Daniel Walters
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Daniel Walters

Daniel Walters is a full-time dad and part-time CTO coach, fractional CTO, and technology strategy consultant based in Auckland, New Zealand. With extensive experience in senior technology leadership roles, including Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO), Daniel has guided organizations from startups to enterprises. Notable achievements include his pivotal role in the fast growth and sale of Hitwise (USD 240m) and establishing a development center in Malaysia for Experian's Consumer Insights division, where he led a team of 70. His formative experience as CTO and CIO for Seek Asia involved navigating challenges in a newly formed subsidiary resulting from the merger of two major competitors in Southeast Asia. Daniel's journey emphasizes cultivating a resilient, adaptive culture in a rapidly changing environment. He shares insights from his experiences in his publication, "Great CTOs Focus on Outcomes."


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Jonathan Strommen
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Jonathan Strommen

Jonathan Strommen is a product and organizational consultant specialized in highly-regulated industries across both US and international markets. With extensive experience in leadership roles spanning product management, development, and post-production customer support, Jonathan adopts a holistic approach to aligning value streams and optimizing focus for strategic outcomes. Drawing on his customer-centric perspective and consulting expertise, he guides organizations in challenging conventional assumptions to unlock innovative solutions that responsibly accelerate feedback loops and time to market.

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Victoria Morgan-Smith
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Victoria Morgan-Smith

Victoria is an independent consultant with nearly 30 years' experience in the technology industry, 15 of which have been spent operating within organisational leadership. There, she has coached teams and senior leaders to effectively deliver outcomes within a culture of inclusion, collaboration, curiosity and generosity.

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Clem Pickering
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Clem Pickering

Clem is an independent coach and consultant focused on helping tech leaders have effective conversations and foster people-first culture. He combines a background in technology and consultancy with his ICF-accredited coaching practice to help organisations create the conditions for better communication, high-performing teams and inclusive, engaging company Culture.

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Nick Tune
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Nick Tune

Nick Tune is the author of Architecture Modernization (Manning) and co-author of Patterns, Principles and Practices of Domain-Driven Design (Wiley).

He has held hands-on software development, architecture, and leadership roles during the past 15 years, most recently working as a consultant specializing in Domain-Driven Design, architecture and operating model modernization, and continuous delivery.

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Elizabeth Ayer
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Elizabeth Ayer

Elizabeth Ayer is a product and organisational consultant who promotes a virtuous cycle of empowered teams, fast flow, and business agility. With her background in product and portfolio management, she takes a value-oriented, collaborative approach to designing more humane structures for teams to thrive.

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Sarah Wells
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Sarah Wells

Sarah Wells is an experienced technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement and technology strategy. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and devops teams.

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Becky Thorn Sietsma
Principal, Associate ConfluxHQ Admin Principal, Associate ConfluxHQ Admin

Becky Thorn Sietsma

Becky Thorn Sietsma is an experienced consultant helping teams to align and evolve their organizations so together they can create impact at scale in an ever changing world.

Her consulting focus is business-tech alignment, and she champions the important three-way collaboration between: strategy - team design - tech architecture.

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