LeadDev Berlin video hub
All the videos from our Berlin events
LeadDev Berlin 2025 videos
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Building AI into critical systems: Lessons learned
Learn how the Financial Times built AI into paywalls and retention systems, navigating trade-offs, risks, and real-world complexity at scale.
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Latency, load, and leadership: Building a team nervous system
Discover how to build feedback systems that detect early stress signals, enabling healthier, more resilient, and productive teams.
Deadline: January 4, 2026
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The festival of engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
Videos from previous years of LeadDev Berlin
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AI for software development: A reality check
Birgitta Boeckeler gives an overview of what is actually possible today and walks through four capabilities of Large Language Models that can help us be more effective at software delivery.
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Pleasing everyone, except yourself: Overcoming people-pleasing tendencies to become a stronger engineering leader
Nikita Rathi talks about her ongoing journey towards recognising the different patterns of people pleasing that she tends to fall into, like countless other folks, and how it impacts her work as an engineering leader.
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Responsible AI / Ethics in AI in engineering
Maria Gomez Aguirre and Priyanka Syal share insights on how to adapt to this changing landscape and factor in the human impact of our work while building systems and products with AI.
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Python Powered People – teaching non-technical professionals to code
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!
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Leading a distributed team out of a war zone: Lessons in resilience and adaptability
Bohdan Kit shares his management experience and insights from leading a team of eight senior engineers.
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50 shades of PR dark matter
In this short and fun talk (yes it’ll be fun!) – Avishag Sahar laments about the top blockers of PRs, but cheer up – because I’ll also provide insights into how to unblock them.
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Things I got wrong when preparing for my first Engineering Manager role
Ferit Topcu shares his own experiences in this transition, the errors I made, and how I overcame them.
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Growing future leaders: nurturing Team Leads as a path to managerial succession
Anna Kurylo shares the learnings from growing two team leads within her org, where the change ended up being a win-win-win situation for her, the teams, and the new team leads.