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Leadership

LDX3 New York 2026

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DX3 New York is the festival for modern engineering leadership, bringing together industry leaders, managers, and practitioners to explore the latest trends in engineering, AI, technical choices, team workflows, and leadership. Across six tracks, attendees will participate in workshops, roundtables, career panels, hands-on labs, and networking activities fo…

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13Voices
35Underwriters
0Exhibitors
17On the bill · sessions
43Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at LDX3, in alphabetical order.
Camille Fournier
VP of Engineering & Author
Charity Majors
Co-Founder & CTO · Honeycomb
David Yee
VP of Engineering · The New York Times
Frances Thai
Engineer · Cursor
Gergely Orosz
Author · The Pragmatic Engineer
Grace Yun
Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Jez Humble
Site Reliability Engineer · Google
Kaya Thomas
Technical Customer Success Manager · Post Hog
Marcel Weekes
VP of Product Engineering · Figma
Maude Lemaire
Engineer · Cursor
Nick Means
Engineering Manager · Shopify
Nivia Henry
Engineering Director · Netflix
Will Larson
CTO · Imprint
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AntithesisFeatured
Augment CodeHeadline
BitriseSupporting
ChainguardSupporting
CircleCISupporting
Dash0Supporting
DiagridSupporting
DXHeadline
Embraceentry-level
FigmaFeatured
FusionAuthSupporting
GoogleSupporting
HarnessSupporting
HoneycombFeatured
HudSupporting
incident.ioFeatured
LarridinHeadline
LaunchDarklySupporting
MablFeatured
Octopus DeployFeatured
OpenObserveentry-level
O'ReillyFeatured
OutSystemsFeatured
QodoHeadline
RetoolFeatured
RootlyFeatured
SourcegraphFeatured
SpanSupporting
Strideentry-level
SwarmiaFeatured
TailscaleSupporting
TestkubeSupporting
The Marcy Lab SchoolTECH NGO PARTNER
TraversalFeatured
UnblockedSupporting
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The Programme

Selected from 17 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:00 – 09:24

    Welcome to LeadDev New York 2025

    A welcome to LeadDev London 2025 from the host, David Yee.

    Main Track
  • 09:25 – 09:49

    A reality check on AI’s impact on business transformation

    Drawing on his experience working on internal engineering projects and with large clients, Dilip Krishna will help identify the best opportunities for AI to make an impact on your …

    Main Track
  • 09:50 – 10:04

    Predictable is better than fast

    Prioritizing predictability over speed leads to faster, more sustainable software development. Learn how stable workflows, better planning, and reliable systems drive long-term eff…

    Main Track
  • 10:05 – 10:34

    Finding the spark: Unlocking growth potential on your team

    Not everyone on your team is chasing a promotion, and that’s okay. This talk gives you a practical framework for spotting what kind of growth each person needs and how to help them…

    Main Track
  • 10:35 – 10:59

    Pay your (conflict) debts on time

    We’ve all worked at that place where the air felt thick. Or so-and-so wouldn’t talk to so-and-so. How does that environment come to be, and how do we influence our organization to …

    Main Track
  • 11:45 – 12:14

    Building ethical AI: Transparency, bias mitigation, and trust

    As AI use grows, so does the need for transparency and interpretability to mitigate bias, racism, and discrimination. This talk covers building trustworthy, human-oriented AI.

    Main Track
  • 12:15 – 12:24

    From prompt to production: Making AI work in your development flow

    AI is changing the way software gets built, but real productivity boosts require more than experimenting with a few prompts. This talk will explore how development is changing with…

    Main Track
  • 12:25 – 12:34

    From hallucinations to hard truths: Real lessons in production AI

    Building AI products sounds exciting, until reality hits. I’ll share honest lessons from a year of scaling AI at a FinTech startup: what broke, what burned, and what we would absol…

    Main Track
  • 12:35 – 13:04

    All of this has happened before

    An inter-generational (mother-daughter) conversation about the history of repeating trends in the tech and software industry and how they have surfaced once more in our modern AI c…

    Main Track
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 43 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

43 companies. three 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
3All threespeak · spons · exh
32Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
8Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Figma·Google·Honeycomb

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

46% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite215%
  • VP-level323%
  • Director / Head of18%
  • Manager / Lead323%
  • Engineer · IC323%
  • Other roles18%

Of 13 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01FigmaSp·F1V
  2. 02GoogleSp·S1V
  3. 03HoneycombSp·F1V
  4. 04AntithesisSp·F
  5. 05Augment CodeSp·H
  6. 06BitriseSp·S
  7. 07ChainguardSp·S
  8. 08CircleCISp·S
  9. 09Dash0Sp·S
  10. 10DiagridSp·S
  11. 11DXSp·H
  12. 12EmbraceSp·E
  13. 13FusionAuthSp·S
  14. 14HarnessSp·S
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
entry-level3
9% of 35
featured13
37% of 35
headline4
11% of 35
supporting14
40% of 35
tech ngo partner1
3% of 35
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