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New York • September 8 & 9, 2027
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Technology is supposed to be the innovation engine of modern companies, but so often technical teams and business-oriented teams don’t speak each other’s language.
Engineering leaders end up sidelined and act as order-takers, instead of working hand in hand with other functions to come up with the best approach to the company’s greatest challenges.
This rarely a fundamental misalignment; it’s a translation problem. We just don’t speak each other’s language or focus on the same concerns.
What if we could incorporate the tool tools into our tool belts that help us understand and think like finance, operations, sales, and marketing leaders?
Emily will highlight the business fundamentals from her MBA program that have most helped her as an SVP of Engineering, helping audience members to recognize and engage with the business forces that invisibly shape our engineering work.
Key takeaways
- Time value of money: How to reason about interest rates and the time value of money and make smart business decisions in the post-ZIRP area
- Think like finance: how accounting and finance concerns invisibly shape our engineering practices, and how we can respond
- Negotiations: tested, ethical approaches to negotiating, for job offers, software contracts, and more
- The trust equation, and tips on building trust with cross-functional stakeholders you may not understand well
