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TechLead Conference Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs

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echLead Conference Amsterdam 2026 is a two-day event designed for hands-on engineering leaders navigating AI adoption. The conference features practical talks, panels, and real-world case studies from startups to tech giants, focusing on how engineering organizations can successfully adopt AI. Attendees will benefit from interactive sessions, unconference d…

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30Speakers
17Sponsors
35On the bill · sessions
41Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at TechLead, in alphabetical order.
Alfonso Graziano
Nearform
Andrew Eacott
Miro
Asparuh Hristov
Bol
Ben Brandt
Zed
Daniel Frey
Tech Lead & AI Architect · FiveTimesFaster.com
Dünya Kirkali
Remote.com
Fabrice Bernhard
Tech Cofounder · Theodo
Gregor Ojstersek
Engineering Leadership newsletter
HT Sahin
IKEA Digital
Ilya Pukhalski
Founder and Partner · ENDGAME
Iustin Targovet
Fastned, DataPrysm
Jessica Andersson
Jesande
Jonida Mersinllari
Consentmo
Kevin Ball
Mento
Kristiyan Velkov
Tech Lead · Docker
Kseniia Korostelova
Senior Engineering Leader · Aristocrat Interactive
Lindsey Simon
VP of Engineering · Vercel
Matija Lukic
Workera AI
Maxim Salnikov
Microsoft
Mo Khazali
Theodo
Nick Kuilman
Eye Security
Nihan Bircan
Flo Health
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
CodeRabbitPlatinum
RenderGold
Kickstart AISilver
AG Grid
Canva
Couchbase
GitNation
MUI
NX
Okta
Oracle
SentryPartner
Storyblok
Twilio
VercelPartner
VihattechnologiesPartner
Сanva
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Agenda

Selected from 35 sessions on the bill.
  • 07:00

    Registration

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 09:10

    Opening Ceremony

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 09:30

    Effective Thinking in the Age of Augmented Tooling

    AI tools are writing more code than ever — but the engineers and leaders getting the most from them aren't the ones with the best prompts. They're the ones who think most clearly.D…

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 09:50

    QnA with Lindsey Simon

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 10:00

    Agentic AIrways: Orchestrating a Dev Team with Multi-Agent Systems

    Workshop
  • 10:00 - 13:00

    Unconference - Redefining Engineering Careers in the AI Era

    Unconference & After-party
  • 10:15

    Why Engineers Must Become Multipliers in the AI-Era

    The role of engineers is evolving in the AI era. As development tools become more powerful and accessible, the expectations for engineers are shifting from simply writing code to c…

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 10:35

    QnA with Gregor Ojstersek

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 10:50

    Building Blocks of an Agentic Engineering Platform: What SRE Taught Us About Running Agents

    Agents are the next distributed system: non-deterministic, autonomous, and tool-connected. Some patterns we rely on to run distributed systems reliably transfer directly; others br…

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 41 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

41 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
14Sponsoringsponsor only
24Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

CodeRabbit·Sentry·Vercel

02Fig. 02 — Speakers, by Seniority

10% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner27%
  • VP-level13%
  • Manager / Lead27%
  • Engineer · IC13%
  • Other roles2480%

Of 30 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01CodeRabbitSp·P1V
  2. 02SentrySp·P1V
  3. 03VercelSp·P1V
  4. 04AG GridSp
  5. 05CanvaSp
  6. 06CouchbaseSp
  7. 07GitNationSp
  8. 08Kickstart AISp·S
  9. 09MUISp
  10. 10NxSp
  11. 11OktaSp
  12. 12OracleSp
  13. 13RenderSp·G
  14. 14StoryblokSp
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum1
6% of 17
gold1
6% of 17
silver1
6% of 17
partner3
18% of 17
unspecified11
65% of 17
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