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LeadDev London 2024 videos
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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem
Do you feel like you’re constantly surrounded by managers who exhibit toxic behaviours and “shred their team’s confidence” (actual quote)? Diverse and inclusive policies may not be enough to stop these individuals from causing harm.
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Managing engineering teams in the era of AI
Drawing from my experience as Engineering Manager at incident.io, where I was part of a product team that built the company’s first AI-powered features, this talk combines personal insights and broader leadership strategies.
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
Videos from previous years of LeadDev London
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Engineering a product for diverse markets
Grygoriy Gonchar shares his experience in building highly localized products in fintech, e-commerce, and classified industries.
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Sorry… you go ahead. The art of making space and claiming space in meetings
Jemma Bolland talks through the things you can do, whether you are running or participating in a meeting, to balance things out and make space for more perspectives and ideas.
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People building: Career planning for your direct reports
Daniel Burke shares his playbook on career planning for your direct reports.
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Building the perfect asynchronous meeting
Alexandra Sunderland examines examples of these types of events, and you’ll leave understanding how to build every aspect of the perfect asynchronous meeting.
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Why mentoring selfishly is better than selflessly
John Apostol talks about how his mentorship style has changed in the past three years. Focusing on how his own growth has been a boon in growing developers in his care.
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Why we are writing a monolith, not a microservice
Supriya Srivatsa explains why at Atlassian, they decided to break down a mammoth monolith, why they chose to not go down the microservice route, and the what and whys of the new, shiny modular monolith they are working on!
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Keeping your codebase fun at scale
Raul Chedrese teaches techniques for creating a compelling technical vision, sharing that vision, and creating buy-in as well as developing an incremental plan for reaching that vision.
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Taking the 737 to the MAX!
Nick Means uses the power of systems thinking to dig into how things could’ve gone so wrong (and learn to better see and understand the systems we interact with every day).
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Outputs vs Outcomes: Driving and defining quality in software development
Gabby Llanillo covers the value she added as a quality owner on her own game development teams and how aligning with her team early in the process to define what “good” looks like, significantly improves both the quality of the games and the relationship with the players.
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Navigating the Chaos of Scaling
Vitor Reis looks at the difference between high-performing versus average and low-performing teams and how it is vital for success in a fast-paced environment. For this to be sustainable in the long run, you need to have the right people on the job.
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Constructing a framework for a differentiated customer experience.
Jasmine James examines key ways personas such as a leader serving external customers, internal customers and a team can establish processes, tools and capabilities that unlock a next level experience leading to more impactful customer strategies, a better employee experience and improved team velocity, to name a few.