Summary
From Vision to Buy-In: Getting Engineering Teams to Align Around a Technology Direction
You have a strong technical direction—but the team is unconvinced, priorities are competing, and “just getting consensus” is slowing everything down. How do you build buy-in without relying on title or authority?
Drawing on experience leading complex platform and architecture decisions, this interactive roundtable will unpack practical ways to frame the problem, navigate disagreement, clarify who decides, and turn a vision into action. Bring a real alignment challenge and leave with approaches you can use immediately.
Host
Seema Joshi
Head of Engineering @ Atlassian
Seema Joshi is Head of Engineering at Atlassian, where she leads a global organization building and operating business-critical data platform services at cloud scale. During her tenure, she has scaled engineering teams, delivered multiple Tier 1 platforms from zero to one, strengthened platform reliability and operational maturity, and developed leaders across a broad technical portfolio. Previously, she led engineering teams at Groupon supporting high-volume consumer experiences; her 20+ year career spans hands-on development through executive leadership across the full technology stack.
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