Not a course. Not a conference. Not a 500-person Slack group. CS Connect is built around where you are as a leader. Each room runs differently because each stage of CS leadership needs something fundamentally different.
You're new to CS leadership and figuring out a craft no one taught you. You need guidance from someone who's been there, plus the company of other first-time leaders growing alongside you.
You're past the fundamentals. You need benchmarks, not coaching. Peers running the same kind of team, hitting the same kind of problems, willing to compare notes honestly.
You own the function. You don't need more content. You need a trusted senior peer room, expertise from outside the CS field, and intelligence no one else publishes.
Together they form the most complete CS leadership community in Europe. Here's exactly what each one is, and who walks into the room.
A small-group, expert-led event built for first-time CS leaders. A curated senior expert leads each Lab, and the group of 8–10 Rising members works through real challenges together. No slides. No theory. Practical coaching with peers in the room.
When a member is ready to bring something vulnerable, they can step into the Hot Seat. The group workshops their challenge together, with the expert guiding. It's an opt-in moment, not the default mode. Sometimes a Lab is structured around a topic, sometimes around a Hot Seat. Either way, the format stays small and honest.
Peer connection across Europe. In-person in chapter cities like Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Lisbon, Vienna, or virtual if your city doesn't have a chapter yet. Either way, four real Circles a year, designed for depth.
Off the record. No recordings. The room your peers describe as the moment everything clicks. Open to all members.
A small, curated peer pod of 3–5 CS leaders, matched for the year. You meet bi-monthly with light structure and real accountability. Operating and Leading members each sit in tier-matched pods so the conversation stays at the right altitude.
Your default sounding board for the messy, unscripted decisions that don't fit anywhere else. The peers you'll still be calling years from now.
A 90-minute event with an expert outside the CS field. Board members. CFOs. Leadership coaches who work with the C-suite. M&A advisors. Negotiation specialists. The thinking CS leaders need but can't get from CS-focused conferences or books.
Leading members get full bi-monthly access. Rising and Operating members can join individual events using their annual ticket allocation.
A peer-to-peer access model that keeps the network alive. Once a quarter, you give 30 minutes to another Leading member who needs your perspective. Once a quarter, you get 30 minutes with another Leading peer on something you're working through.
Reciprocal by design, and the network stays alive because of it.
A 1-page private newsletter, delivered monthly. Not content marketing. Real intelligence. How peers are handling specific challenges. What's shifting at the executive level. What board narratives are working.
Curated by us. Contributed by your peers. Never published anywhere else.
Predictable rhythm. Published calendar. Block the dates. Build the habit.
50 founding seats across three tiers. Locked-in rates for life. The people who join now shape the community and walk in before public launch.