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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.

32
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 ✦
32 / 32 SESSIONS
01 / SESSION CATALOG
Venkat Subramaniam

Venkat Subramaniam

FOUNDER @ AGILE DEVELOPER, INC.

03 SESSIONS
01 Effecting Change: The Art of Leading Teams 02 Technical Leadership in an Agile Environment 03 Habits of a Highly Effective Technical Manager
Kate Wardin

Kate Wardin

SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER @ NETFLIX

04 SESSIONS
01 Foundations of Tech Leadership LEADERSHIP 02 Emotional Intelligence for More Effective 1-1s 03 Next Level Software Development 04 Removing Perceived Limits
Sam Snyder

Sam Snyder

VP OF ENGINEERING @ MODERNE

01 SESSIONS
01 AI’s Big Leap: From Sidekick to Autonomous, Multi-repo Refactoring Powerhouse
Adam Tornhill

Adam Tornhill

FOUNDER OF CODESCENE & AUTHOR OF "YOUR CODE AS A CRIME SCENE"

03 SESSIONS
01 Prioritize Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matter 02 The productivity trap: Meet the perils and promises of AI-assisted coding 03 Benchmarking Code Quality Excellence: Gain the Competitive Edge
Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman

SPEAKER, CONSULTANT, AUTHOR FOR MANAGING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

04 SESSIONS
01 Need to Convince Management? How to Build a Business Case 02 Expand Your Critical Thinking Toolbox: How to See Your System 03 Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers 04 Four Years of Lessons Learned About Successful Distributed Agile Teams
Pete Behrens

Pete Behrens

FOUNDER/CEO @ AGILE LEADERSHIP JOURNEY

04 SESSIONS
01 AI is a Force Multiplier – What are you multiplying? LEADERSHIP 02 Power & Influence: Leading Beyond Your Title LEADERSHIP 03 The Expert Trap: When Technical Skill Limits Leadership Impact LEADERSHIP 04 Organizational Tension is not the Problem, it's the Point LEADERSHIP
Billy Williams

Billy Williams

SPEAKER, SEEKER, WRITER, IGNITER, AND GLOBAL POVERTY FIGHTER

01 SESSIONS
01 Leading from Within: Strategies for Personal Excellence and Team Success
Michael Carducci

Michael Carducci

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT & MAGICIAN

05 SESSIONS
01 Effective Leadership - The Six Principles of Persuasion 02 Finding Signal in the Noise: The art of Execution 03 Managing Tech Teams: Rules, Tools & Insights 04 Personal Knowledge Management Second Brain Methods and Madness 05 The Innovation Playbook INNOVATION
Ryan Shriver

Ryan Shriver

CTO OF COMMONWEALTH SAVERS

01 SESSIONS
01 Start your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery
Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten

FORWARD LEANING SOFTWARE ENGINEER @ BOSATSU CONSULTING

03 SESSIONS
01 Useful Strategies for AI 02 Security in the Organization 03 Navigating the AI Landscape: Strategic Insights for Tech Leaders
Jonathan Schneider

Jonathan Schneider

MODERNE - CEO & CO-FOUNDER

01 SESSIONS
01 The State of Large-Scale Code Modernization: AI, Languages, Security
Pat Cullen

Pat Cullen

CTO OF YEARONE

02 SESSIONS
01 Engineering Strategy: A Practical Toolkit from Ground-Up to Scale-Up 02 Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned: Ten Years Leading Tech Teams
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