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What leaders get wrong about the latent cost of technical debt
Where do leaders go wrong with tackling tech debt?
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In partnership with Uplevel
Measure first, migrate later: Lessons from a 230% velocity boost
Matt Buckley, VP of Engineering at Avalara, shares how his team used data to modernize legacy deployment processes.
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Turning multi-agent AI into strategic business leverage
Using AI to help bolster business strategy, not just for the sake of it.
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In partnership with FusionAuthYour guide to getting started with passkeys
Learn how to build a pragmatic AI strategy without chasing hype-driven distractions.
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October 15-17, 2025
Big names joining the New York lineup! 🔥
Essential reading
How to build an effective technical strategy
Building a tech strategy requires a lot of moving parts. Learn about what routes to take and whether decisions should be top-down.
On our Technical Direction playlist
Modernizing legacy systems: A technical strategy for evolving monoliths into modern architectures at HelloFresh
Gain insights into transforming legacy systems into scalable architectures, with practical strategies for balancing stability, managing technical debt, and enabling growth opportunities at HelloFresh.
Technical Vision vs. Technical Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Jonathan Maltz digs into the nuts and bolts of setting a successful technical strategy. Startin by talking about the difference between technical vision and technical strategy.
How to implement platform engineering at scale
In this webinar, we’ll hear from enterprise engineering leaders who’ve overcome cultural barriers and team silos, and successfully adopted platform engineering practices in their orgs.
Good technical debt
Jon Thornton discusses how this framework was used to rapidly build and ship Squarespace’s Email Campaigns product in less than 15 months. Along the way, you’ll get several practical guidelines for how tech debt can supercharge your technical investments.
Creating, defining, and refining an effective tech strategy
Having a defined tech strategy creates alignment and keeps everyone on the same page. So how can you ensure yours is most effective? Panelists Anna Shipman, Randy Shoup, Papanii Nene Okai, Nimisha Asthagiri and Anand Mariappan share their tips.
Agendas for New York events are live!
Lineup includes Addy Osmani, Kevin Goldsmith, Robin Bonatesta, and more…
New York • October 15 & 16, 2025
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Top Technical Direction videos
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The database trends that are transforming your database infrastructure forever
Let’s talk about the trends in open source software and tell you what you need to know about how to manage the new multi-verse of data.
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Decision making in black box scenarios
In this talk, Boyan will go through common black box scenarios and provide advice on how to deal with them.
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Wrangling Kubernetes into a developer friendly cloud platform
This talk will take a look at how one can use Kubernetes and abstract its primitives to build a developer-friendly cloud platform.
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Towards global and human-centered explanations for machine learning models
In this talk, Carla presents the existing literature and contributions already done in the field of XAI, including a prospect toward what is yet to be reached.
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Trends in Cloud-Native Performance & Efficiency
In this talk, Melanie discusses the significant innovation in Cloud technologies from the processors at the bottom of the stack all the way up through the software at the top of the stack.
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Rise of the platform (Team)
In this talk, you’re going to learn what a platform team is, what they do, and why your business needs one.
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What does an effective cloud strategy look like?
Hosting services on the cloud is the new normal. Learn how to use it effectively.
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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.