Lead Dev New York 2020

Whether you are scaling a team, coaching and developing your reports, or trying to stay ahead of the latest tech developments – you’re constantly juggling priorities while making business-critical decisions and releasing high-quality products.

The Lead Developer New York is a two-day conference packed full of inspirational and practical sessions from the world’s top technical leaders, focussed around three core themes: teams, tech and tools.

The 2020 conference program is packed with talks to help you be a better technical leader, with speakers from Etsy, Netflix, Squarespace, Stripe, Spotify, Mailchimp and more!

Meet the speakers

Speakers

Suz Hinton

Senior Software Engineer

Stripe

Sarah Milstein

Senior Director of Engineering

Mailchimp

Bryan Liles

Senior Staff Engineer

VMware

Jon Thornton

Engineering Manager

Squarespace

Marilene Lourenço

Quality Analyst Consultant

ThoughtWorks

Ronnie Chen

Engineering Manager

Twitter

Sebastian Duque

Senior Engineer

Intercom

Thayse Onofrio

Software Engineer

ThoughtWorks

How can I get involved?

Become a speaker: our Call for Proposals is now closed but we have more opportunities to speak at other events throughout the year.
Sponsor us: connect with senior engineering leaders looking for tools to help them work more efficiently and to ship higher quality product.
Buy tickets: register to attend the conference in April or register with your team for a group discount.
Apply for a scholarship place: we run a scholarship fund to support a number of individuals who could not otherwise attend with a free ticket to the conference. The deadline for applications is January 3.
Attend a meetup: We host quarterly meetups and you can get involved as an attendee, speaker, or sponsor.

Not sure what to expect? Look back at the highlights from our 2019 events to get you inspired for New York 2020!

Get your tickets

Look back at the 2019 conference photos in our Flickr album.

View 2019 photos

Sponsors

Thank you to all our fantastic partners who help make our event happen.

Would you like to join the community and align your brand with The Lead Developer? Contact us for our 2020 sponsorship prospectus.

Premier Sponsor

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Talent Partner

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Building better technical leaders

Two days • 800+ Engineering Leaders