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LeadingEng New York 2025 videos
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Taking a seat in the C-Suite: Transitioning from the highest-level operational roles to the executive team
A look at the transition to executive leadership, examining the skills, mindset, and priorities needed to succeed.
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Transforming tradition: The journey to product-led growth
Learn how Dow Jones is embracing a product-first mindset to drive radical transformation and deliver innovative customer and consumer experiences.

Deadline: January 4, 2026
Call for Proposals for London 2026 is open!
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In partnership with DXLeadership in AI-assisted engineering
Explore proven leadership strategies for AI-assisted engineering, fostering adoption, productivity, psychological safety, and measurable organizational impact.
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Building a cost-conscious culture: Technical and team strategies
Discover proven strategies to optimize cloud infrastructure costs and build a cost-aware engineering culture without slowing delivery.
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Build features, not fragile foundations
Learn how to balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction to maintain system health, velocity, and long-term stability.
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In partnership with ReveloEngineering leadership playbook, 2025: Three lessons every engineering leader needs this year
Learn three key lessons to lead AI adoption, build remote teams, and strengthen engineering culture.
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Uncovering silent struggles in leadership roles
A candid session revealing common hidden leadership challenges, with practical strategies to address and overcome them effectively.
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The AI-augmented team: Rethinking roles, skills, and leadership
Explore how AI assistants and agents are reshaping team structures, required skills, and leadership in modern engineering organizations.
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Making AI work for you: Examining and enhancing your developers’ workflows
Learn how to assess, adapt, and optimize developer workflows with AI to enhance collaboration, productivity, and measurable impact.
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Lessons learned using Generative AI for product development
Discover practical lessons on applying generative AI to product development, including model choices, evaluation methods, integration challenges, and innovation strategies.
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Beyond sentiment: A practical framework for evaluating and growing the leaders who report to you
This talk offers a practical framework for evaluating and growing the people managers who report to you through impact, competencies, and systems.
Videos from previous years of LeadDev New York
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The path from Director to CTO: How to follow it, or how to mentor it
This talk is aimed at both aspiring Chief Technology Officers and those who are in a position to mentor future CTOs. Explore the journey from a Director of Engineering role to a CTO, focusing on the skills and experiences needed for this transition and how experienced leaders can guide others on this path.
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Budgeting: Your (unexpected) opportunity to be a hero
As you advance your career as an engineering leader, managing a budget becomes a highly critical part of your job.
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Building products is a team sport: Cultivating effective engineering-product partnerships
With new AI developments happening almost every day, team roadmaps evolve fast to adapt to the product and business needs; this requires a close partnership between engineering and product leaders.
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Adventure beyond the keyboard: Growth strategies for senior leaders
When you’re at the top, getting direct feedback gets tougher, and figuring out how to improve becomes a bit of a puzzle.
This talk is your guide to cracking that puzzle, and make leadership growth less of a mystery and more of an adventure!
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In partnership with SwarmiaPost-ZIRP engineering leadership
This talk explores the evolution of the engineering leadership role from the growth-focused 2010s to today’s environment of increased scrutiny and accountability.
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Leading with policy, consensus, and conviction: Three distinct leadership styles for effective engineering leadership
In this talk I’ll share the situations that exposed my limited toolkit of leadership styles, the new styles I’ve added, and how I got comfortable using them.

