TALK SCHEDULE
Arrival & Coffee
How games engineering “embraced hard mode” to unlock innovation for Netflix games
Learn how embracing paradoxes, discovery-driven learning, and integrative decisions enabled collaboration and unlocked innovation at Netflix.
Hold on, let me prompt that
Explore how to lead with clarity and conviction in the GenAI era, balancing powerful tools with authentic, independent thinking.
LLMs: An operator’s view
Explore a pragmatic approach to using LLMs to boost team productivity, enhance products, and evolve your leadership strategy.
Morning Break
How KLM reduced compliance – Time from months to hours with GenAI
Discover how KLM used GenAI and cloud workflows to cut compliance time from weeks to hours, boosting accuracy and reducing risk.
What if I don’t want to climb?
Rethink career growth by exploring how non-linear paths, flexible frameworks, and exploration-first mindsets create stronger, more inclusive teams.
Target architecture – Align. Execute. Deliver.
Explore how defining a clear target architecture boosts alignment, speeds up execution, and scales teams through better decision-making.
Lunch
Leading leaders: Why your greatest strengths are your next blind spots
Managing managers isn’t just scaling up your IC playbook—it’s a whole new game. This talk challenges common assumptions and shares what it really takes to move from doing the work to enabling others to do it even better.
Onboarding as a manager: How AI changed my first months
Learn how AI can support new engineering managers by accelerating context gathering, easing overwhelm, and enhancing team understanding.
Engineering leadership in 2025: Thriving when budgets shrink
Find practical strategies for leading engineering teams through budget pressure by aligning decisions with impact, focus, and value.
Afternoon Break
Your career isn’t stuck – you’re playing by the wrong rules
Learn how to break free from outdated career rules by building visibility, influence, and leadership on your own terms.
Debugging self-doubt: A framework for building confidence
Explore a practical framework for tackling self-doubt with a debugging mindset to build lasting confidence and stronger teams.
Try, try again
Learn why intelligent retries are essential for resilient systems, and how to implement them safely with proper limits and timing.
Networking Mixer
Hallway activities
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Voltron Quest
Inspired by Lara Hogan’s Manager Voltron, meet other leaders to build your peer network at LeadDev Berlin.
How do you enable greater productivity and improved experience across your whole developer org?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
How can you solve the problem of technical debt when you’re scaling up?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Meet leaders from similar domains
Join our relaxed sessions where you can meet peers working in similar domains to share ideas, collaborate on challenges and exchange solutions.
How can you facilitate valuable post-incident reviews?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
Tackling the role of Tech Lead
Dedicated sessions on how to take the next step in your career for tackling the role of a Tech Lead.
How can you increase developer adoption of AI coding tools?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
My team needs to be given time to fix technical debt but my leadership team won’t listen. What can I do?
Trade tactics for tackling everyday challenges.
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
How can you ensure that continuous learning is central to your engineering culture?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
What the hell is a Principal Software Engineer anyway?
Trade tactics for tackling everyday challenges.
How can you measure developer productivity without damaging morale?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
WORKSHOPS
Systems thinking to drive software delivery excellence
Join one of seven 80-minute micro-workshops included as part of your conference pass. Check back soon for full details.
Decision-making techniques for engineering leaders
Join one of seven 80-minute micro-workshops included as part of your conference pass. Check back soon for full details.
Metrics to improve developer productivity
Join one of seven 80-minute micro-workshops included as part of your conference pass. Check back soon for full details.
Team development in the age of AI
Join one of seven 80-minute micro-workshops included as part of your conference pass. Check back soon for full details.
TALK SCHEDULE
Arrival & Coffee
The joy of being wrong
Discover how rethinking assumptions drives better decisions, strengthens leadership, and builds more adaptive, collaborative teams.
Migrations done right: Success stories and lessons learned
Learn proven strategies for executing large-scale system migrations safely, using incremental rollouts, clear planning, and strong stakeholder communication.
Morning Break
Leveling up engineers in an AI-driven world
Learn how to mentor junior engineers in an AI-driven world by reinforcing core skills and balancing AI-assisted workflows.
Machine learning in production. The hidden effort
Uncover the hidden engineering work behind real-world ML products, from scaling and orchestration to cost control and team alignment.
Couple’s therapy for product and tech
Learn how to build a strong, lasting partnership between product and tech through alignment, trust, and intentional collaboration.
Lunch
Journeys in diversity – what difference really means
Discover what true inclusion means by exploring practical ways to support neurodivergent colleagues and create genuinely diverse teams.
We brought AI into our sprints, here’s what changed
Explore how integrating AI into product sprints changed team habits, improved delivery, and revealed what works and what breaks in practice.
Rethinking interviewing in an AI era
Explore how to redesign technical interviews for an AI era by focusing on real-world thinking, communication, and human-centered evaluation.
Latency, load, and leadership: Building a team nervous system
Discover how to build feedback systems that detect early stress signals, enabling healthier, more resilient, and productive teams.
Afternoon Break
Building AI into critical systems: Lessons learned
Learn how the Financial Times built AI into paywalls and retention systems, navigating trade-offs, risks, and real-world complexity at scale.
No promotion. Now what!?
Explore how to navigate promotion denial with resilience, clarity, and strategy to reignite career growth and fulfillment.
HALLWAY ACTIVITIES
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Voltron Quest
Inspired by Lara Hogan’s Manager Voltron, meet other leaders to build your peer network at LeadDev Berlin.
How to find the balance between AI innovation and mitigating risk?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
How can leaders create a culture of experimentation within their teams?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Making the leap to Engineering Manager
Dedicated sessions on how to take the next step in your career for making the leap to Engineering Manager.
How can I speed up my team’s deployment times?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
How to manage managers?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Meet leaders from similar domains
Join our relaxed sessions where you can meet peers working in similar domains to share ideas, collaborate on challenges and exchange solutions.
How can you maintain delivery velocity on cross-team projects?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
How can I prevent burnout for myself and my team?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
Talented engineers on my team want to advance their careers, but there aren’t opportunities available for advancement. How can I keep them motivated?
Trade tactics for tackling everyday challenges.
WORKSHOPS
Systems thinking to drive software delivery excellence
Join one of seven 80-minute micro-workshops included as part of your conference pass. Check back soon for full details.
Decision-making techniques for engineering leaders
Join one of seven 80-minute micro-workshops included as part of your conference pass. Check back soon for full details.
Metrics to improve developer productivity
Join one of seven 80-minute micro-workshops included as part of your conference pass. Check back soon for full details.
Team development in the age of AI
Join one of seven 80-minute micro-workshops included as part of your conference pass. Check back soon for full details.