Leadership workshop

Make the most of the learning opportunity with a leadership workshop before the conference, hosted by industry-leading tutor.

08:00:00 1h

WELCOME

Registration and refreshments

Welcome to LeadingEng London 2023

10:00:00

WELCOME

Welcome to StaffPlus New York

A welcome to StaffPlus New York 2022 from the host Tanya Reilly.

10:10:00

Being a principal engineer. The world is your oyster.

Silvia Botros talks about how to navigate the many facets of the role of a principal engineer.

Featuring:

Silvia Botros
Silvia Botros
Principal Engineer Box
10:40:00

Strategies for focusing on the most important thing

Ryan Harter advises on the tools to help you strategically combat anti-patterns in prioritization to consistently execute the most important projects.

Featuring:

Ryan  Harter
Ryan Harter
Senior Staff Data Scientist Shopify
10:50:00

Starting a new job as a Staff+

Amy Unger looks at how you can effectively start off a new job at Staff-level.

Featuring:

Amy Unger
Amy Unger
Staff Software Engineer GitHub
11:20:00 30 min

BREAK

Refreshments

Enjoy some refreshments during the break

11:50:00

Lifecycle of an API design

Michelle Bu talks about the lifecycle of an API design at StaffPlus New York.

Featuring:

Michelle Bu
Michelle Bu
Engineer Stripe
12:00:00

Moon to Mars: Planning and executing for the long term

Katie Sylor-Miller looks at how to ensure success when the end goal feels like it's millions of miles away.

Featuring:

Katie Sylor-Miller
Katie Sylor-Miller
Frontend Architect Etsy
12:30:00

Getting to Commitment: Tackling broad technical problems in large organizations

Mattie Toia tackles five areas where you can build metaphorical muscles to help increase the likelihood that your initiatives are successful.

Featuring:

Mattie Toia
Mattie Toia
Director of Production Engineering Shopify
12:40:00

Solving inefficiency challenges at Datacenter scale

Bobby talks about how a technical solution increased the existing clusters capacity by 9% — resulting in a multi-year saving of 9-figures in CAPEX, by solving inefficiency challenges at datacenter scale.

Featuring:

J. Bobby Dorlus
J. Bobby Dorlus
Founder & CEO #TheTechHustle
13:10:00 70 mins

BREAK

Lunch

We'll take a break for lunch

14:30:00

Becoming an influencer (no selfies required)

Leslie Chapman on how building and maintaining trust in order to be an influencer is one of the key roles of an individual contributor.

Featuring:

Leslie Chapman
Leslie Chapman
Distinguished Software Engineer Comcast
15:00:00

Accessibility and why everything old is new again

Alice Li climbs into her Wayback Machine and delves into some foundational approaches and processes to facilitate and test for Accessibility compliance on the web.

Featuring:

Alice Li
Alice Li
Staff Engineer Squarespace
15:10:00

Driving clarity in ambiguous projects

Scott Triglia discusses his own approaches (those that have worked and some that haven't) into a short set of advice.

Featuring:

Scott Triglia
Scott Triglia
Staff Engineer Stripe
15:40:00 30 min

BREAK

Refreshments

Enjoy some refreshments during the break

16:10:00

The Art & Science of Decision Buy-In

John Riviello examines how Comcast has employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) through important decision-making.

Featuring:

John Riviello
John Riviello
Engineering Fellow Comcast
16:40:00

Building a better bridge

Bryan Liles shares how he came to find out that he was a bridge builder and how that carried through his journey as a senior engineer to where he is today as a VP-level engineer in a public company.

Featuring:

Bryan Liles
Bryan Liles
Senior Principal Engineer Amazon Web Services (AWS)
17:10:00

Leveraging Your Peers as a Staff Plus Engineer: Building Peer Groups

David Daly looks at how to Learn from your peers and help your peers learn (about peer groups)!

Featuring:

David Daly
David Daly
Staff Engineer MongoDB Inc
17:20:00 10 min

CLOSE

Wrap-up

Closing session

17:30:00 90 min

NETWORK

Networking mixer

Network with our community

19:00:00 10 min

END

Closing remarks

End of conference day

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