MAIN TRACK
Arrival & Coffee
Steering the ship: Mistakes made and lessons learned
Candid insights into the biggest misconceptions about leadership and what truly makes a team exceptional.
No one left behind: Inside the largest domain migration in history
A look at the industry’s most complex domain transfer, managed under pressure without losing a single team member.
Morning Break
Beyond the code: Leading engineering teams in the GenAI era
Explore how engineering leaders can guide teams through GenAI’s rise by focusing on the critical human work AI can’t replace.
Supply chain: Data infrastructure pipeline
Discover how modern data pipelines transform supply chains, enabling real-time insights, improving data quality, and optimizing logistics through advanced analytics.
How to self sabotage your organisation through AI
Discover the common pitfalls of integrating AI into your codebase that can degrade quality and derail deployments. Learn practical, measurement-driven strategies to avoid these traps and ensure AI enhances, rather than undermines, your engineering success.
Lunch
The accidental AI revolution: How an engineering tool won over the entire company
Learn how an internal AI tool sparked unexpected company-wide adoption and became a catalyst for cross-functional productivity gains.
Tech lead to manager – a blueprint for successful transition
Navigate the shift from tech lead to manager with a clear roadmap, practical tools, and strategies for early success.
Afternoon Break
The uncomfortable middle: Growing as a Director in uncertain times
Grow as a leader of leaders through reorgs, role shifts, and team tensions in the messy middle of uncertainty.
How systems, power, and organizational design shape developer experience
Talk details coming soon
Networking Mixer
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Voltron Quest
Inspired by Lara Hogan’s Manager Voltron, build your personal network at LeadDev New York.
How do you enable greater productivity and improved experience across your whole developer org?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
How can you solve the problem of technical debt when you’re scaling up?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Meet leaders from similar domains
Join our relaxed sessions where you can meet peers working in similar domains to share ideas, collaborate on challenges and exchange solutions.
How can you facilitate valuable post-incident reviews?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
Tackling the role of Tech Lead
Dedicated sessions on how to take the next step in your career for tackling the role of a Tech Lead
How can you increase developer adoption of AI coding tools?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
My team needs to be given time to fix technical debt but my leadership team won’t listen. What can I do?
Trade tactics for tackling everyday challenges.
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
How can you ensure that continuous learning is central to your engineering culture?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
What the hell is a Principal Software Engineer anyway?
Trade tactics for tackling everyday challenges.
How can you measure developer productivity without damaging morale?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
WORKSHOP TRACK
Building a metrics-driven team
Drawing on insights from Accelerate, Jez Humble explores how to use data to drive improvement across your engineering teams. You’ll learn the key metrics that predict success, the principles behind them, and how to create a transparent, aligned, and high-performing organisation.
Decision-making for engineering leaders: A/B test your way to clarity
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to treat big decisions like experiments. Discover practical tools to break down high-stakes choices into small, testable steps—so you can lead with clarity, reduce overthinking, and make progress with confidence.
Team building in the age of AI
AI is transforming how engineering teams work—and how leaders lead. In this interactive workshop, you’ll build your team’s AI charter, rethink your role as a leader, and learn how to grow the high-value human skills your team needs to thrive in an AI-powered world.
MAIN TRACK
Arrival & Coffee
Predictable is better than fast
Explore how prioritizing predictability over speed leads to more sustainable progress, stronger teams, and faster outcomes in the long run.
Finding the spark: Unlocking growth potential on your team
Learn a practical framework to spot different growth needs on your team and support each person’s development effectively.
Pay your (conflict) debts on time
Learn how unresolved conflict quietly erodes teams and how to tackle it early with clear and constructive leadership practices.
Morning Break
From friction to function: Strengthening the product-engineering alliance
Learn practical strategies to turn product-engineering friction into alignment through better prioritization, communication, and shared decision-making.
From hallucinations to hard truths: Real lessons in production AI
Learn crucial lessons from a year of scaling AI in FinTech: what broke, what burned, and what we’d do differently.
All of this has happened before
A mother-daughter conversation revealing how past tech trends mirror today’s AI hype and what we can learn.
Lunch
Building ethical AI: Transparency, bias mitigation, and trust
Explore how to build trustworthy, human-centered AI by prioritizing transparency and effectively mitigating bias, discrimination, and ethical risks.
Leading without committing: Managing teams outside your tech stack
Learn how to lead engineering teams outside your expertise by building trust, enabling growth, and empowering without micromanaging.
Interviewing in the age of AI
Rethink technical interviews for an AI-enhanced world by focusing on timeless engineering skills and real-world problem solving.
Afternoon Break
Estimation is a waste of time
Learn to replace inaccurate estimates with data-driven probabilistic forecasting, dramatically improving delivery predictability and stakeholder relationships.
No one needs me (and that’s the point)
Learn how to build autonomous teams that thrive without you, so you can focus on higher-impact leadership work.
Leading sustainably when everything is on fire
Learn how to lead effectively in chaos by building organizational capital and adapting your mindset for tough times.
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Voltron Quest
Inspired by Lara Hogan’s Manager Voltron, build your personal network at LeadDev New York.
How to find the balance between AI innovation and mitigating risk?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
How can leaders create a culture of experimentation within their teams?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Making the leap to Engineering Manager
Dedicated sessions on how to take the next step in your career for making the leap to Engineering Manager.
How can I speed up my team’s deployment times?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
How to manage managers?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Meet leaders from similar domains
Join our relaxed sessions where you can meet peers working in similar domains to share ideas, collaborate on challenges and exchange solutions.
How can you maintain delivery velocity on cross-team projects?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
Talented engineers on my team want to advance their careers, but there aren’t opportunities available for advancement. How can I keep them motivated?
Trade tactics for tackling everyday challenges.
How can I prevent burnout for myself and my team?
Join facilitated conversations and dive into key issues facing engineering teams.
WORKSHOP TRACK
Building a metrics-driven team
Drawing on insights from Accelerate, Jez Humble explores how to use data to drive improvement across your engineering teams. You’ll learn the key metrics that predict success, the principles behind them, and how to create a transparent, aligned, and high-performing organisation.
Decision-making for engineering leaders: A/B test your way to clarity
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to treat big decisions like experiments. Discover practical tools to break down high-stakes choices into small, testable steps—so you can lead with clarity, reduce overthinking, and make progress with confidence.
Team building in the age of AI
AI is transforming how engineering teams work—and how leaders lead. In this interactive workshop, you’ll build your team’s AI charter, rethink your role as a leader, and learn how to grow the high-value human skills your team needs to thrive in an AI-powered world.