8:30 1h 45min

WELCOME

Registration & Refreshments

Welcome to LeadingEng West Coast 2023

9:05

Welcome to LeadingEng West Coast

A welcome to LeadingEng West Coast 2023 from the host Kathryn Koehler.

09:30

Interactive session Personal development

You can go your own way: Owning your career design and making it real

No matter if you’re an ambitious go-getter or ambivalent about careers, experienced engineering executive-turned-leadership-coach and accidental career changer Lena Reinhard will help you get more clarity on building the career you want and how to make deliberate choices about what you optimize for.

Featuring:

Lena Reinhard
Lena Reinhard
Engineering Leadership & Executive Coach
10:10

Business delivery

Sustaining Innovation with changing times: Adapting systems, teams, processes and yourself

This talk will look at two common themes - trust and adaptability - in systems, teams and process.

Featuring:

Carol Barrett
Carol Barrett
Engineering Leader, Product Access Netflix
10:45 30 min

BREAK

Refreshments

Enjoy some refreshments during the break

11:30

Personal development

The Many Shapes of a VP of Engineering

Emily will talk about different archetypes that are common for the VP of Engineering role, how to assess what type your organization needs, and how the role can evolve over time.

Featuring:

Emily Nakashima
Emily Nakashima
VP of Engineering Honeycomb.io.
12:00

Interactive session Impact and influence

Shadow work: How to reckon with structural influence in the middle of the org chart

This talk explores one of the most common contexts for that ambiguity: the structures and signals of power in your workplace.

Featuring:

David Yee
David Yee
VP of Engineering The New York Times
12:40

Building high performing teams

Building and Promoting a Strong Engineering Culture

This talk will focus on how senior engineering leaders can build and promote a strong organizational culture.

Featuring:

Ellen Wong
Ellen Wong
VP of Engineering Calm
13:10 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
15:15

Technical direction & strategy

Crafting an effective technical strategy: Business success through targeted investment

Led by Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI, this session dives deep into the realm of technical strategy. It explores why technical strategy matters, how to align it with business objectives, and how to measure the impact.

Featuring:

Rob Zuber
Rob Zuber
CTO Circle CI
15:30

Business delivery

Space aliens are among us, your product roadmap is realistic, and other lies you believe

In this talk, I'll help you establish focus, cut through metrics that don't matter, and sharpen your team's execution so that you can meet your business goals.

Featuring:

Johnny Ray Austin
Johnny Ray Austin
Head of Technology Best Egg
16:00 30 min

BREAK

Refreshments

Enjoy some refreshments during the break

16:30

Building high performing teams

Growing the next generation of leaders: Leveling up your leadership teams

Join this talk as Kathleen discusses how you can identify the skill gaps in your teams and support your managers as they transition to leadership.

Featuring:

Kathleen Vignos
Kathleen Vignos
VP of Software Engineering Capital One
16:50

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
17:30

Personal development

Becoming an inspiring leader. Solve problems and motivate people.

In this talk, I'll share stories about how I moved from being a process-oriented leader to putting people over processes.

Featuring:

Javier Lopez
Javier Lopez
Senior Director of Engineering Carta
17:50 10 min

CLOSE

Wrap-up

Closing session

18:00

NETWORK

Networking mixer

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