Partners, CTO FEST '27

CTO FEST '27, Amsterdam, February 2027

CTO FEST '27 puts 500 technical leaders in one room in Amsterdam in February 2027: CTOs and VPs of Engineering, technical founders, staff and principal engineers, and heads of robotics, hardware and data. Partners come for a senior technical voice in that room.

Rule one
No pitch from the stage. Partners send a senior technical speaker, and there are no vendor decks.
Rule two
No attendee list. No list leaves the building, and there is no mass mailing afterwards.
Rule three
Opt-in introductions. People meet only when both agree, during the day and afterwards.

Three tiers with a limited number of slots, each with a voice on the programme and passes for your team, and community and capital packages from €3K.

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One slot, category exclusive

Presenting

From €40K
On stage
A short main-stage keynote, without a vendor deck
Introductions
Priority follow-up matching
Branding
Every surface, up to the badge
Passes
Twelve passes
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Three to four slots

Stage

From €25K
On stage
A deep-dive breakout or a stage segment
In the afternoon
One hands-on station, opt-in and without pitching
Branding
Main stage and lanyard
Passes
Eight passes, with curated 1:1 matchmaking
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Four to six slots

Track

From €10K
On stage
Host one roundtable
In the afternoon
An optional hands-on station
Branding
Track branding
Passes
Four passes
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Entry tier

Community and capital

From €3K

Packages for communities and capital partners. The partner deck has the details.

Request the partner deck

Each tier can extend to a full year across the CTO Network and one imec.istart country.

Presented by Builders, a startup studio in Rotterdam that runs the CTO Network of 2,400 technical leaders, and imec.istart, the deep-tech accelerator backed by imec. Around them, partners of the network.

Builders
imec.istart
AWS
Microsoft
Cloudflare
Databricks
Snowflake
Remote
NorthC
Tilaa
DevRev
HODL
INKEF
Arches Capital
Borski Fund
No Such Ventures
UP Rotterdam

The partner deck has the full packages and the dates as they are confirmed. Leave your name, company and work email and the deck opens right away.

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