Where is LeadingEng New York 2026 held?

LeadingEng New York 2026 was held at Javits Center in New York, United States.

Who sponsors LeadingEng New York 2026?

ConferenceGrid lists 42 sponsors, including Apollo, Chainguard, CircleCI, Cloudflare and Code Climate.

Leadership

LeadingEng New York 2026

Name: LeadingEng New York 2026
Start: 2026-09-15
End: 2026-09-16
Location: Javits Center

This edition has ended

LeadingEng New York 2026 ran Sep 15–16, 2026 at Javits Center in New York, United States. It is a Leadership conference. ConferenceGrid lists 28 speakers, 42 sponsors and 20 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Jun 16, 2026 · dates verified May 24, 2026

LeadingEng 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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28Speakers

42Sponsors

20Sessions

64Companies · in total

Speakers

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

Agenda

Selected from 20 sessions.

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
10:35
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
11:10 – 11:24
Group discussion
Reflect on what you’ve just learned, and exchange insights and perspectives with the people at your table.
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
11:35 – 11:39
Becoming a VP of Engineering
Dedicated sessions on how to take the next step in your career for Becoming a VP of Engineering.
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
12:10 – 12:34
Building a cost-conscious culture: Technical and team strategies
Practical tips on technical and process strategies to optimize cloud infrastructure costs and create cultural change leading to a more cost-aware team. From managing escalating cl…
MAIN TRACK
12:35 – 13:04
Build features, not fragile foundations
Learn how balancing feature work with technical debt remediation leads to sustainable software delivery. Engineering teams often face intense pressure to deliver features fast, bu…
MAIN TRACK

Quick answers

When is LeadingEng New York 2026?: LeadingEng New York 2026 ran Sep 15–16, 2026 at Javits Center in New York, United States.
Where is LeadingEng New York 2026 held?: LeadingEng New York 2026 was held at Javits Center in New York, United States.
Who is speaking at LeadingEng New York 2026?: ConferenceGrid lists 28 speakers, including Alia Rose Connor (Co-founder, Coach & Facilitator, Frank & Eddy Leadership), André Henry (Director, Platform Engineering, Fleetio) and Anna Selway (Staff Analytics Engineer, Monzo).
Who sponsors LeadingEng New York 2026?: ConferenceGrid lists 42 sponsors, including Apollo, Chainguard, CircleCI, Cloudflare and Code Climate.

Company intelligence

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.

Who's in the room

2All threespeak · spons · exh

40Sponsoringsponsor only

22Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

DX·Skiller Whale

Speakers 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 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies

#	Company	Roles	Speakers
1	DX	Sponsor	1
2	Skiller Whale	Sponsor	1
3	Apollo	Sponsor	-
4	Chainguard	Sponsor	-
5	CircleCI	Sponsor	-
6	Cloudflare	Sponsor	-
7	Code Climate	Sponsor	-
8	Coder	Sponsor	-
9	CodeSee	Sponsor	-
10	CodeSignal	Sponsor	-
11	Datadog	Sponsor	-
12	Docker	Sponsor	-
13	Fiberplane	Sponsor	-
14	Frontegg	Sponsor	-

Sponsors by tier

unspecified42

100% of 42

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.

AWS×51 peers
Red Hat×43 peers
IBM×38 peers
Google Cloud×29 peers
Meta×24 peers
arm×23 peers
Elastic×22 peers
GitHub×22 peers
GitLab×22 peers
Oracle×21 peers
Clickhouse×20 peers
Accenture×19 peers

Related events · by shared sponsors

Conference	Date	City	Shared sponsors
LeadDev Berlin 2026	November 9, 2026	Berlin	25
LeadDev London 2027	June 28, 2027	London	17
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America	November 9, 2026	Salt Lake City	13
Open Source SecurityCon 2026	November 9, 2026	Salt Lake City	10
WeAreDevelopers Conference India 2026	November 25, 2026	Bengaluru	9
Conf42 FinOps 2027	February 4, 2027	Virtual	9

LeadingEng New York 2026

Welcome to LeadingEng New York 2025

Icebreaker activity

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

Transforming tradition: The journey to product-led growth

Leadership in AI-assisted engineering

Group discussion

Becoming a VP of Engineering

Building a cost-conscious culture: Technical and team strategies

Build features, not fragile foundations

64 companies. two are betting more than once.