September 18-19, 2025
7am PST / 10am EST / 4pm CET
Event about career growth, leadership
and seniority in tech
Learn From Experienced Engineers How to Navigate Your Career, Tech Role and The Industry
In this edition of TechLead Conf we will focus on two pressing topics in 2025: adopting AI in organizations and challenges around it from tech leadership perspective, and how Senior engineers and leader can work on reducing systems complexity. Learn directly from industry practitioners and real case studies ranging from startups to The Big Tech.
Enjoy talks from your peers and experts, engage in Q&A sessions on September 18, and join themed discussion rooms on September 19. It's a remote event on both days.
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Career growth in AI era
- Finding a job in 2025
- Case studies of successful career transitions
- Skills required for an AI career
- Trends shaping the future of work
- Work-life balance in tech-driven roles
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AI in organizations
- The role of AI in support teams (including non-tech people)
- Interviewing process for AI/LLM skills
- Ethics implications of AI use in hiring, applying, automation processes
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Managing system complexity
- Monoliths vs Microservices
- Navigating complexity in agentic systems
- Managing Rapid scaling in teams
- Balancing third-party dependencies and code generation
Two Days, a full schedule
Talks & discussions
September 18 - talks from industry experts, including Live QnA. September 19 - live discussion rooms - a perfect space to get advice from experts, share your insights and connect with like-minded individuals
Workshops
Live participation with workshop recordings being shared after the event. Certificates granted upon workshops completion
Meet your peers
Socialize in our dedicated Discord channel with speakers and other engineers seeking solutions for career advancement
First Speakers
Swizec is a software engineer, author, and conference speaker. He's published books on modern web technologies, data visualization, and productivity, and has trained engineering teams at companies big and small. He’s on a mission to distill 20 years of tacit experience into actionable steps.
Kanika Tolver is a Senior AI Product Manager, Certified Agile Facilitator, and founder of Career Rehab, LLC. With over 15 years of experience across government and private-sector tech, she brings bold insights on product development, AI integration, and career transformation. She's the author of Career Rehab and has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and The Washington Post. Kanika empowers professionals to rethink how they work and thrive in the digital age making her a sought-after speaker at tech and career development conferences.
Amy has over 22+ years of web experience and have expertise in product design, frontend, and backend development. She's developed multiple technology courses and written curriculum for the University of Florida, in their Master’s program. She has spoken at conferences around the world about full stack development. Her podcast, http://Compressed.fm supports thousands of developers with design and engineering tips. She has built hundreds of websites and products for enterprise companies, startups, and even major recording artists. She lives in Nashville, TN with her husband, 3 adorable children, and 2 dogs.
J. B. Rainsberger (@[email protected]) is a professional 5-pin bowler who enjoys consulting with software development professionals and the companies that employ them. He guides companies to better results from their software projects while he helps individuals work with less stress. He wants everyone to actually realize the promised benefits of Lightweight approaches to software development, which includes making sense of the "Agile" chaos of the past quarter-century. Companies engage him for remote working sessions, training courses, on-site workshops, and in-person consulting visits. Individuals, especially those stuck in companies that don't have the budget for formal consulting, can get the help they need by joining J. B.'s mentoring group by visiting https://experience.jbrains.ca. (Quite often, they can convince their employer to pay for that!) He lives in Atlantic Canada with his wife, Sarah, who is busy showing the Open Source world how to have quality documentation even with a mostly-volunteer project community. They travel to Europe less often than they used to, which makes each visit even more enjoyable.
Co-founder & COO at Epicmax | OpenSource advocate | Vuestic UI core team
Program Committee
Kevin Ball is VP of engineering at Mento, focused on helping modern workers grow in their careers via a unique combination of coaching and mentorship. He is also a trained coach who works with engineers and engineering managers, a panelist on the JSParty podcast, and publishes Human Skills, a series of weekly interviews of tech industry leaders on all of the non-technical skills that go into success in the tech industry.
Kevin is an experienced engineer, manager, and entrepreneur who has co-founded and acted as CTO for 2 companies, founded the San Diego Javascript Meetup, and has written articles for publications including Smashing Magazine, web designer magazine, Net magazine, and LeadDev. He has spoken around the world including conferences like All Things Open, Web Unleashed, NodeConf Colombia, and React Amsterdam.
Ioana is an engineer manager flavored in communities, and devrel, that has more than 12 years of experience in tech with a specialization in mobile apps and web. Sr. Engineering Manager at Interledger Foundation. She is the Module Owner for Mozilla Reps, one of the alumni of MozTechSpeakers, and stands as an ambassador for CodeWeek at the European Commission. In her free time, she contributes to Open Source and different volunteering programs, while enjoying a coffee or a good wine.
Maxim Salnikov is a tech and cloud community enthusiast based in Oslo. With over two decades of experience as a web developer, he shares his extensive knowledge of the web platform, cloud computing, and AI by speaking at and providing training for developer events worldwide. By day, Maxim plays a crucial role in supporting the development of cloud and AI solutions within European companies, serving as the leader of developer productivity business at Microsoft. During evenings, he can be found running events for Norway's largest web and cloud development communities. Maxim is passionate about exploring and experimenting with Generative AI possibilities, including AI-assisted development. To share his insights and connect with like-minded professionals globally, he founded and organized the inaugural Prompt Engineering Conference, the first of its kind on a global scale.
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