LeadDev is for leaders who want to run more effective engineering orgs.
Berlin • November 3 & 4, 2025
Emma Bostian, Bruce Wang and James Stanier confirmed 🙌
We set out to change the conversation around tech leadership. Today, we’re reflecting on that journey – how we started, what we’ve learned, and where we’re headed next.
Latest
The right way to make AI part of your tech strategy
With everyone scrambling to bake AI into their technical strategy, leaders may be resorting to unreliable and unscalable methods.
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Why most developers hate their tech stack
Outdated tech stacks are a top reason for developers to quit.
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Navigating the emotional rollercoaster of leadership
Any well-seasoned leader will know that it’s not always an easy journey. The key is to tackle the low moments with the right approach.
Conference talks
Tech debt as innovation, reframing this forever problem as an opportunity
Tech Debt is a natural by-product of software engineering, yet we, in the software industry, don’t attack it with the same excitement or fervor as we do with product innovation or feature development.
Filling the Void: Operating as a Staff Engineer in a Leaderless Scope
In this talk, we will detail our experiences as Staff Engineers functioning as Tech Leads, Glues and Facilitators in a leaderless role. We’ll discuss the real-world problems we faced, our solutions, and the lessons learned that allowed us to grow as leaders and as an organisation.
Achieving engineering velocity by optimising developer experience
Engineering teams face compounding pressures to meet business objectives while maintaining operational excellence. The last year, in particular, has forced engineering leaders to maximize productivity with limited resources, forcing them to search for solutions to improve engineering velocity.
Reports
The Engineering Leadership Report 2025
We asked 600+ engineering leaders how their roles are changing in response to a rapidly changing economic landscape. Here’s what we found.
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.
The State of Feature Management and Experimentation
How are engineering teams releasing new features safely and successfully?
The Engineering Team Performance Report 2024
How do organizations measure their engineering team performance?
Upcoming webinars
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Bridging the gap between requirements and technical detail
How to translate business needs into a clear technical roadmap? Leave ambiguity at the door
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Is it time to shift cloud cost ownership left?
Could developers hold the key to slashing cloud bills?
The conference for engineering leaders shaping the future of software
Berlin • November 3 & 4, 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.
Why developers and their bosses disagree over generative AI
How to fix the disconnect over generative AI adoption and developer productivity.
Why untested AI-generated code is a crisis waiting to happen
Here’s why the sector should embrace the principle of more haste, less speed.
Build psychological safety in a world of layoffs
How engineering leaders can build trust, stability, and innovation in an era of tech layoffs and uncertainty.
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
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.
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.
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.
The metrics you loved to hate in 2024
And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.
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