ELC Spring Summit 2022
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Data Science
# DataOps
# Observability
# AI
# Technology
Data-driven is Not-So-Easy: Pitfalls and Myths in Trusting Experiment Conclusions
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.
Chu-Cheng Hsieh · Apr 22nd, 2022
Barr Moses · Apr 22nd, 2022
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.
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Technology
# DataOps
# Observability
# Collaboration
Solmaz Shahalizadeh · Apr 22nd, 2022
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.
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Team Structure
# Product Engineering
# Scaling
# Data Science
# Org Design
Bill Coughran & Melody Meckfessel · Apr 22nd, 2022
In this fireside chat, Bill Coughran and Melody Meckfessel discuss different dynamics to help your engineering org become a strategic advantage to your company. They’ll cover how to leverage feature/system “simplicity,”how to weigh when you should bring insights into your product usage, when to strategically bring in SREs, and how to balance tech debt and refactor work.
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Culture
# Execution
# Leadership
# Strategy
# Product Engineering
Loïck Michard · Apr 22nd, 2022
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.
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Change Management
# Collaboration
# Communication
# Culture
# Distributed Teams
# Management
David Singleton · Apr 22nd, 2022
Stripe CTO David Singleton shares insights from the first decade-plus of the company's history, from building the Stripe API to launching its remote-first engineering hub in 2019. Learn how the company has approached the challenges of managing change, growing its product ecosystem, and keeping a laser focus on the end-user experience.
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Change Management
# Culture
# Team Building
# Strategy
# Leadership
# Motivation
# Platform Engineering
# Org Design
April Chang & Charley Ho · Apr 22nd, 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!
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Career
# Communication
# Collaboration
# Culture
# Leadership
# Management
# Team Building
Cynthia Tham & Marcelo Lebre · Apr 22nd, 2022
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.
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Collaboration
# Communication
# Culture
# Distributed Teams
# Hiring
# Management
# Org Design
# Recruiting
Sri Shivananda & Joel Beasley · Apr 22nd, 2022
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.
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Change Management
# Communication
# Culture
# DevOps
# Leadership
# Stakeholder Management
# Technology
Clarence Chio & Ryan King · Apr 22nd, 2022
To grow your engineering team from 200 to 1,200+, you can expect many different phase changes in your org. How might your role change and what can you anticipate along the journey? This fireside chat with Ryan King and Clarence Choi explores how Ryan’s role has evolved over the last 10 years at Chime through different phases of Chime’s growth. They’ll cover how team topologies have changed, how he’s hired senior leaders/VPEs for different phases of the company, how goal setting changes, and other great insights to help you scale your org to the next level!
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Leadership
# Motivation
# Org Design
# Prioritization
# Start-ups
# Productivity
# Hypergrowth
# Change Management
Jiani Zhang · Apr 22nd, 2022
This session with Jiani Zhang and Patrick Gallagher will cover some of the emerging trends and critical areas of focus for both startup and established engineering orgs. You’ll learn about how to overcome challenges with recruiting senior engineers, build resilience against uncertainty and churn, and leverage mentoring programs to bridge the gap between junior and senior engineers!
# Spring Summit - 2022
# Change Management
# Resilience
# Recruiting
# Strategy