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LD BER 23 - Smruti Patel

The 'How to' conference for boosting engineering impact

  • How to be a more effective leader and get the best out of your engineers
  • How to boost morale and maintain reliability with a small team
  • How to deliver more impact for your business
  • How to thrive in challenging times
  • How the latest tooling can increase your speed

LeadDev Berlin is full of practical ideas and real-world insights that will empower you and your teams to deliver better results

Confirmed speakers for 2024

Lena Reinhard Engineering Leadership & Executive Coach
Anjuan Simmons GitHub Staff Engineering Manager
Meri Williams Pleo CTO and Advisor
Nickolas Means MedScout VP of Engineering
Lara Hogan Fly.io VP of Engineering
Aman Bakshi Booking.com Senior Engineering Manager
Irina Stanescu The Caring Techie Founder & CEO - Engineering Leadership Coach
Ayelen Chavez OLX Group Head of Engineering
Najla Elmachtoub Engineering Leader
LD BER 23 - Speed coaching

Make connections and share your experience in the break activities

  • Join table talk discussions on anything from AI tooling to development performance metrics
  • Chat with the speakers in Office Hours
  • Participate in speed coaching or listen in on a coaching session
  • Find out the next steps to advance in your career and from our AMA Next Steps panel
  • Discover new tooling options from our sponsors in the exhibition hall

Watch some of the best talks from last year's conference

AI for software development: A reality check

Birgitta Boeckeler

AI for software development: A reality check 
Birgitta Boëckeler, Thoughtworks

Making work (and life) less stressful by making better decisions 

Nicky Thompson

Making work (and life) less stressful by making better decisions 
Nicky Thompson, FutureLearn

We should all be declaring more incidents 

Martha Lambert

We should all be declaring more incidents 
Martha Lambert, incident.io

How to completely fail at learning 

Hywel Carver

How to completely fail at learning 
Hywel Carver, Skiller Whale

Leading a distributed team out of a war zone: Lessons in resilience and adaptability 

Bohdan Kit

Leading a distributed team out of a war zone: Lessons in resilience and adaptability 
Bohdan Kit, Tumblr

Pleasing everyone, except yourself: Overcoming people-pleasing tendencies to become a stronger engineering leader 

Nikita Rathi

Pleasing everyone, except yourself: Overcoming people-pleasing tendencies to become a stronger engineering leader 
Nikita Rathi, Taxfix

The 2-day event that will make a year of difference.

I don't know any conference that combines leadership and tech as well as LeadDev.

Stefanie Tinder
Amboss Group Engineering Manager

My first non-technical conference, I wish I could've attended it before I got my manager position...

Alexey Tishchenko
Ottonova Team Lead software Engineering

There's a sense of community that I wasn't expecting and that's definitely down to the atmosphere the organisers curated.

Alastair Payne
Slice Engineering Manager

Meet the folks who help shape the event

Our expert advisory board identifies the biggest challenges you're facing as an engineering leader, so the agenda is laser-focused on current issues and how you can tackle them head-on.

LeadDev Advisory Board - full colour

Past speakers at LeadDev Berlin

Pat Kua Seasoned Technology Leader
Birgitta Boeckeler Thoughtworks Principal Consultant
Gergely Orosz The Pragmatic Engineer Author
Smruti Patel Apollo GraphQL VP of Engineering
Giorgos Ampavis Tide VP of Engineering
Joy Ebertz Split.io Principal Software Engineer
Chris Jimenez Zenjob Director of Platform Engineering
Anita Singh Gorillas Director of Engineering

Early bird tickets for LeadDev Berlin 2024 are available!

Early bird tickets are limited. Reserve your place today and save 27%. The offer ends on June 28, 2024.

Hosted at the Estrel Congress Center in Berlin

LeadDev Berlin is hosted at Estrel Congress Center - one of Berlin's largest and most modern event spaces. Sit back and soak up all the ideas on offer, and connect with over 1,000 engineering leaders.

BER 23 - Stage - Estrel

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