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Start: 2025-09-01T00:00:00.000Z
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Are you a team looking to deploy more frequently or implement Continuous Delivery? In this fireside chat, we'll discuss pragmatic and actionable steps to transform how your team delivers software so you can deploy to production many times a day. CEO and Co-founder of Sleuth, Dylan Etkin, has guided many teams, at scale, through this transformation. Come join us for a conversation filled with actionable advice that serves as a blueprint for using visibility, communication and pure process to supercharge your team's development processes and outcomes.

Unlocking Your Ability to Deploy Multiple Times a Day

Founder 

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We spend a lot of time planning. Your leadership expects you to have a plan. PMs develop a product roadmap in partnership with Engineering. Your team expects you to communicate what they’ll work on. There are many methodologies to help drive organizational alignment around proactive planning. However, consider how much effort goes towards unplanned work! How many of your senior engineers are working on things that are not on a list? Customer issues, production incidents, incremental tooling/polish, etc. are all things you can’t put on a roadmap, but benefit immensely from increased awareness and communication. In this session we’ll talk about strategies for how to handle the unplanned, the reactive, and the low-severity incremental work that is normal and healthy for a fast-moving team.

Why Communication is More Important Than Planning

VP of Marketing

As leaders, we make a thousand decisions every day. Clear, high-quality decisions are one of the best gifts we can give our teams. So how do we ensure we’re making good decisions? Success doesn’t depend on perfection, it’s about making a series of good decisions at the right time. So let’s talk about the anatomy of good decisions, the right timing for a decision, and how to make them stick. And most importantly, let’s look at how to delegate decision making effectively, provide autonomy, and make that unscary for your team, too. I will share examples from my experience as an engineering leader, and we'll talk about building a decision-making framework that’s right for you.

Make Great Decisions Quickly, the Unscary Way

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In this session, Jonathon will discuss why Alignment is the one thing you’ll find at the heart of the most successful relationships, product teams, and organizations. He will provide a straightforward, honest look at why so many digital product initiatives fail or underperform. Next, he will highlight how top-performance digital product companies build alignment to inform effective product strategy and empower product teams to deliver extraordinary outcomes.

Alignment: Why It’s Critical to the Success of a Digital Product and Business Transformation

Continuous Delivery Advocate 

Career trajectories are rarely simple or linear. As one grows in their career, one is faced with choices and decisions - Generalist or specialist? Grow upwards in the same team/domain or grow laterally for a new challenge? Internal mobility or external opportunity? Stay a manager or go back to becoming an Individual Contributor? In this session, Kalpana will share the philosophies and frameworks she applied to charting and navigating her engineering leadership journey.

Charting and Navigating a Non-Linear Career Trajectory

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So many times we focus on what we want but feel is outside our control: “If only personX would get things done on time!” “If only person Y would communicate more clearly!” “If only leadership would have listened to me the first time!” Yet, you have control over many things that you probably aren’t acknowledging - things like exercising control over your time, choosing when you say “yes” vs “no”, and communicating directly but still authentically. Realizing these things can help you become a more effective and impactful leader, regardless of your title or position. In this session, Megan will share lessons learned from throughout her career as an engineer and engineering leader at Google on how to act deliberately.

Lessons on Being Deliberate

CTO 

In this session, Loom VP Product Anique Drumright will break down the nuanced correlation between product and eng teams — and why companies often find themselves on the back foot after underinvesting in front-line engineering managers. She’ll outline why this is such a prevalent pitfall, what the most common blind spots are, and best practices for avoiding it. She’ll also talk about the importance of supercharging your engineering leaders — including instilling the skill of advocacy — so they can play an equally dominant role alongside product managers. Based on hands-on experience building hypergrowth teams, Anique will share successes and tough lessons learned when it comes to hiring execution, quality, and retention at fast-growth PLG orgs.

Why the EM Matters in Hypergrowth Companies

Senior Partner -001 @ Pine Capital-001

Leadership counts most when situations are most difficult. From economic downturns & layoffs, to turmoil in the C-suite, and even war - 2022 has been an extraordinary year to lead teams. How should leaders respond? How do you maintain trust, and keep your best people engaged? We'll talk through lessons learned from experiences which are rarely in management books, and the role played by activities which are, such as a strong mission statement, leading with empathy, and candid conversations.

Putting Leadership to the Test: Managing through Crises

VP of Marketing 

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No, curiosity doesn’t kill the cat. In this session, Wei will share her career journey and how curiosity played a central role in her career transition decisions, in how she built highly innovative teams, and in giving her the courage to explore unknown territories. The conversation will help you understand the power of curiosity, and how to draw from that to become a better leader, to empower others around you, and to open up new possibilities.

The Power of Curiosity

Leadership Coach, former CTO 

As you think about scaling your product platform for hyper-growth, it is important to come up with a technical strategy that includes sequenced work streams and delivering customer value iteratively, ultimately converging with overall company goals, delighting customers, and growing the business. In this talk I’ll share some real-world learnings from Carta’s efforts around, coming up with such a strategy and executing on it.

Consistency, Accuracy, Performance: Essential Elements for a Sound Technical Strategy

CFO 

Building for enterprise customers is typically complex, time-consuming and can distract your team for weeks, months, or even years. Important deals can slip through your fingers as your grapple with strict requirements and demands from Enterprise IT admins. Learn more about what it means for your product to be "Enterprise Ready" with features like SSO and Audit Logs.

Building For Enterprise

Scale Yourself as a Leader

Head of Engineering

Whatnot Head of Growth Engineering and former Pinterest growth leader and entrepreneur Jeff Chang will discuss how to build an effective growth team from the earliest stages, how to structure that team, and how to ensure they drive maximum impact throughout the varying stages of growth to come.

Building a Startup Growth Team from Scratch

SVP, Head of People & Operations 

This session covers the career journey of Sri Viswanath, General Partner at Coatue and previous CTO of Atlassian, from engineering leader to venture and the lessons he’s learned along the way. Sri will share stories of the pivotal learning moments from his early career navigating the transition from IC to executive leadership, and insights from leading across small and large scale companies. He will also discuss how he translated his experience as an engineering leader into a career as a venture investor - and what you can do now to prepare yourself for a successful transition into a career in investing.

From Engineering Leader to Venture Investor

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