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...From top engineering leaders
(more to be announced soon..)
Tamar Bercovici
VP of Engineering
Box
Marek Suppa
Principal Data Scientist/Engineer @ Cisco, ex-Head of Data @ Slido (now part of Cisco)
Cisco
Lauren Darcey
Senior Engineering Manager
Oliver Heckmann
Head of Engineering
Coda
Andrew McVeigh
Chief Architect
Suvoda
Wade Choules
SVP of Engineering
Digicert, Inc
Allen Cheung
VP of Engineering
Kiddom, Inc.
Praful Kaul
CTO
Transcarent
Bhavini Soneji
CTO/VP of Engineering
Sridhar Ramakrishnan
Director of Engineering, Developer Experience and Productivity
Slack
Michael Galloway
Director, Platform Infrastructure
HashiCorp
Kent Beck
Chief Scientist
Mechanical Orchard
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Continue growing through bi-weekly online peer-meetings
Sessions you'll see at Elevate
Timely topics that will challenge your views on common learnings,
engineering strategies, best practices and frameworks.
What open-source community teaches you about engineering teams
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Co-CEO at Launchable
Tactics: How I Transitioned from a VP of Engineering Role to a $280K/Year Solopreneur Mentoring Business in One Year - Full Details, No Theory, No Inspirational Buzzwords.
Marian Kamenistak
ex-VP Engineering at Mews
How I landed, struggled and ultimately thrived as a Engineering Director at Netflix
Bruce Wang
Dir of Engineering, Product Platform Systems at Netflix
How I Became a Veteran CTO: 8 Startups, 5 Exits, 10+ M&A and Countless Lessons
Virendra Vase
Executive Coach (CTO/COO/SVP) at Life360, Patreon, Salesforce, Yahoo
How we leverage mechanisms at Amazon?
Zak Islam
Director, Software Engineering at AWS
How I grew from Software Engineer to VP Engineering
Tamar Bercovici
VP of Engineering at Box
What open-source community teaches you about engineering teams
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Co-CEO at Launchable
How I grew from Software Engineer to VP Engineering
Tamar Bercovici
VP of Engineering at Box
How we increase execution by 10x at Coda
Oliver Heckmann
Head of Engineering at Coda
How we innovate in a regulated environment at CareMessage
Jeremy Wight
VP of Engineering at CareMessage
Reddit: building external and internal Communities
Chris Slowe
CTO at Reddit
How we do meetings at Kiddom
Allen Cheung
VP of Engineering at Kiddom, Inc.
The uncomfortable topic of engineering management
Mihai Constantin-Pau
ex Director at Fitbit, ex Sr Engineering Manager at Google
How do we build engineering resilience at Carta
Javier Lopez
Sr Director of Engineering at Carta
How we adopted GenAI at Procore
Simi Gupta
Sr Director of Engineering at Procore
How we do QA at Kiddom
Allen Cheung
VP of Engineering at Kiddom, Inc.
How did we create a culture of ownership, growth mindset and accountability at Adobe?
Archana Chaudhary
Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe
"You build it you run it" - a hidden catalyst for culture
Vlad Cretu
VP of Engineering at Sentry
Tactics: How I Transitioned from a VP of Engineering Role to a $280K/Year Solopreneur Mentoring Business in One Year - Full Details, No Theory, No Inspirational Buzzwords.
Marian Kamenistak
ex-VP Engineering at Mews
How I Became a Veteran CTO: 8 Startups, 5 Exits, 10+ M&A and Countless Lessons
Virendra Vase
Executive Coach (CTO/COO/SVP) at Life360, Patreon, Salesforce, Yahoo
How we leverage mechanisms at Amazon?
Zak Islam
Director, Software Engineering at AWS
(Unlocking the Power of Data: Embracing Data for Data-Driven Decision Making) OR (How to embrace data and drive data driven decision making)
Bhavini Soneji
How we chose between building vs buying software at Trusted Health, ApartmentList, Zoosk and others...
Sushma Nallapeta
CTO at Trusted Health
How we do career ladders at Flatiron Health
Cat Miller
CTO at Flatiron Health
How i became Staff engineer
Roojuta Lalani
Staff Software Engineer at Slack
How did we build an AI/ML Platform at DoorDash from the ground up
Sudhir Tonse
Sr. Director of Engineering at DoorDash
How we reduced oncall burnout and improved availability at Box
Shubhro Roy
Engineering Manager at Box
How we increased ML engineering productivity 10x at Pinterest
Dave Burgess
VP of Data Engineering at Pinterest
How we set a technical direction that lasts (and stuck to it) at Suvoda
Andrew McVeigh
Chief Architect at Suvoda
How we built enterprise grade incident management process at Nutanix
Prabitha Ganesh
Director of Engineering at Nutanix
How I landed, struggled and ultimately thrived as a Engineering Director at Netflix
Bruce Wang
Dir of Engineering, Product Platform Systems at Netflix
How to build an anti-burnout career in tech
Irina Stănescu
How we try to avoid the technology migration trap at Netflix
Bruce Wang
Dir of Engineering, Product Platform Systems at Netflix
How to build an anti-burnout tech organization
Irina Stănescu
Sessions you won't see at Elevate
If you're sick of conferences that overpromise and underdeliver,
welcome to Elevate.
The Future of Tech - Predictions for 2050
10 Generic tips to boost morale
A meditative journey to Eng Leadership
About Elevate

San Francisco

November 7-8 2023
Storek
149 9th St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Elevate is the prime opportunity for engineering leaders to learn from industry leaders, get mentored by top Plato mentors, and network with their peers. Register now for a two-day summit taking your through the future of engineering leadership.
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Tickets
$800
Conference 2 days
Panels and Keynotes
Tactical Workshops
Unlimited 1-1 Mentor Sessions
Curated Peer Groups
$250 Plato Credits gift card
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