The Leadership Conference
For Engineering Managers & Tech Leaders
- 837 Tech Leaders
- 14 Sessions
- Free Masterclasses
What to Expect
Driving Innovation in Agile Teams
Discuss strategies and best practices for fostering a culture of innovation within agile development teams. Explore how to balance the need for creativity with the structured processes of agile methodologies.
Managing Kubernetes Clusters at Scale
Discuss best practices and advanced strategies for managing large-scale Kubernetes clusters, focusing on reliability, performance, and security.
Scaling Engineering Teams: Challenges and Solutions
Address the challenges of scaling engineering teams in a growing organization. Highlight common pitfalls and share effective solutions to maintain productivity and team cohesion.
Leveraging Data and Analytics for Engineering Management
Explain how data and analytics can be utilized to make informed decisions in engineering management. Discuss tools and techniques for tracking team performance and project progress.
Building a DevOps Culture: Best Practices
Explore the journey of integrating DevOps practices into an organization. Share lessons learned, best practices, and the impact on development speed and quality.
Ethical Considerations in Software Engineering
Delve into the ethical responsibilities of engineering managers and tech leaders in software development. Discuss how to create ethical guidelines and ensure compliance within teams.
Building Robust CI/CD Pipelines with GitOps
Dive into GitOps practices to create robust, declarative CI/CD pipelines that enhance deployment automation and system reliability.
Cost Optimization Strategies in Serverless Architectures
Examine methods for controlling and optimizing costs in serverless computing environments, ensuring budget efficiency while maintaining performance.
First Speakers Released!
Simon Hall
CTO @Payaut
Simon Hall is the Chief Technology Officer at Payaut where he leads the engineering, product, and operations. With over a decade of experience in technology leadership, he strives to build simple, understandable and effective organizations, processes and platforms. Before Payaut Simon worked in technology advisory for BCG Platinion and Accenture where he helped organizations with their IT organizations and systems.
Julia Flament-Wallin
Engineering Manager @TomTom
Julia Flament - Wallin is a Value driven Engineering leader with a strong technical background working at TomTom. She gravitates towards AI, Data Engineering, cloud, NLP and graph stuff.
Anneke Keller
CTO @Postnl
Anneke is currently the CTO of PostNL and has been working in the technology industry for 25 years. She has led IT teams through transformations, starting with KPN, where she helped the telecommunications company transition into a service organization and enter new markets like mobile and internet. At TomTom and Coolblue, Anneke's leadership saw huge growth in their IT departments. At Jumbo, she founded and led the Jumbo Tech Campus, significantly enhancing their online proposition. Her last employer, the e-commerce company Wehkamp, benefited from her expertise as she guided the IT organization through the challenging market conditions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ronald Allard
Technology Lead @Postnl
Ronald Allard has been working at PostNL for 3 years as Technology lead.
Oskar uit de Bos
Engineering Manager @Albert Heijn Technology
Oskar uit de Bos is an Engineering Manager at Albert Heijn with over fifteen years of experience in coding, architecture, building strong teams and delivering great products. Transitioned from the software consultancy world to the retail tech industry and loving it every day!
Laura Bell Main
CEO and AppSec Specialist @SafeStack
Laura Bell Main is recognized as a global leader in developing secure software. As the CEO of SafeStack, a leading secure development education platform, she helps software development leaders worldwide engage their entire team in cyber security. She is the co-author of "Agile Application Security" (O’Reilly Media) and "Security for Everyone" (Holloway). Her work has been featured in many international publications, including WIRED and MIT Tech Review. She has presented at BlackHat USA, and RenderATL, as well as leading international software development and cyber security conferences.
Steve Sewell
CEO @Builder.io
Steve is the Co-founder and CEO of Builder.io and the creator of the Mitosis open-source project.
Milica Aleksic
Software Developer @Baldin Soft
As an experienced software engineer with a background in developing successful React and React Native apps, Milica is passionate about teaching and mentoring others in the tech industry. She is particularly dedicated to supporting and empowering women in tech and inspiring young girls to pursue careers in technology. Along with her technical knowledge, Milica is also a frequent speaker at tech conferences, where she shares her insights and knowledge with the community.
Annie Hodgkins
Director Analyst @Gartner
Advisor and thought partner to Heads of Software Engineering and their teams. Passionate about platform engineering, DevOps and software development. Active outdoors enthusiast, skier, and hiker. Avid reader of all genres. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Last Year Speakers
Georgeana Trofim
VP of Engineering @Booking.com
Technology leader experienced in building and scaling high performing organizations, in fast paced innovative environments. As Booking.com’s Senior Director of Software Development, she is responsible for key elements of Booking.com's platform and one of the drivers of the technology strategy in the Accommodations business. She oversees software development and reliability teams, as well as leading the software architecture function in Accommodations.
Emma Bostian
Engineering Manager @Spotify
Emma is a US-American who moved to Stockholm, Sweden 3.5 years ago. She's an Engineer turned Manager at Spotify. She's a LinkedIn Learning and Frontend Masters instructor and in her free time enjoys reading books and playing with her daughter, Freja.
Cato Bui
Global Chief of Staff @DEPT®
Cato Bui is a professional with extensive experience in strategy, innovation, and consulting. She is currently the Global Chief of Staff at DEPT®, a pioneering technology and marketing services company that creates end-to-end digital experiences for global brands such as Google, Audi, KFC, Patagonia, Twitch, eBay, and Philips. We help our clients to pioneer by investing in innovation, and by leveraging our proprietary tech, data, and knowledge platforms for all our clients worldwide. We are experts in Technology Strategy & Architecture, Mobile App & Web Development, CX/UX, Commerce Platform, Cloud Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence. In 2022, the company launched WEB3/DEPT® - a global team of over 300 specialists including solidity engineers, ethicists, economists and game designers to build Web3 and the Metaverse. Before joining DEPT®, Cato held various positions at Google, including Agency Strategist and Google for Startups Operations Lead. In these roles, she owned and grew a portfolio of full-funnel advertisers, combining her knowledge of sales and the digital economy with her entrepreneurial drive to enable brands to further expand their businesses. Cato also has experience in consulting at Deloitte and strategy and innovation at ABN AMRO Bank. In 2017, she co-founded a cleantech startup in the maritime industry.
Marek Kiszkis
Software Engineer @Netflix
Marek Kiszkis has been developing software for the last 10+ years, at companies like IBM, Google, and most recently, Netflix. He believes in simple solutions to complicated problems.
Rachel Nabors
Software Developer
Rachel Nabors has spear headed developer education at FAANG companies like Amazon and startups like Clerk and participated web standards and opensource with Mozilla, the W3C, Microsoft. They have built award winning dev portals for React and React Native with the core teams at Meta. They are currently roaming the world, working on opensource projects that teach the world to code from their homebase in London.
Igor Sydorenko
Senior Manager, AEM/WF/Commerce @Adobe
With over 15 years of development experience, 12 of which were dedicated to Magento development, and 8 years in consulting, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table. Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a passion for delivering high-quality solutions and a commitment to continuous improvement.
Sven Peters
DevOps Advocate @Atlassian
DevOps advocate at Atlassian, has been studying trends in software development for the last 15 years uncovering the cultural and technical attributes to help development teams work effectively and drive innovation. He has 20 years experience in writing code, leading teams, and sharing his experience with thousands of developers at uncountable conferences in 25+ countries.
Daniel Thompson-Yvetot
Cofounder @Tauri Apps
Open Source Advocate and the co-founder of Tauri Apps. He currently occupies the seat of Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Tauri programme, which is the commons-focussed governance body for the greater Tauri community. His work over the past decades has been at the intersections of technology and culture, with a dash of philosophy and heaping portions of compassion. He is the CEO of CrabNebula, a company partnered with Tauri and offers tools to make devs' lives better and their apps more robust. He lives and works in Malta.
Claude Warren
Senior Open Source Software Engineer @Aiven
Claude Warren is a Senior Software Engineer with over 30 years experience. He is currently employed by Aiven in Best, Netherlands where, as a member of the Open Source Program Office. He works on the Apache Cassandra project, and supports other projects. He is a Committer and Project Management Committee member on the Apache Jena project, has contributed to other Apache projects such as commons-collections, commons-codec, and RAT. He has contributed to the Raspberry PI pi-gen tool and has several small open source projects on Github. He has presented papers at several conferences and has several papers published both in the popular IT press and in refereed journals. He is a founding member of the Denver Mad Scientists Club and winner of the original Critter Crunch competition.
Ronen Agranat
Software engineering management @Booking
A seasoned engineering leader with proven track record in high-volume, customer-facing product delivery, I combine my experience in business with my strong engineering background and people-first focus to create a high-performing organisations that innovate, achieve the mission, and go the extra mile. My experience spans entrepreneurial apps and businesses through to start-ups, scale-ups and Fortune 500 companies. I am a passionate, committed, hardworking and goal-oriented team player, who believes in the long-term vision while delivering value every step of the way.
Shivany Powani
Senior Technical Program Manager @C&A
Shivany is a seasoned Senior Technical Program Manager at C&A, situated in the vibrant city of Berlin. With a decade-long career, she has spent the past 7 years immersing herself in the fast-paced world of fintech and payments technology, a domain that continues to both captivate and challenge her on a daily basis. A true advocate for leadership, Shivany derives great satisfaction from cultivating meaningful connections and fostering vibrant communities. Alongside her professional endeavors, she has embraced a new role as a first-time mother to a spirited toddler, firmly upholding the belief that one can harmoniously integrate ambitious professional pursuits with the joys of motherhood.
Daniel Gebler
Chief Technology Officer @Picnic
Daniel Gebler is CTO of Picnic, the world's fastest growing online supermarket that makes grocery shopping simple, fun, and affordable for everyone. Previously, he was Director R&D of Fredhopper, responsible for the product and technology roadmap, and led engineering teams located in Amsterdam and Sofia.
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Tech Leader Masterclasses
Your ticket includes Free Masterclasses designed specifically for engineering managers and leadership roles. It's tailored to equip you with the knowledge and strategies needed to lead and make informed decisions for your team and as a company.
Grow Your Network
Make Professional Connections for Life whilst bonding with your whole engineering Team at our Daily Networking Areas, Mixers and Meetups throughout Amsterdam.
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