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Human-first leadership, AI-powered

Discover how AI can free engineering leaders to focus on people, not process – driving innovation without losing the human core.

Speakers: Sterling Chin

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June 25, 2025

How modern leaders use AI to reclaim time for coaching, hiring, and innovation – illustrated by shipping seven products in 2½ years while keeping the team at the center.

Great leadership is measured in conversations, not commits. Yet most engineering managers drown in note-taking, résumé triage, and status archaeology long before they reach their people. In this session, I’ll share how Postman’s 21-person Labs group shipped seven zero-to-one products in 2.5 years – and why the real win wasn’t velocity, but the human space we created by outsourcing grunt work to AI.

You’ll see practical examples: an AI “talent scout” that surfaces a candidate’s YouTube talks and open-source code before the recruiter’s PDF lands in your inbox; a meeting-transcript agent that turns raw dialog into action items; and a private MCP server that summarises overnight Jira and Slack so mornings start with people, not dashboards.

We’ll unpack the economics of innovation – why asking “What’s the ROI?” is the wrong question and “What’s the cost of not innovating?” is the right one – and how a culture that treats failure as tuition fuels outsized returns. Walk away with a toolkit and a mindset to let machines handle the busywork while you lead the humans.

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