08:30 1h

WELCOME

Registration and refreshments

Welcome to LeadingEng Berlin 2023

09:25

Welcome to LeadingEng Berlin

A welcome to LeadingEng Berlin 2023 from the host Lena Reinhard.

Featuring:

Lena Reinhard
Lena Reinhard
Engineering Leadership & Executive Coach
9:45

Personal development

Your managers are stuck

In this opening keynote talk we’ll explore the key themes that hold your middle managers back. Then we’ll talk about how you can do a better job supporting them.

Featuring:

Mathias Meyer
Mathias Meyer
Founding Partner The Intentional Organization
10:15

Personal development

Career vectors - CTO flavours: Mixing & matching skillsets

In this talk, experienced CTO Meri Williams will help you explore the different flavours of competencies & capabilities for CTOs, how to develop in each, and how to mix & match.

Featuring:

Meri Williams
Meri Williams
CTO and Advisor Pleo
11:00 30 min

BREAK

Refreshments

Enjoy some refreshments during the break

11:45

Building high performing teams

It’s time to pay off your management debt

In this session, we'll delve into management debt – the collection of inefficiencies, unresolved issues, and missed opportunities in how we manage teams. Just like its technical counterpart, management debt accumulates, quietly impacting the organization over time.

Featuring:

Daniel Korn
Daniel Korn
Director of Engineering Lemonade
12:55

Building high performing teams

Influencing your company’s culture from the driver’s seat

Let’s talk about how to uncover the real culture at your company and how you can make a genuine lasting impact on it.

Featuring:

Sarah Abrantes
Sarah Abrantes
VP of Engineering Adyen
13:15 60 mins

BREAK

Lunch

We'll take a break for lunch

14:30

Interactive session Building high performing teams

Healthy and Effective Leadership Teams

How can you set up the foundations for fostering healthier leadership teams?

Featuring:

Maria Gutierrez
Maria Gutierrez
VP of Engineering Personio
15:30

Business delivery

Unlocking lean efficiency: Turning knots where it matters in tech leadership

In this talk, we will dive into the critical concepts that empower leaders to drive pace and build highly effective engineering teams when expanding the headcount isn't always an option.

Featuring:

Joyce Chen
Joyce Chen
VP of Engineering Zalando
15:55 30 min

BREAK

Refreshments

Enjoy some refreshments during the break

16:40

Building high performing teams

Upskilling leadership teams

This session will dive into strategies on how to grow the next generation of leaders in your organization so you can build a stronger foundation for driving the long-term success of your business.

Featuring:

Vitor Reis
Vitor Reis
Director of Engineering Delivery Hero
17:00

Interactive session Impact and influence

Strengthening company alignment

As a senior leader, you are often the in-between person who is matching the business needs, product execution and the team’s talent. That work requires you to communicate proficiently to ensure everyone understands the needs and the status of progress. In this talk, we’ll cover the basic communication paths to be successful as a senior engineering leader and dive into two of the most difficult parts of it: forward planning and driving accountability in your teams.

Featuring:

Neha Batra
Neha Batra
VP of Engineering GitHub
17:40

Personal development

Context Switch to Develop as a Leader

In this session we will explore these contexts and share strategies with each other using an interactive format.

Featuring:

Heidi Helfand
Heidi Helfand
SVP of Strategy & Innovation Artium
18:00 10 min

CLOSE

Wrap-up

Closing session

18:10 90 min

NETWORK

Networking mixer

Join us for the networking drinks reception

19:40

Close

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