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The 3 tenets of a usable vision
Making your vision believable, motivating, and attainable is what drives team momentum.
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How AI will shape software engineering in 2026
It’s time to close the gap between expectations and reality.
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Your first team is the key to org-wide efficiency
Alignment with your peers is the best way to secure cross-team success.
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In partnership with PagerDutyGet smarter with every incident
This panel discussion is for SREs, platform, and DevOps leaders who are looking for strategies to make on-call feel more sustainable and effective. We’ll show you how to break that reactive loop, and the emerging tools and practices to help make your teams, and systems, smarter.
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How to lead individuals with advanced technical expertise
If you’re a manager of individual contributor’s who have more years of experience on you, you may be confused on how best to lead them.
How can I rebuild a struggling team’s confidence and trust?
When there’s friction in the team you’re managing, morale, performance, and trust all take a hit. How can you rectify the situation?
How to lead senior engineers as a new manager
If you’ve just entered a management role, cultivating your relationship with the senior engineers on your team may be a daunting prospect. Here are a few ways to get that relationship off to a good start.
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
Rands, Nicole Forsgren,
& Matej Pfajfar confirmed
Essential reading
Reasons to step into a leadership role (and the reasons not to)
Thinking of becoming an engineering leader? Let Pat Kua help you with the first step of the journey.
On our Leadership playlist
What we talk about when we talk about leadership
Exploring key leadership themes from years in tech, this talk offers guidance and practical strategies to help engineers become the leaders they want to be.
From engineer to executive: Leading the shift and inspiring business-minded tech teams
Explore the journey from engineering leader to CTO, with insights on bridging technology and business strategy, leading with influence, and fostering business-minded tech teams.
Elevating your leadership skills during tough times
What skills do you need to be a great leader during economic uncertainty?
Post-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.
The festival for modern engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
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Growing the next generation of leaders: Leveling up your leadership teams
Join this talk as Kathleen discusses how you can identify the skill gaps in your teams and support your managers as they transition to leadership.
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How I learned to lose battles and still win the war
Scott Triglia distils his own experience learning how to lose gracefully and wisely so that he can win in the long term. He’ll discuss people, technical, and organizational aspects of long-term planning.
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Tackling software engineering leaders’ dual mandate
In this 5-minute talk, we’ll discuss what is the engineering leaders’ dual mandate and three focus areas that enable you to successfully achieve it in a VPE role.
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Unmasking Imposters by debugging doubts
Bobby D takes inspiration from the popular game “Among Us” to address the challenges engineers face in understanding their value and the importance of developing team awareness to support one another, and shares practical strategies for embracing individual strengths, fostering team collaboration, and building bridges through empathy and inclusivity.
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Filling the jar of impact and trust as a Principal Engineer
Nayana Shetty shares some tips and tricks to identify rocks, pebbles and sand you can fill your jar with, ways they enable you to create impact and build trust across the organization and some common challenges you will face when you prioritize your work using this technique and ways to overcome those.
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Defining expectations of Staff Engineers
This presentation is mainly targeted for Staff Engineers who work on defining their own roles and responsibilities. Writing a Staff Engineer Guide, and agreeing on the expectations between the engineering and the management, is a great way to learn about your organization.
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Scaling your influence when you can only be in one place at once
Michael Tweed will cover a case study of the problem “how do we ensure all our teams are meeting code quality standards”, looking at approaches that are likely to (and have!) failed, vs. those which are much more likely to lead to results and long-lasting buy-in.