{"id":435,"date":"2024-03-26T15:51:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/leaddev-new-york-2024\/?page_id=435"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:09:26","slug":"agenda","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/leaddev-berlin\/agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-19e250f3 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-primary-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d7d66a71 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-regular-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0\"><em>The agenda is subject to change as sessions are confirmed. 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style=\"--grid-column: 1; --header-background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--dark-blue-indigo); padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);\" class=\"ld-agenda__heading wp-block-pbc-agenda-track-heading has-background has-dark-blue-indigo-background-color\">\n<div class=\"heading-background\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"heading-background-inner clip-right-corner-small\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-base-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-150ae23e0f05440aac25d8f095d74eb8\" id=\"h-talk-schedule\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:0.04em;line-height:1.1;text-transform:uppercase\">TALK SCHEDULE<\/h5>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"2373\" data-tax-session-topic=\"\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Introducing your host: Pat Kua<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>A welcome from the host.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/pat-kua\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_400,h_400\/next\/2020\/07\/Pat-Kua.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/pat-kua\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPat Kua\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeasoned Technology Leader &amp; Coach\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"2373\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"2373\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Introducing your host: Pat Kua<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t09:00 &#8211; 09:29\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A welcome from the host.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/pat-kua\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2020\/07\/Pat-Kua-300x300.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/pat-kua\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPat Kua\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Seasoned Technology Leader &amp; Coach<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Pat Kua is a seasoned technology leader with 20+ years of experience. His current mission is accelerating the growth of technical leaders through coaching, mentoring and training. He has had many years of hands-on experience, leading, managing and improving complex organisations and software systems as the <strong>CTO<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Chief Scientist<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/n26.com\/\">N26<\/a>\u00a0(Berlin, Germany) and as a\u00a0<strong>Technical Principal Consultant<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtworks.com\/\">ThoughtWorks<\/a>. He is a frequent keynote and conference speaker, author of three books including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thekua.io\/retrobook\">The Retrospective Handbook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thekua.io\/twtl\">Talking with Tech Leads<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thekua.io\/evolarch\">Building Evolutionary Architectures<\/a>\u00a0and runs the free popular newsletter for leaders in tech, \u201cLevel Up\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/levelup.patkua.com\/\">http:\/\/levelup.patkua.com<\/a>) and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/techlead.academy\/\">Tech Lead Academy<\/a>, offering online training for technical leaders. You can find him online on Twitter as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patkua\">@patkua<\/a>\u00a0or running his very popular \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patkua.com\/shortcut-to-tech-leadership\/\">Shortcut to Tech Leadership<\/a>\u201d workshop.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/pat-kua\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Pat&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3212\" data-tax-session-topic=\"leadership,management,reporting\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"director,experienced-manager,staff\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Director+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Staff+<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Tokenmaxxing, water on Mars, and measuring the wrong things at scale<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Move beyond token spend and code volume to measure AI\u2019s impact on decisions, learning, and organizational capacity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/laura-tacho\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_400,h_400\/next\/2024\/08\/Laura-Tacho-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/laura-tacho\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Tacho\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAWS\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSenior Principal Technologist\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3212\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3212\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Tokenmaxxing, water on Mars, and measuring the wrong things at scale<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Director+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Staff+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What we measure shows what we value. The metrics dominating the AI conversation \u2014 token spend, AI-generated lines of code, PR count \u2014 tell us that we value speed and volume from individual developers. But leaders want organisation-wide change with AI, challenging themselves to move beyond AI-as-automation and instead integrate AI into organisational workflows and decision-making. There\u2019s a gap between what we\u2019re counting and what we want to achieve. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Drawing on industry research, <strong>Laura Tacho<\/strong> explores how leaders should shift their approach to measuring the ROI of AI tools, moving from output-based metrics toward frameworks that capture what AI actually makes possible: better decisions, faster learning, and expanded cognitive capacity across teams. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You&#8217;ll walk away with new mental models for thinking about AI&#8217;s impact on your organisation, pragmatic guidance for evolving your measurement approach, and a clearer picture of what the organisations seeing real results are doing differently.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/laura-tacho\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2024\/08\/Laura-Tacho-1-300x300.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/laura-tacho\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Tacho\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Senior Principal Technologist<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">AWS<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n<div id=\"m_-638079559875817261m_4386138265314336197gmail-message-list_1777884877.424119\" aria-labelledby=\"primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-sender primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-message_text primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-alt_text primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-date_time primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-reaction_count primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-reply_count primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-link_count primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-attachment_count primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-has_draft_reply primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-pinned_state primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-edited_state primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-later_state primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-broadcast_state primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-broadcast_thread_root_message primary-D02SY7BDDKL-1777884877.424119-translated_state\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"il\">Laura<\/span>\u00a0Tacho is a subject matter expert in measuring the efficiency of engineering organizations. Currently, she is a Senior Principal Technologist at AWS focusing on developer experience and AI-native development.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Laura<\/span>\u00a0was previously the CTO of DX, where she led the company\u2019s executive advisory and research programs. She is the co-author of the Core 4 Framework of Developer Productivity, used by companies like LEGO, Netflix, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Snowflake to measure and improve developer experience. In 2025, she was awarded Austrian Innovator of the Year.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Laura<\/span>\u2019s been working on developer tools for 15 years, including building out some of the first developer tools for the Docker ecosystem.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/laura-tacho\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Laura &#8216;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3210\" data-tax-session-topic=\"software-quality,technical-direction,velocity\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"staff,tech-lead\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Staff+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Tech Lead<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">The new tech debt: How AI is changing the way our systems fail<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Protect architectural coherence as AI accelerates code generation using stronger system boundaries, review signals, and feedback loops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/bhavana-hindupur\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_747,h_747\/next\/2026\/05\/Bhavana-Hindupur-e1778149857841.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/bhavana-hindupur\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBhavana Hindupur\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMeta\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStaff Software Engineer\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3210\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3210\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>The new tech debt: How AI is changing the way our systems fail<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Staff+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Tech Lead<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>AI-assisted development increases code generation speed faster than teams can fully understand or reason about systems, creating a new form of technical debt driven by accumulating complexity, inconsistent abstractions, and loss of design intent. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This talk explores how AI shifts software failure modes and why traditional safeguards like code review and architecture governance struggle under high-velocity generation. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Attendees will leave with practical approaches to mitigate AI-driven debt, including strengthening system boundaries, improving review signals, and building feedback loops that preserve architectural coherence at scale.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/bhavana-hindupur\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/05\/Bhavana-Hindupur-e1778149857841-300x300.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/bhavana-hindupur\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBhavana Hindupur\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Staff Software Engineer<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Meta<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Bhavana Hindupur is a Staff Software Engineer at Meta, with prior experience at Google, Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs. She works at the intersection of large-scale systems design, engineering execution, and organisational effectiveness, with a focus on how complex systems behave in real-world environments where architecture, team structure, and decision-making are tightly coupled. She is passionate about building products that solve real-world problems and is actively shaping how the role of engineers is evolving in the AI era\u2014where increased code generation is shifting the bottleneck from implementation to system understanding, coherence, and long-term maintainability.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/bhavana-hindupur\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Bhavana&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3213\" data-tax-session-topic=\"\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Beyond specialists: How GetYourGuide is rethinking who ships AI<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>See how the right platform and enablement can help software engineers build and ship production-grade AI products.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/mathieu-bastian\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_400,h_400\/next\/2026\/07\/Matheiu-Bastian.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/mathieu-bastian\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMathieu Bastian\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetYourGuide\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrincipal AI Engineer\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3213\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3213\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Beyond specialists: How GetYourGuide is rethinking who ships AI<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For years, shipping AI products meant relying on a narrow group of specialists \u2014 data scientists, ML engineers, researchers. At GetYourGuide, we made a different bet: with the right platform and the right enablement, regular software engineers can build production-grade AI products too.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In this talk, Mathieu Bastian, Principal AI Engineer, shares the journey of building an AI Platform that shifts AI development into the hands of the broader engineering organization. He&#8217;ll walk through the programs put in place to enable this shift, the cultural and technical challenges along the way, and the honest learnings from leading this transformation.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/mathieu-bastian\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/Matheiu-Bastian-300x300.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/mathieu-bastian\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMathieu Bastian\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Principal AI Engineer<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">GetYourGuide<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Mathieu is a Principal AI Engineer at GetYourGuide, focusing on agentic AI and AI platforms. At GetYourGuide, he led the Data Products group as a Director of Engineering from 2016 to 2023. He previously worked at LinkedIn as a Staff Data Scientist and Engineering Manager. Mathieu also co-founded Gephi, an award-winning large graph visualisation platform.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/mathieu-bastian\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Mathieu&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3209\" data-tax-session-topic=\"management,software-quality,technical-direction\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"director,experienced-manager,staff,tech-lead\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Director+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Staff+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Tech Lead<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">AI is making complexity cheap: Why platform engineering must evolve<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Evolve platform engineering to make AI-generated complexity visible, strengthen ownership, and help organizations scale software safely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/liora-milbaum\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_800,h_800\/next\/2026\/05\/liora.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/liora-milbaum\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLiora Milbaum\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApplied Materials\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPlatform Engineering Architect\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3209\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3209\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>AI is making complexity cheap: Why platform engineering must evolve<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Director+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Staff+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Tech Lead<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">For the past decade, platform engineering has helped organizations manage the complexity created by cloud computing, microservices, containers, and Kubernetes. While these technologies increased engineering productivity, they also introduced new layers of operational and organizational complexity. Platform teams emerged to help organizations absorb that complexity safely through standardization, self-service capabilities, and shared infrastructure.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>AI is creating a similar shift, but at a fundamentally different scale.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For the first time, software artifacts, infrastructure definitions, workflows, documentation, and even architectural implementations can be produced faster than organizations can fully understand, govern, and operate them. As AI dramatically lowers the cost of creating software, it also lowers the cost of creating complexity.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The challenge facing engineering leaders is no longer simply how to deliver software faster. It is how to prevent complexity from growing faster than the organization&#8217;s ability to absorb it.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This talk explores why complexity absorption is emerging as one of the defining engineering challenges of the AI era. Drawing on lessons from platform engineering, it examines how traditional approaches to ownership, architecture governance, and operational control begin to break down when implementation becomes nearly effortless.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The session introduces a practical framework for understanding organizational complexity and argues that platform teams are uniquely positioned to help organizations address it. Attendees will learn how platform organizations can make complexity visible through service catalogues and ownership models, use AI agents to improve architectural understanding and operational knowledge, establish guardrails that limit unnecessary complexity, and develop new mechanisms for evaluating the long-term operational impact of technical decisions.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Rather than focusing solely on helping teams build software faster, platform engineering must evolve toward helping organizations maintain clarity, ownership, and trust in increasingly complex systems.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Attendees will leave with concrete ideas, practices, and platform capabilities they can apply immediately to help their organizations scale safely in a world where creating software is becoming easier than understanding it.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/liora-milbaum\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/05\/liora-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/liora-milbaum\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLiora Milbaum\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Platform Engineering Architect<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Applied Materials<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Liora Milbaum is a platform engineering leader and software architect with more than 30 years of experience in enterprise software, developer platforms, and large-scale delivery systems. She currently works at Applied Materials, where she focuses on building platform capabilities for complex software systems operating in demanding enterprise and edge environments.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her work in large enterprise engineering organizations, Liora founded and led a DevOps services company through a successful exit. Her experience spans platform engineering, CI\/CD strategy, organizational scaling, and engineering leadership across startups and global enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>Having worked on AI delivery platforms and emerging AI products, Liora brings a pragmatic perspective on how AI is reshaping engineering organizations, developer workflows, and platform strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Her work explores a fundamental question facing engineering leaders today: as AI dramatically increases the speed and volume of software creation, how must platforms evolve to preserve reliability, governance, security, and engineering excellence?<\/p>\n<p>She writes and speaks about platform engineering, organizational complexity, and the future of software development in AI-native environments.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/liora-milbaum\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Liora&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3211\" data-tax-session-topic=\"\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Acceleration with AI<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>What it takes to accelerate engineering with AI while maintaining the systems, culture, and reliability needed to scale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/darragh-curran\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_1450,h_1450\/next\/2026\/07\/Intercom_Darragh_076-scaled-e1784021761204.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/darragh-curran\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDarragh Curran\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFin\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChief Technology Officer\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3211\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3211\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Acceleration with AI<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Darragh Curran<\/strong> has spent over a decade building Fin&#8217;s engineering culture, and he knows what it takes to ship quickly while keeping things running smoothly. As CTO, he leads the teams behind hundreds of deployments a day across thousands of hosts and clusters. Before Fin, he built his experience at companies ranging from early-stage startups to Amazon and IBM, so he has seen speed and scale from every angle. Darragh doesn&#8217;t just talk about shipping fast, he built the systems that make it possible. Hear what he has to say in his talk, Acceleration with AI.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/darragh-curran\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1450\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/Intercom_Darragh_076-scaled-e1784021761204-300x300.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/darragh-curran\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDarragh Curran\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Chief Technology Officer<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Fin<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Darragh Curran is the Chief Technology Officer at Fin, leading Product Engineering, Growth Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and IT teams. He has scaled and evolved engineering teams and culture at Fin since 2012.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>His background spans startups like Newbay and Ticketsolve, the web product consultancy Contrast, agile software consultancy Exoftware, and large multinationals including IBM and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Darragh pioneered Fin&#8217;s approach to shipping fast and early, publicly sharing the philosophy and building the internal systems that coordinate all of Fin&#8217;s infrastructure &#8211; capable of hundreds of deployments a day across thousands of hosts and clusters. He holds a B.A. in (Mod) Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, where he was awarded a scholarship for standout academic achievement.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/darragh-curran\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Darragh&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3202\" data-tax-session-topic=\"management,software-quality,technical-direction,velocity\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"director,experienced-manager,staff,tech-lead\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Director+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Staff+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Tech Lead<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">AI-powered code review at scale<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Discover how one team scaled trusted AI code review across 200+ engineers for just $200 a month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/serhii-yakovenko\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_640,h_640\/next\/2026\/07\/Serhii-Yakovenko.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/serhii-yakovenko\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSerhii Yakovenko\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tM&amp;S\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSoftware Engineering Manager\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3202\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3202\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>AI-powered code review at scale<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Director+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Staff+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Tech Lead<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">How we scaled review quality across 200+ engineers with AI instead of more reviewers \u2014 the build-vs-buy call, company-specific rules, the cost story, and the adoption fight.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Code review doesn&#8217;t scale linearly with headcount. At 200+ engineers it becomes the single biggest delivery bottleneck \u2014 senior engineers burning a third of their time on the same repeated comments, and a handful of domain experts becoming gatekeepers for whole feature areas. This is the case study of how we scaled review quality with AI instead of more reviewers.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It&#8217;s a leadership story as much as a technical one. We start with the build-versus-buy decision: we evaluated four AI review tools, and the honest twist is that our formal evaluation&#8217;s winner wasn&#8217;t what we shipped \u2014 the eval was right about features and wrong about what mattered in production. From there: building a custom integration layer when no off-the-shelf tool fit, encoding our own security and architecture standards into the AI so its feedback earned trust, and running the whole thing at roughly $200\/month against $40\u201380K\/year SaaS quotes.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The hardest part wasn&#8217;t the technology \u2014 it was adoption. I&#8217;ll cover how we measured whether the AI&#8217;s comments were actually helpful (a simple feedback loop), and the moment we knew it worked: another team adopted the system on their own, with no mandate from leadership. Attendees leave with a practical framework for introducing AI into their review process \u2014 what to automate, what to keep human, how to measure it, and how to drive adoption across an organisation that&#8217;s seen plenty of tools come and go.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-takeaways\">Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>A build-versus-buy framework for AI code review \u2014 and why the &#8220;best&#8221; tool on paper may not be the one you ship.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>How to encode your own security and architecture standards into AI review so engineers actually trust it.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>How to run AI code review at scale for ~$200\/month instead of $40\u201380K\/year.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>How to measure whether AI feedback is genuinely helpful, with a lightweight feedback loop.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>What organic, un-mandated adoption by another team tells you about a tool&#8217;s real value.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/serhii-yakovenko\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/Serhii-Yakovenko-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/serhii-yakovenko\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSerhii Yakovenko\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Software Engineering Manager<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">M&amp;S<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Serhii Yakovenko is a software engineering manager based in London, with over a decade in tech spanning QA and SDET roles through engineering leadership at Toptal, Groupon, and now Marks &amp; Spencer. He builds the developer infrastructure that lets large engineering organisations move fast without sacrificing quality \u2014 AI-powered code review, LLM-based flaky-test detection, and CI at scale. He focuses on turning LLMs from demos into trusted production infrastructure \u2014 and the build-versus-buy, cost, and adoption decisions that come with it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/serhii-yakovenko\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Serhii&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3203\" data-tax-session-topic=\"career-development,leadership,velocity\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"experienced-manager,new-manager,tech-lead\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>New Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Tech Lead<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">In defense of multi-tasking<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Learn how deliberate context-switching and smart multitasking can become powerful leadership advantages in the AI era.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/nikita-rathi\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_500,h_500\/next\/2023\/08\/1535307258257.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/nikita-rathi\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNikita Rathi\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaxfix\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHead of Product Engineering\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3203\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3203\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>In defense of multi-tasking<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">New Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Tech Lead<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">For decades we&#8217;ve celebrated and emphasised deep focus work, and have documented countless downsides of multi-tasking. The AI era is flipping this, we need to find sustainable ways to get ahead.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For decades we&#8217;ve celebrated and emphasised deep focus work, and have documented countless downsides of multi-tasking. The AI era is flipping this. In a world where we can kick off several parallel agents, the bottleneck moves from execution to context-holding, and the skill of being able to multi-task and switch context deliberately rather than reactively is becoming increasingly important.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As Engineering Leaders, some of this is a natural part of the role. Holding a dozen threads at once, stealing minutes between back-to-back meetings to pick up action items, trying to balance the cognitive load of thinking about too many things with active listening in our 1:1s. Some of us are wired for it, some of us have learned the hard way. The job that used to look like distraction is starting to be leverage, and, it&#8217;s a skill we should be developing on purpose rather than discovering under pressure.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In this talk, I want to share what I&#8217;ve learned from years of doing this work across multiple product areas: how to chunk time, how to switch context deliberately rather than reactively, how to load and unload context quickly, and, how to leverage the tooling we have at our disposal in the AI Era to get really good at this.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-takeaways\">Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>A reframe of context-switching as a deliberate skill, not a productivity cost.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>A practical toolkit for managing context across many threads: how to chunk time, switch deliberately, and load and unload context fast.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>A new appreciation for the workarounds you&#8217;ve built driven by necessity, and why they&#8217;re turning out to be critical skills.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/nikita-rathi\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2023\/08\/1535307258257-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/nikita-rathi\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNikita Rathi\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Head of Product Engineering<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Taxfix<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Nikita Rathi is a parent, a wife, a foodie amongst other things, and Head of Product Engineering by day. She has spent her career in the tech industry between Illinois, New York, Dublin and Berlin solving problems, writing code, and managing engineering teams and now leads engineering at Taxfix, a tax startup in Berlin that reduces the complexity of tax filing and helps save it\u2019s users time and money. She has found herself ever-curious about human relationships and brings that curiosity to her work. Her thoughts and research have led her to think about different perceptions that folks might have based on past experiences and years of socialization and how that impacts the careers of those that are marginalized.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/nikita-rathi\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Nikita&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3205\" data-tax-session-topic=\"leadership,management,software-quality,technical-direction\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"director,experienced-manager,tech-lead\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Director+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Tech Lead<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">The hallucination crisis: Who owns agentic AI outcomes in production?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>An AI hallucination exposed a critical accountability gap and inspired a governance playbook for safely deploying high-stakes automation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/sibani-mishra\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_800,h_800\/next\/2026\/07\/Sibani-Mishra.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/sibani-mishra\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSibani Mishra\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOptum\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSenior Manager, AI\/ML Engineering\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3205\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3205\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>The hallucination crisis: Who owns agentic AI outcomes in production?<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Director+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Tech Lead<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">When a production AI agent hallucinated, the true crisis wasn&#8217;t technical\u2014it was organizational. Discover the battle-tested governance playbook we built to map accountability and safely deploy high-stakes automation anywhere.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Every engineering leader has shipped something that kept them up at night. In most industries, a bad release means a degraded UI or a temporary drop in conversion metrics. In healthcare, it means something else entirely.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This case study details the rollout of AI agents into clinical workflows handling prior authorizations, discharge summaries, and medication triage across more than 2 million patient interactions annually. Built on AWS Agent Core with Agent Squad orchestration across specialised clinical agents, the architecture was sound \u2014 the ownership model was not.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Three weeks into production, a discharge-summary agent hallucinated a medication continuation instruction. No patient was harmed, but the fallout was immediate: clinicians lost confidence, overrides skyrocketed, and our engineering teams entered a finger-pointing loop. Platform engineering, ML, and clinical operations had all assumed someone else held final escalation authority. Nobody did.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This talk shares the operating playbook we built to pull our AI system out of crisis and back into production safely \u2014 and more importantly, to make sure we never ended up in that room again. We&#8217;ll cover how we drew strict ownership boundaries for agentic systems where no single service owns the full outcome, how we engineered human-in-the-loop patterns that preserve genuine accountability without becoming rubber stamps, and how we rebuilt clinical trust through review structures that gave humans meaningful control rather than the illusion of it.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The governance framework that came out of this incident has since been adopted by two teams outside healthcare entirely \u2014 because it turns out, regulated AI is just a more honest version of the AI governance problem every engineering leader is quietly avoiding.<br>You do not need to work in healthcare for this talk to matter- this is a blueprint for any leader deploying high-stakes automation.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-takeaways\">Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>A reusable playbook for defining escalation authority before an incident forces the conversation.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>A decision-ownership model for agentic systems where multiple specialised agents share a workflow but no single service owns the final outcome.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>A governance structure for regulated AI that gets systems out of endless pilot phases and back into production with organisational sign-off.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>A trust-rebuild framework for restoring stakeholder confidence after a high-stakes AI incident \u2014 applicable far beyond healthcare.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>A human-in-the-loop design pattern that preserves genuine clinical accountability without collapsing into rubber-stamp override behaviour at scale.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:list {\"ordered\":true,\"start\":2} -->\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li><\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ol>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/sibani-mishra\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/Sibani-Mishra-300x300.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/sibani-mishra\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSibani Mishra\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Senior Manager, AI\/ML Engineering<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Optum<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Sibani Mishra is a Senior Manager of AI\/ML Engineering with 11 years of experience architecting, scaling, and governing enterprise intelligent systems. A multi-cloud certified AI expert, she has spent over a decade leading high-impact engineering initiatives within Fortune 50 companies. Sibani specializes in bridging the gap between advanced data science and enterprise-grade cloud architecture, focusing heavily on moving complex generative AI and multi-agent systems out of sandbox pilots and safely into regulated production environments. Passionate about team topologies and operational excellence, she focuses on defining the next generation of engineering leadership playbooks for probabilistic software.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/sibani-mishra\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Sibani&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3186\" data-tax-session-topic=\"culture,leadership,software-quality,technical-direction\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"director,experienced-manager,staff\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Director+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Staff+<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Software doesn\u2019t know how to die<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>We build systems to scale, evolve, and survive failures &#8211; but rarely to tell us when they are ready to die. This talk explores why \u201cletting go\u201d should become a strategic engineering capability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/laura-grau-ramirez\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_800,h_800\/next\/2026\/07\/1642953545003.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/laura-grau-ramirez\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Grau Ram\u00edrez\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tXING\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEngineering Director \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3186\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3186\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Software doesn\u2019t know how to die<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Director+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Staff+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">We build systems to scale, evolve, and survive failures &#8211; but rarely to tell us when they are ready to die. This talk explores why \u201cletting go\u201d should become a strategic engineering capability.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Modern engineering organizations are incredibly good at creating software. We can spin up services in hours, generate code with AI, and track growth through sophisticated KPIs. But most organizations still have no mature way to answer a much harder question:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cHow do we know when something should stop existing?\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For years, the software industry optimized for growth. Today, many organizations face a different reality: shifting markets, flatter structures, shrinking capacity, and increasing operational pressure. Meanwhile, AI is lowering the cost of generating code faster than we can sustainably maintain it.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The result is an uncomfortable asymmetry: we create software faster than we can build the capacity to understand, operate, simplify, and retire it.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At XING, this tension became impossible to ignore as we tried to sustain a legacy ecosystem while simultaneously reducing complexity across the organization. We uncovered a cultural blind spot: we nurture systems to scale, evolve, and survive failures \u2014 but rarely to tell us when they are ready to die.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Systems quietly become immortal. Operational burden becomes invisible.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>AI didn\u2019t create this problem, but it made the gap impossible to ignore. As software creation accelerates, we are suddenly forced to ask questions our systems were never designed to answer:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>How sustainable is this long term? What is the real cost of keeping it alive? How do we know when complexity outweighs value?<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>These shouldn\u2019t be reactive questions asked only during organizational pressure. They are questions we should design our systems and organizations to answer from day one.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In this talk, I\u2019ll share the technical, operational, and emotional realities of treating \u201cletting go\u201d as a core engineering capability: what worked, what failed, and how we started shifting our culture to see simplification, retirement, and reduction as necessary parts of sustainable engineering.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This is not a talk about deleting software. It\u2019s about creating systems that can tell us when they are no longer worth carrying.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>The uncomfortable realization that your organization may already be carrying more software than it can sustainably understand, operate, or retire<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Practical signals that systems, services, or platforms are becoming \u201cimmortal\u201d<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Ways to make simplification, retirement, and lifecycle thinking part of sustainable engineering culture<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>The psychology of \u201cless\u201d: how to counter emotional attachment to systems, reframe retirement as capacity creation, and reward simplification instead of accumulation<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/laura-grau-ramirez\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/1642953545003-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/laura-grau-ramirez\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Grau Ram\u00edrez\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Engineering Director <\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">XING<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Laura Grau is an engineering director at XING. She is a leader focused on organizational design, engineering sustainability, and guiding teams through complexity and change. She has experience scaling teams, driving agile transformation, and leading engineering organizations through periods of growth, restructuring, and operational evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Laura believes leadership is not defined by hierarchy, but by presence, positive influence, and helping others grow. She is particularly interested in how organizations build software sustainably &#8211; balancing delivery, long-term system health, and the human side of engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside her leadership work, she also teaches engineering management and leadership topics through online learning platforms, bringing a practical and people-centered perspective to modern engineering organizations.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/laura-grau-ramirez\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Laura &#8216;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3208\" data-tax-session-topic=\"culture,leadership,technical-direction,velocity\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"experienced-manager,staff,tech-lead\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Staff+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Tech Lead<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Shipping AI products that last: Lessons from the messy middle<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Turn promising AI demos into reliable products through shared infrastructure, embedded evaluation, and business-focused experimentation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/yemi-ogoundele\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_800,h_800\/next\/2026\/07\/Yemi-Ogoundele.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/yemi-ogoundele\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYemi Ogound\u00e9l\u00e9\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPersonio\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStaff Data Scientist\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3208\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3208\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Shipping AI products that last: Lessons from the messy middle<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Staff+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Tech Lead<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">Discover how building an AI platform and driving cultural change helped Personio go from flashy hackathon demos to shipping reliable AI products<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The gap between a flashy demo and a reliable AI product is full of work nobody talks about. At Personio, we discovered this the hard way.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our VP of Data gave us a mandate to embed AI into how we work. We ran a hackathon, shipped 5 MVPs of internal AI products, and got genuine excitement from stakeholders. Six months later, adoption was near zero, and the projects that did get used led to an unexpected spike in LLM token spend.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As a Staff Data Scientist leading AI and data product development at Personio, with no direct reports, I had to find a way to drive change without authority.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I will share what we actually did: building a shared AI platform so the team could build on each other&#8217;s work rather than starting from scratch, embedding agent evaluations in the team\u2019s workflow, and increasing the org velocity through experimentation.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-takeaways\">Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>What it takes to go from flashy AI demo to a finished product your users will love<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>How to influence your org for deeper AI investment through early imperfect projects<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Practical techniques for evaluating AI products against business value<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/yemi-ogoundele\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/Yemi-Ogoundele-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/yemi-ogoundele\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYemi Ogound\u00e9l\u00e9\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Staff Data Scientist<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Personio<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Yemi is a Staff Data Scientist at Personio, building AI systems used across the company to drive revenue growth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/yemi-ogoundele\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Yemi&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3201\" data-tax-session-topic=\"career-development,leadership,management\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"director,experienced-manager,new-manager\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Director+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>New Manager<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">The three conflicting &#8216;goods&#8217; of engineering management<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Learn to separate what\u2019s rewarded, what works, and what\u2019s right to lead effectively through shifting business cycles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/rachael-wonnacott\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_800,h_800\/next\/2026\/07\/Rachael-Wonnacott.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/rachael-wonnacott\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRachael Wonnacott\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFidelity International\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHead of Cloud Engineering\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3201\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3201\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>The three conflicting &#039;goods&#039; of engineering management<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Director+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">New Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">Organisations conflate three definitions of &#8220;good&#8221; engineering management: what&#8217;s rewarded, what works, and what&#8217;s &#8216;right&#8217;. Telling them apart builds careers resilient across business cycles, and explains why the AI shift feels so disorienting.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>&#8220;Good management&#8221; has always been a debate in the technical community, but the rise of AI-driven redundancies has put a spotlight on middle management and non-technical leadership. When Big Tech makes dramatic shifts, other organisations are tempted to follow suit, sometimes without considering their individual context.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>AI is forcing a step-change across technical ways of working with cultural implications. Leaders need to reconsider what &#8220;good management&#8221; means, or risk the definition happening to them; changing workflows, team structures, and fundamental expectations about technical leadership. However, this isn&#8217;t the first time&#8230; what counts as good management shifts with business cycles, not because of moral evolution, but because business needs change.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the early 2000s, good managers navigated organisational politics and left engineers alone. In the 2010s when money was cheap, good managers stopped coding to focus on attracting and retaining talent. In the 2020s, as cheap capital dried up, good managers are expected to be hands-on again as organisations flatten for efficiency. Now some suggest software engineering itself may become more like &#8216;agent management&#8217;, looking less like traditional development and more like coordination.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Each era ended up creating a philosophy that explained why these approaches mattered. The 2010s framed delegation as &#8220;empowering engineers is fundamentally good,&#8221; not &#8220;capital is cheap, hire aggressively.&#8221; The 2020s frame technical depth as &#8220;bureaucratic management has made us stale,&#8221; not &#8220;funding ended, cut costs.&#8221; These narratives can become leadership identities rather than operating models, making it harder to see what&#8217;s actually driving change.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The confusion comes from conflating three types of &#8220;good&#8221;:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li><strong>Performative good<\/strong> &#8211; what gets rewarded right now, or by your company.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li><strong>Contextual good<\/strong> &#8211; what works given current reality, often specific to your org.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li><strong>Moral good<\/strong> &#8211; what *you* believe is right, often internalised narratives from your formative era.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The AI shift compounds this challenge. While business cycles are cyclical, technological complexity only accumulates &#8211; Cloud, distributed systems, AI &#8211; each raised the baseline for what understanding systems means.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This talk provides frameworks for distinguishing what&#8217;s actually happening from the stories we tell ourselves, identifying which skills are foundational versus era-specific, and building careers resilient across inevitable future shifts.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-takeaways\">Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>The three-goods framework (what&#8217;s rewarded, what works, what&#8217;s right) reveals where your context and your values are out of sync.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Your management instincts are calibrated to the era you trained in, not necessarily the one you&#8217;re operating in now.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Distinguishing era-laundered habit from genuine conviction requires naming the conditions under which you formed each belief.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Conflicts about &#8220;&#8221;good management&#8221;&#8221; often reflect era mismatches, not skill gaps; your peer may simply be right about a different context.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>How to identify which skills compound across eras, so you invest your development time where it survives context change.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/rachael-wonnacott\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/Rachael-Wonnacott-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/rachael-wonnacott\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRachael Wonnacott\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Head of Cloud Engineering<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Fidelity International<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Rachael Wonnacott is Head of Cloud Engineering at Fidelity International, where she leads platform engineering teams building infrastructure at enterprise scale. She came to engineering management in 2023, directly into the &#8216;efficiency era&#8217;, with no inherited hypergrowth playbook to fall back on. That meant interrogating what &#8220;good management&#8221; actually meant from the start, rather than inheriting a definition from a more forgiving moment. With a decade of technical experience, she had watched the definition shift before she had to live it, and had worked under managers from different eras long enough to see those differences create real friction. A regular speaker at QCon, AWS Summit, and KubeCon.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/rachael-wonnacott\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Rachael&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3187\" data-tax-session-topic=\"communication,hiring\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"director,experienced-manager\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Director+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Hey candidate, please blink if you\u2019re human<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>How to find real human candidates in the hackstack of AI applications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/jennifer-wadella\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_500,h_500\/next\/2026\/07\/1564000114610.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/jennifer-wadella\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJennifer Wadella\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInterplay Learning\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDirector of Frontend Engineering\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3187\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3187\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Hey candidate, please blink if you\u2019re human<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Director+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">How to find real human candidates in the hackstack of AI applications.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I never thought I&#8217;d miss the days of reviewing terribly designed and grammatically lacking resumes for engineers, but in 2026 here I am. AI has offered great efficiencies in hiring &#8211; but it&#8217;s become impossible to differentiate good candidates from bad ones, let alone humans from AI bots. Our hiring pipelines have become AI against AI, and no one is winning. If you&#8217;ve struggled to hire, or even interview, a real person, I invite you to learn from my strategies of how to recruit, filter, and find real people to join your engineering teams. I&#8217;ll present real ATS data of trying to hire a Principal Engineer in 2026, share tips for helping human candidates punch through the application noise, and present strategies on how to monitor changes in patterns of AI verbiage as they evolve. (looking at you, emdash)<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Understanding how AI has impacted the hiring landscape<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Building empathy for candidates trying to find work<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Gaining strategies to filter and interview real candidates<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Resources to give to non-technical recruiters to help with screening<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/jennifer-wadella\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/1564000114610-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/jennifer-wadella\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJennifer Wadella\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Director of Frontend Engineering<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Interplay Learning<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Often described as a force of nature, Jennifer is a visionary leader with a proven track record in management excellence and leading software teams to successful execution of business goals.<\/p>\n<p>With deep roots in frontend engineering Jennifer is still widely regarded as an expert in the Angular space despite her growing tenure in non-coding management roles. Jennifer combines years of experience in developing JavaScript applications through interfacing with users, stakeholders and business executives with a keen eye on the current development landscape &amp; trends to craft strategic vision and lead teams to sustainable growth that contributes to company success.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer is passionate about developer communities, and shares her expertise in frontend development, engineering management, maximizing productivity, and community building across the world as a widely sought-after public speaker. She is also the founder of Kansas City Women in Technology, a non-profit that has taught thousands of women and girls in the Kansas City area to code, and helped women enter tech careers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/jennifer-wadella\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Jennifer&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3206\" data-tax-session-topic=\"culture,leadership,management\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"experienced-manager,staff,tech-lead\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Staff+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Tech Lead<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Burnout: A team failure mode<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Reframe burnout as a systems failure and apply SRE principles to build sustainable, high-performing engineering teams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/diana-nanuti\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_800,h_800\/next\/2026\/07\/Diana-Nanuti.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/diana-nanuti\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDiana Nanuti\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChainalysis\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSenior Software Engineer\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3206\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3206\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Burnout: A team failure mode<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Staff+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Tech Lead<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">This talk reframes burnout as a systems failure and applies SRE principles to design sustainable, high-performing engineering teams.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Is your team\u2019s health as observable as your software?<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>High-performing engineering teams are celebrated for their velocity and &#8220;whatever it takes&#8221; commitment. Yet, these same traits often make them the most vulnerable to a predictable, systemic failure mode: burnout.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This isn\u2019t a lack of individual grit; it\u2019s a design flaw. When we architect software for 99.9% uptime but run our teams at 100% capacity, we create a system with zero fault tolerance. In this talk, we move beyond the superficial &#8220;resiliency&#8221; narrative and analyze team health through the lens of systems engineering.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We will explore how to apply SRE principles (like load shedding, redundancy mechanisms, and leading indicators) to the human element of the stack. You\u2019ll learn why &#8220;idle capacity&#8221; is the secret to low latency, how to make cognitive load visible, and how to build a system where high performance doesn&#8217;t require a &#8220;hero culture&#8221; destined for a catastrophic outage.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-takeaways\">Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Burnout is a systems failure, not a people problem.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>High performance requires slack, not heroics.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Boundaries only work when the system enforces them.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/diana-nanuti\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/Diana-Nanuti-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/diana-nanuti\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDiana Nanuti\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Senior Software Engineer<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Chainalysis<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Diana Nanuti is a Senior Software Engineer at Chainalysis and a 2025 UK Gold Winner at the Women in Tech Global Awards. She specializes in cloud infrastructure and data engineering, building resilient, mission-critical blockchain intelligence systems used by global financial institutions and law enforcement. Her work focuses on secure, high-reliability cloud-native platforms. Beyond engineering, Diana is a speaker and mentor advocating for sustainable high performance, psychological safety, and burnout prevention, helping teams balance delivery with long-term well-being.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/diana-nanuti\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Diana&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3188\" data-tax-session-topic=\"reporting,software-quality,technical-direction,velocity\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"experienced-manager,tech-lead\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Tech Lead<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Where did all your tokens go? Measuring coding agent impact with OpenTelemetry<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Coding agents like Claude Code are reshaping how your team ships software, but how are you evaluating them? This talk is about using OpenTelemetry to measure their real impact on DORA metrics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/annie-freeman\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_928,h_934\/next\/2025\/11\/Annie-Freeman-Profile-Photo-min-Annie-Freeman.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/annie-freeman\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnie Freeman\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCoralogix\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDeveloper Advocate\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3188\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3188\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Where did all your tokens go? Measuring coding agent impact with OpenTelemetry<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Tech Lead<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">Coding agents like Claude Code are reshaping how your team ships software, but how are you evaluating them? This talk is about using OpenTelemetry to measure their real impact on DORA metrics.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I tried out viral Claude Code &#8216;hacks&#8217; and measured how effective they really are.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Agentic coding tools like Claude Code have inserted themselves into the critical path of software development. But we were still evaluating our vibe coding the same way &#8211; on vibes. This doesn\u2019t scale across an organisation.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We realised there\u2019s a hidden layer: your development workflow is now observable. You can measure how software gets built, not just what gets deployed.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>How? These tools aren\u2019t just generating code, they\u2019re emitting OpenTelemetry data like token usage, latency, acceptance rates, and pull request counts. But most teams aren\u2019t capturing it, so they&#8217;re flying blind while these tools shape delivery performance and DORA metrics. By observing your coding agents, you can understand their real impact: where they accelerate delivery, where they introduce risk, and how they affect lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In this talk, I\u2019ll show how we started treating coding agents as production dependencies, not assistants, and share what we learned, what didn\u2019t work, and how we\u2019re getting the most value from this data.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The teams that get the most value from AI won\u2019t be the ones using it the most, they\u2019ll be the ones who can see and optimise what it\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>What data leaders should measure<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>How leaders can use this data to improve delivery performance<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>How to answer questions like: Is AI actually making us faster? Where are we introducing risk? Which tools are worth standardising on?<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/annie-freeman\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"928\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2025\/11\/Annie-Freeman-Profile-Photo-min-Annie-Freeman-300x300.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/annie-freeman\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnie Freeman\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Developer Advocate<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Coralogix<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Annie is a Developer Advocate at Coralogix, where she connects with developers to spark conversations about smarter observability and how to connect deep technical metrics with outcomes that matter. As a Green Software Champion, Annie also advocates for reducing the environmental impact of software and empowering developers to create solutions that are both impactful and sustainable. Originally from New Zealand, she brings a warm, community-focussed approach to her talks and content. Prior to Coralogix, she was a software engineer at Xero. <\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/annie-freeman\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Annie&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3185\" data-tax-session-topic=\"career-development,leadership,management,technical-direction\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"experienced-manager,tech-lead\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Tech Lead<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">The AI-augmented EM: Rebuilding how I lead<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>How one engineering manager used AI to reclaim time, sharpen decisions, and become a more effective leader.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/toni-bakarcic\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_800,h_800\/next\/2026\/07\/1603728572035.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/toni-bakarcic\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tToni Bakar\u010di\u0107\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSofascore\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEngineering Manager\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3185\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3185\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>The AI-augmented EM: Rebuilding how I lead<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Tech Lead<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">A hands-on case study of how one Engineering Manager rebuilt their entire workflow\u2014people development, product strategy, and project planning\u2014by integrating AI tools into daily leadership practice at a hyper-growth sports-tech company.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Two years ago, I was drowning. As the sole leader of a brand-new product at Sofascore\u2014a sports-tech company that had grown from 30 to 250+ employees in 3 years\u2014I was doing market analysis, writing tickets, leading a cross-functional team, reviewing every pull request, and still coding half my week. I needed 60 hours to fit into 40. Something had to break, and I decided it wouldn\u2019t be me.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This talk is the story of what I built instead: an AI-augmented Engineering Manager workflow that fundamentally changed how I lead people, products, and projects.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I\u2019ll share three concrete transformations from my real experience launching Sofascore Fantasy (from a Croatian alpha test with 20K users to a global product in 2 years) and building out our NHL product coverage.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>First step: People. How I moved from reviewing every line of code to coaching engineers through structured career plans\u2014including my current 18-month plan to grow an introverted but technically brilliant engineer into a senior role. I\u2019ll share how four engineers I hired as students from our Android Academy are now strong mid-to-senior contributors after years of intentional mentorship.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Second step: Product. How I used Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to conduct competitive analysis, map our data provider\u2019s API coverage, run market-fit research, and cross-reference it with real UX research\u2014giving me the clarity to make better prioritisation decisions, faster.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Third step: Projects. How I learned to draw the line on my own responsibilities, delegate with precision, and advocate for the hires that would make my team scalable\u2014moving from \u201cI do everything\u201d to \u201cI enable everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This is not a talk about AI replacing managers. It\u2019s about a manager who was stretched to the limit, used AI to reclaim clarity, and became a better leader because of it. Attendees will leave with a practical, honest playbook they can start applying immediately.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Identify which parts of your EM workflow (research, planning, analysis) AI can meaningfully accelerate\u2014and which it cannot replace (coaching, judgment, trust-building).<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Apply a practical framework for drawing the line on your personal responsibilities so you can delegate with clarity instead of guilt.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Use AI tools to conduct competitive analysis, API mapping, and market research that would otherwise take weeks\u2014compressing your strategic decision-making cycle.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Build structured, long-term career development plans for engineers at different stages\u2014from academy hires to senior promotions\u2014using project-based coaching.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Recognise the early warning signs of an unsustainable leadership workload and take concrete steps to redesign your role before burnout hits.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/toni-bakarcic\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/1603728572035-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/toni-bakarcic\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tToni Bakar\u010di\u0107\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Engineering Manager<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Sofascore<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Toni Bakar\u010di\u0107 is an Engineering Manager at Sofascore, where he leads a cross-functional team building Fantasy and NHL products used by fans worldwide. Over a decade in IT and eight years at the company, he navigated its growth from 30 to over 350 employees\u2014transitioning from Android Engineer to strategic leader responsible for product launches, team development, and AI-augmented management workflows. For three years, Toni designed and led Sofascore\u2019s Android Academy, hiring and mentoring junior engineers who remain core contributors today. He is passionate about using technical depth and modern tooling to drive organisational clarity and sustainable team growth.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/toni-bakarcic\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Toni&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3207\" data-tax-session-topic=\"career-development,communication,leadership,management\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"experienced-manager,staff,tech-lead\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Staff+<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>Tech Lead<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">When learning goes quiet: Mentoring in the age of AI<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Practical ways to distinguish AI-assisted productivity from genuine understanding and mentor engineers toward lasting competence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/becki-wordsworth\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_450,h_450\/next\/2026\/07\/Becki-Wordsworth.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/becki-wordsworth\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecki Wordsworth\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMeela\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCTO\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3207\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3207\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>When learning goes quiet: Mentoring in the age of AI<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Staff+<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Tech Lead<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">AI helps engineers ship faster, but makes learning harder to see. How do leaders mentor, assess growth, and build real competence when output no longer reflects understanding?<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>AI is creating a dangerous illusion: developers are shipping faster while learning less visibly. We\u2019ve long relied on signals like questions, iteration, independence, and output to understand how engineers grow. But in an AI-assisted world, many of those signals are disappearing.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As someone leading teams using AI daily, I\u2019ve seen this shift go both brilliantly and badly.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Some engineers accelerate their learning dramatically using AI to explore unfamiliar systems, test ideas, and build confidence faster than ever. Others become highly productive while quietly accumulating gaps in understanding that only surface later: in fragile decisions, unclear reasoning, or an inability to debug when things go wrong.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The challenge for engineering leaders is that the learning process itself is becoming harder to see.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Where junior developers once asked questions throughout their work, exposing their thinking as they went, managers now increasingly see only the final output: a polished pull request. When productivity no longer reflects competence, how do we know whether someone is growing or just generating?<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This talk explores how AI is reshaping developer learning and what engineering leaders need to do differently in response.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Together we\u2019ll explore questions many leaders are already wrestling with:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>When engineers stop asking questions, what signal replaces them?<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>How do you distinguish AI-assisted output from real understanding?<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>What new blind spots appear when managers only see the pull request?<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>How do you coach deeper engineering judgment, not just faster delivery?<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>And how do you create teams where learning stays visible?<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Leaders will leave with practical approaches for mentoring, feedback, and capability-building in AI-enabled teams, helping engineers develop real competence, not just AI-assisted productivity.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-takeaways\">Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Recognise why traditional signals of engineering growth become less reliable in AI-assisted teams.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Learn how to distinguish AI-assisted productivity from genuine understanding and capability.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Identify new ways to make learning visible when managers only see the pull request.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Adapt mentoring and feedback to build engineering judgment, not just faster delivery.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Spot the warning signs of hidden capability gaps before they become team risks.&#8221;<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/becki-wordsworth\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/Becki-Wordsworth-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/becki-wordsworth\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecki Wordsworth\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">CTO<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Meela<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Becki Wordsworth is a Software Developer and Engineering Leader who is passionate about building high-performing teams and helping engineers grow. With experience leading teams through periods of rapid technical change, she focuses on mentoring, capability-building, and creating environments where people can do their best work. Becki is particularly interested in how AI is reshaping software development, engineering culture, and the way developers learn &#8211; helping leaders adapt without losing sight of deep technical understanding and long-term growth.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/becki-wordsworth\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Becki&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3204\" data-tax-session-topic=\"culture,leadership,management\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"experienced-manager,new-manager\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><span>\u2022<\/span><span>New Manager<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">How to actually change team culture<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Discover a practical framework for reshaping team culture through intentional changes to people, processes, and everyday interactions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/serg-kravchenko\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_800,h_800\/next\/2026\/07\/Serg-Kravchenko.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/serg-kravchenko\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSerg Kravchenko\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBloomberg\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEngineering Team Leader\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3204\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3204\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>How to actually change team culture<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">New Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">Culture can&#8217;t be mandated &#8211; it emerges from repeated interactions. This talk shares an experience-based framework for deliberately reshaping team dynamics through intentional changes related to people, processes, and behaviours.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Team culture is one of the most cited \u2013 yet least clearly understood \u2013 levers in engineering leadership. Everyone wants to change it; few have a clear model for how.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This talk starts with a simple, but powerful, reframe: culture is not values on a wall or a collection of team rituals. It is a pattern of repeated interactions that emerges from the interplay of people and processes. You can&#8217;t mandate or declare it with a slogan &#8211; but you can be deliberate about changing it.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Using a graph analogy, we model a team as a network, where people and processes are nodes, interactions are edges, and trust is the weight on those edges. This turns culture change from a vague aspiration into a set of concrete interventions:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>introduce structural nodes (new processes and people that create desired interactions)<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>remove or reshape high-impact nodes (blockers, misalignments, or overloaded connectors)<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>reinforce edges (through conscious choices about what to praise, tolerate, challenge, or ignore).<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This isn&#8217;t theory. Over three years leading an engineering team responsible for one of Bloomberg\u2019s core products, I applied this framework systematically to reshape a team facing common scaling challenges: context with fragmented ownership, uneven collaboration patterns, and a slowed hiring pipeline. Through deliberate changes to both team composition and process design, we reshaped interaction patterns across the group.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>You\u2019ll leave with:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>a mental model for diagnosing your team\u2019s culture<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>a practical, repeatable framework for influencing it<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>and a realistic understanding that culture change is non-linear \u2013 patience matters as much as intent.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The magic formula: <strong>Values \u2192 Structure \u2192 Repeated Interactions \u2192 Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-takeaways\">Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Culture is shaped by repeated interactions, not declarations. It&#8217;s a function of both people and processes \u2013 change either, and you change the culture.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Design for behaviour, don\u2019t ask for it. You can\u2019t tell people to collaborate more \u2013 but you can create an environment where collaboration is the default path.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Leaders develop culture through everyday decisions. What you praise, tolerate, challenge, or ignore defines what\u2019s truly expected.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Culture change is non-linear. Progress comes in bursts and plateaus \u2013 expect doubt during flat periods, and plan for it.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/serg-kravchenko\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/Serg-Kravchenko-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/serg-kravchenko\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSerg Kravchenko\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Engineering Team Leader<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Bloomberg<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Serg is an Engineering Team Leader at Bloomberg, where he leads the team behind one of the Bloomberg Terminal&#8217;s core products. With six years in engineering leadership &#8211; which began during the COVID lockdown &#8211; he grew into the role from a software engineering background, and discovered an interest in people and teams through the interviewing and hiring process. He holds bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in computer science. Outside of work, Serg keeps firmly away from keyboard: knitting, sailing, swimming, stargazing, and reading.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/serg-kravchenko\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Serg&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3189\" data-tax-session-topic=\"leadership,management,technical-direction,velocity\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"experienced-manager\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span>Experienced Manager<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Leading deeper with AI<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>How AI lets senior engineering managers lead deeper into the technical core of their teams, and into the customer&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/jasmine-james-fuller\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_800,h_800\/next\/2026\/07\/1764772614887.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/jasmine-james-fuller\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJasmine James Fuller\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__company contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__employer has-separator-dot--before\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBlock\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSenior Engineering Manager, Hardware Developer Platform + Docs Eng\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3189\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3189\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Leading deeper with AI<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-suitable-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>This session is suitable for:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-level\">Experienced Manager<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst has-large-font-size\">How AI lets senior engineering managers lead deeper into the technical core of their teams, and into the customer&#8217;s seat<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The discourse around AI and engineering management is mostly panic: managers drifting back to coding, leadership work leaking out, the productivity story breaking down at the manager layer. I want to argue the opposite.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I run a portfolio of teams whose technical core I have, historically, never quite been able to reach: hardware test infrastructure, developer tooling, documentation systems. The cost of getting deep enough to be useful in those domains used to be prohibitive for a senior manager. That cost has collapsed.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I\u2019m diving into code and architecture I would have delegated past last year. I\u2019m prototyping inside areas of deep team expertise I previously had to take on faith. I\u2019m picking up customer-side work end-to-end and becoming the user of the thing my team ships, because the barrier to understanding an unfamiliar domain has dropped to near zero.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This is not a leader regressing to IC. It is a leader gaining access to two zones the role was always implicitly excluded from: depth inside the team\u2019s technical core, and the customer\u2019s seat. Both are high-leverage and\u2026 both are easy to do badly.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This talk is what I\u2019ve learned about leading deeper without leaking the rest: where manager-coding accelerates team value, where it displaces it, and what changes when \u201cI can be in the weeds with you\u201d is the energy leaders bring to their team.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It is a defense of the manager who codes, and a sharper rule for what they should code on.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>The two zones of high-leverage work that AI now makes accessible to senior engineering managers, and why delegation alone could never reach them. <\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>A practical rule for deciding when manager coding compounds team value versus when it quietly displaces it, particularly in platform, infrastructure, and tooling teams (while still applying to product engineering organizations). <\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>How being able to say, &#8220;I can be in the weeds with you,&#8221; changes leadership conversations, and what leaders should invest in to remain technically credible. <\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Where the line between &#8220;delegate&#8221; and &#8220;engage with&#8221; has shifted now that AI has lowered the cost of diving deep into technical work.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/jasmine-james-fuller\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2026\/07\/1764772614887-300x300.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/jasmine-james-fuller\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJasmine James Fuller\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Senior Engineering Manager, Hardware Developer Platform + Docs Eng<\/span><span class=\"session-contributor__company has-separator-dot--before has-small-font-size\">Block<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Jasmine James is a Senior Engineering Manager at Block, where she leads developer-experience teams across hardware test infrastructure, developer tooling, and documentation engineering. She previously led Engineering Effectiveness at Twitter and co-chaired KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA,and EU. She spoke at LeadDev London 2022, joined the LeadDev Advisory Board in 2024, and writes and speaks about what senior engineering managers actually do, versus what they&#8217;re often expected to pretend they do.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/jasmine-james-fuller\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Jasmine &#8216;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff326e; --grid-column: 1;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"939\" data-tax-session-topic=\"\" data-tax-session-type=\"talk\" data-tax-session-level=\"\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">End of day wrap-up<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Closing thoughts from the host, Pat Kua.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__contributor contributor-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributor_image contributor-credit__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/pat-kua\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clip-right-corner-small\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_limit,w_400,h_400\/next\/2020\/07\/Pat-Kua.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details--primary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__name contributor-credit__name\" href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/pat-kua\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPat Kua\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor-credit__details contributor-credit__details--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ld-card__contributors__item__role contributor-credit__item contributor-credit__job-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeasoned Technology Leader &amp; Coach\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"939\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"939\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff326e;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Talk<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>End of day wrap-up<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t17:40 &#8211; 17:44\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"className\":\"is-style-standfirst\"} -->\n<p class=\"is-style-standfirst\">Closing thoughts from the host, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/community\/pat-kua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pat Kua<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class='ld-card__contributors__item session-contributor'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/pat-kua\/\" class=\"session-contributor__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" class=\"clip-right-corner ld-card__contributors__item__image\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/leaddev\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto:best\/dpr_auto\/c_lfill,h_300,w_300,g_faces\/next\/2020\/07\/Pat-Kua-300x300.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__details\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__label has-small-font-size\">FEATURING<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"session-contributor__name has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/pat-kua\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPat Kua\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"session-contributor__role  has-small-font-size\">Seasoned Technology Leader &amp; Coach<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-contributor__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Pat Kua is a seasoned technology leader with 20+ years of experience. His current mission is accelerating the growth of technical leaders through coaching, mentoring and training. He has had many years of hands-on experience, leading, managing and improving complex organisations and software systems as the <strong>CTO<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Chief Scientist<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/n26.com\/\">N26<\/a>\u00a0(Berlin, Germany) and as a\u00a0<strong>Technical Principal Consultant<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtworks.com\/\">ThoughtWorks<\/a>. He is a frequent keynote and conference speaker, author of three books including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thekua.io\/retrobook\">The Retrospective Handbook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thekua.io\/twtl\">Talking with Tech Leads<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thekua.io\/evolarch\">Building Evolutionary Architectures<\/a>\u00a0and runs the free popular newsletter for leaders in tech, \u201cLevel Up\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/levelup.patkua.com\/\">http:\/\/levelup.patkua.com<\/a>) and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/techlead.academy\/\">Tech Lead Academy<\/a>, offering online training for technical leaders. You can find him online on Twitter as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patkua\">@patkua<\/a>\u00a0or running his very popular \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patkua.com\/shortcut-to-tech-leadership\/\">Shortcut to Tech Leadership<\/a>\u201d workshop.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leaddev.com\/contributor\/pat-kua\/\" class=\"session-contributor__profile-link\">View Pat&#8217;s profile<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div style=\"--grid-column: 2; --grid-row: 1;\" class=\"wp-block-pbc-agenda-single-track\">\n\t\t\n\n\n<div style=\"--grid-column: 2; --header-background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--dark-blue-indigo); padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);\" class=\"ld-agenda__heading wp-block-pbc-agenda-track-heading has-background has-dark-blue-indigo-background-color\">\n<div class=\"heading-background\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"heading-background-inner clip-right-corner-small\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-base-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e4145d6569857abc1bd5336d86a4e20c\" id=\"h-hallway-activities\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:0.04em;line-height:1.1;text-transform:uppercase\">Hallway activities<\/h5>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #1d67ea; --grid-column: 2;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"2132\" data-tax-session-topic=\"\" data-tax-session-type=\"office-hours\" data-tax-session-level=\"\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Office Hours<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Meet the speakers<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"ld-card__contributors\">\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"2132\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"2132\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #1d67ea;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Office Hours<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Meet the speakers<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If you\u2019re inspired by a talk, want to learn more, or just want to chat about it with other folks, head to our <strong>Office Hours<\/strong> area where our speakers will be waiting for you.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"session-contributors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #00beff; --grid-column: 2;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"1504\" data-tax-session-topic=\"\" data-tax-session-type=\"table-talks\" data-tax-session-level=\"\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Table Talks<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Table Talks<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"1504\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"1504\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #00beff;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Table Talks<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Table Talks<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There\u2019s never a single silver bullet for any problem and often you\u2019ll need to combine the ideas of multiple people to find the perfect solution for your team. We\u2019ll be discussing some core issues\u00a0in the Table Talk sessions, hosted by a group of engineering leaders who are on hand to provide their perspectives and help guide the conversation. You can dip in and out of discussions depending on what interests you the most.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #7864ff; --grid-column: 2;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3226\" data-tax-session-topic=\"\" data-tax-session-type=\"community-representation-groups\" data-tax-session-level=\"\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Community Representation Groups<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Community Representation Groups<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Connect with folks over shared experiences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3226\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3226\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #7864ff;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Community Representation Groups<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Community Representation Groups<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Connect with folks over shared experiences<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Everyone\u2019s journey into leadership is tough, but folks who are underrepresented in tech often face their own unique set of challenges. And that can lead to people feeling isolated in their experiences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Come to the community representation groups, where you\u2019ll be able to connect with folks who might have similar backgrounds and experiences to you, and where you\u2019ll be able to build a peer network for support throughout your journey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #1d67ea; --grid-column: 2;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3225\" data-tax-session-topic=\"\" data-tax-session-type=\"next-steps-ama\" data-tax-session-level=\"\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Next Steps AMA<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Next Steps AMAs<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Find out the secrets to success in your next career move.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3225\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3225\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #1d67ea;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Next Steps AMA<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Next Steps AMAs<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Find out the secrets to success in your next career move<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A huge part of LeadDev is helping people advance in their career &#8211; but understanding the expectations of the role above you isn\u2019t always easy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As such, Next Steps AMAs bring together groups of leaders who can help answer the fundamental questions that folks have relating to their role; how do I advocate for my promotion, what will my new responsibilities be; how will I know that I\u2019m successful?<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #00dcbe; --grid-column: 2;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3228\" data-tax-session-topic=\"\" data-tax-session-type=\"industry-interest-groups\" data-tax-session-level=\"\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Industry Interest Groups<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Industry Interest Groups<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Connect with folks over shared experiences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3228\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3228\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #00dcbe;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Industry Interest Groups<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Industry Interest Groups<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Connect with folks over shared experiences<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Building great software comes with unique challenges in every industry and often, the best insights come from others who are in the same boat. Join our relaxed sessions where you can meet peers working in similar domains to share ideas, collaborate on challenges and exchange solutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #ff6a53; --grid-column: 2;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3230\" data-tax-session-topic=\"\" data-tax-session-type=\"demos\" data-tax-session-level=\"\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">Demos<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">Demos<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Explore solutions for your technical issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3230\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3230\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #ff6a53;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">Demos<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>Demos<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Explore solutions for your technical issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Make the most of your breaks with our demo stage sessions, where leading tech providers will showcase their innovative solutions in informative and concise presentations. Each carefully curated 10 minute demo will show the very best engineering solutions available.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<hr>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/dialog>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--card-border-color: #00dcbe; --grid-column: 2;\" class=\"ld-card ld-card--has-time ld-card--event-session is-style-ld-card--padded wp-block-pbc-card\" data-filter-id=\"3232\" data-tax-session-topic=\"\" data-tax-session-type=\"directorplus-roundtables\" data-tax-session-level=\"\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__session-tags\">\n\t<p class=\"session-type\">DirectorPlus Roundtables<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"session-levels\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"ld-card__title wp-block-pbc-card-title\"><a  target=\"\"  class=\"ld-card__title-link\">DirectorPlus Roundtables<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__excerpt wp-block-pbc-card-excerpt\"><p>Tackle tough leadership challenges with your peers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ld-card__more\">\n\t<a class=\"modal-trigger\" data-modal=\"3232\"><span>+<\/span> More<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<dialog id=\"3232\" class=\"ld-card__modal\" closedby=\"any\" popover>\n\t\t<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"--session-type-colour: #00dcbe;\">\n\t\t<p class=\"session-type\">DirectorPlus Roundtables<\/p>\n\t\t<button class=\"modal-close\" autofocus>close<\/button>\n\t\t<h2>DirectorPlus Roundtables<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"session-time\">\n\t\t\t\t12:00 &#8211; 12:00\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ld-card__modal__post-content post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Tackle tough leadership challenges with your peers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>An essential part of the conference experience is networking and learning new things. 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