cto summit
BEYOND THE HYPE
Snir Yarom
Taxfix, CTO
As a Group CTO of Taxfix, Snir leads Engineering, AI, Data and Platform for Europe's leading AI-native tax platform: 10M+ filings, €5B+ in refunds, across three markets and hubs (DE / UK / ES).
20+ years scaling technology across European scale-ups and global platforms — Taxfix, Codility, Zalando, Agoda — with one consistent pattern: weaving AI through strategy, product, technology and operations - building AI-native technology organizations that compound customer value, revenue and margin at scale and shipping AI strategies that drive growth and expansion while improving unit economics and cost-to-serve.
The rise of the technical board member
Financial and commercial advisers have always had a seat at the table. Technical ones are a newer arrival, and demand is climbing: boards now want someone who can judge an AI investment case, tell an AI moat from an AI feature, and say plainly whether the roadmap in front of them is credible.
What you'll take away
- What boards are hiring technical advisers to do, and where the brief stops
- How technical advisers get held to an AI ROI number, and what they are measured on
- Where AI creates defensible advantage rather than a feature competitors copy in a quarter
- The questions a board should be asking its technical adviser, and usually isn't