Speakers
Expect 70+ Speakers
We’ll bring together top engineering leaders from today’s most successful and innovative companies, along with leaders & experts from adjacent disciplines engineering leaders work with closely, such as design, product, operation, etc.
Thuan Pham
Former CTO @ Uber & Coupang
Ya Xu
VP of Engineering, Head of Data and AI @ LinkedIn
Marcel Weekes
VP of Engineering @ Figma
James Everingham
VP of Engineering @ Meta
Melody Hildebrandt
Chief Technology Officer @ Fox Corporation
Rajashree Pimpalkhare
VP of Engineering @ Twilio
Anurag Agarwal
VP, Engineering @ Google Workspace
Melody Meckfessel
CTO @ Jasper
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Leadership
Career
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Agenda
August 27
August 28
CHECK-IN
8:00
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9:00
AM PDT
Check-In
Check-In & Light breakfast
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SPEAKING SESSIONS
ROOM 1
ROOM 2
ROOM 3
ROOM 4
9:00
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9:45
AM
PDT
Technology
How GenAI Allows to Change SDLC to Save Time
Artem Golubev
Co-founder and CEO @ testRigor
Technology
AI and DevOps: The Future of Intelligent Automation
Venkat Thiruvengadam
Founder & CEO @ DuploCloud
Ajay Gulati
CEO and Co-founder @ Kitecyber
Technology
50% of Bugs are Detected First by End Users - Are You Using AI to Monitor Feedback Signals?
Christian Wiklund
Founder & CEO @ unitQ
Anthony Heckman
Founding Team @ unitQ
10:00
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10:45
AM
PDT
Technology
Leveraging AI at Scale: Three Foundational Elements Every Organizational Leader Should Be Considering
Ya Xu
VP of Engineering, Head of Data and AI @ LinkedIn
Melody Meckfessel
CTO @ Jasper
Leadership
Culture Change at Scale: Empowering Teams During Times of Transformation
Dave Richardson
SVP of Software & Services Engineering @ General Motors
Kathryn Vandiver
Former VP of Engineering @ Quanata
Leadership
Collaborative Teams Are More Productive Teams
Marcel Weekes
VP of Engineering @ Figma
Arquay Harris
Former VP of Engineering @ Webflow
Leadership
The Winding Path to Product Market Fit
Daniel Portillo
Co-Founder @ The General Partnership
Tomas Reimers
Co-founder @ Graphite
Michael Grinich
CEO and Founder @ WorkOS
11:00
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11:45
AM
PDT
Leadership
Measuring Developer Productivity with the DX Core 4
Abi Noda
CEO & Co-founder @ DX
Sridhar Ramakrishnan
Senior Director, Developer Experience & Productivity @ Slack
Leadership
How to Build Tech Teams Fast & Future-Proof Your Workforce in a Rapidly Changing Industry
Nacho De Marco
Founder and CEO @ BairesDev
Tushar Patel
Interim/Fractional CTO & Partner @ Fortium Partners
Ali Littman
VP of Engineering @ Modern Health
Dennis Yang
Co-founder & Chairman @ Modal
Leadership
Building a Happy, Fulfilled Engineering Team to Drive Business Success
Pedro Canahuati
CTO @ 1Password
Sue Nallapeta
CTO @ Trusted Health
Leadership
Collaboration & Innovation in the Time of AI
Anurag Agarwal
VP, Engineering @ Google Workspace
Lizzie Matusov
Co-Founder & CEO @ Quotient
Break
Lunch
spaghetti
sandwich
green-salad
tropical-drink
Demos: AI + DevTools
Quick 10 mins demos to Discover the latest AI powered devtools - Curated by ELC D2
1:00
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1:45
PM
PDT
Leadership
The Sum of Small Signals: How Measuring Small Decisions Can Transform Engineering Leadership
Mike Hoye
Director of Developer Relations @ Pluralsight
Leadership
Leadership Alchemy: Transform Yourself, Transform Your Team
Luther Kitahata
Executive Leadership Coach @ Integral Response & Fractional VPE/CTO
Technology
Security Engineering in the Age of Continuous Innovation: Bringing Internet Scale Security to the Enterprise
Nate Lee
Founder @ Cloudsec.ai
Srinath Kuruvadi
Managing Director, Head of Product Security - Cloud @ JPMorganChase
Swathi Joshi
VP, SaaS Cloud Security @ Oracle
ELC D2 Demos
AI + Dev Experience
Graphite.dev
Create Smaller Pull Requests, and Ship Faster
Codemod
Code Migrations at Lightning Speed
Entelligence
Your AI Software Engineering Mentor
Bacca
The World’s First AI On-call Engineer
2:00
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2:45
PM
PDT
Technology
GenAI Measurement: Perception vs Reality
Andrew Lau
Co-Founder & CEO @ Jellyfish
Leadership
Critical Communication Strategies in Incident Management & Beyond
Stephen Whitworth
Co-founder & CEO @ Incident.io
Balaji Narayanan
Head of Infrastructure Engineering @ Clari
Vinithra Varadharajan
Director of Engineering, Vault @ HashiCorp
Technology
Scaling AI for an Immersive 3D Platform with 77 Million Daily Active Users
Anupam Singh
VP, AI & Growth Engineering @ Roblox
Maria Kazandjieva
Co-founder @ Graft
ELC D2 Demos
AI + Infra & Platform
Contextual AI
Tailored Contextual Language Models for Enterprise
Superlinked
The Vector Stack for Complex Data
LanceDB
The Database for Multimodal AI
3:00
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3:45
PM
PDT
Career
David and Goliath: How Small Teams Can Build and Sell to Much Larger Enterprises
Aditya Kajla
Engineering Manager @ WorkOS and former Co-founder of Warrant
Leadership
Finance Demystified for Engineering Leaders
Jayesh Sureshchandra
VP Engineering @ Carta
Workshop
3:00 - 4:45 PM PDT
Leadership
Workshop: Navigating the Unspoken Challenges of Feedback
Jill Wetzler
Executive Coach, Former VPE @ Pilot
ELC D2 Demos
AI + Productivity
Dispatch
AI Analysis of Software Projects for Managers and Execs
Wiremock
Mock the APIs You Depend On
Endorsed.ai
Screen Resumes at Lightning Speed with AI
Levo AI
Find and Secure Every API in Your Enterprise
4:00
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4:45
PM
PDT
Leadership
Building High-Functioning, Diverse Teams to Power Growth
Mikaela Smith
Fractional Head of People @ The New Club
Nancy Wang
former Director of Product & Engineering / GM @ AWS
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ELC D2 Demos
AI + DevOps
Daytona
Self-hosted Secure Development Environment Manager
Vantage
Cloud Cost Observability and Optimization
Crafting.dev
Instant Production-like Cloud Dev Environments
Okahu AI
AI Observability as a Service
August 27
August 28
ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS
TABLE
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TABLE
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TABLE
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TABLE
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TABLE
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10:00-10:45 AM PDT
11:00-11:45 AM PDT
12:00-1:00 PM PDT
1:00-1:45 PM PDT
2:00-2:45 PM PDT
3:00-3:45 PM PDT
4:00-4:45 PM PDT
Break
Lunch
spaghetti
sandwich
green-salad
tropical-drink
pizza
hamburger
What We Owe Each Other: Building High-Trust, Cross-Functional Collaboration
Host
Luke Stevens
Director of Engineering @ Jellyfish
Democratizing ML and AI Development at Your Organization
Host
Ilan Rimon
Head of Engineering @ Bolt
DORA, SPACE, or DevEx: Which Framework Should You Choose?
Host
Abi Noda
Co-Founder and CEO @ DX
Mastering the Art of Managing Up: Positioning Platform Engineering as the Core Driver of Organizational Success
Host
Grace Huntley
Director of Engineering @ Code for America
Building High-Performing & Creative Engineering Teams
Host
Maher Hanafi
VP of Engineering @ Betterworks
Beyond Code: The Impact of Outcome-Focused Engineering
Host
Kasyap Vissapragada
Director of Software Engineering @ Walmart Global Tech
Leading Internally Focused Teams
Host
Jeremy McAnally
Technical Principal @ Sequoia Capital
Accelerating Engineering Team Cohesion: Implementing Personal READMEs
Host
Brad Schwartz
Principal / Founder @ Tech Leader's Coach
Coaching Your Team Through Tough Times
Host
Nikrad Mahdi
Former VP of Engineering @ DeepScribe
Resilience in Action: Turning Challenges into Opportunities
Host
Sabeen Syed
Head of Engineering @ Settle
Coaching: Directive vs. Non-Directive Approaches to Support Your Teams' Success
Host
James Birchler
Founder and CEO @ Actuate Partners
How Has Generative AI Changed Your Team's SDLC?
Host
Chihwei Yeh
Founder & CTO @ MeetAndy.ai
Leading through Change
Host
Sarah Duitsman
Engineering Director @ C2FO
Succession Planning and Talent Development
Host
Gurudutta Ramanathaiah
Engineering Leader @ Sigma Computing
Organizational Design with Teams in Different Timezones
Host
Tejas Kotecha
CTO @ Nabis
Helping Combined Hardware/Software Teams Deliver Great Products
Host
Nick Rossi
VP Engineering @ Dusty Robotics
Leading Engineering Organizational Transformation
Host
Manju Abraham
VP Engineering @ HPE
Leveraging AI in Developer Experience / Productivity Field
Host
Sridhar Ramakrishnan
Senior Director, Developer Experience & Productivity @ Slack
Developing Hardware Products in the World of AI
Host
Francisco Martinez Acevedo
Manager, Quality Engineering @ Matterport Inc
Up or Out: Navigating the Crossroads of Career Progression During Uncertain Markets
Host
Scott Swedberg
Co-Founder @ The Job Sauce
Management of the Future
Host
Dan Dancescu
Director of Engineering @ ex-LinkedIn
AI-Driven Team: Shaping the Workforce of the Future
Host
Dmitry Savchenko
VP of Engineering @ Kinesso
Mission-Aligned Teams: Evolution of Amazon's Single-Threaded Ownership (STO) Model for Startups and Scale-ups
Host
Henry Shi
Co-Founder @ Super.com
Panning for Gold in Your Operational Data
Host
Stacie Frederick
CPO @ Stanza Systems
Navigating Difficult Conversations
Host
Daisy Liu
Engineering Leader @ Google
Strategies for an Efficient Performance Review Cycle
Host
Nono Guimbi
Engineering Manager @ Airbnb
From Chaos to Cohesion: Mastering Organizational Design
Host
Annie Zhou
Director of Engineering & Product @ ex-Square
Does Your Developer Productivity Metrics Match Developer Sentiment?
Host
Mitali Parthasarathy
Director Engineering @ Yelp
The Matrix: A Leader's Labyrinth - Navigating Matrixed Orgs
Host
Prashant Ramarao
SVP Engineering @ Yahoo
Making unpopular decisions
Host
Darian Shimy
Founder and CEO @ FutureFund Technology
The Art of Networking for Introverts That Drives Sustainable Career Growth
Host
Wen Hsu
Founder & CTO @ Wen Coaching
Handling Change as Your Leadership Role Evolves Over Time
Host
Hale Yaman
Leadership and Executive Coach @ Minerva Coaching
Staying Centered in High-Stress Environments
Host
Kelly Ehret
Leadership Coach and Strategic Consultant @ Latitude Consulting and Strategy
Navigating Career Setbacks: Moving Up After Accepting a Down-Level Role
Host
Wen Hsu
Founder & CTO @ Wen Coaching
Understanding and Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
Host
Hale Yaman
Leadership and Executive Coach @ Minerva Coaching
Self Care in an Always On World
Host
Kelly Ehret
Leadership Coach and Strategic Consultant @ Latitude Consulting and Strategy
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