The right conversation with the right people at the right time.
Gather is a peer community for senior engineering leaders who are past the "is AI real?" debate and working on what comes next. Every member is selected for generosity, curiosity, and candor. And they're either someone I trust, or invited by someone I trust. The room only works because of who's in it.
The rooms that exist weren't built for this.
The engineering leadership events and communities that exist were built for a different era. They mix seniority levels, ignore the difference between a 20-person team and a 2,000-person org, and offer one-off events that seldom mature into trusted relationships. Some are too small to give you the breadth of experience you need. Others are too big for the conversations to stay relevant to your challenges.
Building agents isn't the hard part. The hard part is getting your engineers to change how they work. How do you scale pilots across the org? When do you centralize vs. let teams experiment? How do you support engineers through the transition and measure what's actually working? These questions need ongoing, honest conversation with peers operating at your scale. Not a meetup or a conference. An invite-only community built for accelerating learning.
Connect in person, sustain online.
In-person
- Intimate breakfast roundtables for CTOs at Scale
- Evening salons working through the hardest challenges for DirectorPlus, Founding, and Startup CTOs
- An annual retreat for the leaders shaping the future of the engineering org
Online
- Tailored connections and conversation between events
- Peer benchmarking and vendor reviews
- Curated deep dives on the topics the community cares about most
Monthly events online, in NYC, and the Bay Area. More cities coming later this year.
Not another Slack.
Most communities put everyone in the same channel and hope the right conversations happen. Gather is built differently. We route the right knowledge to the right people based on their scale, their challenges, and what they share that they need.
Ask a question and get answers from senior engineering leaders who've recently solved that problem at your scale. Need to think through a specific decision? We can connect you directly with the people who have the most relevant experience. Have an insight to share? We can help you refine it and amplify it to enhance your credibility and your impact. Our agentic team captures and indexes what members share and discover, so insights don't disappear into a thread that nobody reads.
This is what a community looks like when it's built for the agentic age: a trusted network of engineering leaders, connected through fifteen years of relationships, with agentic infrastructure that makes every interaction count.
Find your room.
CTOs at Scale
100+ engineers
Building consensus with the executive team, an agentic SDLC that scales across hundreds of engineers, and the change management program required to drive and measure success.
Startup CTOs
10-100 engineers
Scaling from a team to an org, bringing just the right amount of order to the chaos without cargo-culting processes or systems that might have been necessary a couple of years ago.
Founding CTOs
Pre-PMF
Hands-on builders showing the rest of us what the future of the engineering org might look like, unconstrained by existing systems, teams, or practices.
DirectorPlus
Directors, VPs and CTOs
Leading the technical transformation within your organization, navigating upward to align with the executive team, and building the case for agentic adoption from the inside.
The first people in the room set the tone.
Gather is building founding chapters in New York, the Bay Area, and online. If you're a senior engineering leader navigating the agentic transition, this is your community.
Large enough to deliver a comprehensive braintrust, smart enough to access the latest insights, selective enough to ensure every conversation is worth your time.