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June 2–3, 2026

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September 15–16, 2026

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November 9–10, 2026

Our Advisory Boards

Our Advisory Boards

Meet the folks who are shaping our conferences

We’ve assembled a set of expert advisory boards to help us better understand the challenges engineering leaders face every day. These advisors share their experience to help shape the themes of our conferences, identify the enduring challenges leaders need help with, and spotlight the topics that matter most right now.

Meri Williams

ChromeRose
CTO, NED & Advisor

David Yee

The New York Times
VP of Engineering

Pat Kua

Seasoned Technology Leader & Coach

James Stanier

Nordhealth
CTO

Taylor Poindexter

Spotify
Engineering Manager II

Anjuan Simmons

GitHub
Staff Engineering Manager
Tara Ellis

Tara Ellis

Netflix
Engineering Manager

Jasmine James

Square
Head of Developer Infrastructure for Devices Software Engineering
Addy Osmani

Addy Osmani

Google
Head of Chrome Developer Experience
Najla Elmachtoub

Najla Elmachtoub

Aligned
Director of Engineering

Dan Blundell

Gymshark
Engineering Director
Javier Cardenete Morales

Javier Cardenete Morales

Engineering Leader

Vaidehi Joshi

Vimeo
Engineering Manager

Frankie Nicoletti

SoLo Funds
VP of Engineering

Kristen Foster-Marks

Depot
Technical Curriculum Developer
David Kiger

David Kiger

Yelp
VP Engineering

Yenny Cheung

Bluefish
VP of Engineering
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Katie Wilde

Snyk
Senior Director of Engineering

Jossie Haines

Exec Coach and Advisor
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Tanya Reilly

Datadog
Principal Engineer
Silvia Botros LeadDev

Silvia Botros

Twilio
Sr Reliability Architect

David Fowler

Microsoft
Distinguished Engineer
Patrick Shields

Patrick Shields

Stripe
Staff Engineer
Maude Lemaire

Maude Lemaire

Cursor
Engineer

Vic Vijayakumar

Twilio
Principal Engineer
Alice Bartlett

Alice Bartlett

Rightmove
Head of Engineering

Shweta Bhandare

Recursion
Principal Software Engineer

Andrew Hao

YouTube
Staff Engineer

Nayana Shetty

The Lego Group
Principal Engineer
Ryn Daniels LeadDev

Ryn Daniels

MapBox
Tech Lead, Cloud Platform Team
Katie Sylor-Miller

Katie Sylor-Miller

Square
Principal Engineer

Leslie Chapman

Comcast
Engineering Fellow
Matthew Hawthorne

Matthew Hawthorne

Supreme Informatics
Independent Software Consultant
Javier Fernandez-Ivern

Javier Fernandez-Ivern

Netflix
Staff Software Engineer
Sabrina Leandro

Sabrina Leandro

Pleo
Principal Engineer
Hannes Ricklefs

Hannes Ricklefs

BBC
Head of Architecture
Blanca Garcia Gil LeadDev

Blanca Garcia Gil

StaffPlusEngineer.com
Principal Engineer, Transformational Coach & Founder

Meri Williams

ChromeRose
CTO, NED & Advisor

Nivia Henry

Netflix
Engineering Director

Kathryn Koehler

Netflix
Engineering Director, Productivity Engineering
Lena Reinhard

Lena Reinhard

Engineering Leader, Organizational Developer, Coach, Facilitator
Christian McCarrick

Christian McCarrick

Meta
Engineering Leader

Lara Hogan

Wherewithall
Coach

David Yee

The New York Times
VP of Engineering

Tanisha Barnett

Mailchimp-Intuit
Senior Director of Engineering

Neha Batra

VP of Engineering

Bruce Wang

Netflix
Engineering Director

Rukmini Reddy

PagerDuty
SVP of Engineering

Pat Kua

Seasoned Technology Leader & Coach

Smruti Patel

Apollo GraphQL
VP of Engineering

Maria Gutierrez

Personio
VP of Engineering
Dana Lawson

Dana Lawson

Netlify
SVP of Engineering
Emily Nakashima

Emily Nakashima

Honeycomb.io.
VP of Engineering

Cat Hicks

Pluralsight Flow
VP of Research Insights & Director of Developer Success Lab, Flow