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.

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.

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.

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.

Engineering leadership can be a difficult and sometimes lonely job… But there are a few things you can do to make it easier! This session with Andrew Lau (CEO @ Jellyfish) & Patrick Gallagher (Head of Experience @ ELC) will cover the dynamics that often isolate eng leaders and important sources of internal & external support you can build. Plus they’ll share approaches & key conversations to help your cross-functional peers become more empathetic and better understand the world of engineering!

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.

We’re all looking for ways to improve engineering productivity - so what’s the secret behind great teams? This session with Cyrus Radfar and Ali Irturk unpack some of the invisible elements of culture that can cause dramatic increases in engineering productivity. They’ll cover how to increase ownership and empathy, what creates the right environment driving great documentation, and how to align incentives to help you release faster and with higher quality!

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.