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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.
Transforming tradition: The journey to product-led growth
Learn how Dow Jones is embracing a product-first mindset to drive radical transformation and deliver innovative customer and consumer experiences.
Leadership in AI-assisted engineering
Explore proven leadership strategies for AI-assisted engineering, fostering adoption, productivity, psychological safety, and measurable organizational impact.
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.
Engineering leadership playbook, 2025: Three lessons every engineering leader needs this year
Learn three key lessons to lead AI adoption, build remote teams, and strengthen engineering culture.
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.
Afternoon Break
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.
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
Becoming a VP of Engineering
Dedicated sessions on how to take the next step in your career for Becoming a VP of Engineering
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
How to effectively stay aware of everything going on in multiple teams?
A focused, peer-driven discussion where senior engineering leaders exchange insights, compare challenges, and collaborate on solutions to critical leadership issues.
How to measure the impact GenAI tooling investments
Conversations on quantifying the impact of GenAI investments and how to communicate those insights to your leadership team.
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Tackling tech debt: How to identify, quantify, and decide when to pay it down
A focused, peer-driven discussion where senior engineering leaders exchange insights, compare challenges, and collaborate on solutions to critical leadership issues.
How to redefine performance and leadership growth in an AI-first world?
Conversations on defining and measuring performance, skilling levels, and growing potential
The Trusted Trio
Bring a challenge, share your experience, and gain practical insights from fellow leaders facing similar questions
Meet the speakers
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
The path to CTO
Dedicated sessions on how to take the next step in your career for the path to CTO
Managing managers: How to become an organizational multiplier
Conversations on evolving your leadership style when managing managers.
Growing your influence: How to become a trusted Executive Partner
A roundtable on communication and building strong relationships and influence with executives and boards.