Oct 13-14, 2026 · San Francisco

ELC ANNUAL

26
Stay Ahead. Lead Change.Grow Yourself and Your Team.
Exclusively for Engineering Leaders.
Hosted by the World's Largest Engineering Leadership Community.

Speakers

Expect 60+ SpeakersSee All

Across engineering executives, AI builders, platform leaders, and hands-on practitioners

We’ll bring together engineering executives and senior leaders closest to the decisions behind AI adoption - how teams choose tools, redesign workflows, measure impact, and turn experimentation into real organizational change.

Discover What's Shaping

the Future of Engineering

Leadership

Discover What's Shaping

the Future of Engineering

Leadership

Discover What's Shaping

the Future of Engineering

Leadership

Discover What's Shaping

the Future of Engineering

Leadership

Discover What's Shaping

the Future of Engineering

Leadership

Come compare notes with engineering leaders and practitioners navigating the same questions: how far teams have gotten with AI, what tools and workflows are working, where adoption gets stuck, and what your next steps should be.

[01]

Strategic Leadership & Personal Growth

Focuses on the evolving responsibilities of engineering leaders and the personal qualities required to lead through uncertainty. Sessions explore vision setting, ethical decision‑making, resilience, storytelling, mentoring and role transitions from manager to VP.

[03]

Talent Development & Performance

Covers the end‑to‑end people lifecycle—hiring, upskilling, managing and retaining talent—while ensuring equitable compensation and performance management. It reflects transcript discussions on building talent pipelines and measuring developer success.

[05]

Emerging Technologies & Responsible AI

Concentrates on AI adoption and other tech trends, with an emphasis on responsible use, ethical considerations, scaling, cost, and regulatory compliance. Sessions also address AI‑driven leadership and practical guidance on moving from experiments to production.

[07]

Leadership Pathways & Career Transitions

Provides role‑specific guidance for managers, directors and executives and helps attendees navigate career moves. The sessions are grouped by leadership level to address their unique challenges while aligning with the broader themes above.

[02]

Organizational Design & Culture

Emphasizes how to structure, scale and sustain engineering organizations. Topics address team autonomy, matrix vs. functional structures, culture shifts, organizational debt, psychological safety and inclusivity.

[04]

Collaboration & Business Alignment

Brings together sessions on customer‑centric engineering, cross‑functional collaboration, product‑led culture and negotiation. The focus is on aligning engineering with product, design, sales, marketing and customers to drive business impact.

[06]

Engineering Excellence & Developer Productivity

Highlights practices and tools for achieving operational excellence and sustained productivity. Topics include balancing innovation and operations, prototyping vs. PRDs, observability and incident response, AI‑powered testing, and metrics to assess the impact of AI on velocity and quality.

[01]

Strategic Leadership & Personal Growth

Focuses on the evolving responsibilities of engineering leaders and the personal qualities required to lead through uncertainty. Sessions explore vision setting, ethical decision‑making, resilience, storytelling, mentoring and role transitions from manager to VP.

[02]

Organizational Design & Culture

Emphasizes how to structure, scale and sustain engineering organizations. Topics address team autonomy, matrix vs. functional structures, culture shifts, organizational debt, psychological safety and inclusivity.

[03]

Talent Development & Performance

Covers the end‑to‑end people lifecycle—hiring, upskilling, managing and retaining talent—while ensuring equitable compensation and performance management. It reflects transcript discussions on building talent pipelines and measuring developer success.

[04]

Collaboration & Business Alignment

Brings together sessions on customer‑centric engineering, cross‑functional collaboration, product‑led culture and negotiation. The focus is on aligning engineering with product, design, sales, marketing and customers to drive business impact.

[05]

Emerging Technologies & Responsible AI

Concentrates on AI adoption and other tech trends, with an emphasis on responsible use, ethical considerations, scaling, cost, and regulatory compliance. Sessions also address AI‑driven leadership and practical guidance on moving from experiments to production.

[06]

Engineering Excellence & Developer Productivity

Highlights practices and tools for achieving operational excellence and sustained productivity. Topics include balancing innovation and operations, prototyping vs. PRDs, observability and incident response, AI‑powered testing, and metrics to assess the impact of AI on velocity and quality.

[07]

Leadership Pathways & Career Transitions

Provides role‑specific guidance for managers, directors and executives and helps attendees navigate career moves. The sessions are grouped by leadership level to address their unique challenges while aligning with the broader themes above.

CategoryTopicSpeaker
Emerging Technologies & Responsible AI

Future AI success hinges on infrastructure adaptability

Ben KusCTO @ Box

Emerging Technologies & Responsible AI

[Q&A] Future AI success hinges on infrastructure adaptability

Ben KusCTO @ Box

Engineering Excellence & Developer Productivity

Prompt to Prod: Engineering an Autonomous SDLC at Scale

Andrew SwerdlowSr. Director of Software @ Roblox

Strategic Leadership & Personal Growth

Leading Through Uncertainty: Decision‑Making in Volatile Times

Chris LyonSVP of Engineering @ Twilio

Organizational Design & Culture

Shaping Your Team for the Chapter Ahead: How great leaders intentionally build culture

Jill WetzlerFractional VPE, Executive Coach & Consultant @ Jill Wetzler, LLC

Organizational Design & Culture

[Working session] Shaping Your Team for the Chapter Ahead

Jill WetzlerFractional VPE, Executive Coach & Consultant @ Jill Wetzler, LLC

Strategic Leadership & Personal Growth

AI won't lead your team: The human side of engineering leadership

Nono GuimbiExecutive Coach & Engineering Leader @ Formerly Airbnb, Slack

Strategic Leadership & Personal Growth

Ethical Decision‑Making & Leadership Integrity

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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

Attendees

By Job Level

25%
CTO, VP, Head of Engineering
15%
Tech Lead, Sr. IC
60%
Manager to Sr. Director

Venue

Fort Mason CenterGateway Pavilion
  • Main stage & breakout tracks
  • Buffet-style breakfast & lunch
  • Redesigned experience
2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, CA 941092 Marina Blvd San Francisco, CA 94109

Ticket

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Curated 1:1 meetings
Curated peer group
Access to all roundtable sessions
Access to 50+ speaking sessions
Access to networking lounge
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Group Ticket

$695Early Bird
Everything included in Standard tickets
Subtotal$2,780
Discount(15%off) - $417
Total$2,363
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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:

Dhara Patel

Dhara Patel

Senior Vice President Of Engineering @ Kinesso

"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."

Alpha Bah

Alpha Bah

Senior Software Engineering Manager @ Linkedin

1/5

"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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