Latest videos
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The first rung: Where the next generation of engineers will come from
A look at how apprenticeship can help engineering leaders develop the next generation of technical talent for an AI-enabled world.
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You’re already building a software factory
This session will give you a blueprint for building out your team’s factory, both technically and organizationally.
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Legacy as leverage: How brownfield work builds technical judgment
In this talk, I’ll share how brownfield work builds engineering judgment in ways greenfield environments often do not.
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Evaluating AI developer tools without the drama
This talk explores how to turn a divided technical evaluation into a decision everyone can trust. Through a real-world AI code review tool rollout, you’ll learn a practical framework for setting shared criteria, rebuilding developer confidence, and making technical decisions with genuine stakeholder buy-in.
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The accountability gap: Engineering governance for autonomous AI
This session walks through an engineering framework for accountable autonomy: a three-tier trust model that categorizes decisions by blast radius (impact and reversibility), an autonomy budget that meters agent trust with SLOs and revokes it automatically when behavior degrades, and circuit breakers that freeze an agent before a bad pattern becomes an incident.
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One shot at scale: Surviving the Super Bowl signup surge
This talk goes behind the scenes of how Fetch prepared for a massive Super Bowl traffic spike, scaling from around 1 signup per second to a target of 150,000. It explores the engineering decisions, architectural trade-offs, stress testing, and launch-day processes that helped the team manage risk when there was only one chance to get it right.
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The real impact of AI on software engineering
This session presents the key findings from LeadDev’s AI Impact Report 2026 – and the numbers tell a more complicated story than the productivity anecdotes suggest.
Highlights from our conferences
Measure for Change
Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.
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Drive product gaps as an engineering leader
Discover practical strategies for engineering leaders to influence product development effectively, even in the absence of strong product management and a clear company vision.
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Growth in a downturn
In this talk, Smruti Patel asks, if hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like?
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Idea to Innovation
Join me as we embark on a journey to dissect the anatomy of innovation, uncover strategies to unlock the full potential of ideas, and transform them into impactful realities. Let’s build a strong culture of innovation, and make sure that it is not just a buzzword but a tangible outcome.
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Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons
Explore the key lessons and skills Audrei gained during their first Staff+ project, Slack Enterprise Key Management. This talk offers insights for anyone growing in their Staff+ career.
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Reclaiming the edge: High-performance leadership in a shifting market
How to conduct a ruthless self-assessment, build the right relationships, and take command of your own leadership development at the Director+ level.
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In partnership with Stanford UniversityWhat are durable leadership skills in 2026?
As code becomes cheaper, communication skills gain value.
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In partnership with TwingateYour customer wants to run your software in their cloud. Now what?
Sales agreed to run your software in the customer’s cloud. Here’s how engineering leaders keep that from becoming an unmanageable second product.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployHow to InnerSource your platform
Open the platform to developers without rebuilding from the ground up.
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In partnership with FlutterflowThe missing layer between product and engineering
When product and engineering domains overlap, full-context awareness becomes the bottleneck.
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In partnership with HarnessDon’t let AI model changes break your workflow
Build the tooling, guardrails, and context-rich practices to mitigate constant model turnover.
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In partnership with GitkrakenHow to track your agents
A hands-on workshop where you’ll use a dashboard to track your AI agents.
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In partnership with FusionAuthThe real impact of AI on software engineering
Live findings, real benchmarks, and what engineering leaders should do next.
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In partnership with HarnessYour AI coding spend is soaring, but can you prove its ROI?
How to map spending to outcomes before the next budget review.
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In partnership with HarnessGovernance is the platform problem worth solving
How to embed AI governance into platform engineering.
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In partnership with CodeRabbitEffective verification for humans and agents
How to build an SDLC that catches errors at the source.
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In partnership with HarnessHow to clean up the tech debt your AI is creating
Because you can’t afford not to.
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In partnership with ChainguardHow to build trust into your AI agents
The habits engineering leaders need to scale agentic AI, without scaling risk.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployHow much autonomy do you give autonomous agents?
It’s important to find your trust threshold when working with AI agents.
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In partnership with GitkrakenThe AI agent metrics framework
A hands-on workshop where you will learn how to measure the environment, behavior, and outcomes of your agents.
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In partnership with CodeRabbitHow can you trust your AI agents?
Agentic explainability matters more than ever.
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Refactoring LIVE – In conversation with Rands
Luca Rossi sits down with Michael Lopp, aka Rands, to explore engineering leadership in the age of AI.
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In partnership with HarnessShift to signal-driven software quality
Learn why traditional approaches to code quality are collapsing in the face of AI code generation.
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In partnership with QodoCode quality in the age of AI
A governance framework for engineering leaders.
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In partnership with ChronosphereDo we need AI agents to fix our AI agents?
Assessing your readiness for observability agents.
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In partnership with StoryblokWhat are engineers getting paid for now?
As organizations ‘hire’ more agents, we need to talk about how we evaluate and value human engineers.
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In partnership with HarnessHow do you know your AI investment is worth it?
Delivering more stuff doesn’t mean you’re delivering more value to end users.
