ELC Spring Summit 2022

Your product is great, gaining traction and your team is growing fast - great news! But success like this opens up a new class of challenges and requires an expanded set of leadership/management skills that both you and your team must develop. This fireside chat with April Chang and Charley Ho will explore early-stage growth challenges like how to grow people into new roles, set first-time managers up for success, transition into a manager-of-managers, teach your team to recruit, and introduce layers without slowing down decision-making!

In this fireside chat, Sri Shivananda and Joel Beasley cover some of the principles and frameworks that have made the greatest impact on Sri’s career as an engineering leader. They’ll cover Sri’s approach to organizational transformation, Sri’s COWS method to pick the right technology, build vs. buy, areas to look for when you’re building a pipeline of leadership, and recognition and disruption of patterns through self-reflection.

Broken data is costly, time-consuming, and nowadays, an all-too-common reality for even the most advanced data teams. In this talk, I’ll introduce this problem, called “data downtime” — periods of time when data is partial, erroneous, missing or otherwise inaccurate — and discuss how to eliminate it in your data ecosystem with end-to-end data observability. Drawing corollaries to application observability in software engineering, data observability is a critical component of the modern DataOps workflow and the key to ensuring data trust at scale. I’ll share why data observability matters when it comes to building a better data quality strategy and highlight tactics you can use to address it today.

Data-driven decision-making (DDDM) is the golden rule of this decade. Today, every company uses facts, metrics, and data to guide business decisions. Teams use them to achieve goals, objectives, and initiatives. In this keynote, you will hear real-world examples of how executives are accidentally misguided. Chu-Cheng, Chief Data Officer of Etsy, will share pitfalls, myths, and lessons that cost millions of dollars of opportunity loss he encountered in his career. He will also share practical tactics to spot these pitfalls early so you can avoid costly lessons at work.

Hiring talent is a challenge for all engineering leaders. We want talent wherever we can get them. This conversation with CTO of Remote Marcelo Lebre gives us a glimpse of his approach to manage a thriving remote team.

In her talk, Solmaz Shahalizadeh shares tech independent principles for scaling AI that can be implemented in any organization, and any domain. Walking the audience through her own journey, Solmaz will illustrate how these principles enabled Shopify to go from implementing one successful model, to now having over 100 models in production across all aspects of the business.

We will walk through some of the anti-patterns around hiring that are common. Learn to spot behaviors that aren’t serving you or your organization so you can make better decisions.

After CoderPad acquired CodinGame late last year, the company has been working through a countless number of challenges as they're moving from a 5 people team to a 100+ team worldwide in 3 years. In this session, Loïck Michard extracted key takeaways they've learned merging two engineering teams that span people, process, product and planning for you to consider acquisition as a really efficient growth and diversity lever.