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October 15–17, 2025

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November 3–4, 2025

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June 16–17, 2025


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The problem with shadow development

Your dev team hates Jira and will bend over backwards to get around using it. Big problem or smart solution?

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

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.

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

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.