a senior leader, suddenly, your role is to work on the system rather than in the system, and you need to set up the structures that allow you to effectively lead your teams and craft fair progression and development pathways. This high-level management requires a drastic change in skillset and a shift of mindset, and this session will help you successfully structure and develop your teams and manage other managers.

This interactive session will give you frameworks to help you:
1. Effectively calibrate performance in your organization
2. Define success for your reports and set realistic growth targets
3.Support your managers as they transition to leadership.

In the dynamic environment of SaaS companies, addressing software complexity is paramount for engineering leaders. Subsequently, the emphasis shifts from simple software delivery to generating genuine value. This session by George Nikolaropoulos, SVP of Engineering at GWI will highlight user-centric development, agile methodologies, and data-driven decision-making as essential for delivering not only software but also substantial, enduring value to users.

Growing a tech business can be hard, really hard. But many companies have successfully tackled all these technical (and not) challenges that appear when you start to grow beyond what you were prepared for. This talk will focus on the technical challenges of building complex software solutions and how we can finally tame the beast of complexity using old and new research regarding running software development teams.