eadDev LDX3 London 2026 is a two-day festival for modern engineering leadership, bringing together engineering managers, tech leads, directors, VPs, CTOs, and more. Attendees will learn practical strategies to lead teams, build production-ready systems, and make key technical choices in a rapidly-changing environment. Sessions include hands-on labs, case st…
Host’s opening address.
In this talk, Michael Lopp will tell you a story about stories. From almost 30 years of leadership, Lopp will not only tell you stories from Slack, Pinterest, Netscape, Borland, an…
Small things going wrong can quickly snowball. The cascading failure is often a nightmare scenario for any system. An initial problem, which in isolation seems like such a minor pr…
Practical, repeatable inclusive-leadership patterns for global engineering teams—aligning assumptions on hierarchy, disagreement, and feedback using working agreements, inclusive m…
Mentoring isn’t coaching or teaching. Learn how to find mentors who genuinely invest in your growth, and how to mentor others by sharing real experience... (trimmed)
Headlines claim AI is transforming software engineering overnight. Across more than 400 engineering organizations, we see patterns that challenge the hype and reveal what’s really …
This talk is about the difference between being a manager, a manager of managers, and a manager of managers of managers... Key takeaways - Identify the “success traps” where habit…
Many EMs and Directors struggle to understand how to drive their own career and personal growth, this session seeks to use the destination as a way to reverse engineer the path to …
The jump to Staff IC is a fundamental shift. It requires you to become both an exceptional problem-solver and an organisational direction-setter. Learn the framework to make this i…
What does it mean when 49 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?
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The Triple-Threat
38% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.
Of 8 on the bill · classified by free-text title
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.