Leadership

LeadDev London 2027

LeadDev London is the festival for modern engineering leadership, bringing together a vibrant community for energizing conversations and insightful sessions. The 2027 edition promises to return with more ideas, energy, and unforgettable moments for engineering leaders. Attendees can expect standout talks, engaging activities, and plenty of opportunities to n…

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29Speakers
47Sponsors
31On the bill · sessions
70Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at LeadDev, in alphabetical order.
Andrew Zigler
GTM Engineer · LinearB
Ankit Jain
Co-founder & CEO · Aviator
Boomie Odumade
Fractional CTO/VPE · TechBees
Camille Fournier
VP of Engineering & Author
Celina Amados
Senior Site Reliability Engineer · Netflix
Charity Majors
Co-Founder & CTO · Honeycomb
Christina Chan
Staff Software Developer · Wealthsimple
Dan Mahr
Staff Software Engineer · DroneDeploy
David Yee
VP of Engineering · The New York Times
Emily Nakashima
SVP of Engineering · Honeycomb
Frances Thai
Software Engineer · Cursor
Francisco Trindade
VP of Engineering · Braze
Gaurav Nanda
Senior Engineering Manager · Databricks
Gergely Orosz
Author · The Pragmatic Engineer
Giordano Scalzo
Engineering Lead · NewDay Ltd
Grace Yun
Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Jez Humble
Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Kaya Thomas
Technical Customer Success Manager · PostHog
Kinsey Durham Grace
Copilot Coding Agent Engineer · GitHub
Marcel Weekes
VP of Product Engineering · Figma
Maude Lemaire
Engineer · Cursor
Melody Olson
Writer & Advisor · Activated
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Sponsors

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
Meticuloussupporting
Octopus Deployfeatured
OpenObserveentry-level
O'Reillysupporting
PagerDutyheadline
Primasupporting
Qodoheadline
Retoolfeatured
Revolutentry-level
Runpodsupporting
Skiller Whalesupporting
Softwirefeatured
Sonarsupporting
Spanfeatured
Svitla Systemssupporting
Tailscalesupporting
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Agenda

Selected from 31 sessions on the bill.
  • 12:00 – 12:00

    114 miles to the final cut

    How Walter Murch edited a major motion picture on a $999 tool nobody believed in, and what that approach offers anyone trying to lead through a wave of technological disruption.

    Organizational Leadership stage
  • 12:00 – 12:00

    Are we teaching junior engineers to think or just to prompt?

    AI tools can accelerate learning, but they can also mask gaps in understanding. As junior engineers gain access to powerful coding assistants, the challenge becomes ensuring they b…

    Making Technical Choices Stage
  • 12:00 – 12:00

    Beyond CI/CD: How platform abstractions unlocked developer productivity at scale

    The hidden friction that traditional productivity metrics miss, and the platform abstraction that reduced service onboarding from weeks to minutes at Databricks, with lessons that …

    Making Technical Choices Stage
  • 12:00 – 12:00

    Building trustworthy agents at scale

    Testing pipelines for non-deterministic AI systems, frameworks for defining ethical success beyond accuracy, and what it actually takes to align engineers, product managers, and le…

    Making Technical Choices Stage
  • 12:00 – 12:00

    Cold start crisis leadership

    The specific leadership moves that work when you’re managing a crisis with no prior relationships, no system context, and a hard deadline, and why crisis leadership requires a diff…

    Organizational Leadership stage
  • 12:00 – 12:00

    Evaluating AI developer tools without the drama: A metrics-driven framework

    A reusable framework for AI tool evaluations where developer buy-in matters as much as the metrics, including how to recover trust after a rollout that backfired.

    Making Technical Choices Stage
  • 12:00 – 12:00

    Honing the right engineering skills in the age of AI

    For many engineers, the traditional early-career path started with bug bashes and small fixes. In the new world of AI, that path isn’t as necessary or helpful to junior engineers. …

    Organizational Leadership stage
  • 12:00 – 12:00

    How I learned to stop worrying and love distributed systems: 25 years of lessons learned

    Twenty-five years of hard-won lessons on distributed systems distilled into 30 minutes, most of them about how teams work rather than how technology does.

    Making Technical Choices Stage
  • 12:00 – 12:00

    How to kill the code review

    Why traditional code review no longer fits the shape of modern software development, and a five-layer trust model for shipping faster without sacrificing quality or control.

    Making Technical Choices Stage
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 70 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

70 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.

Who's in the room
1All threespeak · spons · exh
46Sponsoringsponsor only
23Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Honeycomb

Speakers by seniority

38% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite414%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • VP-level517%
  • Director / Head of13%
  • Manager / Lead1034%
  • Engineer · IC621%
  • Advisor / Investor13%
  • Other roles13%

Of 29 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01HoneycombSp·F2V
  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
Sponsors by tier
entry-level6
13% of 47
featured13
28% of 47
headline5
11% of 47
supporting22
47% of 47
tech ngo partner1
2% of 47
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.

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