Founders & Co-Organizers
- Jean Barmash, CTO & Co-Founder, EdTech Company
- Peter Bell, Evangelist / Hacker, at hackNY.org
- Kurt Schrader, CTO, Intent Media
- Liz Crawford, PhD, VP. Engineering, BirchBox
You can get in touch with us by emailing to our first name at ctoschool.org, or to all of us - organizers at ctoschool.org.
A Brief History
CTO School started originally in the fall of 2010 as a series of seminars. The spark to start this endeavor was provided by an April 2010 blog post by Charlie O’Donnel, and we collaborated with him and NextNY group (http://www.nextny.org) to run a five-session series. At that point, it was Jean and Charlie, with help from their friends.
This five-session series turned out to be very popular and fun for all involved. AOL Ventures provided space at AOL headquarters, and we had over a hundred attendees for most sessions. It was clear that this type of group met a real need.
We had several types of talks, from one-person for the whole evening, to two unrelated topics, to panel discussions. After the talks, we also went out for a beer and some food. After the first session, another four-session series was run in 2010 in Skylabs downtown in the financial district, and this is when Peter Bell of General Assembly, Kurt Schrader of Intent Media, Liz Crawford of BirchBox and me, Jean Barmash of EnergyScoreCards decided to keep this going as more of an ongoing meetup. The fifth session of the fall program was also our first meeting as a meetup was in December 2011, and we now have over 300 members in the meetup.
Some 2010 Sessions were video taped, and some people took notes for 2011 sessions.
This five-session series turned out to be very popular and fun for all involved. AOL Ventures provided space at AOL headquarters, and we had over a hundred attendees for most sessions. It was clear that this type of group met a real need.
We had several types of talks, from one-person for the whole evening, to two unrelated topics, to panel discussions. After the talks, we also went out for a beer and some food. After the first session, another four-session series was run in 2010 in Skylabs downtown in the financial district, and this is when Peter Bell of General Assembly, Kurt Schrader of Intent Media, Liz Crawford of BirchBox and me, Jean Barmash of EnergyScoreCards decided to keep this going as more of an ongoing meetup. The fifth session of the fall program was also our first meeting as a meetup was in December 2011, and we now have over 300 members in the meetup.
Some 2010 Sessions were video taped, and some people took notes for 2011 sessions.
