cto summit
BEYOND THE HYPE
Claus Höfele
Engineering Leader + Co-Founder, Build & Lead: Tech Leaders Berlin
Claus Höfele is an engineering leader who combines hands-on technical work with leadership experience across product, operations, and platform teams. He has led engineering teams at companies including On, writes about engineering leadership through Drawn to Leadership, and co-founded Build & Lead, a Berlin-based community for CTOs and technology leaders. His work focuses on helping teams turn ambiguity into execution through facilitation, collaboration, and pragmatic engineering practices.
Delivery Under Pressure: Making the Trade-Offs That Actually Matter
Engineering leaders are being asked to deliver faster, with fewer resources, while still improving quality, resilience and business impact.
In this interactive roundtable, participants explore a realistic delivery scenario, choose from several possible strategies, and briefly advocate for one approach. The room then pressure-tests each strategy: What does it optimise for? What does it sacrifice? Who carries the cost if it fails?
Expect a practical, conversational session that helps you sharpen how you evaluate and explain delivery trade-offs under pressure.