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Session career growth

How to Always Get Invited to Big Strategic Conversations

Monday Apr 7 / 11:45AM BST

Ever heard “you’re a great engineer/manager, but to get to the next level, you need to focus on the big picture and your business impact”? Early on in our careers, we focus on technical depth and excellence.

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Mark Allen

Engineering Leader and Technical Co-Founder, Over 10 Years Experience Growing Managers and Senior Engineers

Session architecture

From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix

Wednesday Apr 9 / 11:45AM BST

Managing media workflows at the Netflix scale is both thrilling and daunting. With millions of workflow executions across hundreds of types and over 500 million CPU hours consumed quarterly, costs can skyrocket, and encoding issues can disrupt the streaming experience.

Speaker image - Sujana Sooreddy

Sujana Sooreddy

Software Engineer @Netflix - Building High Scale Observability Solutions

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Naveen Mareddy

Staff Engineer @Netflix, 20+ years in Software Engineering, Creator of MediaInfra Meetup, Speaker, Mentor

Session engineering leadership

Shine Bright as an IC: Growing Yourself As Your Company Grows

Monday Apr 7 / 05:05PM BST

Being part of a growing company is a fantastic opportunity to level yourself as an individual very rapidly, if you choose to grasp it. You've already immersed yourself with context and you might be the go to person for a key area of the organization.

Speaker image - Suhail Patel

Suhail Patel

Senior Staff Engineer @Monzo Leading the Platform and Data Functions, Previously @Citymapper

Session architecture

Architecture in the Lead: Scaling Today, Shaping Tomorrow

Monday Apr 7 / 10:35AM BST

The BBC’s websites and apps handled well over 100 million visitors in 2024, with 40 million people arriving on UK Election night alone. That’s a lot of scale for an architecture to handle, but it’s just the beginning.

Speaker image - Matthew Clark

Matthew Clark

Head Of Architecture for the @BBC's Digital Products, 25+ Years Developing Online Software

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Ian Arundale

Lead Architect for the @BBC's Digital Products, 20+ Years in Software Engineering

Session AI/ML

Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant

Monday Apr 7 / 05:05PM BST

In October 2024, we announced LinkedIn’s first agent, Hiring Assistant to a select group of LinkedIn customers.

Speaker image - Karthik Ramgopal

Karthik Ramgopal

Distinguished Engineer & Tech Lead of the Product Engineering Team @LinkedIn, 15+ Years of Experience in Full-Stack Software Development

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Daniel Hewlett

Principal AI Engineer & Technical Lead for AI @LinkedIn, 12+ Years of Expierence in ML and AI Engineering, Previously @Google

Session Engineering Management

Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations

Monday Apr 7 / 03:55PM BST

When I took on the Director of Engineering role at Nubank, I had no idea just how many times I’d need to reinvent my leadership style.

Speaker image - Thiago Ghisi

Thiago Ghisi

Director of Engineering @Nubank & Co-Host of @EngAdvicePod, Previously @Apple & @ThoughtWorks