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November 7-8 | San Francisco2 Days1000 Eng Leaders100 Sessions


THE NO-BS CONFERENCE
FOR ENGINEERING LEADERS

Learn how the best engineering teams operate



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HEAR ABOUT WHAT MATTERS...


...FROM TOP ENGINEERING LEADERS

(more to be announced soon..)

Chitra Dharmarajan

Sr Director, Security Engineering

Okta

Balki Kodarapu

Sr. Director of Engineering

SupportLogic

Irina Stănescu

Engineering Leader ex-Google, ex-Uber

Praful Kaul

CTO

Transcarent

Diego Quiroga

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft

Eddie Kim

CTO

Gusto

Swapna Savant

Senior Director of Engineering

Headspace

Monica Bajaj

Vice President of Engineering

Okta, Inc.

Chris Slowe

CTO

Reddit

Marek Suppa

Principal Data Scientist/Engineer @ Cisco, ex-Head of Data @ Slido (now part of
Cisco)

Cisco

Oliver Heckmann

Head of Engineering

Coda

Jeremy Wight

VP of Engineering

CareMessage

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AGENDA


TIMELY TOPICS THAT WILL CHALLENGE YOUR VIEWS ON COMMON LEARNINGS,
ENGINEERING STRATEGIES, BEST PRACTICES AND FRAMEWORKS.

Day 1 - November 7Day 2 - November 8
09:30
Opening speech

Stage A (3rd Floor)
Stage B (4th Floor)
Stage C (Lo level - Cellar)
10:20

How we chose between building vs buying software at Trusted Health,
ApartmentList, Zoosk and others...

Sushma Nallapeta

CTO at Trusted Health

How we are building external and internal Communities at Reddit

Chris Slowe

CTO at Reddit

How I became Board Advisor

Simi Gupta

Sr Director of Engineering at Procore

11:00

How do we scale Security Engineering at Okta

Chitra Dharmarajan

Sr Director, Security Engineering at Okta

George K. Wang

Security Architect at Okta

How we increase execution by 10x at Coda

Oliver Heckmann

Head of Engineering at Coda

How we handle tech debt at Kiddom

Allen Cheung

VP of Engineering at Kiddom, Inc.

11:40

How we try to avoid the technology migration trap at Netflix

Bruce Wang

Dir of Engineering, Product Platform Systems at Netflix

How we do Developer productivity at Clearbit, MongoDB and Legion Tech

Lila Brooks

Engineering Manager at MongoDB

Tanvi Shah

Director of Engineering at Legion Technologies

Iba Masood

CEO at Tara AI

Rebecca Yang

VP of Engineering at Clearbit

How we use AI to deliver telehealth as Transcarent

Praful Kaul

CTO at Transcarent

12:10
Lunch
13:10

Scaling Developer Experience at Reddit, Airbnb and Amplitude

Cherif Yaya

Senior Staff Mobile Engineer at Airbnb

Ankit Jain

CEO and founder at Aviator.Co

Adam Berry

Senior Staff Engineer at Amplitude

Lauren Darcey

Senior Engineering Manager at Reddit

How We Do Architecture at Okta

Monica Bajaj

Vice President of Engineering at Okta, Inc.

Mark T. Voelker

VP, Architecture & Chief Architect at Okta

How to thrive as an engineering leader at a Pre-IPO company

Anant Gupta

VP of Engineering at Included Health

13:50

How we do career ladders at Flatiron Health

Cat Miller

CTO at Flatiron Health

How we are building platforms to support a compound startup at Rippling

Tony Dong

VP of Engineering at Rippling

How we innovate in a regulated environment at CareMessage

Jeremy Wight

VP of Engineering at CareMessage

14:30

You build it, you run it.

Vlad Cretu

VP of Engineering at Sentry

How to evaluate team effectiveness with data first approach at Headspace,
Cruise, Microsoft

Bhavini Soneji

How we turn data teams into better engineers at Netflix

Andrea Hairston

Engineering Manager, Data & Insights at Netflix

15:10

How we set a technical direction that lasts (and stuck to it) at Suvoda

Andrew McVeigh

Chief Architect at Suvoda



How we rebuilt our technical interviewing process for the post-AI world at
Webflow

Sargun Kaur

Co-founder & CEO at Byteboard

Akash Jain

Senior Engineering Manager at Webflow

15:50

How we do cloud infrastructure at HashiCorp

Michael Galloway

Director, Platform Infrastructure at HashiCorp

How we leverage mechanisms at Amazon?

Zak Islam

Director, Software Engineering at AWS

How did we create a culture of ownership, growth mindset and accountability at
Adobe?

Archana Chaudhary

Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe

16:30
Closing Speech
09:30
Opening speech

Stage A (3rd Floor)
Stage B (4th Floor)
Stage C (Lo level - Cellar)
10:20

How we do developer productivity at Slack

Sridhar Ramakrishnan

Director of Engineering, Developer Experience and Productivity at Slack

How we evaluate engineering performance at Gusto

Eddie Kim

CTO at Gusto

How we simplified our defect prioritization system at SupportLogic

Balki Kodarapu

Sr. Director of Engineering at SupportLogic

11:00

How we do cloud cost efficiency at Notion

Tanner Johnson

Engineering Manager at Notion

How we increased developer productivity 2x at Pinterest

Dave Burgess

VP of Data Engineering at Pinterest

How to build an anti-burnout tech organization

Irina Stănescu

11:40

How we elevate our management game together at Headspace Health

Swapna Savant

Senior Director of Engineering at Headspace

How do we code review at Slack

Roojuta Lalani

Staff Software Engineer at Slack

How are we transforming the org to achieve 99.99% uptime at DigiCert?

Wade Choules

SVP of Engineering at Digicert, Inc

12:10
Lunch
13:10

How do we build engineering resilience at Carta

Javier Lopez

Sr Director of Engineering at Carta

What I Learned About Coaching in the Back of an Ambulance

Kent Beck

Chief Scientist at Mechanical Orchard

How I Transitioned from a VP of Engineering Role to a $280K/Year Solopreneur
Mentoring Business in One Year

Marian Kamenistak

13:50

How we drive high customer quality at Clari?

Shravan Sogani

VP of Engineering at Clari

How we do AI at Amplitude

Shadi Rostami

SVP of Engineering at Amplitude

How we do Platform Engineering at Viva Engage in Microsoft

Diego Quiroga

Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft

14:30

How do we drive Platform Innovation at Netflix

Shweta Saraf

Director of Platform Networking at Netflix

TBD

Tamar Bercovici

VP of Engineering at Box

TBD

Marek Suppa

Principal Data Scientist/Engineer @ Cisco, ex-Head of Data @ Slido (now part of
Cisco) at Cisco

15:10

How we drive developer productivity at Yelp

Kent Wills

Director of Engineering - Engineering Effectiveness at Yelp

How did we build an AI/ML Platform at DoorDash from the ground up

Sudhir Tonse

Sr. Director of Engineering at DoorDash

What I learned about teams from building the Jenkins project

Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Co-CEO at Launchable

15:50


TBD

Manu Gurudatha

Senior Director, Software Engineering at PagerDuty




ABOUT ELEVATE

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San Francisco

November 7-8 2023

Storek

149 9th St

San Francisco, CA 94103

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Register now for a two-day summit taking your through the future of engineering
leadership.

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Ticket sales will close on Nov 3rd

$800

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FAQ

Where is the event located?

 * Storek
   
   149 9th Street
   
   San Francisco, CA 94103

What's going on throughout the day?

 * The fun will kick off around 9am and continue until 6pm each day. We'll be
   serving lunch to all attendees around noon and will have happy hours both
   days starting around 5pm.
 * There will be plenty of networking opportunities and a chance to connect with
   your peers.

Will there be food provided at the event?

 * We suggest you have breakfast ahead of time. We'll have endless coffee and
   water all day.
 * Lunch will be served around noon for all attendees and evenings end with a
   delightful happy hour starting at 5pm.

What form of transportation do you recommend?

 * Highly recommend rideshare (Uber or Lyft) or other forms of transportation as
   street parking is highly limited

Will there be parking?

 * Street parking is extremely limited and there are limited parking structures
   that charge a daily parking fee/rate within walking distance to the venue.
   Those parking structures being located at:
   * 66 10th St. (1400 Mission St.) - Valet Garage
   * 1188 Mission St. (33 8th St.) - Trinity Place Garage

What time does attendee registration open?

 * November 7th, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
 * November 8th, 8:00 am - 3:00 pm

How do I purchase a conference pass?

 * Click here to register

Can I give my badge or transfer my ticket to someone else?

 * As we are nearing the event, we ask that each person purchase their own
   conference pass as we'll be doing ID checks upon arrival each day of the
   event.

Where do I pick up the badge?

 * At the event venue (located at 149 9th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103) on
   Nov 7th and Nov 8th starting at 8am.

What do I need to pick up my badge?

 * Bring the following when you pick up your badge: A valid photo ID, preferably
   a valid passport or a valid US license and your email confirmation for speedy
   check-in.

Will there be coat check/bag drops?

 * We will have coat check and bag drop during the two days of the event but
   would appreciate limiting the items brought to the venue.

Hotels

 * BEI San Francisco
   * 0.2 miles to the venue
   * Courtesy Block ; Booking Code 231106SAN
 * San Francisco Proper
   * 0.5 miles to the venue
   * Courtesy Block
 * Yotel San Francisco
   * 0.4 miles to the venue
   * Courtesy Block
 * The Line
   * 1 mile to the venue
   * Courtesy Block

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