Over the past 20 years, IT has witnessed a power shift from CIOs to developers. Any developer with an idea has been given empowerment and authority to innovate. This has led to the creation of 1000 companies that create products used, influenced, or bought by software development teams. Learn about the 17 landscape segments, the CIO transition from decision maker to governor, and the developer “pay for value” mentality causing the emergence of Product-Led Growth (PLG) businesses.

Speakers

Tyler Jewell – Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital

Tyler is a Managing Director with Dell Technologies Capital leading early stage and growth investments in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and the Developer-Led Landscape. He’s represented DTC on the board at NS1 (Series D), Lightbend (Series D), Orion Labs (Series B), and Loops.AI (seed). Entrepreneurs enjoy collaborating with Tyler on their product market fit, go-to-market, unlocking strategic markets, building and scaling organizations, and leadership challenges. As an angel investor and VC, Tyler has placed $150M over 15 years in DevOps companies including InfoQ, Sauce Labs (acq. by PE), Source Graph, Cloudant (acquired by IBM), Zero Turnaround (acquired by Roguewave), and AppHarbor (acquired by Microsoft). Previously, he was a 3x operating CEO/COO in developer-related businesses, including The Middleware Company (acquired by TechTarget), Codenvy (acquired by Red Hat), and WSO2 (OSS company with 600 employees). Previously, Tyler spent 14 years in product positions at BEA (acquired by Oracle), Quest Software (acquired by Dell), and Oracle.