Latest videos
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400 Tech Leads. Same problems. None of them technical.
Why tech leads struggle despite strong technical skills, and the small leadership shifts that remove overload, friction, and self-doubt.
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In partnership with PostmanHow to avoid platform engineering anti-patterns
What to do when your “golden paths” aren’t being used.
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In partnership with ChainguardRooting out sneaky sources of toil
What to do next when unplanned work is killing velocity.
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In partnership with WarpFrom Prompt to Production: Making AI Work in Your Development Flow
Discover how to move beyond prompt experiments and design AI-first workflows that boost developer productivity and collaboration.
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From hallucinations to hard truths: Real lessons in production AI
Learn crucial lessons from a year of scaling AI in FinTech: what broke, what burned, and what we’d do differently.
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All of this has happened before
A mother-daughter conversation revealing how past tech trends mirror today’s AI hype and what we can learn.
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Tackling tech debt
A seasoned CTO shares strategies and lessons on identifying, communicating, and effectively tackling tech debt across diverse companies.
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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From manager to director and beyond
The most challenging career inflection point for a strong line manager is the move to director.
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Tips & tricks for your own personal development
A panel discussion on how to focus on your own personal development.
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Strategies for creating cultures of innovation in engineering teams
How can exploration, research, and experimentation help your team lead the way?
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Individual Contributors and Managers: Perspectives on difficult conversations
We’re continuing the conversation on re-orgs in a 20-minute fireside chat with our invited IC and Managers as they share more about their experiences and perspectives on this.
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The power of visibility to unblock collaboration
Fostering a culture where knowledge can be shared with everyone.
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Difficult conversations: the re-org
If you are a manager of people, at some point in your career, you have or will find yourself in the position of having a difficult conversation with an employee around organization changes that you are making or that are being made and you are responsible for executing.
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Establishing experimentation as a core part of your project workflow
Gain actionable insights from your users and improve engineering velocity
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Perspectives on what a culture of belonging actually looks like
Building a culture that is equitable is an essential part of your job; and an essential part of equitability is belonging.
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The importance of happiness
Every leader knows that employee happiness is important, but how important is it?
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How to have compassionate conversations about difficult sh*t
How can you have compassionate conversations around racism, transphobia and all forms of oppression?
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Lack of inclusion is a risk management issue: The business case for hiring for lived experience
In this talk, we’ll explore the actionable things individuals can do to ensure their teams are inclusive.
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Inclusion strategies for senior leaders
There’s a lot going on right now. We have the COVID-19 pandemic, a global economic crisis, and in the wake of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, protests and demands for reform.
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Understanding your position and potential in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts
In this panel discussion, we’ll be exploring how to actively learn in an area that’s damaging to get wrong, and how to admit our mistakes, publicly apologise, and build trust when we make mistakes.
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Feedback (and other dirty words): Tamra Chandler and Laura Grealish in conversation
A LeadDev Bookmarked discussion
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Become an effective software engineering manager: James Stanier in conversation
A LeadDev Bookmarked discussion
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Landing projects successfully
Getting projects across the finish line is a challenge, particularly for projects where you need other teams to do something – for example, to migrate to a new tool or a new version of an API. This talk will cover how to increase the likelihood that those teams will do what you need them to do, through a focus on clarity, communication, and empathy. It will cover some ideas for nudging behaviour too.
