San Francisco · Sep 10-11, 2025 · Exclusive to Engineering Leaders · San Francisco · Sep 10-11, 2025 · Exclusive to Engineering Leaders ·
AI Rewrote Leadership.
Refactor Your Playbook.
Tap into the collective intelligence of top engineering leaders —debug, optimize, and open-source your new leadership toolkit for the AI-first era.
San Francisco · Sep 10-11, 2025 · Exclusive to Engineering Leaders · San Francisco · Sep 10-11, 2025 · Exclusive to Engineering Leaders ·

Speakers

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We’re bringing together top engineering leaders from today’s most innovative companies—alongside experts from product, design, operations, and other key disciplines they work with closely.

Topic Themes

Redefining Tech Leadership
Technology moves fast. Humans don't. Build the vision-setting, storytelling, and emotional-intelligence superpowers that help you lead through ambiguity, drive behavior change, align teams & foster environments of innovation. Gain the skills that turn uncertainty into alignment and change into sustained innovation.
Building AI-Enabled Teams
Innovating in the AI Era
Business & Product
experience
Redefining Tech Leadership
Technology moves fast. Humans don't. Build the vision-setting, storytelling, and emotional-intelligence superpowers that help you lead through ambiguity, drive behavior change, align teams & foster environments of innovation. Gain the skills that turn uncertainty into alignment and change into sustained innovation.
experience
Building AI-Enabled Teams
AI-enabled, fast-moving, and empowered teams are your next competitive advantage. We’ll share how to attract and cultivate talent with AI skills, structure teams and organizations to effectively integrate AI tools, and scale leadership practices to drive innovation, speed, and meaningful business impact in the AI era.
experience
Innovating in the AI Era
AI is accelerating innovation cycles, redefining "value", and collapsing the time from idea to impact. Discover how to redesign your innovation engine and rethink the very nature of how and what you build. Sessions explore the tactical and strategic shifts reshaping product lifecycles and the playbook for building truly intelligent products.
experience
Business & Product
The lines between engineering, product and the business have blurred. Your ability to drive business outcomes is your greatest new lever for impact. We'll focus on the essential product and business skills to act as a true strategic partner—shaping roadmaps, justifying investments, and tying your team's work directly to the bottom line.

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Discover the ultimate engineering leadership experience
Discover
The Ultimate
Engineering Leadership Experience
where you can engage with industry experts, forge
meaningful connections, gain actionable insights
through peer coaching, and acquire practical
skills to elevate your career and drive your
leadership growth.

Memories Recap

Previous Speakers

Two days of keynotes, fireside chats, panels, workshops, and roundtables centered on empowering engineering leaders to grow and adapt in today’s dynamic tech landscape.
Lead with peers, not alone
AI disruption, real strategies
Future orgs, built here
Engineering talks, no fluff
Hard questions, honest answers
Frameworks that actually scale
Real leaders. Real stories.
Why
should you attend?
Connect with a Dynamic Community
Grow your network, deeply
Pause. Reflect. Recharge
Lead with peers, not alone
AI disruption, real strategies
Future orgs, built here
Engineering talks, no fluff
Hard questions, honest answers

Past Attendees

Gainoutside perspectives from across the industry
Past attendees
venue
VENUE
Fort Mason Center
- Gateway Pavilion
  • Brand-new venue
  • Main stage & breakout tracks
  • Buffet-style breakfast & lunch
  • Redesigned experience
2 Marina Blvd,
San Francisco, CA 94109
After a few years at Festival Pavilion, ELC Annual will move to Gateway Pavilion—the newer building on the left—in 2025

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Early Bird Ticket
$495
Early Bird
Price will increase $150 on Aug 8
2 day pass
Curated 1:1 meetings
Access to all roundtable sessions
Access to 50+ speaking sessions
Access to Connect Lounge
Group Ticket
$420.75
Early Bird
Price will increase $150 on Aug 8
Same access as Early Bird tickets
Subtotal
$1,980
Discount
- 15% ($297)
Total
$1,683

What Attendees Are Saying

We asked attendees why they’re excited to join us at ELC Annual with their peer engineering leaders for two days of connecting, learning, and growing and this is what they had to say:
“It's been fun because sometimes when you're in the trenches, you think you're the only one that's going through the same problems: layoffs, how do you manage the team? How do you motivate them? How do you deliver value to the business? How do you partner with different functions within the organizations? It's been amazing to actually see different people from different companies going through the same thing and also picking up a few nuggets from each individual and what they do similarly and differently in order to help the business and the company grow.”
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Alpha Bah
Senior Software Engineering Manager @ Linkedin
“I think the biggest impact is that you feel very supported, right? There are other industry leaders and also it gives you the feeling that you are not alone in this journey. Everyone goes through the same challenges and there are solutions that you might not have thought about but others have gained. Everybody is just willing to talk to each other. Even when I was in the line during lunch I was just standing there alone, but all the people next to me just simply started introducing and talking and there were interesting topics that came up and it's just amazing.”
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Dhara Patel
Senior Vice President Of Engineering @ Kinesso
“It is just so cool to hear about other people's experiences, which I think a lot of the engineering leaders here appreciate. We can talk about concepts and ideas and frameworks, and I love that stuff but there's also hearing specific people talking about specific situations at specific companies where you either get to learn something new or you hear somebody else who had similar struggles to you. And I think that can be very empowering and relatable as well.”
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Maria Kazandjieva
Engineering Leader @ Figma
“After the talks, I was able to have continued conversation with the speakers and I really appreciated that opportunity. It's not really easy to access the speakers in many of these events, in my experience, but here it was a totally different game. It is reassuring, right? I'm not alone in this path. The same challenges and the same struggles are happening. Talking to people who had been through these kinds of challenges and had some tools under their belt, was really invaluable.”
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Mehmet Sencer Karadayi
Former CTO @ Dexter Energy Services
“It was refreshing in many ways to know that I'm not alone and it also gave me a new perspective. That's really what I'm looking for is to just think and rethink in different ways. I've got so many things I want to take back with the team and try out.”
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Sarah Boaz-Shelley
Sr. Engineering Manager @ Salesforce

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