Petr Burian
Tech for Leaders, Deepnote, ex Livesport
For more than 20 years, Petr has been connecting technology and people. As CTO at Livesport, he led the teams that built Flashscore—an app relied on by over 100 million sports fans. At Deepnote, he helped advance leadership and fostered a culture of measurement. What excites him most is showing that metrics are not just numbers, but a path to better leadership of both people and projects.
When he’s not speaking at a conference, he mentors leaders and talents, runs long distances, or spends time with his family.
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We Measure to Understand and to Lead
We often start with big expectations and minimal certainty. How many times have we felt the pressure of “by tomorrow, the result must be 50% better”—and yet we didn’t even know where to begin? It’s happened to me many times. And every time, I approach it the same way: I turn to metrics.
A few simple metrics show me where we’re starting from, what’s changing, and where we’ve ended up.
I’ll walk you through a real-life example—optimizing cloud costs—and show you exactly how I approached it and what I learned along the way.
What will you take away?
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How to choose metrics that truly matter.
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How to get clarity on your starting line.
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What to do when the solution isn’t easy and comes at a cost.
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What I got wrong—and what I learned from it.
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How to report and evaluate results.
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