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October 15–17, 2025

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November 3–4, 2025

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How to kill your team’s product
Elliot Sanchez shares how the mistakes made early in his career as a manager helped prepare him to handle a terrible situation in a way that stayed consistent with our values and got the members of his team to the best, most empathetic outcome we could hope for.
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Leading without authority: an example from security engineering
In this talk we use the experience of a Security Engineer tasked with helping a development team raise their security posture, without being part of it. We will look at what works and what failed, propose tactic and techniques to best position the outsider in, and what observed results were achieved.
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How to grow your engineers through continuous feedback
For your engineers to know where they’re going, they need to understand where they are. Here’s how to promote growth through continuous feedback.
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How to break the “get me everything” cycle
Too often, leaders ask for “everything” for a new project, then nothing happens. If this sounds familiar, here’s how to identify and break the cycle.
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How to lead through an economic downturn
As the global economic picture continues to darken, engineering managers should start to prepare for the worst.
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What is a Director of Engineering? The glue keeping engineering together
A director of engineering is responsible for keeping an entire engineering function humming. Find out what skills you need to climb the ladder to this vital position.
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The four pillars of code health
Time for a code health check-up? Here’s a practical framework for improving your codebase.
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Six things to consider when structuring engineering teams
Organizing or reorganizing engineering teams? Here are some best practices to keep in mind.
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Lessons learned from refactors and rearchitectures
This talk will walk you through the best -and worst- practices Josh has seen over the years from both successful and unsuccessful efforts in development velocity.
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Integrating an expert solo developer into a development team
Theresa Robinson discusses best practices for how to ensure integrating a solo developer is successful and results in a cohesive, high-performing team.