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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In partnership with GitkrakenThe AI agent metrics framework
A hands-on workshop where you will learn how to measure the environment, behavior, and outcomes of your 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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Rethinking how distributed teams deliver complex tech
Practical patterns for delivering complex work across distributed teams while improving inclusion, decision quality, and team autonomy.
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The shadow culture: Why engineering principles fail under load
Why engineering principles collapse under pressure, and how redesigning systems makes the right behavior the easy default.
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Your problem isn’t the monolith. It’s the data.
How disciplined data ownership and contracts prevent architectural decay and enable systems to evolve without traumatic rewrites.
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The AI-augmented leader: Architecting your own virtual Chief of Staff
A practical case study on building a personal AI assistant to reduce context switching, automate management work, and reclaim strategic focus.
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 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.
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Debugging self-doubt: A framework for building confidence
Explore a practical framework for tackling self-doubt with a debugging mindset to build lasting confidence and stronger teams.
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The twin mandate: What leaders still don’t get about observability
Learn why many teams miss observability’s full potential and how leaders can unlock exceptional engineering performance through it.
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The joy of being wrong
Discover how rethinking assumptions drives better decisions, strengthens leadership, and builds more adaptive, collaborative teams.
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Target architecture – Align. Execute. Deliver.
Explore how defining a clear target architecture boosts alignment, speeds up execution, and scales teams through better decision-making.
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Machine learning in production. The hidden effort
Uncover the hidden engineering work behind real-world ML products, from scaling and orchestration to cost control and team alignment.
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Couple’s therapy for product and tech
Learn how to build a strong, lasting partnership between product and tech through alignment, trust, and intentional collaboration.
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Journeys in diversity – what difference really means
Discover what true inclusion means by exploring practical ways to support neurodivergent colleagues and create genuinely diverse teams.
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We brought AI into our sprints, here’s what changed
Explore how integrating AI into product sprints changed team habits, improved delivery, and revealed what works and what breaks in practice.
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Rethinking interviewing in an AI era
Explore how to redesign technical interviews for an AI era by focusing on real-world thinking, communication, and human-centered evaluation.
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Migrations done right: Success stories and lessons learned
Learn proven strategies for executing large-scale system migrations safely, using incremental rollouts, clear planning, and strong stakeholder communication.
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Latency, load, and leadership: Building a team nervous system
Discover how to build feedback systems that detect early stress signals, enabling healthier, more resilient, and productive teams.
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Building AI into critical systems: Lessons learned
Learn how the Financial Times built AI into paywalls and retention systems, navigating trade-offs, risks, and real-world complexity at scale.
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No promotion. Now what!?
Explore how to navigate promotion denial with resilience, clarity, and strategy to reignite career growth and fulfillment.
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Try, try again
Learn why intelligent retries are essential for resilient systems, and how to implement them safely with proper limits and timing.
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Your career isn’t stuck – you’re playing by the wrong rules
Discover what true inclusion means by exploring practical ways to support neurodivergent colleagues and create genuinely diverse teams.
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Onboarding as a manager: How AI changed my first months
Learn how AI can support new engineering managers by accelerating context gathering, easing overwhelm, and enhancing team understanding.
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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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Mind the gap: Navigating the staff+ performance cliff
Explore why new Staff+ leaders often feel lost and how to rebuild confidence, clarity, and impact after the transition.
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In partnership with Augment CodeHow Tekion enabled 1,300 employees to work with agents
Join Jawahar Prasad, senior director of engineering at Tekion, to hear how they are enabling thousands of users to work with AI agents.
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Taking a seat in the C-Suite: Transitioning from the highest-level operational roles to the executive team
A look at the transition to executive leadership, examining the skills, mindset, and priorities needed to succeed.
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Transforming tradition: The journey to product-led growth
Learn how Dow Jones is embracing a product-first mindset to drive radical transformation and deliver innovative customer and consumer experiences.
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In partnership with DXLeadership in AI-assisted engineering
Explore proven leadership strategies for AI-assisted engineering, fostering adoption, productivity, psychological safety, and measurable organizational impact.