Purpose
To bring the entire technology team together to build shared understanding, connection and alignment around how we work, how we grow, and where we are heading as a function.
The Technology Team Summit exists to:
- Strengthen culture and belonging across the tech organisation
- Share context, direction and learning
- Provide a safe space for open discussion and feedback
- Encourage collective ownership of improvement ideas
This is a communication, engagement and learning forum, not a decision-making body.
Attendees
All members of the Technology function — leaders, managers, specialists and practitioners across:
- Engineering
- Support
- Product
- Data
- IT
- InfoSec
Input
The summit is informed by:
- Feedback from across the technology team
- People and capability topics (e.g. onboarding, career growth)
- Ways-of-working challenges and successes
- Ideas for improving collaboration, tools or processes
- Emerging technology ideas or areas of interest
Inputs are intended to stimulate discussion, not pre-define outcomes.
Output
The Technology Team Summit produces engagement-focused outputs, including:
- Shared understanding of direction and priorities
- Surfaced themes, concerns and improvement ideas
- Stronger cross-team connection and alignment
- Inputs into leadership discussions, people initiatives, ways-of-working improvements, and future summits
Outcomes are directional and informative, not approvals or commitments.
Responsibilities
Summit Sponsor / Chair
- Sets the intent and tone for the summit
- Provides context on where the technology function is heading
- Reinforces shared values, behaviours and priorities
- Ensures the summit remains inclusive and relevant to all roles
Facilitators / Organisers
- Design the agenda to support engagement, two-way dialogue, and psychological safety
- Structure sessions to allow input from across teams and disciplines
- Capture themes, questions and feedback raised during the summit
- Ensure follow-up actions or themes are fed into appropriate forums
Technology Team Members
- Actively participate in discussions, workshops and feedback sessions
- Share experiences, challenges and ideas from day-to-day work
- Contribute to shaping improvement themes and future focus areas
- Listen, learn and engage constructively across disciplines
Follow-up Owners
- Collate outcomes, themes and feedback from the summit
- Share summaries back with the wider organisation
- Route topics into the correct next steps: leadership forums, HR / people processes, technology working groups, policy or ways-of-working reviews