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October 15–17, 2025

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November 3–4, 2025

All our video highlights from webinars to live events

  • Estimates as probabilities

    This talk introduces a probability approach to estimations, aiming to transform delivery discussions into stress-free, trust-based conversations between tech teams and stakeholders.

  • Scaling leadership: Insights from the first Staff Technical Program Manager in the room

    This talk offers the perspective of a Staff Technical Program manager as the first one hired in a company, deconstructing the evolutionary journey that paved the way for hiring more of them.

  • Tips on scaling your leadership outside of your comfort zone

    In this talk Michael will talk through lessons and tips he’s learnt when working on a project that pushed him outside of his comfort zone, and how you can effectively utilise the skills and knowledge of those around you to build alignment when leading across a broad set of teams who are often using very different technologies.

  • Debug Like a Scientist

    This talk will enhance your programming toolbox for the hardest bugs. Not only this – but you’ll see how to scale effective debugging to the entire team. Last but not least – you’ll leave with a set of habits to share with your fellow engineers to help them step up their debugging game.

  • Tactical tech: Short-term solutions for long-term strategy

    Waterloo International station was opened in 1994 serving Eurostar trains through the channel tunnel to France. The station cost £130 million to build and won the EU prize for contemporary architecture but closed just 13 years later in 2007.

Highlights from our conferences

Measure for Change

Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.

Drive product gaps as an engineering leader talk by Emily Thomas in LeadDev New York 2024 Conference

Drive product gaps as an engineering leader

Discover practical strategies for engineering leaders to influence product development effectively, even in the absence of strong product management and a clear company vision.

Smruti Patel

Growth in a downturn

In this talk, Smruti Patel asks, if hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like?

Idea to Innovation

Join me as we embark on a journey to dissect the anatomy of innovation, uncover strategies to unlock the full potential of ideas, and transform them into impactful realities. Let’s build a strong culture of innovation, and make sure that it is not just a buzzword but a tangible outcome.

Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons

Explore the key lessons and skills Audrei gained during their first Staff+ project, Slack Enterprise Key Management. This talk offers insights for anyone growing in their Staff+ career.

  • Creating processes that don’t impede autonomy

    Many factors contribute to developer happiness. However, as engineers, we’re often singularly obsessed with the idea that our job satisfaction comes solely from solving only the most interesting technical challenges.

  • Feedback models for engineering teams

    Feedback is one of the most important skills when collaborating with others. Giving and receiving feedback with honesty, integrity and empathy is hard. Doing so consistently takes practice and requires learning and practising feedback and listening techniques.

  • An introduction to webhooks

    In an increasingly connected world, APIs are key to great tools and effective workflows. What is better than an API? A webhook of course!

  • The journey from monolith to microservices

    Are you starting a new application and wondering whether to go with a monolith or take the microservices path?

  • Seven key considerations in early development

    It’s empowering for developers and other people involved in the inception of a project to have tools for making the project better long-term.

  • What I wish I knew as a first time Tech Lead

    The path from being a developer to a Tech Lead seems like a scary transition. As a developer, you could focus on constantly learning new tools, libraries, frameworks and programming languages.

  • Managing everyday BAU as a tech lead

    As a developer you are used to certain constants in your life such as battling with a compiler/interpreter or debugging a production issue only to discover a single, tiny error.

  • How to estimate as as an engineering leader

    Estimating time is like packing for a long holiday. No matter how hard you try, you always feel like you forgot something important.

  • Communicating as an engineering leader

    To build great teams you need to understand people. One of your core skills as a leader should be the ability to have effective conversations with your team, the rest of your organisation, and your customers.

  • Improving your feedback loop on engineering teams

    The feedback loop is easily the most effective way to improve individual and team performance.

  • Prioritising personal development as en engineering leader

    What should I focus on to become a better leader and to better support my team? Where do I find the time to keep my technical skills relevant? How do I learn more about the business so I can understand the needs of the organisation better?

  • 5 Features of a Good API

    Everyone is writing APIs from micro-services through to full applications, but what makes a good one?

  • Leadership Lessons from the Agile Manifesto

    Whether you’re a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or Project Manager for an engineering team, you probably weren’t handed a leadership instruction manual when you were given your first team to lead.

  • Running An Effective Mobile Engineering Team

    Organisations often worry about their mobile teams. Sometimes they are a bit separate. There’s often this inexplicable hostility to mentions of “React Native”.

  • Navigating different communication styles as engineers

    Have you ever been told you’re “too direct,” or feel like you don’t understand what others want? Or on the other side, do you think others are often too confrontational?

  • The Original Skunk Works

    Long before Agile and Lean became buzzwords, a scrappy group of aerospace engineers at Lockheed’s Skunk Works were using similar practices to produce some of the most amazing aircraft ever built.

  • Failing smarter and learning faster in engineering

    Software development has been evolving. When I started in the industry, working at companies like Microsoft, we would bet many person-years of development and many millions of dollars into the development of products that would sometimes be hits and sometimes be total duds

  • Documentation in Agile

    We value “working software over comprehensive documentation”. That is, while there is value in documentation, we value working software more.

  • Building and Scaling a Distributed and Inclusive Team

    The current status quo in running and scaling out teams is to have everyone work in the same office or in offices across different locations.

  • Starting, executing, and landing big rewrites

    There’s nothing more frustrating than not being able to deliver new features because of unnecessarily complicated code.

  • How to automate a11y testing

    Are you still testing accessibility by hand? Or worse, have a dedicated person doing so? Stop! Now!

  • How to mentor Junior Engineers

    To get her foot in the door, she had to convince very smart people that she could write software because she can do ballet. It took a few tries.

  • Rethinking the Developer Career Path

    Our current methods for measuring a developer’s career progression are broken. At best, we count the number of days someone’s been paid to write code and massage that into a title. As a result, there’s no consensus as to what a given title means, leading to frustration for everyone.

  • How tech hiring fails us all

    From the outrageous to the sad, hiring experiences in tech can be really … bad! For the hiree and the hirer! From both sides of the table, Crystal has seen illegal and immoral behaviour — choices that damage companies as much as they damage individuals. Let’s do better. Please. We can improve this.