Upcoming events
Join us throughout 2026 for inspiring events, workshops, online panels and meetups
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
Join 2,000+ engineering leaders at the first-ever LDX3 New York!
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
Join engineering leaders figuring out what works without a clear playbook
London • June 28 & 29, 2027
Check out the festival for modern engineering leadership
Upcoming online panels
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In partnership with CodeRabbitHow can you trust your AI agents?
July 2, 2026 • 5.00PMAgentic explainability matters more than ever.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployHow much autonomy do you give autonomous agents?
July 8, 2026 • 1.00PMIt’s important to find your trust threshold when working with AI agents
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In partnership with ChainguardSecure-by-default isn’t optional for agents
July 15, 2026 • 5.00PMThe habits engineering leaders need to scale agentic AI, without scaling risk.
Upcoming workshops
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In partnership with GitkrakenThe AI agent metrics framework
June 25, 2026 • 5.00PMA hands-on workshop where you will learn how to measure the environment, behavior, and outcomes of your agents.
Recent recordings
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In partnership with Harness
Shift to signal-driven software quality
Learn why traditional approaches to code quality are collapsing in the face of AI code generation.
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In partnership with Chronosphere
Do we need AI agents to fix our AI agents?
Assessing your readiness for observability agents.
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In partnership with Storyblok
What are engineers getting paid for now?
As organizations ‘hire’ more agents, we need to talk about how we evaluate and value human engineers.
Free online workshops
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In partnership with Qodo
Code quality in the age of AI
A governance framework for engineering leaders.
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In partnership with Harness
How to build the guardrails your AI releases actually need
Too many organizations are relying on existing guardrails when it comes to AI-generated code.
The festival for modern engineering leadership
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
Upcoming in-person events
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
The festival for modern engineering leadership is coming to New York for the first time!
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
Join 2000+ engineering leaders in Berlin to find what works when the pressure is real and the job is changing faster than the playbook.
LeadDev meet-ups are expanding in 2026
We run free events year-round in cities all over the world
Highlights from our recent events
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Game time: A playbook to (unsuccessfully) 10x in a week and (successfully) 10x in a year
A candid scaling story about why rushed 10x efforts fail, and how disciplined metrics, culture, and architecture win over time.
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Rethinking how distributed teams deliver complex tech
Practical patterns for delivering complex work across distributed teams while improving inclusion, decision quality, and team autonomy.
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The shadow culture: Why engineering principles fail under load
Why engineering principles collapse under pressure, and how redesigning systems makes the right behavior the easy default.
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Your problem isn’t the monolith. It’s the data.
How disciplined data ownership and contracts prevent architectural decay and enable systems to evolve without traumatic rewrites.
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The AI-augmented leader: Architecting your own virtual Chief of Staff
A practical case study on building a personal AI assistant to reduce context switching, automate management work, and reclaim strategic focus.
Recent webinars
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In partnership with HarnessShift to signal-driven software quality
Learn why traditional approaches to code quality are collapsing in the face of AI code generation.
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In partnership with ChronosphereDo we need AI agents to fix our AI agents?
Assessing your readiness for observability agents.
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In partnership with StoryblokWhat are engineers getting paid for now?
As organizations ‘hire’ more agents, we need to talk about how we evaluate and value human engineers.
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In partnership with HarnessHow do you know your AI investment is worth it?
Delivering more stuff doesn’t mean you’re delivering more value to end users.
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In partnership with Octopus DeploySafe production changes with agents
A flexible codebase is a good one, especially in the age of AI-assisted development.
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In partnership with CoderThe high cost of AI immaturity
How to assess where your org sits on the AI adoption scale, and the strategic levers you can pull to move it forward.
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In partnership with GitkrakenMake AI productivity gains stick
How to build a measurement framework for what comes after AI adoption.
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In partnership with QodoIs AI killing your software quality standards?
Maintaining code quality in an AI-first world.
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Break silos and build cross-functional bridges
Cross-functional alignment is what makes (or breaks) teams. When engineering, product, and business come together to navigate conflict, foster collaboration, and encourage shared ownership, progress soars.
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How to master the perfect pull request
Pull requests are an essential part of collaborative development, but one that’s often rushed or fraught for teams juggling increasing workloads and competing priorities.
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In partnership with DXWhat to do with developer productivity metrics
There’s no shortage of data available for leaders looking to measure developer productivity, but what happens after you’ve set up your dashboards and the numbers start rolling in?
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In partnership with HarnessEscaping your DIY Feature Flags
Feature flags, how difficult can it be? But now it’s day two, and suddenly you’re in the feature flag business.
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How to be an influential leader
The most successful engineering leaders know that influence is the key to driving results, getting buy-in, and getting the task done.
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In partnership with HarnessProve the value of platform engineering
How to justify the cost of your biggest engineering investment.
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In partnership with incident.ioBuilding the dream incident response team
Struggling with incidents? It could be time to assemble an elite response team.
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In partnership with CoderThe perils of context switching
Studies show that it can take 20 minutes to regain focus after a distraction, but what can engineering leaders do to help engineers switch context less often and find flow?
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In partnership with CloudZeroOptimizing cloud costs: Whose job is it anyway?
Who really owns cloud costs? In many organizations, the answer still isn’t clear.
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In partnership with HarnessCrafting the perfect developer platform
From your IDE to CI/CD, where is best to buy vs build?
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How to master change and drive impactful transformation
Change is inevitable—but leading it effectively is a game-changer.
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In partnership with O’ReillyThe metrics you loved to hate in 2024
And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.
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In partnership with SwarmiaWhat are qualitative productivity metrics – and how do we measure them?
If your team is hitting key delivery metrics, we assume everything in the lifecycle before production is sound. However, we know that traditional metrics only tell half the story.
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In partnership with O’ReillyHelping your engineers find time to learn and upskill
Webinar recording: discover how to support your engineers to learn and practice new skills.
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In partnership with CircleCIHow to build experimentation into your technical roadmap
This webinar is for engineering leaders who believe that a strong culture of experimentation drives innovation – and who want to convince peers and stakeholders that it should be part of your technical strategy
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In partnership with SwimmA roadmap to working with your legacy codebases
Gain expert insights on modernizing legacy systems, improving developer satisfaction, streamlining discovery, and effectively documenting complex, large-scale codebases for better productivity and collaboration.
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In partnership with HarnessIs infrastructure as code still fit for purpose?
Explore challenges with Infrastructure as Code, strategies to optimize its management, roles of DevOps teams, and tools for scaling complex multi-cloud environments effectively.
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In partnership with HarnessFail fast, learn faster: Real lessons from failed software releases
Discover real lessons from failed software releases. Learn to manage tech debt, improve communication, and ensure successful rollouts with insights from industry experts.
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In partnership with Logz.ioAn engineer’s guide to making sense of log data
Cloud native technologies have made it harder to understand how systems are behaving. Logs are the answer, but how do you make sense of them?
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In partnership with StatsigHow to grow and scale your feature management process
What’s your approach to releasing and managing new features?
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In partnership with ChainguardDoes ‘shifting security left’ really work?
“Shifting security left” is a term in modern DevOps that refers to the practice of integrating security measures earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
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In partnership with SpaceliftWhat is developer self-service, and does your org need it?
In this webinar, we hear from engineering leaders who have built developer self service ecosystems, and lessons they learned along the way.
