CTO Connect.
Monitor · Alert · Fix · Repeat
For technical leaders and small IT teams: monitoring gets treated as optional right up until the first real outage makes it existential.
Knowing before your customers do.
A closed-door conversation for technical leaders on catching downtime early without buying an observability platform you need a dedicated team to operate.
Most teams only find out their site is down when a customer tells them. Unplanned downtime costs an average of $14,056 per minute, rising to $23,750 per minute for large enterprises, according to Enterprise Management Associates.
Full uptime, SSL and domain monitoring does not have to arrive with enterprise complexity or an enterprise invoice. The question worth debating is where simplicity is a genuine feature and where it becomes a real limitation.
What we'll be exploring.
Talking points on the table include, but are not limited to:
The per-minute cost of finding out late
What downtime actually costs, and why customer-reported outages are the most expensive kind.
Simplicity as a feature
Monitoring that does not require a dedicated observability team, and where that trade-off holds.
Lessons from the .de DNS outage
What May 2026 taught the industry about single points of failure outside your own stack.
Brand impersonation and alert trust
Phishing that piggybacks on trusted monitoring tools, and how teams verify what they are looking at.
APAC Series. Six cities.
Brought to you by UptimeRobot and Innovatus Media.
UptimeRobot is a website and uptime monitoring platform trusted by developers and small teams worldwide to detect downtime before customers do, without enterprise complexity or cost.
Your session host
Each city session is chaired by an Innovatus Media host alongside a UptimeRobot speaker local to the region.
Host name to be confirmed per city.
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This is an invite-only executive roundtable. Register your interest and we'll confirm your city, venue, and date as they're locked in.