High Level Program · Mentorship for CTOs & engineering leaders

The programme nobody gives you when you become CTO.

Four months to lead technology, talent, management and business at the same time — with one-to-one mentorship from CTOs who have done it, and practitioners who run these areas today.

4

Months

80h

Live sessions

10

Modules

1:1

CTO mentorship

How it works · Three phases
i.

Month 1 · Kickoff

Mentorship kickoff

One-to-one sessions with a CTO mentor to set your personal goals, contrast what your company expects of you as a tech leader with reality, and agree the plan of topics you will work on.

ii.

Months 2–3 · Live modules

Mentoring with tech leaders

Ten live modules across technology, talent, management and business, taught by practitioners who run these areas today. Fridays and Saturdays, online, recorded.

iii.

Month 4 · Career path

CTO career path & final project

Self-assess your technical and leadership skills, set short-, medium- and long-term goals, and apply the programme to a real challenge in a final project you defend in front of the faculty.

Live modules

Ten modules. Taught by people who do the job.

80 hours live · Fridays 15:00–20:00 and Saturdays 9:00–14:00 (CET) · 100% online · every session recorded.

01 Humanistic Leadership Situational leadership, emotional intelligence, diverse teams, motivation and wellbeing. 10h
02 Security Cybersecurity principles, risk identification and mitigation, security built into projects. 5h
03 Product End-to-end product, shorter delivery from idea to production, user needs, AI in product. 5h
04 Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and business impact, vector databases, AI-assisted development, GenAI agents for automation. 5h
05 Data Analysis and visualisation, efficient data architecture, turning data into decisions for stakeholders. 5h
06 Scalability DevOps and CI/CD, high availability and concurrency, bottlenecks, scaling the organisation. 10h
07 Architecture Architecture models and trade-offs, front and back design, microservices and patterns, clean architecture. 10h
08 Quality Code TDD and BDD, SonarQube, refactoring, a strategy to pay down technical debt, efficient test coverage. 10h
09 Tech Talent & Hiring Employer brand, selection and negotiation, onboarding, mental health, continuous learning, liquid teams. 10h
10 Business Minded Business models, team topologies, roles and KPIs, Management 3.0, agile and non-agile delivery, metrics for C-levels. 10h

Taught by practitioners who lead these areas today. Faculty is confirmed for each cohort.

What you'll achieve
—Lead with a humanistic approach and manage technology strategically.
—Scale teams, systems and product with a focus on business results.
—Master software architecture and quality.
—Attract, hire and retain tech talent.
—Go deep on security, artificial intelligence and data.
—Run projects with business impact your stakeholders can see.
Who it's for
—CTOs and VPs of Engineering
—Tech Leads and Product Owners
—Managers of technical teams
—Senior engineers moving into strategic roles

The final project

Pick one block — people management, business processes with or without AI, or IT project governance — and solve a real or realistic challenge in 5–8 pages. You defend it in front of the faculty. Rated pass / fail. The theory you already know.

Investment

One programme. Six months of club included.

Place reservation

€500

Programme

€3,900

Bytes Land club

6 months

included — talks, circles, afterworks, retreats

Format

Online

live + recorded · small cohort

Ask us about company-paid seats and training credits.

Next cohort

Apply for the next cohort.

Places are limited so every participant gets real attention from mentors and faculty. Tell us about yourself — we review every application personally and send you the calendar and the next steps.

Questions? 0to1@bytesland.org

High Level Program application