Upcoming events
Find fresh ideas, useful conversations and new connections.
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
Close the gap between where you are and need to be.
London • June 28 & 29, 2027
Learn what’s working for engineering leaders right now.
New York • September 8 & 9, 2027
Get fresh perspective on the challenges you’re facing.
Upcoming online panels
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In partnership with ChainguardClose the maintenance gap AI created
October 7, 2026 • 4.00PM39% of AI-generated code gets rewritten within two weeks. Here’s how to catch it first.
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In partnership with HarnessWhat breaks when AI opens pull requests
October 8, 2026 • 12.00PMGitOps was built for humans, not agents.
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In partnership with TaxnovaInside the engineering finance paradox
October 14, 2026 • 4.00PMThe CFO discussion is coming. Here’s how engineering leaders can prepare for it.
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In partnership with LaunchDarklyControlling your AI software factory
October 15, 2026 • 12.00PMHow do you stay in control of systems that never stop evolving?
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In partnership with GitkrakenProve your AI gains, then improve them
October 21, 2026 • 4.00PMTurn real usage data into a clear read on your agents’ ROI — and a plan to improve it.
Upcoming demos
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In partnership with Cockroach LabsLive Demo: Cockroach Labs
October 9, 2026 • 5.00PMSee resilience in action with Cockroach Labs. This live demo will show how distributed databases stay available through failures, keep data consistent, and isolate workloads, all without manual intervention.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployShipping at the Speed of AI: Deployment Guardrails for the LLM Era
October 8, 2026 • 3.00PMSee how Octopus Deploy helps engineering teams keep pace with AI-driven development. This live demo explores how Platform Hub adds the guardrails teams need to ship faster while maintaining control over what reaches production.
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In partnership with MablLive Demo: Mabl
October 6, 2026 • 3.00PMSee how mabl is helping teams keep testing up to speed with AI-driven development. This live demo covers plain-language test creation, self-healing tests, AI code verification, and faster CI testing with automatic failure analysis.
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In partnership with AntithesisFast, Safe, Ambitious: Choose 3
October 1, 2026 • 3.00PMSee how Antithesis uses deterministic simulation testing to help teams move fast without compromising reliability. This live demo explores how teams can test complex systems, uncover hard-to-reproduce failures, and build greater confidence into the SDLC.
Recent recordings
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In partnership with Stanford University
What are durable leadership skills in 2026?
As code becomes cheaper, communication skills gain value.
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In partnership with Twingate
Your customer wants to run your software in their cloud. Now what?
Sales agreed to run your software in the customer’s cloud. Here’s how engineering leaders keep that from becoming an unmanageable second product.
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In partnership with Octopus Deploy
How to InnerSource your platform
Open the platform to developers without rebuilding from the ground up.
Free online workshops
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In partnership with Gitkraken
How to track your agents
A hands-on workshop where you’ll use a dashboard to track your AI agents.
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In partnership with Gitkraken
The AI agent metrics framework
A hands-on workshop where you will learn how to measure the environment, behavior, and outcomes of your agents.
For engineering leaders when the job is changing faster than the playbook
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
The pressure is real.
Find what works.
You’re expected to deliver results from AI, keep your team from burning out, and close the gap between what leadership expects and what’s actually possible. And do all of it without a clear engineering leadership playbook.
LeadDev Berlin is where that changes.
Featuring
Upcoming in-person events
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
Join 1500+ engineering leaders in Berlin to find what works when the pressure is real and the job is changing faster than the playbook.
London • June 28 & 29, 2027
Join Europe’s largest concentration of engineering leaders for ideas, conversations, and learning across every leadership level.
LeadDev meet-ups are expanding in 2026
We run free events year-round in cities all over the world
Highlights from our recent events
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AI-native development: How to actually get the most out of your agents
This talk covers spec-driven development as a way to give agents better constraints, large language model (LLM) gateway and routing strategies for managing which model handles which task, test-driven development adapted for an agent-first workflow, and verification practices built for the volume and pace of AI-generated code.
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The first rung: Where the next generation of engineers will come from
A look at how apprenticeship can help engineering leaders develop the next generation of technical talent for an AI-enabled world.
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Beyond CI/CD: How platform abstractions unlocked developer productivity at scale
In this talk, I will share how our platform engineering team made a deliberate investment to simplify service-to-service connectivity by introducing uniform platform abstractions and out-of-the-box discovery.
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You’re already building a software factory
This session will give you a blueprint for building out your team’s factory, both technically and organizationally.
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Legacy as leverage: How brownfield work builds technical judgment
In this talk, I’ll share how brownfield work builds engineering judgment in ways greenfield environments often do not.
Recent webinars
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In partnership with Stanford UniversityWhat are durable leadership skills in 2026?
As code becomes cheaper, communication skills gain value.
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In partnership with TwingateYour customer wants to run your software in their cloud. Now what?
Sales agreed to run your software in the customer’s cloud. Here’s how engineering leaders keep that from becoming an unmanageable second product.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployHow to InnerSource your platform
Open the platform to developers without rebuilding from the ground up.
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In partnership with FlutterflowThe missing layer between product and engineering
When product and engineering domains overlap, full-context awareness becomes the bottleneck.
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In partnership with HarnessDon’t let AI model changes break your workflow
Build the tooling, guardrails, and context-rich practices to mitigate constant model turnover.
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In partnership with FusionAuthThe real impact of AI on software engineering
Live findings, real benchmarks, and what engineering leaders should do next.
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In partnership with HarnessYour AI coding spend is soaring, but can you prove its ROI?
How to map spending to outcomes before the next budget review.
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In partnership with HarnessGovernance is the platform problem worth solving
How to embed AI governance into platform engineering.
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In partnership with HarnessHow to clean up the tech debt your AI is creating
Because you can’t afford not to.
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In partnership with ChainguardHow to build trust into your AI agents
The habits engineering leaders need to scale agentic AI, without scaling risk.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployHow much autonomy do you give autonomous agents?
It’s important to find your trust threshold when working with AI agents.
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In partnership with CodeRabbitHow can you trust your AI agents?
Agentic explainability matters more than ever.
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In partnership with HarnessShift to signal-driven software quality
Learn why traditional approaches to code quality are collapsing in the face of AI code generation.
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In partnership with ChronosphereDo we need AI agents to fix our AI agents?
Assessing your readiness for observability agents.
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In partnership with StoryblokWhat are engineers getting paid for now?
As organizations ‘hire’ more agents, we need to talk about how we evaluate and value human engineers.
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In partnership with HarnessHow do you know your AI investment is worth it?
Delivering more stuff doesn’t mean you’re delivering more value to end users.
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In partnership with Octopus DeploySafe production changes with agents
A flexible codebase is a good one, especially in the age of AI-assisted development.
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In partnership with Coder LeadDevThe high cost of AI immaturity
How to assess where your org sits on the AI adoption scale, and the strategic levers you can pull to move it forward.
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In partnership with GitkrakenMake AI productivity gains stick
How to build a measurement framework for what comes after AI adoption.
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In partnership with QodoIs AI killing your software quality standards?
Maintaining code quality in an AI-first world.
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In partnership with CodeRabbitWhat to do when there’s too much code to review
AI coding tools and agents are pushing organizations to produce more code than ever, but with mostly the same number of humans to review. Something’s got to give.
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In partnership with xMattersYour blueprint for automated incident recovery
Learn how high-performing teams are orchestrating incident response for more rapid recovery.
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In partnership with HarnessCase Study: Feature Flags IRL
Learn how this ecommerce company increased mobile conversions by 30% with careful, rollbackable experiments.
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In partnership with ChainguardAccountable engineering in the age of AI
The new wave of AI-driven threats are everyone’s problem. So who owns the solution?
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In partnership with HarnessHow to rethink software releases in the age of AI
AI has had a tremendous impact on the act of coding, but software release processes haven’t adapted to keep up. Let’s change that.
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In partnership with StoryblokWhat to do when everyone thinks they’re a developer
Shielding teams and systems from the rise of the citizen developer.
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In partnership with HarnessWhy AI necessitates a platform model
In order to get the most out of your AI investment, platform engineering is needed to tackle cross-organizational, enterprise complexity.
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In partnership with xMattersAre you ready for agentic incident response?
How engineering leaders are testing autonomous remediation in live environments — and the guardrails they rely on.
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In partnership with Dash0A blueprint for agentic observability
Fewer dashboards, more insight. Here’s how to get started with observability agents.
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In partnership with HarnessHow building greener software cuts your bottom line
How to make leadership care about cloud costs and emissions.
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In partnership with ChainguardRooting out sneaky sources of toil
What to do next when unplanned work is killing velocity.
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In partnership with Dash0Are you ready for agentic observability?
Designing for observability in the age of AI.