Over the many years, Patrick has trained, coached and mentored many engineers into Technical Leadership roles. He is delighted by the way that everyone has their own style and “flavour” of being a Technical Leader. In this talk, he will explore what technical leadership is and the impact people can have through their individual flavours of technical leadership.
Pat Kua is a seasoned technology leader with 20+ years of experience. His current mission is accelerating the growth of technical leaders through coaching, mentoring and training.
What do you need to be able to demonstrate to get promoted to a staff engineer?
Chris Jimenez covers topics of providing clarity to yourself and finding energy and motivation to rebuild as a leader, providing clarity to your teammates and different ways of offering support, organization re-structure with the intent of bringing people together with a clear scope, and tips and tricks on rebuilding the culture and team cohesion.
Nicky Thompson's talk is aimed at engineers, tech leads, managers, humans - anyone who makes decisions. Making better decisions is a skill that you can improve on, and this talk will introduce some ways to do that.
Charlie Beeson talks about our bespoke training initiative called develop, which is designed to bring Python and other critical technical skills to the masses, including resolute technophobes, and how, just 18 months after launching, over half of our firm now use Python - including compliance officers, communications professionals, operations analysts and lawyers!