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Leadership

LDX3 London 2026

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DX3 London 2026 is a multi-stage festival for modern engineering leadership, bringing together engineering leaders to learn, connect, and explore new industry playbooks. Attendees can expect sessions on how teams are applying AI, redesigning workflows and delivery, and effective leadership without traditional playbooks. The event features hands-on labs, net…

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8Voices
44Underwriters
0Exhibitors
27On the bill · sessions
49Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at LDX3, in alphabetical order.
Charles Duncan
Senior Engineering Leader · Netflix
Ian Coldwater
Kubernetes SIG Security Chair · CNCF
Liz Fong-Jones
Technical Fellow · Honeycomb
Matej Pfajfar
CTO · Monzo
Michael Lopp
Founder of Rands Slack, Author of Managing Humans
Nicole Forsgren
Lead Author – "Frictionless" and "Accelerate"
Plum Ertz
Senior Director, Engineering · Ro
Sam Newman
Independent Tech Consultant & Author · Sam Newman & Associates
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Antithesisfeatured
Bitrisesupporting
Capital Onesupporting
Chainguardsupporting
CircleCIfeatured
Cloudflaresupporting
Coderfeatured
CodeRabbitsupporting
CodeYourFutureTECH NGO partner
Dash0supporting
Datadogfeatured
Diagridsupporting
Dockerheadline
DXheadline
Fronteggsupporting
FusionAuthsupporting
GitKrakensupporting
Harnessfeatured
Honeycombfeatured
ImaginaryCloudentry-level
incident.iofeatured
Larridinsupporting
LaunchDarklysupporting
MetalBearsupporting
Octopus Deployfeatured
OpenObserveentry-level
O'Reillysupporting
PagerDutyheadline
Primasupporting
Qodoheadline
Retoolfeatured
Runpodsupporting
Skiller Whalesupporting
Softwirefeatured
Spanfeatured
Svitla Systemssupporting
Tailscalesupporting
Temporalfeatured
Testkubesupporting
Unblockedfeatured
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The Programme

Selected from 27 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:00 – 09:14

    Welcome to LDX3 London 2026

    Host’s opening address.

  • 09:10 – 09:35

    Game time: A playbook to (unsuccessfully) 10x in a week and (successfully) 10x in a year

    A candid scaling story about why rushed 10x efforts fail, and how disciplined metrics, culture, and architecture win over time.

  • 09:10 – 09:35

    Growing from ICs to Managers

    Clear signals, habits, and opportunities that help individual contributors grow into effective managers long before the title changes.

  • 09:20 – 09:45

    Platform engineering practices for speedy delivery

    Practical platform practices that compound over time, helping teams ship faster, improve reliability, and make AI-assisted delivery actually work.

  • 09:20 – 09:45

    The story box

    Learn how to use stories to improve your influence as a leader.

  • 09:20 – 09:45

    Things fall apart – Architecture to avoid progressive collapse

    How to design systems so small failures stay contained, preventing cascading outages and large-scale architectural collapse.

  • 10:05 – 10:30

    Finding the 80/20: Lessons from delivering our first LLM feature

    How to choose what actually matters when shipping your first LLM feature, balancing evaluation, trust, and delivery without overengineering.

  • 10:05 – 10:30

    Inclusive leadership across cultures: Practical patterns for global engineering teams

    Concrete, repeatable patterns for leading global teams across cultures, reducing friction, building trust, and helping diverse voices contribute fully.

  • 10:55 – 11:20

    AI killed the coding interviews. Here’s what Meta built instead

    How Meta replaced traditional coding interviews with AI-native hiring that measures adaptability, communication, and real-world engineering judgment.

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 49 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

49 companies. one are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
1All threespeak · spons · exh
43Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
5Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Honeycomb

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

38% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite113%
  • Founder / Owner113%
  • Director / Head of113%
  • Manager / Lead113%
  • Engineer · IC113%
  • Other roles338%

Of 8 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01HoneycombSp·F1V
  2. 02AntithesisSp·F
  3. 03BitriseSp·S
  4. 04Capital OneSp·S
  5. 05ChainguardSp·S
  6. 06CircleCISp·F
  7. 07CloudflareSp·S
  8. 08CoderSp·F
  9. 09CodeRabbitSp·S
  10. 10CodeYourFutureSp·T
  11. 11Dash0Sp·S
  12. 12DatadogSp·F
  13. 13DiagridSp·S
  14. 14DockerSp·H
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
entry-level5
11% of 44
featured13
30% of 44
headline5
11% of 44
supporting20
45% of 44
tech ngo partner1
2% of 44
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters