Morning
Session
Managing Creative Teams
James Everingham, VP of Engineering @ Meta
23:12
Zooming out from Engineering
Alyssa Henry, Chanda Dharap
20:20
From Awkward to Agonizing - Mastering Difficult Conversations
Sarah Clatterbuck, Sr. Director of Engineering, YouTube @ Google
21:39
How to Tackle (Organizational) Debt
Jonathan Raymond, Author @ Good Authority
25:14
Technology, Leadership, Opportunity – A Fireside Chat with Max Levchin
Max Levchin, Ben Jun
29:24
Afternoon Session
TRACK 1 STORIES
Career Transitions and Transformations
Lily Chang, Joanne Pons
19:41
Engineering Your (Engineers’) Career(s): Balancing Impact with Personal Growth
Jean-Denis Greze, Head of Engineering @ Plaid
18:58
Scaling an Engineering Team Through Hyper-Growth
Naveen Gavini, SVP, Products @ Pinterest
20:45
Defining Moments in Engineering Leadership
Annie Cheng, Tia Caldwell, Erica Lockheimer, Heather Rivers
32:38
Influence Without Authority
Maria Latushkin, Edward Kim
23:3
From One to Zero: Going Smaller as a Growth Strategy
Xavier Amatriain, Cofounder/CTO @ Curai
19:50
Transitioning from Engineering Leadership to Product Leadership
Nick Caldwell, Christian McCarrick
22:7
Going from 0 to 60 - Building Lyft’s Self-Driving Car Team
Anantha Kancherla, VP Engineering, Software @ Level 5, Autonomous Vehicle Program @ Lyft
21:00
Scaling Technological Influence at Slack
Keith Adams, Chief Architect @ Slack
21:34
Afternoon Session
TRACK 2 - SKILLS
Leading an Infrastructure Engineering Team
Julia Grace, VP, Product Engineering @ Netflix
22:37
Disagree and Commit
Paw Andersen, CTO @ Metromile
12:33
How to Successfully Design Organizational Processes
Will Larson, Chief Technology Officer @ Calm
15:25
What Makes a Great VPE
Sam Wholley, Evan Kaplan, Karthik Rau, Holly Rose Faith, Bret Reckard
28:24
Managing Up - Working with Non-Technical Executives
Scott Shumaker, Joe Dunn
18:44
Building Distributed Teams
Jerry Krikheli, VP of Engineering @ Houzz
16:25
Managing Managers and Beyond
Surabhi Gupta, Head of Engineering @ Robinhood
18:39
Managing in an Agile World
Ron Lichty, Author of Managing the Unmanagable
21:44
The Accidental Bad Manager
Claire Lew, CEO @ Know Your Team
18:21
Evening
Session
The Meaning Revolution in Leadership
Fred Kofman, Advisor, Leadership Development @ Google
50:28
The Role of Engineering Leaders in Recruiting
Aditya Agarwal, Daniel Portillo
28:19
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path To Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman, Sarah Guo
41:18
Oct 13-14, 2026 San Francisco
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