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Your tests can’t catch a poisoned model
The AI security threat engineering leaders aren’t talking about.
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In partnership with GitkrakenProve your AI gains, then improve them
Turn real usage data into a clear read on your agents’ ROI — and a plan to improve it.
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New York • September 8 & 9, 2027
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Essential reading
How to build an effective technical strategy
Building a tech strategy requires a lot of moving parts. Learn about what routes to take and whether decisions should be top-down.
On our Technical Direction playlist
Modernizing legacy systems: A technical strategy for evolving monoliths into modern architectures at HelloFresh
Gain insights into transforming legacy systems into scalable architectures, with practical strategies for balancing stability, managing technical debt, and enabling growth opportunities at HelloFresh.
Technical Vision vs. Technical Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Jonathan Maltz digs into the nuts and bolts of setting a successful technical strategy. Startin by talking about the difference between technical vision and technical strategy.
How to implement platform engineering at scale
In this webinar, we’ll hear from enterprise engineering leaders who’ve overcome cultural barriers and team silos, and successfully adopted platform engineering practices in their orgs.
Good technical debt
Jon Thornton discusses how this framework was used to rapidly build and ship Squarespace’s Email Campaigns product in less than 15 months. Along the way, you’ll get several practical guidelines for how tech debt can supercharge your technical investments.
Creating, defining, and refining an effective tech strategy
Having a defined tech strategy creates alignment and keeps everyone on the same page. So how can you ensure yours is most effective? Panelists Anna Shipman, Randy Shoup, Papanii Nene Okai, Nimisha Asthagiri and Anand Mariappan share their tips.
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In partnership with Augment Code
The engineer’s guide to building a software factory
Build loops, not just agents.
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In partnership with Larridin
Cut AI-coding costs without slowing down
Show engineers spend and watch costs drop.
Top Technical Direction videos
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Ms. Frizzle would be a great SRE
Five frameworks from a century of education research that map directly to eval design for AI agents, and why building the eval system before the product changes everything.
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What handcrafted servers taught us about handcrafted code
Whether AI-generated code should be treated as disposable, what the shift to immutable infrastructure taught us, and how those lessons apply to the way teams write and maintain code today.
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In partnership with Stanford UniversityWhat are durable leadership skills in 2026?
As code becomes cheaper, communication skills gain value.
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In partnership with TwingateYour customer wants to run your software in their cloud. Now what?
Sales agreed to run your software in the customer’s cloud. Here’s how engineering leaders keep that from becoming an unmanageable second product.
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The state of the software engineering industry
A candid view on where software and AI engineering are heading, what the signals actually suggest, and what it means for teams and careers.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployHow to InnerSource your platform
Open the platform to developers without rebuilding from the ground up.
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In partnership with FlutterflowThe missing layer between product and engineering
When product and engineering domains overlap, full-context awareness becomes the bottleneck.
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In partnership with HarnessDon’t let AI model changes break your workflow
Build the tooling, guardrails, and context-rich practices to mitigate constant model turnover.