This talk, will go through the core skills any leader needs evolve, as you go first from directly building software, to building teams that build software, to building leaders that build teams that build software.

In this talk IBK will share how you, as a leader, can take a topic and work on it with your team. IBK will also share an example topic and the format that he shared with senior leaders at Shopify.

John Young covers specific, actionable strategies to prepare for turnover – roles and responsibilities, documentation practices, anti-patterns to avoid, and even “chaos monkey” style games – that you can use immediately to make life better both for you and for your team.

Maryam Jahanshahi discusses how studies of the confidence gap impact candidate pools based on millions of recruiting outcomes, describing three specific contexts where we’ve seen the confidence gap manifest.

Nisarga Markandaiah shares the things you can do to ensure success for your team while you are away, as more and more companies offer longer than before parental leaves or sabbaticals.