Leadership

LeadDev Berlin 2026

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eadDev Berlin is a two-day event that combines leadership and technical excellence, bringing together engineering managers and tech leaders to share insights and build community. Attendees benefit from curated sessions, experienced speakers, and vibrant networking tailored to software engineering leadership in Berlin.

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33Voices
42Underwriters
0Exhibitors
32On the bill · sessions
65Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at LeadDev, in alphabetical order.
Anna Selway
Staff Analytics Engineer · Monzo
Bhavana Hindupur
Staff Software Engineer · Meta
Christopher Egemba
CEO · Lightenet Technologies
Clare Sudbery
Independent Technical Coach · Sudbery Software Engineering Ltd
Daniel Wagner-Hall
Director of Technical Education · CodeYourFuture
Dee Kitchen
VP, Engineering · Grafana Labs
Emma Bostian
Engineering Manager · Spotify
Fernando Cristiani
Vice President User Growth & Lifecycle · Seven.One
Gaurav Agarwal
CTO · GetYourGuide
Hywel Carver
CTO-turned-Founder · Skiller Whale
Jenny Warnke
Director of Engineering · Delivery Hero
Jonathan Fielding
Principal Engineer · Legend
Julie Neumann
Chief Marketing Officer · Honeycomb
Justin Lee
Senior Software Engineer · Notion
Justin Reock
Deputy CTO · DX
Karen Lee Rigg
Director of Engineering, Global Intelligence Platforms · Just Eat Takeaway.com
Kevin Holler
Enterprise Solutions Engineer · LaunchDarkly
Laura Dietze
Fractional Product Leader and Coach · Product and Change
Laura Tacho
Senior Principal Technologist · AWS
Lenni Ojala
Senior Engineering Manager · RELEX Solutions
Luca Rossi
Founder · Refactoring
Maciej Rząsa
Senior Backend Engineer · Chattermill

— and 11 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Cloudflarediamond
Eppo by Datadogdiamond
HarnessPlatinum
incident.ioPlatinum
LaunchDarklydiamond
ChecklyGold
CircleCIGold
Fin by IntercomGold
FusionAuthGold
GrammarlyGold
ImaginaryCloudGold
O'ReillyGold
RetoolGold
SwarmiaGold
HoneycombSilver
LambdaTestSilver
TestkubeSilver
VercelSilver
ZalandoSilver
AsyncStartup
Bluefishhackathon partner
ChainguardSupporting
Coder
CodeYourFutureTECH NGO partner
Datadog
Docker
DX
Frontegg
Google
Jellyfish
Microsoft
New Relic
Octopus DeployStartup
PandorianStartup
Postman
Sauce Labs
Skiller Whale
Slack
SuperTokensLanyards Partner
Tailscale
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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 Berlin 2025

    A welcome to LeadDev Berlin 2025 from the host, Pat Kua.

  • 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…

  • 09:25 – 09:29

    What happened last night? Highlights of LeadDev’s first AI Hackathon

    Hackathon host Yenny Cheung takes us behind the scenes. Get the inside story on what unfolded at the first-ever LeadDev AI Hackathon.

  • 09:30 – 09:59

    The joy of being wrong

    Discover how rethinking assumptions drives better decisions, strengthens leadership, and builds more adaptive, collaborative teams.

  • 10:00 – 10:09

    Measuring system performance in 2026

    Insights from the inaugural LeadDev Engineering Performance Report, with Honeycomb. Find out how organizations measure the performance of their software and systems, the impact AI …

  • 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…

  • 10:15 – 10:39

    Migrations done right: Success stories and lessons learned

    Learn proven strategies for executing large-scale system migrations safely, using incremental rollouts, clear planning, and strong stakeholder communication.

  • 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. The talk covers how to fin…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 65 companies show up — and 6 bet on three roles at once?

65 companies. six 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
6All threespeak · spons · exh
36Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
23Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Honeycomb·Bluefish·CodeYourFuture·DX·LaunchDarkly·Skiller Whale

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

45% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite618%
  • Founder / Owner39%
  • VP-level39%
  • Director / Head of39%
  • Manager / Lead1030%
  • Engineer · IC412%
  • Other roles412%

Of 33 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01HoneycombSp·S2V
  2. 02BluefishSp·H1V
  3. 03CodeYourFutureSp·T1V
  4. 04DXSp1V
  5. 05LaunchDarklySp·D1V
  6. 06Skiller WhaleSp1V
  7. 07AsyncSp·S
  8. 08ChainguardSp·S
  9. 09ChecklySp·G
  10. 10CircleCISp·G
  11. 11CloudflareSp·D
  12. 12CoderSp
  13. 13DatadogSp
  14. 14DockerSp
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
diamond3
7% of 42
platinum2
5% of 42
gold9
21% of 42
silver5
12% of 42
lanyards partner1
2% of 42
hackathon partner1
2% of 42
startup4
10% of 42
supporting1
2% of 42
tech ngo partner1
2% of 42
unspecified15
36% of 42
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