LeadDev New York Meetup

Get ready for the next LeadDev New York Meetups! 🚀

Can’t wait until the fall to get your LeadDev New York fix? No need to worry - quarterly LeadDev Meetups are back in New York!

Join us for the next event on Monday, June 2nd and enjoy an evening of networking and talks on building effective engineering culture and growing leaders. Drinks and nibbles will be provided on the night, thanks to Datadog!

Date: Monday, June 2nd, 2025
Time: 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Location: New York Times Building, 620 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018

Spaces are limited - you must RSVP to attend. Attendees must also bring a government-issued ID with a name that matches their Meetup registration to enter the New York Times Building. We hope to see you there!

Schedule:
6.00 pm - Arrival, networking and refreshments
6.20 pm - Welcome from host - James Courtois (Senior Director of Engineering Manager, Luminate)
6.30 pm - Strategic Approaches to Deploying LLMs in Your Organization - Katerina Zanos (Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Meta)
6.50 pm - Can AI build our AI strategy for us, too? - A Conversation on AI in Organizational Leadership Patty Delgado (VP Engineering, Vividly) and Meg Adams (Senior Director of Engineering, NYT Cooking)
7.10 pm - Break
7.15 pm - The Devops Engineer who never sleeps: Lessons Building AI Agents @ Datadog - Diamond Bishop (Director of Engineering/AI, Datadog)
7.35 pm - Closing remarks and networking through to close
8.30 pm - Close

You can also join our Slack workspace to keep up to date with everything in our New York community. Join the channel #leaddev-nyc or #new-york.

If you need further information or have any questions, please send an email to: hello@leaddev.com. Here is a friendly reminder of our Code of Conduct to help protect the safety of our community.

Don't forget to share this with your colleagues who may be interested, and keep an eye out for upcoming meetups later this year!

And a big thank you to our New York meetup partner Datadog!