Latest videos
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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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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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High-performance tech talent: Build, don’t buy!
Learn how CodeYourFuture develops diverse, high-potential individuals into advanced engineering roles while helping companies build exceptional, sustainable tech talent.
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Leading leaders: Why your greatest strengths are your next blind spots
This talk challenges common assumptions and shares what it really takes to move from doing the work to enabling others to do it even better.
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In partnership with CloudflareDetect malicious attacks at 84M RPS with ML under 500us
A deep dive into the high-performance, distributed architecture and machine learning optimizations Cloudflare uses to detect malicious attacks at a global scale with sub-millisecond latencies.
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Engineering leadership in 2025: Thriving when budgets shrink
Find practical strategies for leading engineering teams through budget pressure by aligning decisions with impact, focus, and value.
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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In partnership with Shopify
No more ad-hoc requests!* From data service to data product teams
In this talk, I’ll walk through what it would take to achieve this for your organization. If you’re a data or engineering leader and have struggled with managing internal work in progress of your data teams, this talk is for you.
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In partnership with GitLab
Integer overflows, bad UX, and other ways to waste $870 million
Learn how a DevSecOps mentality is intended to overcome the biases we have for simplicity in our human model of complex systems.
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Navigating the manager <> senior IC relationship
In this panel, we’ll explore the senior IC manager relationship, thinking about how to create a mutually beneficial partnership.
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To kill it with fire, or not to kill it with fire?
This talk explores the technical, organizational, cultural, and psychological factors that matter when we choose between full rewrites or incremental change.
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Technical strategy power chords
This talk will be most useful for folks just getting started with technical strategy, but even virtuosos may get a useful tip or two.
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Scaling Incident Management: How we grew Google Meet 50x during COVID19
This talk will cover how we organized the work — human, technical, and organizational — needed to prevent outages while we strove to keep ahead of pandemic-driven explosive product growth, and we’ll apply it to future long-running, large-scale incidents.
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Project Execution: Setting-up a cross-team project for success
In this panel, we’ll be focusing on successful strategies for landing big projects. We’ll discuss the principles of how to plan, conceptualize, and deliver big projects.
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Role and Influence: The IC trajectory beyond Staff
As you become an increasingly senior IC, subtle changes in the scope of your role shape the kinds of influence you can have and are expected to have
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Live long and prosper as a senior IC
In this chat, we’ll explore how Vulcan logic can inform communicating and acting ethically.
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What is senior IC? Flavours of technical leadership
Although the Senior IC ladder is starting to become more defined why aren’t more people talking about this shift, and what does leadership actually look like as Senior IC?
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The delegation equation
In this storytelling session Leslie Chapman, Distinguished Engineer, will explore the right ways and times to delegate, and the pitfalls of not delegating properly.
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Sculpting data for machine learning
In the contemporary world of machine learning algorithms – data is the new oil
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In partnership with Lohika
Cultivating effective cross-functional relationships
In this panel, we’ll explore how engineering departments can form strong relationships with other teams.
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Sturgeon’s Biases: how communities of practice lie to themselves & everybody else
In this talk, I’ll explore these problems through the lens of Sturgeon’s Revelation usually stated as “ninety percent of everything is crud”!
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Holding effective coaching conversations
Explore how to hold effective coaching conversations as leaders.
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Down with the “Boss”
As a manager and senior leader, this talk will give you a good high-level outline of different areas of growth that should be on every manager’s career development framework.
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Eight timezones, one cohesive team
Leading a globally distributed engineering department that spans eight different timezones is no walk in the park. It takes a lot of effort and intention to make it all work.
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Crafting efficient on-call processes
In this panel, we’ll discuss the fundamentals of an effective on-call process – thinking about how to diagnose your current state, iterate and improve, and how to avoid mistakes along the way.
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Managing up for engineering leaders
Is managing up bad?
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Seeking and receiving feedback as an engineering leader
In this panel, we’ll explore how engineering leaders can actively seek and receive feedback, and how to interpret feedback to steer self-improvement.
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Fixing ‘neutral’ hiring policies to stop excluding the best candidates
Assess candidates on potential and not on their past experience.
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Best practice for seamless product integration
How to achieve successful integration within existing infrastructure
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In partnership with RollbarSourcing the perfect product for your team
Avoid the quick-fix and find the best product for your needs
