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LeadDev New York 2024 videos
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Unconventional paths in tech: Leveraging your strengths to find your place
n this talk, Mitra Raman will take a look at the many paths that engineers can take on their leadership journey.
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Making what you have enough: Navigating the realities of the non-boom market
Discover essential tools for navigating uncertainty in the current non-boom market, focusing on resource optimization, prioritization, and supporting individual team members for collective success.
New York • Oct 15 & 16, 2025
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You don’t understand how trust works
Explore how to cultivate genuine trust between managers and teams, empowering collaboration and resilience through empathy, active listening, and shared responsibility for greater organizational success.
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Finding balance: How to build processes that help not hurt your engineering team
Learn how to implement effective processes that empower engineering teams, balancing flexibility and adaptability to foster ownership, accountability, and a positive team culture.
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Transforming legacy software: Riding the rollercoaster of emotion and innovation
This talk delves into overcoming emotional resistance and technical debt in digital transformation, highlighting strategies, tools, and insights that helped drive innovation and effective change.
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Increasing code habitability by using AI coding assistants
Discover how AI coding assistants can enhance code habitability while avoiding pitfalls, with strategies to improve code quality in today’s complex development landscape.
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Several components are rendering: Client performance at Slack-scale
Explore Slack’s frontend performance challenges with Jenna, uncovering architectural decisions and strategies to optimize efficiency while maintaining an effortless user experience.
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Building APIs together: How to embrace a multiplayer strategy
This session shows how a team-based, “multiplayer” approach to building APIs can eliminate versioning headaches, stop duplicate work, and dramatically accelerate your delivery cycle.
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Making better build vs buy decisions
Master a decision-making framework for build-vs-buy choices in engineering, with real-world examples, collaboration strategies, and tips for avoiding integration pitfalls.
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The choice is yours – or is it? Tactics for making difficult decisions
Discover how senior engineering leaders navigate decision-making, from managing details to big-picture strategy, and learn how collaboration leads to smarter, more impactful choices.
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Empowering developers to accelerate decentralized app development
Learn to quickly launch Web3 apps with Near Protocol and React-on-Chain, enabling cross-chain asset management, DeFi, and Social while simplifying Web3 development.
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Crossing the enterprise chasm
Learn proven strategies to scale from PLG to enterprise, making your app “enterprise-ready” and driving upmarket growth. Ideal for product leaders and technical founders.
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Cultivating ownership at any engineering level
Learn how engineering managers can cultivate employee ownership through curiosity, critical thinking, and empowering decision-making while aligning with company values for better performance.
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Ethics in the age of AI: Strategies for mitigation and their historical context
Explore historical lessons on technology harms as Christina Entcheva discusses AI ethics, modern software engineering, and guidelines for product teams to mitigate risks.
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Retaining Your People After the Tech Boom
Discover how to retain talent during staff reductions by leading with empathy, building trust, and understanding employees’ motivators in times of economic and industry change.
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Making do: Scaling expertise on teams you can’t grow
Explore how flexible team models enable small teams to handle high-stakes challenges, maintain resilience, and sustain morale during periods of organizational change.
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Managing expectations: Lessons from making large-scale platform changes
Discover how Datadog managed the technical and human challenges of migrating 2000+ engineers to Kubernetes, emphasizing effective communication and understanding human behavior during change.
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Cultivating great teams: Managing out with kindness
Learn a humane approach to managing underperforming team members, with strategies for setting expectations, providing direct feedback, fostering growth, and handling tough conversations with compassion.
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Spin it up, shut it down
Discover how to form impactful teams, drive progress, and gracefully shut them down, with a blueprint for creating and ending purposeful project teams effectively.
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A nudge in the right direction: How to give just enough help
Learn how to give just the right amount of help by applying insights from puzzle design. Discover practical techniques for offering effective guidance in any situation.
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Self-Awareness for Managers: Avoiding the antipatterns that block your team
Explore strategies to enhance self-awareness as a manager, unlock genuine feedback, and avoid decision-making traps that hinder your team’s performance and morale.
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Safety and Belonging – A Ritual to Jumpstart Psychological Safety
Learn how to cultivate psychological safety in teams through practical strategies and a 3-part workshop, inspired by Riot Games’ “Safety and Belonging” ritual.
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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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Using clinical science to effectively tackle code review anxiety
Uncover the science behind code review anxiety, its cognitive triggers, and actionable strategies to reduce anxiety, fostering a healthier code review culture for all developers.
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Becoming the leader you can be, in a changed technology industry
Explore how engineering leaders can navigate industry shifts, handle uncertainty, and rethink their roles in the evolving tech landscape through this reflective session on leadership.
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Beyond the headlines: Engineering leadership in 2024
Discover insights from LeadDev’s 2024 Engineering Leadership report, exploring how 1,100 engineering leaders feel about navigating industry challenges amid tech layoffs and AI hype.
The conference for engineering leaders shaping the future of software
Berlin • November 3 & 4, 2025
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Videos from previous years of LeadDev New York
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Becoming the leader you can be, in a changed technology industry
Explore how engineering leaders can navigate industry shifts, handle uncertainty, and rethink their roles in the evolving tech landscape through this reflective session on leadership.
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Beyond the headlines: Engineering leadership in 2024
Discover insights from LeadDev’s 2024 Engineering Leadership report, exploring how 1,100 engineering leaders feel about navigating industry challenges amid tech layoffs and AI hype.
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Dates and deadlines…it’s complicated
Learn key communication habits that clarify dates and deadlines, build trust, and improve team cohesion—especially in distributed teams—while making deadlines a positive, motivating factor.
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The scrappy/scale mindset: A framework for sustainable engineering leadership
Learn how the Scrappy/Scale Mindset helps engineering leaders balance leadership styles, avoid burnout, and adapt to their teams’ needs for sustainable success.
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Engineering leadership in 2024 and beyond: Skating where the puck is going when the ice is melting
Over the last two years, the tech industry has been going through big changes After a decade of boom, a lot of companies have been running layoffs, and headlines were dominated by CEOs talking about a need for “fewer managers”, “more efficiency”, and “more AI.” Throughout this time, many engineering…
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Why full SDLC testing matter in your software development lifecycle
Quality and velocity” is no longer an “either-or” statement. To accommodate the demands for speed and quality, many companies today are trying to test every change using different tools throughout the software lifecycle, but the tools are isolated and don’t inform each other of a holistic strategy for quality. Thus, testing becomes a bottleneck, and it can result in fewer releases with no improvement to the customer experience. Join Sangit Patel to learn how a holistic approach can help address these market challenges.
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Team design is system design
In this presentation, Michael Newman, VP of Engineering at CodeSignal will explore Conway’s Law and how the Inverse Conway Maneuver can be used to design your organization’s communication structure to reflect the desired system structure.
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Engineering your feedback: A (quick) guide to success
As managers and leaders, giving effective feedback is crucial in order to help engineers on our teams grow and thrive in their profession. In this talk, I’ll share 3 golden rules when it comes to providing feedback that is effective.
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In partnership with Chronosphere
How Observability Can Boost Engineering Productivity
Join Chronosphere’s Field CTO, Ian Smith, to learn how cloud native observability reduces burnout and boosts engineering team productivity.
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What to do after being laid off: Lessons on being my own CEO for a change
James Courtois shares his layoff experience. Recounting this, he shares some practical considerations and grounding thoughts that might be of use regardless of your employment situation.
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Using principles of observability to drive your professional growth
As you grow in your career, it can be harder and harder to assess personal progress. When you’re a leader with larger goals and longer-term projects, feedback loops lengthen. By drawing on the same principles of observability that we use when building software, engineering leaders can shorten the feedback cycle and take a data-driven approach to guide their own professional growth.
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Leading from Incidents: How past incidents can be used to guide company decisions
Nora Jones will dive into how we can get the most out of incidents before they become our culture in a way we didn’t intend.
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Doing the right thing, better: How to lead with efficiency in mind
Lena Reinhard will help you change the way you think and operate, and will help you be the leader that your business and your team needs during this time of uncertainty.
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Making the manager of manager’s mindset
Suzan Bond covers the difference between the two roles and the key mindset shifts leaders need to make to manage managers.
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How do you build a great team culture? LMGTFY
In this talk, Jenn will bridge the gap between the instructions senior leaders often get, and the desired outcomes: a workplace where people feel safe to be themselves, ask questions, make mistakes, and grow together.
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Evolving your core management skills: From IC to VP
This talk, will go through the core skills any leader needs evolve, as you go first from directly building software, to building teams that build software, to building leaders that build teams that build software.
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Realizing a technical strategy during turbulent times
In this talk, Bruce shares the lessons he learned from his multi-year journey to define a technical strategy, from the excitement of a new job and team, to facing the harsh realities, exploding complexities and now embarking on the next phase of the strategy.
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The business value of an engineering year
In this talk Ian will cover the best practices that bridge the gap between how business leaders talk about value vs how software development teams tend to.
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Leveling-up your leadership team
In this talk IBK will share how you, as a leader, can take a topic and work on it with your team. IBK will also share an example topic and the format that he shared with senior leaders at Shopify.
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Let them learn! How to nurture great software engineers
Clare Sudbery shares some of the principles and techniques we used to help Made Tech build a highly successful and effective training programme.
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Leading as an engineering manager
Francisco Trindade discusses how to achieve a balance between being proactive enough to drive positive change while avoiding micromanaging by using systemic thinking and talking about how an EM can be a positive leader for their team.
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Everything is a migration: Putting evolutionary architecture into practice
Jason Blanchard explores the idea that we can model and de-risk change by thinking of everything as a migration from a current state to a desired state and what that means for our architecture and teams
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Terraform practices to enable infrastructure scaling
Hila Fish covers useful best practices, pitfalls to avoid and major obstacles to anticipate so that you can scale them across many teams, avoid refactoring, and get a flying start now — AND optimize for the future.
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Moving quickly inside a large organization
Pablo Jablonski shares key learnings from building and shipping Spaces within Twitter, and how those learnings can be applied to any new team looking to move quickly within a larger organization.