08:15 1h

WELCOME

Registration and refreshments

Welcome to LeadingEng London 2023

09:30

Welcome to LeadingEng London

A welcome to LeadingEng London 2023 from our host.

09:50

Interactive session Career paths, progression, promotion

Career Vectors - CTO Flavors: Mixing & Matching Skillsets

Learn how to define your own personal development plan as a CTO

Featuring:

Meri Williams
Meri Williams
CTO and Advisor Pleo
10:30

Personal growth

The framework of you: Strategies beyond a growth mindset

In this talk, Dan Blundell will help you explore ways to understand yourself and your own capabilities in the infinite quest to be better by applying familiar engineering patterns and practices to your own development.

Featuring:

Dan Blundell
Dan Blundell
Engineering Director Gymshark
11:05 30 min

BREAK

Refreshments

Enjoy some refreshments during the break

11:50

Shifting the mindset of delegation - Your secret weapon to leadership at scale

In my talk, I will try to give you some tools that will help you understand the challenges ahead and techniques I developed over years for moving past them.

Featuring:

Marta Jasinska
Marta Jasinska
CTO Launchpad
12:20

Interactive session Professional development

Intentional influence

Learn how to create positive change in your work environment and gain buy-in from people in power, your direct reports, and cross-functional leaders.

Featuring:

Lara Hogan
Lara Hogan
Co-founder Wherewithall
13:10

Personal growth

Organizational resilience

In this talk, André will discuss how Duolingo thinks about resilience in the workplace, the tools provided to managers to help them develop their own resilience, as well as their direct reports, lessons learned and pitfalls avoided.

Featuring:

André Kenji Horie
André Kenji Horie
Engineering Director Duolingo
13:30 60 mins

BREAK

Lunch

We'll take a break for lunch

14:45

Personal growth

People, get ready: Investing in collegial relationships to build better commercial awareness

Having commercial impact at a senior leadership level means looking beyond just engineering and at the whole organisation. Organisations are complex and organic, however, and for all the experience we do have, there’s plenty we’ve missed out on. So, how do we work out what perspectives we’re missing?

Featuring:

Christian Wong
Christian Wong
VP of Engineering Accurx
15:00

Interactive session

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
15:40

Technical direction & strategy

Building an effective technical strategy

There are many things your team could do over the next year or two. How do you decide which of them to prioritize? Documenting your strategy is important, but it's only the first step. You need to communicate it effectively so that people can use it to make decisions. And finally, you need to track your progress: are you delivering what you need to? Is the strategy still the right one?

Featuring:

Sarah Wells
Sarah Wells
Technical Director & Speaker
16:00 30 min

BREAK

Refreshments

Enjoy some refreshments during the break

16:40

Interactive session Leadership skills

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
17:20

How inclusive leaders stay current

As senior leaders with busy lives and diverse teams, how can we best approach staying up to date? In this presentation, I'll break down how to identify the right goals and opportunities for learning, and useful strategies you can use to reach them.

Featuring:

 Payam Azadi
Payam Azadi
Engineering Director
17:50 10 min

CLOSE

Wrap-up

Closing session

18:00 90 min

NETWORK

Networking mixer

Join us for the networking drinks reception

19:30

Conference wrap-up

That's a wrap, thanks for coming.

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