Upcoming events
Find fresh ideas, useful conversations and new connections.
London • June 28 & 29, 2027
Learn what’s working for engineering leaders right now.
New York • September 8 & 9, 2027
Get fresh perspective on the challenges you’re facing.
Berlin • November 4 & 5, 2027
Close the gap between where you are and need to be.
Upcoming online panels
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In partnership with ChainguardHow to take the pressure off code review
November 5, 2026 • 1.00PMBuild safe foundations into the pipeline so reviewers don’t have to be the safety net.
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In partnership with Cortex® XCOR™ by Palo Alto NetworksMore dashboards won’t fix your observability problem
November 11, 2026 • 5.00PMHow to trace every production failure back to the deploy behind it.
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In partnership with CodeRabbitHow do you trust AI code you didn’t read?
November 12, 2026 • 5.00PMWhat the LeadDev AI Code Review Report 2026 reveals about how developers review and trust AI code.
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In partnership with HarnessToken leaderboards are wrecking your AI ROI
November 18, 2026 • 1.00PMTie AI spend to outcomes you already trust, and catch runaway costs before finance does.
Discover our partner events
Explore conferences, workshops and events from our partners, bringing engineering leaders together to share ideas and discover what’s next in tech.
Explore partner events →Recent recordings
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In partnership with O’Reilly
The truth about engineering team performance in 2026
What your metrics are actually measuring, and what they’re missing.
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In partnership with LaunchDarkly
Controlling your AI software factory
How do you stay in control of systems that never stop evolving?
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In partnership with Taxnova
Inside the engineering finance paradox
The CFO discussion is coming. Here’s how engineering leaders can prepare for it.
Free online workshops
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In partnership with Gitkraken
Prove your AI gains, then improve them
Turn real usage data into a clear read on your agents’ ROI — and a plan to improve it.
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In partnership with Gitkraken
How to track your agents
A hands-on workshop where you’ll use a dashboard to track your AI agents.
For engineering leaders when the job is changing faster than the playbook
Berlin • November 4 & 5, 2027
The pressure is real.
Find what works.
You’re expected to deliver results from AI, keep your team from burning out, and close the gap between what leadership expects and what’s actually possible. And do all of it without a clear engineering leadership playbook.
LeadDev Berlin is where that changes.
Upcoming in-person events
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
Join 1500+ engineering leaders in Berlin to find what works when the pressure is real and the job is changing faster than the playbook.
London • June 28 & 29, 2027
Join Europe’s largest concentration of engineering leaders for ideas, conversations, and learning across every leadership level.
LeadDev meet-ups are expanding in 2026
We run free events year-round in cities all over the world
Highlights from our recent events
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AI-native development: How to actually get the most out of your agents
This talk covers spec-driven development as a way to give agents better constraints, large language model (LLM) gateway and routing strategies for managing which model handles which task, test-driven development adapted for an agent-first workflow, and verification practices built for the volume and pace of AI-generated code.
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The first rung: Where the next generation of engineers will come from
A look at how apprenticeship can help engineering leaders develop the next generation of technical talent for an AI-enabled world.
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Beyond CI/CD: How platform abstractions unlocked developer productivity at scale
In this talk, I will share how our platform engineering team made a deliberate investment to simplify service-to-service connectivity by introducing uniform platform abstractions and out-of-the-box discovery.
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You’re already building a software factory
This session will give you a blueprint for building out your team’s factory, both technically and organizationally.
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Legacy as leverage: How brownfield work builds technical judgment
In this talk, I’ll share how brownfield work builds engineering judgment in ways greenfield environments often do not.
Recent webinars
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In partnership with O’ReillyThe truth about engineering team performance in 2026
What your metrics are actually measuring, and what they’re missing.
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In partnership with LaunchDarklyControlling your AI software factory
How do you stay in control of systems that never stop evolving?
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In partnership with TaxnovaInside the engineering finance paradox
The CFO discussion is coming. Here’s how engineering leaders can prepare for it.
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In partnership with HarnessWhat breaks when AI opens pull requests
GitOps was built for humans, not agents.
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In partnership with ChainguardClose the maintenance gap AI created
Teams are seeing more code rewritten or reverted soon after it ships.
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In partnership with Stanford UniversityWhat are durable leadership skills in 2026?
As code becomes cheaper, communication skills gain value.
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In partnership with TwingateYour customer wants to run your software in their cloud. Now what?
Sales agreed to run your software in the customer’s cloud. Here’s how engineering leaders keep that from becoming an unmanageable second product.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployHow to InnerSource your platform
Open the platform to developers without rebuilding from the ground up.
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In partnership with HarnessDon’t let AI model changes break your workflow
Build the tooling, guardrails, and context-rich practices to mitigate constant model turnover.
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In partnership with FusionAuthThe real impact of AI on software engineering
Live findings, real benchmarks, and what engineering leaders should do next.
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In partnership with HarnessYour AI coding spend is soaring, but can you prove its ROI?
How to map spending to outcomes before the next budget review.
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In partnership with HarnessGovernance is the platform problem worth solving
How to embed AI governance into platform engineering.
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In partnership with CodeRabbitEffective verification for humans and agents
How to build an SDLC that catches errors at the source.
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In partnership with HarnessHow to clean up the tech debt your AI is creating
Because you can’t afford not to.
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In partnership with ChainguardHow to build trust into your AI agents
The habits engineering leaders need to scale agentic AI, without scaling risk.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployHow much autonomy do you give autonomous agents?
It’s important to find your trust threshold when working with AI agents.
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In partnership with CodeRabbitHow can you trust your AI agents?
Agentic explainability matters more than ever.
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In partnership with HarnessShift to signal-driven software quality
Learn why traditional approaches to code quality are collapsing in the face of AI code generation.
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In partnership with Cortex® XCOR™ by Palo Alto NetworksDo we need AI agents to fix our AI agents?
Assessing your readiness for observability agents.
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In partnership with StoryblokWhat are engineers getting paid for now?
As organizations ‘hire’ more agents, we need to talk about how we evaluate and value human engineers.
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In partnership with HarnessHow do you know your AI investment is worth it?
Delivering more stuff doesn’t mean you’re delivering more value to end users.
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In partnership with Octopus DeploySafe production changes with agents
A flexible codebase is a good one, especially in the age of AI-assisted development.
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In partnership with Coder LeadDevThe high cost of AI immaturity
How to assess where your org sits on the AI adoption scale, and the strategic levers you can pull to move it forward.
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In partnership with GitkrakenMake AI productivity gains stick
How to build a measurement framework for what comes after AI adoption.
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In partnership with QodoIs AI killing your software quality standards?
Maintaining code quality in an AI-first world.
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In partnership with CodeRabbitWhat to do when there’s too much code to review
AI coding tools and agents are pushing organizations to produce more code than ever, but with mostly the same number of humans to review. Something’s got to give.
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In partnership with xMattersYour blueprint for automated incident recovery
Learn how high-performing teams are orchestrating incident response for more rapid recovery.
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In partnership with HarnessCase Study: Feature Flags IRL
Learn how this ecommerce company increased mobile conversions by 30% with careful, rollbackable experiments.
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In partnership with ChainguardAccountable engineering in the age of AI
The new wave of AI-driven threats are everyone’s problem. So who owns the solution?
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In partnership with HarnessHow to rethink software releases in the age of AI
AI has had a tremendous impact on the act of coding, but software release processes haven’t adapted to keep up. Let’s change that.
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In partnership with StoryblokWhat to do when everyone thinks they’re a developer
Shielding teams and systems from the rise of the citizen developer.
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In partnership with HarnessWhy AI necessitates a platform model
In order to get the most out of your AI investment, platform engineering is needed to tackle cross-organizational, enterprise complexity.