Latest videos
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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 QodoCode quality in the age of AI
A governance framework for engineering leaders.
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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 HarnessHow to build the guardrails your AI releases actually need
Too many organizations are relying on existing guardrails when it comes to AI-generated code.
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Game time: A playbook to (unsuccessfully) 10x in a week and (successfully) 10x in a year
A candid scaling story about why rushed 10x efforts fail, and how disciplined metrics, culture, and architecture win over time.
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Rethinking how distributed teams deliver complex tech
Practical patterns for delivering complex work across distributed teams while improving inclusion, decision quality, and team autonomy.
Highlights from our conferences
Measure for Change
Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.
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Drive product gaps as an engineering leader
Discover practical strategies for engineering leaders to influence product development effectively, even in the absence of strong product management and a clear company vision.
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Growth in a downturn
In this talk, Smruti Patel asks, if hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like?
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Idea to Innovation
Join me as we embark on a journey to dissect the anatomy of innovation, uncover strategies to unlock the full potential of ideas, and transform them into impactful realities. Let’s build a strong culture of innovation, and make sure that it is not just a buzzword but a tangible outcome.
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Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons
Explore the key lessons and skills Audrei gained during their first Staff+ project, Slack Enterprise Key Management. This talk offers insights for anyone growing in their Staff+ career.
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Lessons from 100 P0 incidents
Hard-won patterns for designing systems and leading teams to detect failures sooner, respond faster, and limit the blast radius.
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Engineering leadership in 2026
Explore what 600+ engineering leaders revealed about how their roles, priorities, and challenges are changing in 2026.
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In partnership with VercelAgentic triage for tackling technical debt
A practical look at using agents to separate urgent system issues from backlog noise, without removing human judgment.
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We doubled engineering productivity at eBay, but couldn’t change culture
Learn how to use stories to improve your influence as a leader.
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Look for the helpers
This is a talk about showing up for each other, in the work we do and in our communities at home.
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How to grow your engineers into great leaders
Clear signals, habits, and opportunities that help individual contributors grow into effective managers long before the title changes.
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Engineering at scale: Why developer experience is your competitive advantage
How reducing developer friction at scale boosts velocity, quality, and retention, and becomes a real competitive edge in the AI era.
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400 Tech Leads. Same problems. None of them technical.
Why tech leads struggle despite strong technical skills, and the small leadership shifts that remove overload, friction, and self-doubt.
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Shipping secure, reliable and high performance AI agents
A hands-on engineering guide to building AI agents that stay secure, reliable, and fast in real, high-stakes production systems.
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One silver bullet: Adaptability
Hire for adaptability over pedigree, and build teams that can learn, grow, and deliver in a changing industry.
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In partnership with incident.ioDon’t wait for an outage to improve your reliability
A reliable system isn’t just about your infrastructure. Learn to effectively leverage game days to train engineers and build resilience before real incidents force you to.
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In partnership with Skiller WhaleAI productivity at enterprise scale
Turning AI adoption into real productivity gains requires changing habits, building skills, and scaling learning across the entire organization.
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Taming the legacy system monster
Learn how to document, stabilize, and modernize legacy systems without risky rewrites or single-person dependencies.
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In partnership with DockerShip 10x code safely with agents
Learn how to safely turn AI-generated code into shipped software without slowing developers or compromising enterprise governance.
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The Staff Engineer’s playbook: Intellectual shift to systemic impact
A practical framework for making the Staff Engineer leap, shifting from solving tasks to defining strategy and delivering lasting systemic impact.
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Most MCP servers are collecting dust. Why and how to avoid that.
How to design MCP servers that deliver the right context, stay secure, and actually get used in real workflows.
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Building resilient engineering teams when failure is the default
How teams operating under constant failure build resilient systems and cultures by assuming outages are normal, not exceptional.
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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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Updatable repos: Duolingo’s journey to a golden path
A real-world story of reducing microservice sprawl by embedding best practices into templates that teams actually want to adopt.
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What does a CTO even do?
A reverse-engineering framework to help engineering leaders broaden impact, break growth ceilings, and develop the skills required for senior technical leadership.
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How we introduced quality engineering and made everything better!
How modern quality engineering reduced deployment time dramatically while improving developer experience through iterative, sustainable change.
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In partnership with CoderThe 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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Up and down the management track: Equalising your leadership style across the pressure of scale
A real-world guide to shifting your mindset and skills as you move between managing people, managers, and entire organizations.
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Moving accessibility from debt to done at giffgaff
How accessibility became part of everyday engineering, improving inclusion and business impact without slowing delivery.