ELC Summit 2019 Recap

ELC Summit 2019 Recap

For more details - https://sfelc.com/summit2019

Speaker lineup:

• Reid Hoffman, Partner @ Greylock Partners, Co-founder of LinkedIn
• James Everingham, Head of Engineering @ Facebook
• Aditya Agarwal, Partner-in-Residence at South Park Commons; former CTO @ Dropbox
• Fred Kofman, Advisor, Leadership Development @ Google; Author of Conscious Business and The Meaning Revolution
• Alyssa Henry, Head of Seller & Developer Business Units & Infrastructure Engineering @ Square
• Sarah Clatterbuck, Director of Engineering, Youtube @ Google
• Surabhi Gupta, Director of Engineering, Homes @ Airbnb
• Sarah Guo, General Partner @ Greylock Partners
• Jerry Krikheli, VP of Engineering @ Houzz
• Julia Grace, Sr. Director of Infrastructure Engineering @ Slack
• Dan Portillo, former Talent Partner @ Greylock Partners
• Paw Andersen, former Sr. Director of Engineering @ Uber
• Scott Shumaker, VP, Client Engineering @ Credit Karma
• Naveen Gavini, Head of Product Engineering @ Pinterest
• Annie Cheng, former VP of Engineering @ Nauto and Yahoo
• Maria Latushkin, SVP Engineering @ Omada Health
• Will Larson, Head of Foundation Engineering @ Stripe
• Jonathan Raymond, Author of Good Authority, Founder & CEO @ Refound
• Nick Caldwell, Chief Product Officer @ Looker
• Anantha Kancherla, Head of Software, Level 5, Autonomous Vehicles Division @ Lyft
• Jean-Denis Greze, Head of Engineering @ Plaid
• Lily Chang, VP, Strategic Transformation (previously, VP of Central Engineering) @ VMware
• Chanda Dharap, VP of Engineering @ NodeSource
• Ron Lichty, Author of Managing the Unmanageable (one of the few books on engineering management)
• Xavier Amatriain, Co-founder & CTO @ Curai
• Edward Kim, Co-founder & Head of Engineering @ Gusto
• Keith Adams, Chief Architect @ Slack
• Joanne Pons, VP of Engineering @ MyVest
• Bret Reckard, Director of Human Capital @ Sequoia Capital
• Karthik Rau, Founder & CEO @ SignalFx
• Tia Caldwell, Senior Engineering Manager @ Slack
• Sam Wholley, Partner @ Riviera
• Evan Kaplan, CEO @ InfluxData
• Joe Dunn, Executive coach
• Holly Rose Faith, Talent Partner @ NEA

Topics:

• Blizscaling
• Managing creative teams, by applying principles from quantum physics
• Building distributed team
• Characteristics of a great VPE
• Designing engineering processes
• Disagree and commit
• Having difficult conversation
• Influence without Authority
• Leading AI/ML teams
• Leading an Infrastructure Engineering Team
• Manage managers and beyond
• More Yoda, less Superman: how to become the leader your team is waiting For
• The meaning revolution in leadership
• Working with non-technical executives
• How to Identify and Bet on Potential
• Scaling an Engineering Team Through Hyper-Growth
• The Accidental Bad Manager
• Managing in an Agile World
• Hiring Best Practices
• Scaling Technological Influence at Slack
• Journey of women engineering leaders
• Going from 0 to 60 - Building Lyft’s Self-Driving Car Team
• From One to Zero: Going Smaller as a Growth Strategy
• Transitioning from Engineering to Product
• Career Transition and Transformation