The No-BS conference
for engineering leaders
Learn how the best engineering teams operate
Hear about what matters,
without the BS.
Elevate Spring 2024 is set to be our most impressive event yet, featuring:
1000+
Attendees
50+
Keynotes
100+
Roundtables
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Something for everyone
With a variety of ways to get involved at Elevate 2024, there’s something for everyone to love.
Keynotes
Get no-BS advice directly from top-level engineering leaders based on real-life experience.
Roundtables
Engage in conversation with your peers, and top engineering leaders on hot topics in engineering.
Workshops
Enjoy hands-on learning? Grab your laptop and join in as eng leaders showcase something.
Featured Speakers
David Singleton
CTO at Stripe
Sabrina Farmer
CTO at GitLab
Jeremy Rishel
CTO at SoFi
Venkat Thiruvengadam
Founder and CEO
Duplocloud
Stefan Crespo-Donaire
Senior Technical Program Manager
Algolia
Vivek Ravisankar
CEO
Hackerrank
Kathleen Vignos
Vice President, Software Engineering
Capital One Financial
Dustin Pearce
VP of Engineering, CISO
Amplitude
Madhav Nair
CTO
Employ
Naresh Kumar Paturi
Principal Architect
Greenlight
Farhang Kassaei
CTO, Google Store
Saurabh Saxena
Head of Technology, VPE
Uniphore
Nimrod Hoofien
Former Head of Engineering
Gusto
Kinshuk Mishra
CTO
Cedar
Nitesh Kumar
VP Engineering
Affirm
Women+Allies Lounge with
The New Club
Join Plato and The New Club women in engineering network for an all-afternoon lounge on June 5 starting at 3:20 pm to 5:00 pm.
Agenda
Timely topics that will challenge your views on common learnings,
engineering strategies, best practices and frameworks.
Check In
Introducing the EngOS
Oliver Heckmann
Head of Engineering at Coda
Quang Hoang
Cofounder and CEO at Plato
Shishir Mehrotra
Co-founder, CEO at Coda
Budgeting: Your (Unexpected) Opportunity To Be a Hero
Maria Zhang
ex VP of Engineering at Google
Experiments in Culture Engineering
Nimrod Hoofien
Former Head of Engineering at Gusto
Elevate your career with board roles
Sonali Sambhus
ex SVP of Engineering at Square
20 Roundtables
Room: Vista Studio West
How we select the right business problem for solving with ML at DoorDash
by Prashant Verma Engineering Manager at DoorDash
Room: Coastal Hub North
Lessons on Eng Productivity from 200 Engineering leaders
by Jim Grundner Head of Engineering at Allstacks
Room: Vista Studio East
How we make Build vs Buy decisions at Coda
by Hari Sivaramakrishnan Engineering Manager at Coda
Room: Landmark Library
How we pushed experimentation velocity at Thumbtack
by Navneet Rao Director of Engineering at Thumbtack
How GenAI is changing the way we hire developers
Vivek Ravisankar
CEO at Hackerrank
How we invest & divest in bets at Cedar
Kinshuk Mishra
CTO at Cedar
How do we do Calibrations at Carta
Javier Lopez
VP of Engineering at Carta
Lunch sponsored by Skyflow and We Create Problems
How to design your org to maximize potential
Madhav Nair
CTO at Employ
Embracing the Challenge: Navigating Tough Decisions in Technical Leadership
Loic Houssier
SVP of Engineering at Productboard
From Engineering to Business Unit Leader
Aravinda Gollapudi
SVP Technology at Sage
20 Roundtables
Room: Landmark Library
Women + Allies Lounge with The New Club - Fireside chat with Mikaela Smith (ex Salesforce, Twitter, Chainalysis)
by Laura Du Cofounder at The New Club
Room: Vista Studio East
How we combine agility and scientific rigor in software development at Carbon Direct
by Elaine David Principal Architect at Carbon Direct
Room: Vista Studio West
How we handled Reliability & Observability at CodeSignal
by Aram Shatakhtsyan Principal Software Engineer at Intuit
Room: Coastal Hub North
AI at every stage of the development lifecycle at Intuit
by Laurent Benchimol Director of Engineering at Intuit
Room: Coastal Hub South
From Suck to Success: Revamping Your Meetings
by Oliver Heckmann Head of Engineering at Coda
Combating Fraud at Scale with AI at Affirm
Nitesh Kumar
VP Engineering at Affirm
The Art of Scalable Billing: Insights from Algolia
Stefan Crespo-Donaire
Senior Technical Program Manager at Algolia
Leading from the front in times of uncertainty
Rob Zuber
CTO at CircleCI
The future of developer experience
David Singleton
CTO at Stripe
The New
Club Workshop
Women +
Allies Lounge with
The New
Club
Happy Hour sponsored by DuploCloud and Density Labs
Check In
Harnessing AI to Scale Software Innovation and Improve Productivity
Sabrina Farmer
CTO at GitLab
Reorgs done right at Slack Platform
Rukmini Reddy
SVP of Engineering, Platform at Slack
Rituals of Great Decision Making
Shishir Mehrotra
Co-founder, CEO at Coda
Right-sizing your High Availability Investment
Pooja Brown
CTPO at Honor
20 Roundtables
Room: Coastal Hub South
How do we spin up at Stripe
by Natasha Mohanty Head of Engineering, Checkout Experience & Link at Stripe
Room: Landmark Library
How we hire at Rad AI
by Ken Kao VP Eng at Rad AI
Room: Vista Studio West
How we refreshed our Engineering Management ladder at Braze
by Francisco Trindade VP of Engineering at Braze
Room: Vista Studio East
How do we plan and execute at Coda
by Jane Chiu Engineering Chief of Staff at Coda
Room: Coastal Hub North
How we built an internal privacy-safe LLM-powered content co-pilot at Skyflow
by Amruta Moktali Chief Product Officer at Skyflow
You are in the communication business
Farhang Kassaei
CTO, Google Store at Google
How We Rapidly Built Our AI Superpowers
Saurabh Saxena
Head of Technology, VPE at Uniphore
Venkat Thiruvengadam
Founder and CEO at Duplocloud
Greenlight Replatform Journey
Naresh Kumar Paturi
Principal Architect at Greenlight
Lunch
Tech Debt: Leverage for velocity acceleration
Mohsin Hussain
CTO & EVP of Engineering at Liveramp
How we took back control of our monolith at Checkr
Krista Moroder
VP Engineering at Checkr
How we achieve 99.999% systems at Twilio?
Justin Kitagawa
VP Engineering at Twilio
20 Roundtables
Room: Coastal Hub North
How eng leaders organize their workday at Coda
by Bala Neerumalla Head of Information Security at Coda
Room: Landmark Library
How we do capacity planning at Datavant
by Nayana Penmetsa Head of Engineering, Provider at Datavant
Room: Vista Studio West
How we execute on AI projects at Labelbox
by Manas Talukdar Director of Engineering at Labelbox
Room: Coastal Hub South
How we scaled Engineering Decision Making at Carta
by Jayesh Sureshchandra VP of Engineering at Carta
Room: Vista Studio East
1-1s: Your Secret Weapon for Retaining Talent!
by Himanshu Vasishth Head of Core Product Engineering at Coda
Stories & lessons from building novel products at Google & Lyft
Luc Vincent
ex-CPTO at Hayden AI
Understanding the cost of "you build it you run it"
Dustin Pearce
VP of Engineering, CISO at Amplitude
How companies evolve by building platforms
Kathleen Vignos
Vice President, Software Engineering at Capital One Financial
How to decide where to spend your time
Jeremy Rishel
CTO at SoFi
Happy Hour sponsored by EverOps
The agenda is subject to change.
Loved it! Seriously. Do it again and I'll be back.
- VP of Engineering at Derivative Path
Planning, facilities, speaker list was all A++.
- Engineering Manager at Change.org
Great lineup, interesting topics, roundtables were wonderful, with good attendance and participation.
- Engineering Manager at Meta
Great to network. Some great talks. Yes I would come back.
- Director of Engineering at Twilio
I enjoyed the roundtables and just about all of the talks. The theme was great for focusing everyone's talk.
- Director of Engineering at Measurabl
2023 Highlights
Elevate 2023 featured top voices in Engineering, including CTOs, VPs, EMs, EDs, from companies like
How we increase execution by 10x at Coda
Oliver Heckmann, Head of Engineering at Coda
How we do Architecture at Okta
Monica Bajaj, VP Engineering at Okta & Mark Voelker, VP Architecture at Okta
How we chose between building vs buying software
Sushma Nallapeta, CTO at Trusted Health
How we try to avoid the technology migration trap at Netflix
Bruce Wang, Director of Engineering at Netflix
How we do career ladders
Cat Miller, CTO at Flatiron Health
How we rebuilt our technical interviewing process for the post-AI world at Webflow
Byteboard
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San Francisco
June 5-6 2024
Convene SF
40 O'Farrell St
San Francisco, CA 94108
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