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LeadingEng New York 2026

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eadingEng New York, now part of LDX3 by LeadDev, is a multi-track festival for modern engineering leadership. The event brings together LeadDev, StaffPlus, and LeadingEng under one roof for the first time, offering six tracks covering organizational leadership, technical choices, workshops, tooling, networking, and career panels. Attendees include everyone…

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28Voices
42Underwriters
0Exhibitors
35On the bill · sessions
64Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at LeadingEng, in alphabetical order.
Alia Rose Connor
Co-founder, Coach & Facilitator · Frank & Eddy Leadership
André Henry
Director, Platform Engineering · Fleetio
Anna Selway
Staff Analytics Engineer · Monzo
Artem Fishman
CTO · Dow Jones
Boomie Odumade
Fractional CTO/VPE · TechBees
Christopher Egemba
CEO · Lightenet Technologies
Daniel Wagner-Hall
Director of Technical Education · CodeYourFuture
Darva Satcher
Director of Engineering · GitLab
Dee Kitchen
VP, Engineering · Grafana Labs
Elyse Kolker Gordon
Senior Director of Engineering · Strava
Fiona Siseman
Co-founder, Coach & Facilitator · Frank & Eddy Leadership
Hywel Carver
CTO-turned-Founder · Skiller Whale
Jeremy Bowers
Chief Technology Officer · POLITICO
Justin Reock
Deputy CTO · DX
Karen Lee Rigg
Director of Engineering, Global Intelligence Platforms · Just Eat Takeaway.com
Lenni Ojala
Senior Engineering Manager · RELEX Solutions
Luca Rossi
Founder · Refactoring
Lucas Mendes
Founder and CEO · Revelo
Meg Adams
Senior Director of Engineering · The New York Times
Melissa Young
SVP, Engineering · Vox Media
Meri Williams
CTO, NED & Advisor · ChromeRose
Michael Lopp
Founder of Rands Slack, Author of Managing Humans

— and 6 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Apollo
Chainguard
CircleCI
Cloudflare
Code Climate
Coder
CodeSee
CodeSignal
Datadog
Docker
DX
Fiberplane
Frontegg
Google
Harness
Honeycomb
incident.io
Jellyfish
LambdaTest
LaunchDarkly
LinearB
Microsoft
monday.com
monday.com (monday dev)
Multiverse
New Relic
Pluralsight Flow
Postman
Retool
Sauce Labs
Shopify
Shopify Engineering
Shortcut
Skiller Whale
Slack
Sleuth
Sourcegraph
Superblocks
Swimm
Tailscale
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The Programme

Selected from 35 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
  • 09:30 – 09:54

    Welcome to LeadingEng New York 2025

    A welcome from the host.

    MAIN TRACK
  • 09:55 – 10:04

    Icebreaker activity

    Start the day by connecting with your peers in a short exercise designed to spark conversation and build rapport.

    INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
  • 10:05 – 10:29

    Taking a seat in the C-Suite: Transitioning from the highest-level operational roles to the executive team

    There’s significant literature around the topic of engineering management – we’re in a golden age of understanding operational roles in the technology disciplines. However, there’s…

    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
  • 10:35

    Transforming tradition: The journey to product-led growth

    Learn how Dow Jones is embracing a product-first mindset to drive radical transformation and deliver innovative customer and consumer experiences. For decades, Dow Jones has been …

    MAIN TRACK
  • 11:00 – 11:09

    Leadership in AI-assisted engineering

    An overview of the leadership strategies employed by top AI-assisted engineering organizations. To realize meaningful returns on AI investments, leadership must take accountabilit…

    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 64 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

64 companies. two 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
2All threespeak · spons · exh
40Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
22Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

DX·Skiller Whale

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

89% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite932%
  • Founder / Owner414%
  • VP-level518%
  • Director / Head of725%
  • Manager / Lead311%

Of 28 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01DXSp1V
  2. 02Skiller WhaleSp1V
  3. 03ApolloSp
  4. 04ChainguardSp
  5. 05CircleCISp
  6. 06CloudflareSp
  7. 07Code ClimateSp
  8. 08CoderSp
  9. 09CodeSeeSp
  10. 10CodeSignalSp
  11. 11DatadogSp
  12. 12DockerSp
  13. 13FiberplaneSp
  14. 14FronteggSp
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
unspecified42
100% 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