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October 15–17, 2025

Berlin

November 3–4, 2025


Latest

Your top job candidate might be a coordinated AI scam 

Scammers have gotten even more crafty in finding new ways to collect a cheque, and AI has been the ultimate accomplice.

Conference talks

Managing the marathon: Leading teams through lengthy migration projects

In this short talk, Lawrence will reflect on his experience leading teams through multi-year migration projects.

Making smart investments: A framework for maximizing your ROI in technical decisions

In this talk, we’re going to explore a framework for evaluating the return on investment (ROI) of complex tech decisions, illustrated with real-world examples that highlight both the traps to avoid and the paths to success. I’ll share methods for pinpointing key metrics that matter, and how to design experiments or proof-of-concepts to measure ROI. Finally we will discuss the importance of staying objective and adaptable throughout the process. 

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.

Reports

In partnership with Terminal

Remote Engineer Salary Insights Report

New and emerging tech hubs. Talent availability. Cutting-edge technologies. These are just a handful of factors impacting remote engineering roles in 2025.

In partnership with Harness

The State of Feature Management and Experimentation

How are engineering teams releasing new features safely and successfully?

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In partnership with O’Reilly

The Engineering Team Performance Report 2024

How do organizations measure their engineering team performance?

The Engineering Leadership Report 2024

We asked 1,100+ engineering leaders how their roles are changing in response to a rapidly changing economic landscape. Here’s what we found.

Upcoming webinars

The festival of engineering leadership

London • June 16 & 17, 2025

Must read

AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink

Under pressure to embrace AI, developers are growing frustrated by misguided mandates and are left to clean up any collateral damage inflicted on their codebase.

How to manage rampant layoff anxiety

Layoff anxiety is on the rise as workforce confidence plummets. How do engineering leaders respond?

Executive communication tactics that work for all audiences

The way you communicate with executives – clear, direct, and to the point – should be the standard for all communication.

Revenge of the boring jobs

New research sheds light on which industries foster better job satisfaction for developers.

Bringing internal engineering projects to the world

Pia Nilsson, senior director of engineering at Spotify, on how they identify and externalize impactful internal developer tools like Backstage.

On our LeadDev playlist

Lena Reinhard LeadingEng Berlin 2024

Make it count; A no-nonsense guide to engineering metrics for the busy leader

Gain practical insights on engineering metrics that help busy leaders prioritize effectively, address delivery challenges, and measure team performance to maximize impact and productivity.

Evan

Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT

Evan Morikawa gives you a behind the scenes look at how we scaled ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs. A story about staying nimble enough to release new capabilities and to respond quickly to a rapidly changing industry.

James Stanier Berlin 2022

Shopify’s remote working toolbox

This talk presents Shopify’s remote working toolbox, which is a collection of learnings, best practices and ideas for other leaders that are wishing to work and attract talent globally, but must fundamentally shift their culture to do so.

Career vectors for technical leaders

Mix and match skills to become the best technical leader that you can be.

In partnership with O’Reilly

The metrics you loved to hate in 2024

And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.