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Arrival & Coffee
Taking a seat in the C-Suite: Transitioning from the highest-level operational roles to the executive team
A look at the transition to executive leadership, examining the skills, mindset, and priorities needed to succeed.
Morning Break
Building a cost-conscious culture: Technical and team strategies
Discover proven strategies to optimize cloud infrastructure costs and build a cost-aware engineering culture without slowing delivery.
Build features, not fragile foundations
Learn how to balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction to maintain system health, velocity, and long-term stability.
Lunch
The AI-augmented team: Rethinking roles, skills, and leadership
Explore how AI assistants and agents are reshaping team structures, required skills, and leadership in modern engineering organizations.
From idea to impact: Engineering innovation through collaboration at Duolingo
How Duolingo’s engineering, product, and design teams collaborate to rapidly build and launch innovative, AI-driven features.
Afternoon Break
Beyond sentiment: A practical framework for evaluating and growing the leaders who report to you
This talk offers a practical, opinionated framework for evaluating and growing the people managers who report to you, using a model that goes beyond sentiment and 360s to focus on observable impact, leadership competencies, and the systems you all operate within.
Networking Mixer
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.