Upcoming events
Join us throughout 2026 for inspiring events, workshops, online panels and meetups
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
Check out the festival for modern engineering leadership
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
Join 2,000+ engineering leaders at the first-ever LDX3 New York!
Upcoming online panels
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In partnership with Harness
Derisking releases in the AI era
March 5, 2026 • 5.00PMLearn the secrets of doing leading edge progressive delivery and experimentation in the real world.
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In partnership with Harness
How building greener software cuts your bottom line
March 12, 2026 • 5.00PMLearn how to integrate carbon awareness into the culture of your engineering organization.
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In partnership with Dash0
A blueprint for agentic observability
March 18, 2026 • 5.00PMFewer dashboards, more insight. Here’s how to get started with observability agents.
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In partnership with xMatters
Are you ready for agentic incident response?
March 19, 2026 • 5.00PMPreparing for a world where AI agents join your on-call rotation.
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In partnership with Harness
Why AI necessitates a platform model
March 25, 2026 • 3.00PMIn order to get the most out of your AI investment, platform engineering is needed to tackle cross-organizational, enterprise complexity
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In partnership with Harness
From Feature Flags to Measurable Impact
In this workshop, you can actively experiment with and benchmark your organization’s level of maturity.
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In partnership with Honeycomb
How to understand the value of your code
Using observability tools to code with your eyes open.
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In partnership with CircleCI
Move 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
Avoiding cost drift in the age of AI
You’ve heard of configuration drift, now cost drift could be the answer to your cloud bill woes.
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In partnership with Gitkraken
How to measure the business impact of AI
The CFO conversation is coming. Here’s how to be ready.
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In partnership with Causely
What’s your telemetry data really trying to tell you?
Data alone was never enough. Here’s how to start surfacing real context from dashboards, instead of just watching the alerts pile up.
The Festival for Modern Engineering Leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
Whether you’re a Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Staff+, Director, VP, or CTO, you’ll leave with ideas and strategies to drive change.
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Upcoming in-person events
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
We run free events year-round in cities all over the world
Highlights from our recent events
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In partnership with LaunchDarkly
From 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 Harness
Avoiding cost drift in the age of AI
You’ve heard of configuration drift, now cost drift could be the answer to your cloud bill woes.
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In partnership with Gitkraken
How to measure the business impact of AI
The CFO conversation is coming. Here’s how to be ready.
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In partnership with Causely
What’s your telemetry data really trying to tell you?
Data alone was never enough. Here’s how to start surfacing real context from dashboards, instead of just watching the alerts pile up.
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In partnership with Octopus Deploy
Why good teams rely on bad workarounds
Messy workarounds aren’t a symptom of careless teams, but of delivery pipelines that aren’t fit for purpose. Here’s how to root out the unnecessary friction.
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In partnership with Postman
How to avoid platform engineering anti-patterns
What to do when your “golden paths” aren’t being used.
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In partnership with Chainguard
Rooting out sneaky sources of toil
What to do next when unplanned work is killing velocity.
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In partnership with Dash0
Are you ready for agentic observability?
Designing for observability in the age of AI.
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In partnership with FusionAuth
User authorization just got 10x harder
What your old permissions model misses when AI agents are your users.
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In partnership with Cloudflare
How to prioritize when modernizing legacy systems
The path to app modernization isn’t about fixing everything at once – it’s about fixing what matters most.
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In partnership with Harness
Database changes slowing you down? There’s a better way
Is it time to bring database administrators into the DevOps circle?
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In partnership with
Are you ready for the next generation of incidents?
Incident response was never easy. AI is about to make it harder.
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How to get buy-in when you’re not the boss
Practical strategies for influencing without authority in cross-functional teams
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In partnership with Vercel
Bridging the gap between requirements and technical detail
How to translate business needs into a clear technical roadmap? Leave ambiguity at the door
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In partnership with Harness
Is it time to shift cloud cost ownership left?
Why the path to faster releases and innovation starts with putting developers first.
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How engineering leadership is changing in 2025
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 Swarmia
Diagnosing productivity issues in your engineering organization
Join LeadDev’s first-ever virtual workshop for a strategic guide to maximizing engineering effectiveness in your org.
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In partnership with Harness
How better developer experience drives results
Why the path to faster releases and innovation starts with putting developers first.
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In partnership with Harness
Your guide to proactive tech debt management
With high-profile outages striking increasingly frequently, incident prevention and readiness are critical, but not at the expense of speed or innovation.
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In partnership with Harness
Incident response before the incident
With high-profile outages striking increasingly frequently, incident prevention and readiness are critical, but not at the expense of speed or innovation.
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Break silos and build cross-functional bridges
Cross-functional alignment is what makes (or breaks) teams. When engineering, product, and business come together to navigate conflict, foster collaboration, and encourage shared ownership, progress soars.
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How to master the perfect pull request
Pull requests are an essential part of collaborative development, but one that’s often rushed or fraught for teams juggling increasing workloads and competing priorities.
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In partnership with DX
What to do with developer productivity metrics
There’s no shortage of data available for leaders looking to measure developer productivity, but what happens after you’ve set up your dashboards and the numbers start rolling in?
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In partnership with Harness
Escaping 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 Harness
Prove the value of platform engineering
How to justify the cost of your biggest engineering investment.
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In partnership with incident.io
Building 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 Coder
The 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 CloudZero
Optimizing 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 Harness
Crafting 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.
