cto summit
BEYOND THE HYPE
Lena Reinhard
VP Engineering, leadership coach & mentor, facilitator, artist
Lena Reinhard is a VP Engineering, leadership coach, facilitator, and artist. In her 20-year career, she’s served in tech leadership roles, such as VP Engineering with CircleCI, Travis CI, and a SaaS startup co-founder & CEO. Now, she helps leaders and teams succeed in co-located and remote teams in organizations from startups and scale-ups, to corporations. Lena is queer and neurodivergent. She loves to read, sing, and wander around the forests and lakes of her home in Berlin, Germany. In her artistic work, she primarily paints and works with fibers; her pieces currently focus on the themes of loss and letting go.
Here and Ready for the Great Beyond: A Conversation Among Friends
Maybe you got into tech because you love building things, tinkering, making something real. Maybe it was the promise of meaningful work, purpose, or a stable career. Between waves of layoffs, AI hype, and an industry that has been going through its biggest transformation yet, much has changed, and these promises look quite different now.
Many of us leading through this moment spend a lot of time caught in the middle of it all: Between peak hype, the pressure to make it all happen, right now, and the reality of your organization, teams, and tech.
To begin our day going "beyond the hype", in this opening session, we create our shared starting point to move beyond, together. Come as you are. You're among friends.