Upcoming events
Join us throughout 2025 for inspiring conferences, workshops, webinars and courses
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
Check out the festival for modern engineering leadership
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Augmented Engineering in Action
In this series, engineering leaders show you exactly how they’re implementing AI. No theory, just production code and proven outcomes.
Upcoming online panels
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In partnership with HarnessHow guardrails enable you to work at AI speed
December 10, 2025 • 5.00PMAI risks we will move faster and break things more. Learn about the guardrails that enable you to safely release in the Age of AI
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In partnership with HarnessHow McDonald’s and JPMorgan Chase safely scale experimentation
December 4, 2025 • 3.00PMLearn how some of the largest multinationals safely run measurable experiments at the speed of AI — with guardrails not gates.
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In partnership with RedgateThe database risks you can’t afford to ignore
December 11, 2025 • 5.00PMFrom compliance breaches to fragile legacy databases, ignore these blinking red lights at your peril
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In partnership with CloudflareEmbrace AI without losing control
December 3, 2025 • 5.00PMHow do engineering leaders move at AI speed without losing control and increasing delivery and security risks? You can do both.
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What is the role of StaffPlus engineers in AI adoption
November 6, 2025 • 5.00PMThe evolving responsibilities of ICs in guiding AI strategy and execution
Free online workshops
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In partnership with HarnessFrom Feature Flags to Measurable Impact
December 17, 2025 • 5.00PMLearn to experiment, measure, mature, repeat
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In partnership with HoneycombHow to understand the value of your code
Using observability tools to code with your eyes open.
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In partnership with CircleCIMove faster without losing control
Overcome the false trade-off between control and agility by rethinking platform governance so that standards become speed multipliers, enabling developer flexibility while reducing risk.
Recent recordings
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In partnership with Harness
How AI is increasing systems resiliency
Facing more code than ever, learn the resiliency best practices used by SREs, including where AI can help
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In partnership with Gitkraken
Measuring the AI impact on developer experience
How to measure the impact of AI tools and agents on developer experience, and link this back to the business
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In partnership with Mabl
Are you ready for agentic testing?
AI agents are no longer hypothetical — but are you ready to give them the keys to your test suite?
The Festival for Modern Engineering Leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
A multi-stage festival of talks, activities, and real-world learning for leaders and their teams
Whether you’re a Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Staff+, Director, VP, or CTO, you’ll leave with ideas and strategies to drive change.
2,500
Attendees
6
Tracks of content
150+
Speakers & Activity Hosts
150
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Featuring
Upcoming conferences
The engineering leadership conference for tech leads and engineering managers.
The technical leadership conference for staff, principal and
distinguished engineers.
Join a vetted audience of Director+ leaders to navigate a fast changing industry.
Join top engineering leaders for fresh insights on leveraging AI, leading high-performing teams, navigating industry volatility, and more.
LeadDev meet-ups are expanding in 2025
We run free events year-round in cities all over the world
Highlights from our recent events
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In partnership with LaunchDarklyFrom code tsunami to controlled innovation: Launching software in the age of AI
How to harness the explosive speed of AI-driven development without losing control, compromising safety, or putting customer experience at risk.
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What does innovation really mean? And how did Games Engineering navigate through it as a “startup” within Netflix
Learn how embracing paradoxes, discovery-driven learning, and integrative decisions enabled collaboration and unlocked innovation at Netflix.
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Hold on, let me prompt that
Explore how to lead with clarity and conviction in the GenAI era, balancing powerful tools with authentic, independent thinking.
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LLMs: An operator’s view
Explore a pragmatic approach to using LLMs to boost team productivity, enhance products, and evolve your leadership strategy.
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Leveling up engineers in an AI-driven world
Learn how to mentor junior engineers in an AI-driven world by reinforcing core skills and balancing AI-assisted workflows.
Recent webinars
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In partnership with HarnessHow AI is increasing systems resiliency
Facing more code than ever, learn the resiliency best practices used by SREs, including where AI can help
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In partnership with GitkrakenMeasuring the AI impact on developer experience
How to measure the impact of AI tools and agents on developer experience, and link this back to the business
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In partnership with MablAre you ready for agentic testing?
AI agents are no longer hypothetical — but are you ready to give them the keys to your test suite?
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In partnership with HoneycombInside our 2025 Engineering Performance Report
Uncover the data behind modern engineering performance and what it reveals about AI, observability, and the future of system reliability.
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In partnership with HarnessAllow anyone to code with AI
How to build a culture that enables even the most skeptical developer to experiment with AI coding tools and fail fast.
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In partnership with O’ReillyMeasuring team performance isn’t getting any easier
Working smarter, not harder, to achieve high velocity.
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In partnership with ChainguardThe surprising habits of high velocity engineering teams
Working smarter, not harder, to achieve high velocity.
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In partnership with HarnessTake the fear out of vibe coding
How to use tried and tested tools and techniques to safely enable engineers to vibe code.
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In partnership with HarnessEscaping your DIY Feature Flags
Feature flags, how difficult can it be? But now it’s day two, and suddenly you’re in the feature flag business.
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How to be an influential leader
The most successful engineering leaders know that influence is the key to driving results, getting buy-in, and getting the task done.
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In partnership with HarnessProve the value of platform engineering
How to justify the cost of your biggest engineering investment.
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In partnership with incident.ioBuilding the dream incident response team
Struggling with incidents? It could be time to assemble an elite response team.
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In partnership with CoderThe perils of context switching
Studies show that it can take 20 minutes to regain focus after a distraction, but what can engineering leaders do to help engineers switch context less often and find flow?
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In partnership with CloudZeroOptimizing cloud costs: Whose job is it anyway?
Who really owns cloud costs? In many organizations, the answer still isn’t clear.
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In partnership with HarnessCrafting the perfect developer platform
From your IDE to CI/CD, where is best to buy vs build?
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How to master change and drive impactful transformation
Change is inevitable—but leading it effectively is a game-changer.
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In partnership with O’ReillyThe metrics you loved to hate in 2024
And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.
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In partnership with SwarmiaWhat are qualitative productivity metrics – and how do we measure them?
If your team is hitting key delivery metrics, we assume everything in the lifecycle before production is sound. However, we know that traditional metrics only tell half the story.
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In partnership with O’ReillyHelping your engineers find time to learn and upskill
Webinar recording: discover how to support your engineers to learn and practice new skills.
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In partnership with CircleCIHow to build experimentation into your technical roadmap
This webinar is for engineering leaders who believe that a strong culture of experimentation drives innovation – and who want to convince peers and stakeholders that it should be part of your technical strategy
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In partnership with SwimmA roadmap to working with your legacy codebases
Gain expert insights on modernizing legacy systems, improving developer satisfaction, streamlining discovery, and effectively documenting complex, large-scale codebases for better productivity and collaboration.
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In partnership with HarnessIs infrastructure as code still fit for purpose?
Explore challenges with Infrastructure as Code, strategies to optimize its management, roles of DevOps teams, and tools for scaling complex multi-cloud environments effectively.
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In partnership with Split by HarnessFail fast, learn faster: Real lessons from failed software releases
Discover real lessons from failed software releases. Learn to manage tech debt, improve communication, and ensure successful rollouts with insights from industry experts.
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In partnership with Logz.ioAn engineer’s guide to making sense of log data
Cloud native technologies have made it harder to understand how systems are behaving. Logs are the answer, but how do you make sense of them?
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In partnership with StatsigHow to grow and scale your feature management process
What’s your approach to releasing and managing new features?
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In partnership with ChainguardDoes ‘shifting security left’ really work?
“Shifting security left” is a term in modern DevOps that refers to the practice of integrating security measures earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
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In partnership with SpaceliftWhat is developer self-service, and does your org need it?
In this webinar, we hear from engineering leaders who have built developer self service ecosystems, and lessons they learned along the way.
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In partnership with Split by HarnessSpeed vs safety: Should we rethink the way we release software?
In this webinar, we ask if it’s possible for engineering leaders to prioritize speed of delivery and proper safety practices.
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How to overcome feeling isolated as a senior engineering leader
Last month, we brought together a panel of engineering leaders to dive into the realities of leadership loneliness and share actionable strategies to combat it.
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In partnership with incident.ioHow does context switching impact team productivity?
In this panel, we’ll dig into why unmanaged context switching is detrimental, and ways you can help developers handle interruptions, and reach (and maintain) a state of focus and flow.
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In partnership with HarnessHow can AI actually help your teams?
In this webinar, our panelists dig into the cultural and technical issues that arise around the topic of AI, and uncover its most useful applications across the SDLC.
