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LeadDev LDX3 London 2026

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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…

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8Voices
44Underwriters
0Exhibitors
11On the bill · sessions
49Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at LeadDev, 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 11 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:00 – 09:14

    Welcome to LDX3 London 2026

    Host’s opening address.

    Leading your Organization stage
  • 09:20 – 09:45

    The story box

    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…

    Leading your Organization stage
  • 09:20 – 09:45

    Things fall apart – Architecture to avoid progressive collapse

    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…

    Making technical choices stage
  • 10:05 – 10:30

    Inclusive leadership across cultures: Practical patterns for global engineering teams

    Practical, repeatable inclusive-leadership patterns for global engineering teams—aligning assumptions on hierarchy, disagreement, and feedback using working agreements, inclusive m…

    Leading your Organization stage
  • 11:05 – 11:30

    Mentoring that actually changes careers

    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)

    Leading your Organization stage
  • 11:50 – 12:15

    The state of AI in software development: Insights across 400+ organizations

    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 …

    Leading your Organization stage
  • 13:50 – 14:15

    Up and down the management track: Equalising your leadership style across the pressure of scale

    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…

    Leading your Organization stage
  • 14:35 – 15:00

    What does a CTO even do?

    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 …

    Leading your Organization stage
  • 15:35 – 16:00

    The Staff Engineer’s playbook: Intellectual shift to systemic impact

    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…

    Leading your Organization stage
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
supporting20
45% of 44
entry-level5
11% of 44
headline5
11% of 44
featured13
30% 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