
Latest videos
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From monitoring to mastery: Building an observability-driven culture
This talk explores how Phorest shifted to an observability-driven culture by aligning technical vision with customer pain, empowering teams through proactive ownership, and embedding observability into software practices to enhance customer trust.
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Accessibility needs better marketing
Web accessibility is seen as a chore, something to suffer through. This view ignores the needs of people with disabilities and diminishes their worth as humans and worthy customers. How do we change the process?
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In praise of “normal engineers”
Why building an engineering org that enables “normal” engineers to thrive is a bigger advantage than chasing top talent.
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In partnership with Swimm
A roadmap to working with your legacy codebases
Gain expert insights on modernizing legacy systems, improving developer satisfaction, streamlining discovery, and effectively documenting complex, large-scale codebases for better productivity and collaboration.
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In partnership with Harness
Is infrastructure as code still fit for purpose?
Explore challenges with Infrastructure as Code, strategies to optimize its management, roles of DevOps teams, and tools for scaling complex multi-cloud environments effectively.
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In partnership with Split by Harness
Fail fast, learn faster: Real lessons from failed software releases
Discover real lessons from failed software releases. Learn to manage tech debt, improve communication, and ensure successful rollouts with insights from industry experts.
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Growing the next generation of leaders: Levelling up your teams
Dana discusses how you can identify the skill gaps in your teams and support your managers as they transition to leadership.
Highlights from our conferences

Measure for Change
Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Creating and executing achievable goals for your high performance team
Tips to set and help your team execute their goals
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Planning for success when scaling rapidly
Create goals, prioritize effectively, set expectations, and drive alignment.
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Imperfect processes: navigating the fuzzier parts
Challenges our panellists have faced and different ways they have overcome them.
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The human cost of introducing process
The human cost of introducing processes and how to do it well, if at all.
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The culture of process
Let’s talk about a different mindset to process – process as a tool for creating change.
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Crafting an intentional process
What principles and frameworks can you put in place to bring more confidence and understanding around the processes you set?
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Understanding difficult conversations in your own organization
Real life situations and frameworks for having difficult conversations.
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Turning conflict into empathy on engineering teams
How to create a safe space for open communication.
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Communicating change: leading through the change curve
How to tailor your communications based on how your employees are experiencing and reacting to the change.
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Creating the foundation for difficult conversations
How to build and cultivate trust as the foundation for difficult conversations.
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Forging the path to faster shipping in enterprise orgs
Working for large corporates doesn’t mean you have to live with slower shipping times.
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Carving a modern engineering org out of an enterprise
Adopting best practices from tech-first companies
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The engineering leader’s guide to motivational anti-patterns
Motivation mistakes and how to avoid them.