London

June 28–29, 2027

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September 15–16, 2026

Berlin

November 9–10, 2026

The real impact of AI on software engineering

This session presents the key findings from LeadDev’s AI Impact Report 2026 – and the numbers tell a more complicated story than the productivity anecdotes suggest.

Speakers: Michael Hill  &  Dan Moore

September 29, 2026
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New findings, real benchmarks, and what engineering leaders should do next.

AI is reshaping how engineering teams build, ship, and measure their work – but the gap between what leaders assume is happening and what the data actually shows is wider than most organizations are ready to admit.

Every engineering leader is navigating the AI era with incomplete information. Anecdotes are everywhere. Rigorous data is not.

This session presents the key findings from LeadDev’s AI Impact Report 2026 – and the numbers tell a more complicated story than the productivity anecdotes suggest.

The data is in. Now comes the harder question: what do you do with it?