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Thirty-plus in-depth, sixty-minute sessions across the tracks that matter most to engineering leaders. No keynote fluff — just the material.

34
SESSIONS ON THE BOARD
Sixty focused minutes each
4
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
From AI adoption to agile
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT ✦ AI ADOPTION ✦ LEADERSHIP ✦ TALENT ACQUISITION & TRAINING ✦ AGILE METHODS ✦
34 / 34 SESSIONS
01 / SESSION CATALOG
Alexander von Zitzewitz

Alexander von Zitzewitz

FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, HELLO2MORROW

02 SESSIONS
01 Software Metrics for Tech Leaders 02 Why Architecture Matters to Tech Leaders
Christopher Judd

Christopher Judd

CTO OF MANIFEST SOLUTIONS

02 SESSIONS
01 Achieve Goals with SMART WINS 02 Leading ME-llennials
Kate Wardin

Kate Wardin

SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER @ NETFLIX

04 SESSIONS
01 Becoming Bill Belichick v2 02 The Dao of Tech 03 The most uncomfortable conference session ever 04 Time is on my side!
Michael Carducci

Michael Carducci

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT & MAGICIAN

06 SESSIONS
01 Cautionary Tales of Dysfunctional Leadership 02 Finding Signal in the Noise: The art of Execution 03 Leadership: How to be a Force Multiplier 04 Managing Tech Teams: Rules, Tools & Insights 05 Technical Leader Checklist 06 Effective Leadership - The Six Principles of Persuasion
Esther Derby

Esther Derby

AUTHOR OF 7 RULES FOR POSITIVE PRODUCTIVE CHANGE. CO-AUTHOR OF BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: SECRETS OF GREAT MANAGEMENT AND AGILE RETROSPECTIVES.

04 SESSIONS
01 Change by Attraction 02 Leaders at All Levels 03 Managing Complexity 04 Micro Shifts, Macro Results
Venkat Subramaniam

Venkat Subramaniam

FOUNDER @ AGILE DEVELOPER, INC.

04 SESSIONS
01 Slowdown to Gain Speed: Technical practices that take time but save time 02 Effecting Change—The Art of Leading Teams 03 Identifying and Removing Impediments 04 Seven Technologies to Keep an Eye On
Tudor Gîrba

Tudor Gîrba

CEO/SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTALIST AT FEENK.COM

03 SESSIONS
01 Explainable software VISUALIZATION 02 Software assessment: the discipline of technical decision making 03 Storytelling in a technical world DESIGN
Llewellyn Falco

Llewellyn Falco

INDEPENDENT AGILE COACH

02 SESSIONS
01 Lessons learned from 'The Phoenix Project' & 'The Goal' 02 Technical Coaching Tips - How to drive meaningful lasting changes in behaviors
Mark Richards

Mark Richards

INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE ARCHITECT, AUTHOR OF FUNDAMENTALS OF SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

01 SESSIONS
01 Archived
Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten

FORWARD LEANING SOFTWARE ENGINEER @ BOSATSU CONSULTING

02 SESSIONS
01 Machine Learning Strategies 02 Security and the Organization: Roles and Responsibilities
Hans Dockter

Hans Dockter

FOUNDER OF GRADLE

01 SESSIONS
01 Developer Productivity at Scale: Using data and acceleration techniques to improve essential processes
Chris Maki

Chris Maki

FOUNDER & CHIEF ARCHITECT OF RIP CITY SOFTWARE

02 SESSIONS
01 WYVIWYG - What you value is what you get 02 Managing teams in chaos
Laine Minor

Laine Minor

IT & HUMAN ARCHITECT

01 SESSIONS
01 Solving Software Delivery Pain: What Hurts and Why it Matters
Josh Smith

Josh Smith

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

01 SESSIONS
01 Solving Software Delivery Pain: What Hurts and Why it Matters
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