David
Yee
VP of Engineering
The New York Times
Confirmed line-up and activities
8.00 AM
WELCOME
Registration and refreshments
Welcome to LeadDev New York 2024
9.30 AM
WELCOME
Welcome to LeadDev New York 2024
A welcome to LeadDev New York 2024 from the host David Yee.
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9.50 AM
The scrappy/scale mindset: A framework for sustainable engineering leadership
In this talk, Melissa will unpack the two working modes common to product engineering teams, explore what teams in each mode need from a technical leader, and learn how to adapt our own leadership style based on the context our team is in.
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10.20 AM
Dates and deadlines...it's complicated
In this talk, Sara Hicks will explore several communication habits that can improve communication and knowledge sharing within your team around dates and deadlines.
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10.30 AM
Beyond the headlines: Engineering leadership in 2024
In this talk, LeadDev's editor-in-chief, Scott Carey, goes beyond the headlines using data from our 2024 Engineering Leadership report, where we asked 1,100 engineering leaders how they are feeling about the industry and their roles within it.
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10.45 AM
Becoming the leader you can be, in a changed technology industry
Over the last years, the tech industry, companies, and many of us leaders have been going through big changes: From strategy shifts and layoffs to changes in the workforce, company structures, and ways of working, to companies racing to “do something about AI.” Adapting to these changes and turning them into reality has kept many engineering leaders incredibly busy, to the point of being overworked, with not much space to reflect and make sense of it all. In this talk, Lena creates space for exactly that, by inviting you to step out of your busy day-to-day.
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11:05
Refreshments
Network, learn and explore during every break
Chat to every speaker
Office hours is your opportunity to connect face-to-face, ask questions and find out more.
Complete your "Voltron Quest"
Inspired by Lara Hogan’s Manager Voltron, build your personal network at LeadDev New York.
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Table talks
Join facilitated group conversations with other leaders on:
How can I tell if my team is doing well?
Table talks
Join facilitated group conversations with other leaders on:
How do you build an effective, human-centred on-call process?
Demo stage
Discover solutions for your technical issues:
- Push your metrics all the way left
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Demo stage
Discover solutions for your technical issues:
- On-call for humans
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11.50 AM
Using clinical science to effectively tackle code review anxiety
In this talk, Carol will share the story of my empirical research conducted with software engineers and developers across industries experiencing code review anxiety.
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12.20 PM
Drive product gaps as an engineering leader
In this talk, Emily Thomas will discuss approachable ways an engineering leader can influence product development without stepping on toes.
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12.30 PM
Safety and Belonging - A Ritual to Jumpstart Psychological Safety
Iris, engineering manager at Riot Games, will talk about how a ritual of safety and belonging brought her team closer together after "the Kotaku article" broke and trust was at an all-time low. Iris will talk about how she convinced new teams and reluctant engineers to adopt the ritual as an IC, and how she instituted and spread it across Riot Games further as a manager. This talk will give you a template for how to rebuild trust in your teams and get them working towards the same goal.
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12.45 PM
Self-Awareness for Managers: Avoiding the antipatterns that block your team
This talk by Yaphi Berhanu will cover concrete strategies you can use today to improve your self-awareness as a manager.
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1.10 PM
Lunch
Network, learn and explore during every break
Chat to every speaker
Office hours is your opportunity to connect face-to-face, ask questions and find out more.
Featuring:
Career next steps Q&A
- Tech Leads
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Table talks
Join facilitated group conversations with other leaders on:
- How do you manage your team's workload spikes?
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Table talks
Join facilitated group conversations with other leaders on:
- How to cultivate security excellence as part of your engineering culture.
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Community representation group
Connect with other leaders with similar backgrounds and experiences to you, and build a peer network for support throughout your leadership journey.
- Women leaders
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Demo stage
Discover solutions for your technical issues:
- Enhancing the developer experience with an integrated software delivery platform
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Demo stage
Discover solutions for your technical issues:
- Teaching old code new tricks: Modernizing legacy with Swimm
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Speed coaching
Watch or participate in free 1:1 coaching
Coaches:
Engineering in action
Hear how real engineering teams turn ideas into practice. Learn about the challenges they faced, the issues they worried about, the mistakes they made, and how they eventually succeeded.
- How we took control of our incident response
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2.35 PM
A nudge in the right direction: How to give just enough help
In this talk, Jason will share what they've learned from the experts in hinting and some examples of how they've applied these techniques one-on-one and in designing better processes.
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2.50 PM
Spin it up, shut it down
Join Alicia and Martha as they share their insights on creating, maintaining, and gracefully shutting down teams. Learn how to set up new teams for success, keep them flexible and resilient, and understand the importance of knowing when it’s time to disband to focus on what’s most impactful.
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3.20 PM
Cultivating great teams: Managing out with kindness
In this talk, Marty Haught will go over a framework on how to approach managing out humanely. We'll start with the foundation of setting expectations, providing direct feedback, and working with your report to bring out their best.
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3.30 PM
Managing expectations: Lessons from making large-scale platform changes
Datadog decided in 2018 to migrate all of its infrastructure to Kubernetes. And while it was a daunting technical undertaking, dealing with people and process was equally hard. Seshendra will share lessons learned from this large-scale migration, including how 2000+ engineers, across 250+ different teams made tens of thousands of changes per week to 3,000+ different workloads. He’ll give tactical tips about how to set up a project for success - and how to land it effectively.
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4.00 PM
Refreshments
Network, learn and explore during every break
Chat to every speaker
Office hours is your opportunity to connect face-to-face, ask questions and find out more.
Featuring:
Career next steps Q&A
- Engineering Managers
Featuring:
Table talks
Join facilitated group conversations with other leaders on:
- How do you embed observability into your engineering culture?
Featuring:
Community representation group
Connect with other leaders with similar backgrounds and experiences to you, and build a peer network for support throughout your leadership journey.
- Asian leaders
Featuring:
Table talks
Join facilitated group conversations with other leaders on:
- How do you foster collaboration within and between teams?
Featuring:
Community representation group
Connect with other leaders with similar backgrounds and experiences to you, and build a peer network for support throughout your leadership journey.
- Black leaders
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Demo stage
Discover solutions for your technical issues:
- How to effectively use AI to manage engineering backlog
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Demo stage
Discover solutions for your technical issues:
- Securing your applications with Auth0
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Speed coaching
Watch or participate in free 1:1 coaching
Coaches
4.40 PM
Making do: Scaling expertise on teams you can't grow
Mica will share her experiences of working on an astonishingly small team on some of the highest-stake problems anyone could throw a computer at. She’ll talk about how it inspired a plan to create a new, flexible-model team at Slack to continuously, and creatively deliver top priorities. She will highlight the can’t-miss key points of culture-building in a tumultuous time, examine the challenges faced in adjusting to this new way of working, and go over what it means to make a flexible-model team sustainable in the long run.
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5.10 PM
Retaining Your People After the Tech Boom
The tech industry has been facing new challenges: an economic downturn after a huge surge in hiring, inflation, and higher interest rates. This means that many tech companies are shifting their focus from growth to profitability. This talk focuses on how to retain your people by leading with empathy, building trust, and working with your people to understand their core motivators.
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5.20 PM
Ethics in the age of AI: Strategies for mitigation and their historical context
With the rapid, widespread adoption of generative AI, discussions of ethics in technology are gaining steam - and not just within engineering, but beyond in the mainstream news. And where AI has enabled incredible breakthroughs - it’s also actively caused harm, sometimes to the people it aims to protect. Christina will take a look at the imperative questions we must have around AI as engineers, looking at some of the historic harms caused by technology and how we can work to ensure that we don’t replicate them in the age of AI.
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5.50 PM
10 min
CLOSE
LeadDev New York 2024 Wrap-up
Closing session
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6.00 PM
Networking mixer
Spend some time with other attendees after Day 1 of the conference.
Chat to every speaker
Office hours is your opportunity to connect face-to-face, ask questions and find out more.
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Become a LeadDev contributor AMA
Hear from the LeadDev content team on the secrets of crafting winning speaker submissions, effective article proposals and how to get involved with the community.
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