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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.
Topics
Expect 60+ TopicsFuture AI success hinges on infrastructure adaptability
Ben KusCTO @ Box
[Q&A] Future AI success hinges on infrastructure adaptability
Ben KusCTO @ Box
Prompt to Prod: Engineering an Autonomous SDLC at Scale
Andrew SwerdlowSr. Director of Software @ Roblox
Leading Through Uncertainty: Decision‑Making in Volatile Times
Chris LyonSVP of Engineering @ Twilio
Shaping Your Team for the Chapter Ahead: How great leaders intentionally build culture
Jill WetzlerFractional VPE, Executive Coach & Consultant @ Jill Wetzler, LLC
[Working session] Shaping Your Team for the Chapter Ahead
Jill WetzlerFractional VPE, Executive Coach & Consultant @ Jill Wetzler, LLC
AI won't lead your team: The human side of engineering leadership
Nono GuimbiExecutive Coach & Engineering Leader @ Formerly Airbnb, Slack
Ethical Decision‑Making & Leadership Integrity
Memories Recap
Previous Speakers
Past Attendees
Venue
- Main stage & breakout tracks
- Buffet-style breakfast & lunch
- Redesigned experience
Ticket
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
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
Senior Software Engineering Manager @ Linkedin
"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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