Upcoming events
Join us throughout 2026 for inspiring events, workshops, online panels and meetups
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
Join 2,000+ engineering leaders at the first-ever LDX3 New York!
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
Join engineering leaders figuring out what works without a clear playbook
London • June 28 & 29, 2027
Check out the festival for modern engineering leadership
Upcoming online panels
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In partnership with Chronosphere
Do we need AI agents to fix our AI agents?
June 10, 2026 • 2.00PMAssessing your readiness for observability agents.
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In partnership with Harness
Shift to signal-driven software quality
June 18, 2026 • 5.00PMLearn why traditional approaches to code quality are collapsing in the face of AI code generation
Upcoming workshops
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In partnership with Qodo
Code quality in the age of AI
June 11, 2026 • 5.00PMA governance framework for engineering leaders.
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In partnership with Gitkraken
How to measure the impact of AI coding agents
June 25, 2026 • 5.00PMA hands-on workshop where you will learn how to measure the environment, behavior, and outcomes of your agents.
Recent recordings
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In partnership with Octopus Deploy
Safe production changes with agents
A flexible codebase is a good one, especially in the age of AI-assisted development.
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In partnership with Coder
The high cost of AI immaturity
How to assess where your org sits on the AI adoption scale, and the strategic levers you can pull to move it forward.
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In partnership with Gitkraken
Make AI productivity gains stick
How to build a measurement framework for what comes after AI adoption.
Free online workshops
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In partnership with Harness
How to build the guardrails your AI releases actually need
Too many organizations are relying on existing guardrails when it comes to AI-generated code.
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In partnership with CircleCI
How to get leadership buy-in for technical initiatives
Learn how to translate technical initiatives into executive decisions in this interactive workshop with CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber.
For engineering leaders when the job is changing faster than the playbook
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
The pressure is real.
Find what works.
You’re expected to deliver results from AI, keep your team from burning out, and close the gap between what leadership expects and what’s actually possible. And do all of it without a clear engineering leadership playbook.
LeadDev Berlin is where that changes.
Featuring
Upcoming in-person events
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
The festival for modern engineering leadership is coming to New York for the first time!
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
Join 2000+ engineering leaders in Berlin to find what works when the pressure is real and the job is changing faster than the playbook.
LeadDev meet-ups are expanding in 2026
We run free events year-round in cities all over the world
Highlights from our recent events
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In partnership with LaunchDarkly
From code tsunami to controlled innovation: Launching software in the age of AI
How to harness the explosive speed of AI-driven development without losing control, compromising safety, or putting customer experience at risk.
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What does innovation really mean? And how did Games Engineering navigate through it as a “startup” within Netflix
Learn how embracing paradoxes, discovery-driven learning, and integrative decisions enabled collaboration and unlocked innovation at Netflix.
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Hold on, let me prompt that
Explore how to lead with clarity and conviction in the GenAI era, balancing powerful tools with authentic, independent thinking.
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LLMs: An operator’s view
Explore a pragmatic approach to using LLMs to boost team productivity, enhance products, and evolve your leadership strategy.
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Leveling up engineers in an AI-driven world
Learn how to mentor junior engineers in an AI-driven world by reinforcing core skills and balancing AI-assisted workflows.
Recent webinars
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In partnership with Octopus Deploy
Safe production changes with agents
A flexible codebase is a good one, especially in the age of AI-assisted development.
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In partnership with Coder
The high cost of AI immaturity
How to assess where your org sits on the AI adoption scale, and the strategic levers you can pull to move it forward.
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In partnership with Gitkraken
Make AI productivity gains stick
How to build a measurement framework for what comes after AI adoption.
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In partnership with Qodo
Is AI killing your software quality standards?
Maintaining code quality in an AI-first world.
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In partnership with CodeRabbit
What to do when there’s too much code to review
AI coding tools and agents are pushing organizations to produce more code than ever, but with mostly the same number of humans to review. Something’s got to give.
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In partnership with xMatters
Your blueprint for automated incident recovery
Learn how high-performing teams are orchestrating incident response for more rapid recovery.
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In partnership with Harness
Case Study: Feature Flags IRL
Learn how this ecommerce company increased mobile conversions by 30% with careful, rollbackable experiments.
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In partnership with Chainguard
Accountable engineering in the age of AI
The new wave of AI-driven threats are everyone’s problem. So who owns the solution?
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In partnership with Storyblok
What to do when everyone thinks they’re a developer
Shielding teams and systems from the rise of the citizen developer.
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In partnership with Harness
Why AI necessitates a platform model
In order to get the most out of your AI investment, platform engineering is needed to tackle cross-organizational, enterprise complexity.
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In partnership with xMatters
Are you ready for agentic incident response?
How engineering leaders are testing autonomous remediation in live environments — and the guardrails they rely on.
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In partnership with Dash0
A blueprint for agentic observability
Fewer dashboards, more insight. Here’s how to get started with observability agents.
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In partnership with Harness
How building greener software cuts your bottom line
How to make leadership care about cloud costs and emissions.
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In partnership with Chainguard
Rooting out sneaky sources of toil
What to do next when unplanned work is killing velocity.
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In partnership with Dash0
Are you ready for agentic observability?
Designing for observability in the age of AI.
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In partnership with FusionAuth
User authorization just got 10x harder
What your old permissions model misses when AI agents are your users.
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In partnership with PagerDuty
Get smarter with every incident
This panel discussion is for SREs, platform, and DevOps leaders who are looking for strategies to make on-call feel more sustainable and effective. We’ll show you how to break that reactive loop, and the emerging tools and practices to help make your teams, and systems, smarter.
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In partnership with Harness
The AI capabilities that amplify your org
The 2025 DORA report marked a significant departure for the research organization, as it focused almost entirely on the impact of AI in the software development lifecycle. It’s key finding – that AI is an amplifier, for good and for bad – clearly resonated.
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In partnership with Draftt
Why software maintenance is stuck in 2015
The tech stack looks nothing like it did ten years ago, but the maintenance of these systems hasn’t kept pace, remaining slow, reactive and stressful.
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In partnership with Redgate
The database risks you can’t afford to ignore
From compliance breaches to fragile legacy databases, ignore these blinking red lights at your peril
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In partnership with Harness
How guardrails enable you to work at AI speed
AI risks we will move faster and break things more. Learn about the guardrails that enable you to safely release in the Age of AI
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In partnership with Harness
How McDonald’s and JPMorgan Chase safely scale experimentation
Learn how some of the largest multinationals safely run measurable experiments at the speed of AI — with guardrails not gates.
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In partnership with Cloudflare
Embrace AI without losing control
How do engineering leaders move at AI speed without losing control and increasing delivery and security risks? You can do both.
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In partnership with Harness
How AI is increasing systems resiliency
Facing more code than ever, learn the resiliency best practices used by SREs, including where AI can help
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In partnership with Gitkraken
Measuring the AI impact on developer experience
How to measure the impact of AI tools and agents on developer experience, and link this back to the business
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In partnership with Mabl
Are you ready for agentic testing?
AI agents are no longer hypothetical — but are you ready to give them the keys to your test suite?
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In partnership with Honeycomb
Inside our 2025 Engineering Performance Report
Uncover the data behind modern engineering performance and what it reveals about AI, observability, and the future of system reliability.
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In partnership with Harness
Allow anyone to code with AI
How to build a culture that enables even the most skeptical developer to experiment with AI coding tools and fail fast.
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In partnership with O’Reilly
Measuring team performance isn’t getting any easier
Working smarter, not harder, to achieve high velocity.
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In partnership with Chainguard
The surprising habits of high velocity engineering teams
Working smarter, not harder, to achieve high velocity.
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In partnership with Harness
Take the fear out of vibe coding
How to use tried and tested tools and techniques to safely enable engineers to vibe code.
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In partnership with Testkube
How teams test at AI-powered velocity
Learn how elite cloud-native organizations scale their testing to match ever-increasing velocity demands.
