ELC Annual 2025
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ELC Annual 2025

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About this Event

Join us for a one-of-a-kind gathering designed specifically for engineering leaders navigating the AI-first era — the Un-Conference for Engineering Leaders. This immersive, highly interactive experience is built around meaningful conversations, peer collaboration, and real-world problem-solving. Step away from traditional conference formats and into a space where you’ll debug, refine, and open-source your leadership approach alongside some of the most forward-thinking leaders in tech.

In a world reshaped by AI, this is your opportunity to evolve your leadership toolkit — with insights, strategies, and connections that meet the moment.

Roundtable Discussions

Engage in thought-provoking roundtable discussions facilitated by industry experts, where you'll have the opportunity to actively participate, share your insights, and learn from your peers. These intimate sessions will dive into the most pressing topics facing engineering leaders today, exploring leadership strategies, career development paths, and the latest advancements in technology.

Speaking sessions

Get ready for inspiring, close-up conversations with influential leaders who are actively shaping the future of engineering in the AI-first era. These intimate speaking sessions go beyond the stage — offering a rare chance to engage directly with trailblazers who are rethinking org design, redefining product strategy, and leading high-performing teams through rapid transformation. Ask the questions that matter, explore the realities of AI-driven leadership, and gain insights that will help you lead with clarity and impact in a world where everything is being rebuilt.

Past speakers include industry leaders like Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, Adam Grant, as well as CTO/VPE from Stripe, OpenAI, Google, Dropbox, Pinterest, Atlassian, Slack, etc.

1:1 Meetings

Immerse yourself in meaningful 1:1 conversations with industry veterans, mentors, and fellow engineering leaders. This unique opportunity allows you to connect on a deeper level, seek advice, and establish valuable professional relationships that will extend beyond the conference walls.

Topics

You’ll explore how to redefine tech leadership in an AI-driven world—adapting leadership approaches to empower diverse, high-performing teams. Dive deep into building and managing AI-enabled teams that harness cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation and operational excellence.

Through sessions on the AI engineering toolbox, discover the platforms, design patterns, and emerging technologies that are shaping the future of engineering. Gain fluency in AI concepts essential for modern engineering leaders, enabling you to effectively integrate AI into your strategy and execution.

Beyond these, the conference also focuses on the intersection of business and product, offering an AI-native executive playbook to align engineering initiatives with organizational goals and market demands. This holistic approach ensures you leave with actionable insights to innovate boldly and lead your organization confidently in the AI era.

What to Expect

Leave with a fresh perspective, practical takeaways, and a network of like-minded professionals dedicated to pushing the boundaries of engineering leadership. Break away from the traditional conference model and experience the power of conversation and connection at the Un-Conference for Engineering Leaders. Join us and be a part of a transformative event that will shape your leadership journey and set you on a path to unparalleled success.

Please note that this is just a preview of the event, and more exciting details are coming soon. Stay tuned for announcements regarding our esteemed speakers, comprehensive agenda, and in-depth topics that will shape the event. Get ready to be inspired, connected, and empowered at the Un-Conference for Engineering Leaders.

Speakers (20)
Founder's Coach and Partner @ Sequoia Capital, Former SVP Engineering @ Google; Former SVP Engineering @ Google
Head of Engineering, ChatGPT @ OpenAI
Chief Engineering Officer @ Duolingo
CTO @ Vercel
CTO @ Stealth, xVPE Google
Founder & CEO @ Glean
CEO & Co-founder @ Stacklok, Co-Creator of Kubernetes
CTO @ Linktree
CEO & Co-Founder @ Harness; Former Founder @ AppDynamics
Chief Engineering Officer @ Amplitude
SVP of Engineering @ PagerDuty
VP of Engineering @ Figma
Head of Insights @ Figma
Founder and CEO @ Reforge
Chief AI Officer @ Dialpad
CEO & Co-founder @ Fireworks AI
CTO @ Superhuman
Co-founder and CTO @ Abridge
VP of Engineering @ Harvey
CEO and Co-founder @ Palona AI
Agenda
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PDT
Check-In & Light breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PDT
Check-In & Light breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PDT
Check-In & Light breakfast
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Micro-Leadership: How One Sentence Beats Ten 1:1s
Jonathan Raymond
Founder & CEO @ Ren
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Scaling Innovation in the AI Era: The Startup-Within-a-Startup Playbook
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
Generate actually working code with AI (10X improvement)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
Product Taste in the Age of AI: Building Products People Actually Love
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Leading in the Agentic Software Era: Vision, Technology, and Execution for Breakthrough Velocity
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Macro Industry Shifts Impacting Engineering Leadership & Operating Strategy in the AI-First Era
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
The AI Impact Framework: A Data-Driven Model for Adoption, Productivity, and Business Outcomes
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Building Production-Ready AI Agents
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Managing Complexity at Scale without Overwhelming Your Engineering Culture
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Measuring What Matters - The QuADS Framework
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT
AI Adoption: From Buzzword to Business Impact
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
From Research Lab to Record-Breaking Product: How OpenAI Engineered for Unprecedented Scale
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
How engineering execution needs to change in an agentic AI-first world
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
Vector Databases, a deep dive
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
From Measurement to Action: Live Demo of AI-Driven DevEx Optimization
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Real-World Experiments in Reshaping Your Org, Interviews, & Infrastructure to Build AI-Enabled Teams
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
The No-Nonsense Approach to AI Agent Development
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Engineering in the Age of AI--Aligning Work to What Matters Most
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Break
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM PDT
From Toil to Triumph: Real-World Journeys to Platform-Driven Software Delivery
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
40% Faster, 100% Different: The Cultural Transformation Behind Amplitude's AI Week
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
Solving authentication for MCP servers
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
How to measure AI’s impact on developer productivity with DX
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Beyond the Screen: Designing Tomorrow’s Interfaces with Voice, Vision, and Multimodal AI
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Generate actually working code with AI (10X improvement)
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
AI Coding for Leaders: From Zero to Demo
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Beyond Benchmarks: Building & Assessing Generative AI Products in High-Stakes Domains
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM PDT
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
Blurring Roles and Sharpening Skills: The Paradox of AI and Collaboration
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PDT
Check-In & Light breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PDT
Check-In & Light breakfast
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Choosing with Confidence: Cutting Through the AI Noise Before It Kills Your Org’s Momentum
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Lessons learned at Duolingo on using Generative AI for product development
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
From Fear to Fluency: A Human-First Framework for Leading Through AI Acceleration & Disruption
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
The Bottom-Up Adoption Journey: How AI Is Reshaping Our Roles, Org, Workflows & Culture
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
AI as a Force Multiplier: Reshaping Developer Productivity & Accelerating Decision-Making
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Product Development, Prototypes & Rapid Iteration in an Al-Powered World
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT
How the Engineering Executive Playbook Must Change When Code is No Longer the Source of Truth
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT
The AI Divide: 5 Decisions Separating AI Success From Stagnation
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
How Datadog is transforming into an AI-first company
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Break
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Beyond the Hype: Measuring the Real Impact of AI-Assisted Engineering
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Inside HeyGen’s AI-Native Engineering Org
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
The surprising strength of product taste
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September 10, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT
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Gateway Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
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