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Your team’s AI prompts are code. Treat them like it
AI prompts are now part of the technical surface area of engineering managers.
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Stop throwing AI at developers and hoping for magic
Engineering leaders reveal a stark gap in AI adoption.
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In partnership with PagerDutyGet smarter with every incident
This panel discussion is for SREs, platform, and DevOps leaders who are looking for strategies to make on-call feel more sustainable and effective. We’ll show you how to break that reactive loop, and the emerging tools and practices to help make your teams, and systems, smarter.
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The quickly evolving role of QA
In fast-paced software development environments, the way you think about quality assurance needs to change.
New York • September 15-16, 2026
Speakers Gergely Orosz, Will Larson and Frances Thai confirmed 🙌
Essential reading
How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process
Taking code quality beyond documentation and into the fabric of your team’s work.
On our Software Quality playlist
Ways your teams can (realistically) prioritize code quality
Code matters – learn how to create a culture of quality in your organisation
Using clinical science to effectively tackle code review anxiety
Uncover the science behind code review anxiety, its cognitive triggers, and actionable strategies to reduce anxiety, fostering a healthier code review culture for all developers.
A guide to creating a great code documentation culture
If your teams are struggling with code documentation, watch this on-demand webinar, where our panel of engineering leaders will discuss best practices and strategies to get started. Code documentation is often viewed as a necessary evil by development teams. There’s no doubt that mastering the art of creating…
Building a better testing culture
How can engineering leaders create a healthy testing culture with clear strategies in place?
Take back control of code quality
In this talk, Joel Chippindale shares stories from his experiences in leading engineering teams that illustrate the dynamics between team members and with stakeholders that lead teams to lose control of code quality.
The festival for modern engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
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Born-left security: The new approach taking over shift-left
Born-left allows developers to fully own the security process. Here’s what you need to know about the emerging trend.
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Introducing AIOps: The new trend for repairing software issues
Leveraging AI and machine learning to speed up software repairs
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How to scale decision-making in your organization with Circles
Empowering your teams to make good decisions quickly
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Introducing quality ratchets: A tool for managing complex systems
Using ratchets to improve the quality of your software
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Five ways to care for your open source contributors
How to encourage a thriving open source community
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Want to deliver more value to users? Bring engineers and customers together
The benefits of customer-engineering engagement
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Four things you need to know from ‘Using open source safely and effectively’
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Top Software Quality Videos
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Code is poetry
Niranjan Uma Shankar talks about how to write good readable code, ticket descriptions, bug patches, et al, in PHP and Javascript.
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Red 2.0: Transforming a game company
Colin Walder takes a look at how the Tech Team at CD Projekt applied the Red 2.0 Manifesto as part of a company-wide transformation after the release of Cyberpunk 2077.
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In partnership with Sauce Labs
Building a better testing culture
How can engineering leaders create a healthy testing culture with clear strategies in place?
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What is tech policy and how you can get involved
Erica Greene discusses some of the big ongoing tech policy debates and walks through ways you can get involved in the policy world.
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Security from scratch
Eleanor Saitta tells you as much as possible in 30 minutes about what you do need to worry about, when you need to worry about it, how you can fix it, and what you don’t need to worry about — yet.
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Feature flag use cases you haven’t heard about yet
Come learn how you can leverage feature flags to help remove dead code, test the parity of new code, evaluate the cost of a new technology, and more.
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Debugging debugging; why we must approach debugging differently
In this talk, Elinor will delve into the reasons why debugging techniques are broken.
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Making code review a more inclusive & productive collaboration
Shifalika will talk about why we need to focus on the social aspects of code review, the best practices around it and discuss concrete ways to promote inclusive code reviews.