GConferenceGridThe Conference Catalogue · Vol. 2026Folio № A7F281
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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15Voices
50Underwriters
0Exhibitors
32On the bill · sessions
60Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at LDX3, in alphabetical order.
Boomie Odumade
Fractional CTO/VPE · TechBees
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
Francisco Trindade
VP of Engineering · Braze
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
Cloudflare
Coder
Dash0Supporting
Datadog
DiagridSupporting
Docker
DXHeadline
Embraceentry-level
FigmaFeatured
Frontegg
FusionAuthSupporting
GoogleSupporting
HarnessSupporting
HoneycombFeatured
HudSupporting
incident.ioFeatured
Jellyfish
LambdaTest
LarridinHeadline
LaunchDarklySupporting
MablFeatured
Microsoft
New Relic
Octopus DeployFeatured
OpenObserveentry-level
O'ReillyFeatured
OutSystemsFeatured
Postman
QodoHeadline
RetoolFeatured
RootlyFeatured
Sauce Labs
Skiller Whale
Slack
SourcegraphFeatured
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The Programme

Selected from 32 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:00 – 09:14

    Welcome to LDX3 London 2026

    Host’s opening address.

    Leading your Organization stage
  • 09:00 – 09:24

    Welcome to LeadDev New York 2025

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

    Main Track
  • 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
  • 09:25 – 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 – 10:30

    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
  • 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
  • 11:05 – 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.

    Leading your Organization stage
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 60 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

60 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
47Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
10Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Figma·Google·Honeycomb

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

53% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite320%
  • VP-level427%
  • Director / Head of17%
  • Manager / Lead320%
  • Engineer · IC320%
  • Other roles17%

Of 15 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. 09CloudflareSp
  10. 10CoderSp
  11. 11Dash0Sp·S
  12. 12DatadogSp
  13. 13DiagridSp·S
  14. 14DockerSp
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
entry-level3
6% of 50
featured13
26% of 50
headline4
8% of 50
supporting14
28% of 50
tech ngo partner1
2% of 50
unspecified15
30% of 50
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