Abstract

SurveyMonkey

Hear from leaders from Abstract and SurveyMonkey on how having kids made them better leaders

"How having twins impacts your outlook on leadership" with Abstract's VP of Eng (Rukmini Reddy) and SurveyMonkey's Sr Director of Eng (Shravan Sogani)

Hear from leaders from Abstract and SurveyMonkey on how critical a support system and community is for a manager

"The importance of having a support system as a leader" with Abstract's VP of Eng (Rukmini Reddy) and SurveyMonkey's Sr Director of Eng (Shravan Sogani)

Gusto

Hear from Gusto's CTO on how the origins of the company impacted his leadership style

The early days of building Gusto

Hear from Gusto's CTO on what lessons he's learned about building culture

"Building a safe & collaborative engineering culture" with the CTO & Co-Founder of Gusto, Eddie Kim

Hear from PayPal Credit's former CTO on how to be a manager dealing with missing a big milestone

When you miss a big deadline

Hear from PayPal Credit's former CTO on what he learned from leading a global staff of engineers

Running international teams

Hear from Expensify's CEO on how his early days shaped his view on entrepreneurship

From engineer to entrepreneur

Hear from Expensify's CEO on what has shaped his outlook as a leader

Navigating the rollercoaster ride of leadership

Hear from leaders from Twilio, GitHub, and Brex, and Karat on how to manage distributed teams

"Managing Distributed Teams" with Brex's CTO, Twilio's Sr Director of Eng, and GitHub's Senior Eng Manager

Hear from DocuSign's VP of Eng on how curiosity has made him a better leader

Fundamental Learnings for Engineering Managers

Engineering Talks with Plato: Part 2/6 Shivani Sharma keynote - 15th May 2017

Plato 

Engineering Talks with Plato: Part 1/6 Introduction - 15th May 2017

Engineering Leadership

Technical Leadership

Trailer Plato Event #2: Bringing the best from Silicon Valley to Europe

Director of Engineering

Product Management

Google

Atlassian

Engineering Talks with Plato: Part 4/6 My worst mistake as a manager - 15th May 2017

Engineering Leader

Engineering Leadership Talks by Plato

Building an engineering structure to attract the best talents

Plato event #2 (Paris) - Part 6/7 - Darragh Curran, VP Engineering at Intercom

Plato event #2 (Paris) - Part 1b/7 - Sylvain Utard, VP Engineering at Algolia

What is Engineering Management?

Plato event #2 (Paris) - Part 4/7 - Differences between Eng Management in Fr and US

VP of Engineering

Plato event #2 (Paris) - Part 2/7 - Brett Huff, Engineering Manager at Trello

Plato event #2 (Paris) - Part 5/7 - Luc Vincent, VP Engineering at Lyft

Plato event #2 (Paris) - Part 1/7 - Introduction from Quang Hoang, CEO of Plato

Plato event #2 (Paris) - Part 5b/7 - Intro from Hired

Facebook

Engineering Talks with Plato: Part 3/6 How to become a legitmate leader - 15th May 2017

Engineering Talks with Plato: Part 5/6 Tido Carreiro keynote - 15th May 2017

Christian McCarrick - CTO/VP Engineering at Telmate

Engineering Talks with Plato: Part 6/6 Building an Engineering Structure - 15th May 2017

Aftermovie Plato Event #2 - Bringing the best from Silicon Valley to Europe

Plato Event #3 - Part 2/6 - Joeseph Perla, Engineering Manager at Lyft

Engineering Manager

Plato Event #3 - Part 1/6 - Introduction from Quang Hoang, CEO of Plato

Plato Event #3 Part 5/6 How do we support our engineers for their transition to managers?

Plato Event #3 Part 3/6 How to identify who to promote to Engineering Management

Plato Event #3 Part 4/6 Shawn Zeller From IC to VP Eng Now, back to IC and I love it

Plato Event #3 Part 6/6 Gautam Prabhu, VP Engineering at Zendesk Traits of Exceptional Enginee

Trailer Plato Event #4: Building an Engineering Culture that retains talent

Plato Event #4: Nick Caldwell - Transform Engineering Culture without Losing Control

Plato Event #4: Panel

Plato Event #5: Unknown Unknowns in Engineering Management

VP Engineering

Trailer Plato Event #6: Rethinking the Engineering Career Ladder

Plato Mentors Highlight video

One conversation changed my life

Plato Event #6 - Randall Koutnik (Sr Engineer @Netflix) - "Rethinking the Engineering Career Path"

Stripe

Rethinking the Engineering Career Path

Nurturing an inclusive workplace

Plato Event #7: Michael Seibel, CEO of YCombinator

Upcoming Plato Event - March 28th 2018

Plato Event #7: Dom DeGuzman, Engineer at Twilio

Plato Event #7: Panel - "Recruiting a diverse team"

Senior Software Engineer

Announcing Elevate by Plato - July 13th, 2018

Plato Event #8: Panel - "Managing Remote Teams"

Plato Event #8: Netto Farah @Segment - "Building highly functional remote teams"

Plato Event #8: Brett Huff @Trello - "Remote Manager Essentials"

Plato Webinar Series: "How to Build and Develop an Engineering Team that Excels"

Plato's 2018 ELEVATE Summit Highlights

Plato ELEVATE Summit Keynote: Tido Carriero, VP Engineering at Segment

ELEVATE Summit Panel - Radical Transparency: Biggest Learnings From Transitioning to Management

Plato ELEVATE Summit Keynote: "Synergy: Building Strong Engineering Teams"

Plato ELEVATE Summit Keynote: "Attracting + Retaining the Best Engineers as you Scale"

Plato ELEVATE Summit Fireside Chat with Luc Vincent, VP Engineering at Lyft.

How to Set Effective Goals with Your Engineering Team?

Plato ELEVATE Summit Panel: Building a Product and Engineering Relationship that Works

Plato ELEVATE Summit Fireside Chat with Sam Ghods, CoFounder at Box

Panel on Building Magical Engineering & Product Teams

Fireside chat with VP, Head of Experiences at Airbnb — Joe Zadeh

Plato Webinar Series: Best Practices for your next 1-1"

Fireside chat with the VP of Product at Robinhood, Josh Elman

Fireside chat with the CTO of Gusto, Eddie Kim

Hiring At Scale with Loic Houssier, VP Engineering at DocuSign

Women In Tech - Mary Nicknish, Senior Technical Program Manager at Quizlet

AMA with Luc Vincent, VP Engineering at Lyft, on goal setting for teams.

Tido Carriero, CPO at Segment, On Finding Product Market Fit for New Products and Features

Women in Tech - Becky Flint, CEO and Co-Founder of Dragonboat

Elevate Conference — Chris Slowe, Reddit's CTO — "Managing During Growth & Change"

Elevate Conference — Michael Lopp, Slack's VP of Product Engineering — "The Product Triangle"

Building alignment with Eng & Product

Hear how some of the top engineering leaders tackled common management challenges as their companies grew. This panel include Lyft's EVP of Eng & Product (Luc Vincent) + GitHub's VP of Eng (Dana Lawson) + Asana's Head of Eng (Prashant Pandey) moderated by DocuSign's VP of Eng (Loïc Houssier). 

Surviving Fast Scaling

Elevate Conference — "Lessons in Leadership" w/ Stitch Fix's CTO, Zume's CTO, & Karat's Co-Founder

Elevate Conference — Brian Zotter, Medium's VP of Product Eng, on Building high performing teams

Elevate Conference — Asanka Jayasuriya, InVision's SVP of Engineering — "Managing Remote Teams"

Elevate Conference: Rachel Obstler, PagerDuty's VP of Product on "Effective Eng & Product Teaming"

Elevate Conference — Rukmini Reddy, Abstract's VP of Engineering — "Becoming a badass eng leader"

Elevate Conference — Panel: "The ins and outs of evaluating engineers"

Elevate Conference — "Driving team performance with effective communication"

Elevate Conference — "Evaluating your team's success as you grow"

Elevate Conference — "Employee growth & career development"

The Traits of Exceptional Engineering Leaders - AMA with Gautam Prabhu, VP Engineering at PagerDuty

Remote-First Culture as a Competitive Advantage in a Distributed World

"Effective Communication Skills for Engineering Leaders" with InVision's SVP of Engineering

"What Makes Life Changing Advice" by Quang Hoang, CEO of Plato

Opendoor

How to hire great engineers?

Instacart

Panel: Building alignment between Eng & Product

Building an Inclusive Engineering Culture

Elevate 2019 Recap — Conference for Engineering Leaders

Leaders from Twilio, GitHub, Brex, and Karat discuss how they manage disstributed teams.

Managing Distributed Engineering Teams

Product Maestro

Product Management makes decisions, lots of them. Some days it’s 10 small decisions about the product interface, some days it’s one major decision about a $3M acquisition. Decision making is part and parcel to the job.

The most powerful tool in the Product management toolbox

Hear from some of the best product leaders in the tech industry on Thurs, Dec 13th. Confirmed speakers include: VP of Product for Robinhood, Josh Elman, Director of Product for Google Maps, Rose Yao, (Former) Chief Product Officer for Coursera, Tom Willerer, and Product Lead for Facebook, Maxime Prades (moderator).

Qualities of a Great Product Leader (San Francisco)

Hired, Inc.

If you're interested in building a strong relationship between your engineering and product teams, join us on Wed, Dec 12th! Confirmed speakers include Co-founder and head of engineering for Rover.com, Philip Kimmey Senior product manager for Hired, Aaron Joseph We'll be hosting an evening focused on the challenges and successes others have faced when molding an inclusive and collaborative culture with your eng and product groups!

Building Great Eng + Product Teams (Seattle meetup)

If you're interested in building a strong relationship between Eng and Product teams, join us on Tues, Dec 11th. Our main speaker will be Headspace's VP of Engineering, Bhavini Soneji.

Building Great Eng + Product Teams (LA meetup)

Narrative Science

If you're interested in building a strong relationship between Eng and Product teams, join us on Mon, Dec 10th to hear from leaders from some of Chicago's respected tech companies (Uptake). Learn best practices and how others have overcome common management challenges, plus meet other engineering and product managers!

Building Strong Eng + Product Teams (Chicago meetup)

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