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...From top engineering leaders
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Javier Lopez
Sr Director of Engineering
Carta
Ian Nowland
SVP Engineering
Datadog
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Co-CEO
Launchable
Praful Kaul
CTO
Transcarent
Sridhar Ramakrishnan
Director of Engineering, Developer Experience and Productivity
Slack
Kent Beck
Chief Scientist
Mechanical Orchard
Kent Wills
Director of Engineering - Engineering Effectiveness
Yelp
Lawrence Bruhmuller
VP Engineering
Great Expectations
Wade Choules
SVP of Engineering
Digicert, Inc
Manu Gurudatha
Senior Director, Software Engineering
PagerDuty
Sushma Nallapeta
CTO
Trusted Health
Mark T. Voelker
VP, Architecture & Chief Architect
Okta
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Sessions you'll see at Elevate
Timely topics that will challenge your views on common learnings,
engineering strategies, best practices and frameworks.
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 we reduced oncall burnout and improved availability at Box
Shubhro Roy
Engineering Manager at Box
How do we do planning at WMG
Xiao Guo
VP of Engineering at Warner Music Group
How we instill ownership at Procore
Simi Gupta
Sr Director of Engineering at Procore
How we increase execution by 10x at Coda
Oliver Heckmann
Head of Engineering at Coda
How we increase execution by 10x at Coda
Oliver Heckmann
Head of Engineering at Coda
How do we code review at Slack
Roojuta Lalani
Staff Software Engineer at Slack
How to execute consistently on time and on quality
Manu Gurudatha
Senior Director, Software Engineering at PagerDuty
How we do Platform Engineering at Viva Engage in Microsoft
Diego Quiroga
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
How I became Board Advisor
Simi Gupta
Sr Director of Engineering at Procore
How are we transforming the org to achieve 99.99% uptime at DigiCert?
Wade Choules
SVP of Engineering at Digicert, Inc
How we instill ownership at Procore
Simi Gupta
Sr Director of Engineering at Procore
How do we build engineering resilience at Carta
Javier Lopez
Sr Director of Engineering at Carta
How I Became a CTO: A Transformation Workshop for Engineering Directors and VPs
Virendra Vase
Executive Coach (CTO/COO/SVP) at Life360, Patreon, Salesforce, Yahoo
How we drive developer productivity at Yelp
Kent Wills
Director of Engineering - Engineering Effectiveness at Yelp
How did we create a culture of ownership, growth mindset and accountability at Adobe?
Archana Chaudhary
Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe
How we do QA at Kiddom
Allen Cheung
VP of Engineering at Kiddom, Inc.
How do we do planning at WMG
Xiao Guo
VP of Engineering at Warner Music Group
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 we drive high customer quality at Clari?
Shravan Sogani
VP of Engineering at Clari
From Covid layoffs up to $185 million in series C. A journey about how a VP Engineering can help a company to transform the teams to ammunition that blasts.
Marian Kamenistak
ex-VP Engineering at Mews
How we do GenAI at Slido (without breaking the bank)
Marek Suppa
Principal Data Scientist/Engineer @ Cisco, ex-Head of Data @ Slido (now part of Cisco) at Cisco
How we do career ladders at Flatiron Health
Cat Miller
CTO at Flatiron Health
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 we reduced oncall burnout and improved availability at Box
Shubhro Roy
Engineering Manager at Box
What An Ambulance Ride Taught Me About Coaching
Kent Beck
Chief Scientist at Mechanical Orchard
How i became Staff engineer
Roojuta Lalani
Staff Software Engineer at Slack
How we handle tech debt at Kiddom
Allen Cheung
VP of Engineering at Kiddom, Inc.
How to build an anti-burnout career in tech
Irina Stănescu
How I landed, struggled and ultimately thrived as a Engineering Director at Netflix
Bruce Wang
Dir of Engineering, Product Platform Systems at Netflix
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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$800
Conference 2 days
Panels and Keynotes
Tactical Workshops
Unlimited 1-1 Mentor Sessions
Curated Peer Groups
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