Latest videos
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FORTRAN’s AI Playbook: Leadership lessons from history
Learn proven leadership strategies from FORTRAN’s history to successfully adopt AI, upskill teams, and drive lasting transformation at scale
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Optimization of mobile development strategy for maximum business impact
Learn how to optimize mobile strategy—tech choices, team structure, and processes—for faster delivery, scalability, and measurable business results
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Theory to action: Architecting and implementing your team operating system
Learn the theory behind the operating systems of high-performing engineering teams. Leave with a practical idea of how to design a flexible team operating system with rhythms, tools, and feedback loops for your team.
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Y2K: The bug that didn’t bite
Unearthing the lessons of Y2K to avoid future coding catastrophes and build more sustainable software.
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How to zoom out (and when to stop)
A practical guide for engineers and new engineering leaders on expanding their scope effectively, recognizing when to change their perspective, and maintaining the right balance between strategic thinking and technical depth.
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Dressing to the 9s
Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn’t exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn’t.
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Going all-in on data products
Explore how a development team fully embraced building a data product alongside their new operational product.
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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Ethics in the age of AI: Strategies for mitigation and their historical context
Explore historical lessons on technology harms as Christina Entcheva discusses AI ethics, modern software engineering, and guidelines for product teams to mitigate risks.
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Retaining Your People After the Tech Boom
Discover how to retain talent during staff reductions by leading with empathy, building trust, and understanding employees’ motivators in times of economic and industry change.
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Making do: Scaling expertise on teams you can’t grow
Explore how flexible team models enable small teams to handle high-stakes challenges, maintain resilience, and sustain morale during periods of organizational change.
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Managing expectations: Lessons from making large-scale platform changes
Discover how Datadog managed the technical and human challenges of migrating 2000+ engineers to Kubernetes, emphasizing effective communication and understanding human behavior during change.
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Cultivating great teams: Managing out with kindness
Learn a humane approach to managing underperforming team members, with strategies for setting expectations, providing direct feedback, fostering growth, and handling tough conversations with compassion.
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Spin it up, shut it down
Discover how to form impactful teams, drive progress, and gracefully shut them down, with a blueprint for creating and ending purposeful project teams effectively.
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A nudge in the right direction: How to give just enough help
Learn how to give just the right amount of help by applying insights from puzzle design. Discover practical techniques for offering effective guidance in any situation.
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Self-Awareness for Managers: Avoiding the antipatterns that block your team
Explore strategies to enhance self-awareness as a manager, unlock genuine feedback, and avoid decision-making traps that hinder your team’s performance and morale.
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Safety and Belonging – A Ritual to Jumpstart Psychological Safety
Learn how to cultivate psychological safety in teams through practical strategies and a 3-part workshop, inspired by Riot Games’ “Safety and Belonging” ritual.
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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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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.
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Becoming the leader you can be, in a changed technology industry
Explore how engineering leaders can navigate industry shifts, handle uncertainty, and rethink their roles in the evolving tech landscape through this reflective session on leadership.
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Beyond the headlines: Engineering leadership in 2024
Discover insights from LeadDev’s 2024 Engineering Leadership report, exploring how 1,100 engineering leaders feel about navigating industry challenges amid tech layoffs and AI hype.
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Dates and deadlines…it’s complicated
Learn key communication habits that clarify dates and deadlines, build trust, and improve team cohesion—especially in distributed teams—while making deadlines a positive, motivating factor.
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Nail the pitch and stick the landing: How to propose & deliver major technical projects
Learn how to pitch refactor projects effectively. Ei-Nyung shares successful strategies from leading a major infrastructure re-architecture, cutting development time by 65%.
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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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Sometimes you need to be a cruise director
Some problems staff engineers face aren’t about technical expertise, but clarity and decision-making.
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Should we multi-cloud?
Is multi-cloud right for your organization? In this session, Tanu shares a decision-making framework and real examples to help you navigate this complex question.
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The OSS maintainer to staff engineer pipeline
Discover how lessons from open source software maintenance shape effective staff engineers. This talk explores key insights on scaling, influence, and collaboration learned from OSS projects.
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Doing the right thing vs doing things right
Explore how successful companies navigate the tension between correct engineering choices and unexpected user needs. This talk shares lessons from a surprising product release journey.
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With great power comes great responsibility
Learn how today’s systems impact billions of lives and why engineers must prioritize failure safety. This talk explores driving this crucial shift in software engineering.
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Training machines to see scenic beauty
Join me as we uncover the methodology behind this research and discuss how we plan to use it to help people connect with beauty around them, wherever they are in the world.
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Uncover the invisible ceiling
This talk will put the spotlight on one of those biases which is the assumption that software engineering around making mobile apps is less complicated or has a smaller scale in comparison to backend or infra engineering.
