Events

Members meet every month on Zoom, gather each quarter for roundtables, and meet in person at evening events around the region. Here is what’s coming up, followed by the archive of past sessions.

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Upcoming

Members meet on the second Friday of each month, 8–10 AM, on Zoom. New events are added here as they are scheduled.

Past sessions

What members have been working through together, newest first.

2026

13 sessions

  1. Product + Tech: Healthy Tension in the Age of AI

    • In person
    • Evening event

  2. Hiring Engineers in the Agentic AI Era

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting
    • Members only

  3. The AI-Native Operating Model

    • In person
    • Evening event

  4. Loop Engineering Gets the Answer. Harness Engineering Keeps It.

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting
    • Members only

  5. Real-World Lessons from Shipping LLM-Based Software

    • Zoom
    • Online mini-conference

  6. Quarterly Roundtable

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  7. Agentic Coding In Practice

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting

  8. Quarterly Roundtable Meeting

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  9. Product and Engineering Working Together in the Era of Agentic Coding Tools

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting

  10. Use of Agentic AI in Compliance

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting

  11. The New CTO Equation: Compensation & Careers In The AI Era

    • In person
    • Evening event

  12. Building Reliable Autonomous Agentic AI Systems

    • Zoom
    • Online mini-conference

  13. AI Coding Tool Metrics

    • Zoom
    • Online mini-conference

2025

12 sessions

  1. Quarterly Roundtable

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  2. What is product operations and why is everyone so excited about it?

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting

  3. From Tools to Teammates: The New Product Development Reality

    • In person
    • Evening event

  4. How to Deliver Bad News and Insights for CEO Relationships

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting

  5. The Software Development Lifecycle Reimagined: Building in the AI Era

    • In person
    • Evening event

  6. Transforming Business with AI Agents

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting

  7. Quarterly Roundtable

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  8. Navigating Burnout: Challenges and Strategies for Teams and Technical Leaders

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting

  9. Being a great CTO In the Age of AI

    • In person
    • Evening event

  10. Quarterly Roundtable

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  11. AI Tools for Engineering and Product Productivity Improvement

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting

  12. AI Agents: Building Agentic Flow Knowledge Share

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting
    • Members only

2024

12 sessions

  1. Quarterly Roundtable Q4 2024

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  2. AI-Driven Entrepreneurship: Enhancing Systems and Products

    • Zoom
    • Online session

  3. Quarterly Roundtable Q3 2024

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  4. Morning Meeting: Strategic Skills for CTOs

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting
    • Members only

  5. Morning Meeting 072024

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting
    • Members only

  6. June Fireside Chat

    • In person
    • Evening event

  7. CTO/VP Engineering Careers Post-COVID. What’s Changed?

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting
    • Members only

  8. Morning Meeting 042024

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting
    • Members only

  9. Monthly Round Table Meeting

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  10. Managing C-Suites and Board Members

    • In person
    • Evening event

  11. Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for Enhanced Engineering Team Productivity: Practical Examples

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting
    • Members only

  12. 2024 Cybersecurity Challenges and Opportunities

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting

2023

9 sessions

  1. LA CTO Forum – Rountable

    • Zoom
    • Online session

  2. LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

    • Zoom
    • Online session

  3. Tech Landscape – PE/Seed Investor Perspective

    • Zoom
    • Online session

  4. LA CTO Forum Morning Meeting – Roundtable – October 13, 2023

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  5. Generative AI From the Trenches

    • Zoom
    • Online session

  6. ML Ops – Scaling Your AI Stack

    • In person
    • Evening event

  7. Morning Round Table

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  8. Quarterly Roundtable Meeting – Virtual

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  9. Getting to a Product Development Flow State

    • In person
    • Evening event

2022

2 sessions

  1. Quarterly Roundtable Meeting – Virtual

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only

  2. Monthly Meeting – Building Micro-Frontends

    • Zoom
    • Monthly meeting

2021

4 sessions

  1. Embracing the Product Trio and Continuous Discovery

    • Zoom
    • Online session

  2. Monthly Meeting – Virtual

    • Zoom
    • Online session

  3. Building Great Products and Driving Retention – Virtual

    • Zoom
    • Online session

  4. Quarterly Roundtable Meeting – Virtual

    • Zoom
    • Quarterly roundtable
    • Members only