ELC Annual 2024

We will discuss how GenAI enables changing of processes and saves 35% of engineering time on average on top of the regular GitHub Co-Pilot savings. We will also go through how a Fortune-1,000 company was able to break through and jump from 100% manual testing and delivery every quarter to 91%+ test coverage and deployment several times a day with the help of GenAI tech.

LinkedIn has been using AI for more than a decade. In that time, it has seen the use of ML and AI accelerate and evolve in ways that challenge every organization, but especially a professional network that has reached 1B members and 67M companies. Generative AI has only heightened the interest in wanting to infuse AI into product experiences that must scale, which is why engineering leaders should be thinking about the foundations needed to help their companies reach a new level of impact with AI. Ya Xu (VP of Engineering, Head of Data and AI @ LinkedIn) and Melody Meckfessel (CTO @ Jasper) discuss the three foundational elements every leader should consider - Platforms, Expertise and Culture.

Despite the prevalence of frameworks like DORA and SPACE, measuring and reporting on productivity is still a difficult challenge for engineering leaders. Join this discussion with Abi Noda Abi Noda (CEO @ DX) and Sridhar Ramakrishnan (Senior Director, Developer Experience & Productivity @ Slack) to learn about the just launched DX Core 4, a unified framework for measuring productivity–from the boardroom to frontline managers–and the backstory of how it was created.

The DX Core 4 has been developed through practical experience helping organizations like Netflix, Block, and Dropbox, and through the ongoing developments from the DX research team, which includes Nicole Forsgren (creator of DORA), Margaret Anne Storey (creator of SPACE), and others.

The idea of accumulating marginal gains transformed British cycling from a century of also-ran irrelevance to a decade of world dominance, today every team in every major sport recognizes this as the table stakes of success.

Software isn't a sport, but still: we can have that. A revolution of that caliber is within our grasp. But not if we're measuring CI throughput and doing surveys every six months; by then, all the decisions that matter have already been made. So let's talk about how we can see into our developer processes early, learn how to interpret those signals, and build world-beating teams out of the engineers and leaders you already have.

Join Andrew Lau, Co-Founder and CEO of Jellyfish, as he delves into the critical disconnect between tech engineers and executives regarding AI adoption, productivity, and burnout. Using customer benchmark data, Andrew will share insights on the REAL adoption, utilization, and impact of GenAI on engineering.

Selling to enterprises is notoriously difficult, particularly if you're a small startup, or even a nascent product team within an established company. Enterprises are often the ideal B2B software customer (potential for high $$, lower churn) but come with strict SLAs, extensive data governance and compliance requirements, long sales cycles, and all kinds of red tape, all of which can seem insurmountable to small, fast-moving teams. How do you successfully navigate this process as a small team? In this talk, Aditya shares his perspective on building and selling to enterprises, based on his experience founding Warrant (a highly scalable, centralized authorization service). We'll cover what matters to enterprises, what's negotiable, and how to build a strategy for success.

Building, retaining and growing diverse teams is critical to creating the strongest organizations. Learn why and how to build strong teams from the start, how to retain and grow diverse teams, and ways to grow your own career as an engineering leader with Mikaela Smith (Fractional Head of People @ The New Club) and Nancy Wang (former Director of Product & Engineering / GM @ AWS).

Presented in partnership with The New Club, a members-only network of 1,700+ women in engineering connecting members with the community and careers to excel.