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6 years of Growth in 6 months: Life at a Startup
There are so many different ways to grow in our industry, and one of the best potential shortcuts to turbocharge your growth is to join a hyper growth startup. You will be given responsibility beyond your title, you will wear many hats—you will experience a ton in a shorter, intense period of time.
We’ll discuss ways to succeed at these startups: how to have a growth mindset, to keep an open-mind and optimize for learning above everything else. During your time at one of these companies, it's imperative to try and absorb the enthusiasm and knowledge that you will be able to glean from everyone around you, and to in-turn learn to foster and share your energy with others.
We’ll also touch base on learnings beyond engineering: you will be in a position to influence cross functional partners—there are few other roles where you as a senior leader will have such a critical part to play in the running of the company.
Xiao Guo & Brian Ge · Jan 27th, 2023
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Lindsey Simon · Jan 27th, 2023
Your Career Path: From the Outside, from the Inside
How you look back and forward at your career will shape you. If you can learn to visualize the story of your future you can make choices today to grow to new heights. If you're exploring new opportunities, the way you pre-tell that story will help you to know if you've found your next right thing or not.
In this session Lindsey will walk through his career journey and share tales of paths taken and not - how they look from the rear-view mirror and what the future holds at Vercel.
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Ashley Puls · Jan 27th, 2023
Leading Staff Engineers
Great! You have hired a very technical and very senior staff engineer. Now, how do you decide which projects are best for this engineer? How do you keep such a technical engineer engaged? Do you give them more architectural work or hands on coding work? How do they work with your teams? This session is all about engaging and leveraging your most senior engineers. Having been a staff engineer and now managing them, I plan to share my successes and failures. By the end of the session, you should have some good models to bring back to your company.
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Prachi Gupta & Chris Chiu · Jan 27th, 2023
Growth Through Transitions
At the beginning of 2020 Discord was a small SF-based startup with millions of users and a small team of engineers. Prachi was just hired as head of engineering…and then the world changed.
Today, Discord is a hybrid company with 150 million users and hundreds of engineers distributed across the U.S. In this session, Prachi will take us through her journey of evolving a beloved product during the pandemic, expanding her family, and growing the team, while still remaining agile and focused on building belonging and community. She will share strategies on execution, lessons learned through startup trials, and how to give away your Legos.
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Khawaja Shams · Jan 27th, 2023
The Craftsmanship of Building Your Team
There is no better predictor of a leader’s success than the caliber and passion of their team. Leaders are measured by the output of their teams - and legendary leaders take pride in handcrafting their team. Despite having such a profound impact on one’s success, leaders often find it impossible to prioritize the warranted diligence. Handcrafting a team is tough. It takes grit, patience, and a lot of work. This provocative session will inspire you to go all in on building your team. We cover the fundamental building blocks to help you become an awesome recruiter, a source of energy for your existing team, and shaping the culture of your team.
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Vinod Marur & Ali Irturk · Jan 27th, 2023
Making the Transition from Large to Smaller Companies
What's helped you succeed in the larger company you are at / or left, seldom translates in the new smaller company you find yourself in. Embracing the differences and adjusting to the constraints is crucial for you, the team, and the company you join. In this session, we explore the mindset & leadership shifts required to make the transition from large established companies to startups. Vinod Marur shares about his journey from senior leadership at Google to becoming SVPE @ Databricks, how to look for opportunities, adopt the right mindset, effectively make the transition, and leverage your past learnings in a constructive way.
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Nidhi Gupta · Jan 27th, 2023
Scale Yourself as a Leader
As you go from Engineering Manager, to Director, to VPE, your role fundamentally changes. As your responsibilities grow, you need to evolve as a leader. This evolution also necessitates what you focus on, and more importantly, what you don't! Join Nidhi for this talk to hear what this journey looks like and how you can get prepared.
This will be a fun and interactive session. Be ready to walk away with a leadership roadmap.
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Annie Cheng, Claire Hough, Lisa Gelobter & 1 more speaker · Dec 29th, 2022
Making Bold Decisions and Taking Risks in Your Career — The Journeys of 3 Women Leaders
How to combat imposter syndrome and build the project of your dreams
What would you do if you were not afraid? Studies show that women tend to be more cautious and less self-assured than men in their career decisions. Fear of imperfection, being not able to live up to the expectations of the job, or making mistakes is what often holds us back. But growing in your career requires taking risks. Every successful leader has stories about how their failures led to their success, but sometimes we forget that process happens at every stage of our careers, and in every part of the organization as well as outside of it — in our day-to-day lives. In this session, our panelists — influential women leaders in tech — will talk about how overcoming fears, accepting risks, and making bolder moves have helped them excel in their careers.
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Cal Henderson & Maria Kazandjieva · Dec 22nd, 2022
Becoming a Force Multiplier
In this session, we explore the leadership journey of Cal Henderson and the different ways he had to evolve as “force multiplier” through the different phases and scales at Slack. We cover the early days of eng leadership at Slack, different inflection points/phases & scales at Slack where Cal needed to scale-up or transform his approach to leadership, and how “thinking like an engineer” helped him become a force multiplier for the company. Plus we discuss debugging management (and other topics).
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Oksana Kubushyna · Dec 14th, 2022
Turn Your Career into a Rocket
In her 8 years at Riot Games, Oksana has been promoted at least 5 times into major new and ever-increasing in scope roles, starting as a producer on a team of 5 and ending up as VP of Operations.
In this talk, hear her tips and tricks on how to propel your career forward, making sure you get noticed for and trusted to take on new and bigger opportunities.
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Nichole Wischoff & Emma Tang · Jun 28th, 2022
Intro to Angel investing w/ ELC Angels Pt. 2
In the 2nd segment of our 3-part series on angel investing for engineering leaders, Nichole Wischoff and Emma Tang dive into the practical elements of angel investing focusing on the relationships you'll establish, acquiring deal flow, and building your brand as an angel investor.
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