Building your Engineering Team: From start-up to IPO

This event is targeted at ANYONE trying to build a tech team - whether it's just you and an idea right now, or you are an established organisation trying to take your engineering/ Data team to the next level - come and see what our experts have to say!

Key Speakers:

• Rahul Tongia (VP of Software Development at Market Logic) - Experience of building a successful Machine Learning and Big Data Team. Rahul is a technology leader with start-up and big company experience. He has a passion for well designed and large scale SaaS products and has a wealth of experience building and maintaining high performance teams

• Carlos Morgado (Advisory board member of many start-ups, ex Group CTO Just Eat) - How to build an Engineering team when you have series A funding right the way through to IPO. JUST EAT plc operates the world’s leading online market place for restaurant delivery. Headquartered in London, there are currently over 45,700 takeaway restaurants within the international JUST EAT network, which uses proprietary technology to offer a quick and efficient online ordering service for consumers and restaurant partners alike. Prior to Just Eat he consulted for several companies in the social media, mobile, and online dating spaces after spending a number of years at AOL helping to bring the first experience of the web to millions of UK surfers. He spent the exciting 90's .com years building solutions that brought marketing research tools, stock and news feeds to the web desktop of the executive.

•Jonas Fleer (Director of Engineering at http://auto1.com , DevOps Department) - Building and retaining engineering teams for the major part of his career. When scaling his engineering team at AUTO1, he spent hundreds of hours in interviews to hire only a few candidates. After seeing the outcome of the messy screening and hiring process he slowly learned on how to do it better.

Paul Hofmann (Director Engineering at http://auto1.com , backend teams) - After leading the internal tools team at the International branch of Groupon and a small escapade at a disruptive fashion startup, Paul joined http://auto1.com to bootstrap the microservice platform from zero as Java employee no. 1 and ended up also bootstrapping hiring processes, team and coding standards.

The event's aim is to support everyone whether you are Head of Engineering or a start-up tech company looking for advise, support, mentors or just some free beer and pizza!

This will be an informal meet-up in the lounge on the top floor in the Sony Center - we can promise controversial topics, flowing conversation and interaction. You will not be lectured! :)

Come!! We are looking forward to listening to your experiences!