Name: ELC Annual 2025: 2-Day Conference for Eng Leaders to Reconnect in San Francisco
Start: 2025-09-10T15:00:00.000Z
Location: 2 Marina Blvd

# 🚀 ELC Annual 2025

​**Connection-First Experiences**
​In a landscape of layoffs, remote work, and nonstop AI disruption, the right connections are your unfair advantage. **ELC Annual 2025 is where those relationships grow and thrive.**
​📅 **September 10–11, 2025**
📍 **San Francisco, CA**
​👉 Join **500+ CTOs, VPs, and Heads of Engineering** to co-create the new playbook for leadership in the age of AI.

## 🌟 What to Expect

​🎤 **Speaking Sessions**
​Inspiring, close-up conversations with influential leaders shaping the future of engineering. These sessions go beyond the stage, giving you **rare access to trailblazers** rethinking org design, product strategy, and AI-driven leadership.
​🤝 **Peer Roundtables**
​Our most popular program—intimate, problem-focused discussions with fellow leaders on **shared career challenges**.
​✅ **Curated 1:1 Mentorship Matches**
​Whether you’d like to advise or be advised, we’ll match you with leaders whose experience meets your goals.
Expect private, candid, and mutually beneficial **conversations on**:

* ​Scaling teams without breaking culture
* ​Driving cross-functional execution
* ​Navigating budget trade-offs
* ​Elevating your career narrative

## 🔍 Topics We’ll Be Diving Into

* ​How OpenAI Builds AI-native Products & Engineering Orgs
* ​Leading AI Culture Change: Amplitude’s Playbook for Adoption, Productivity & Innovation
* ​Rethinking Systems Design & Workflows for Agentic AI
* ​Product Taste: Teaching Teams to Build Products That Delight, Not Just Work
* ​Rebuilding Your Org: Hiring, Interviews & Upskilling in the AI Era
* ​Career Growth Without Promotions: Delegating Stretch Projects that Scale People and Impact
* ​Designing the Next Interface: Voice, Vision & Multimodal AI Systems
* ​Building Production-Ready AI Agents
* ​Product Development, Prototypes & Rapid Iteration in an AI-Powered World
* ​The Leadership Capabilities AI Can’t Replace & How to Systematically Develop Them

​→[ ](https://sfelc.com/annual2025?utm_source=luma&utm_medium=luma&utm_id=89#topics)*[Plus more challenges you’re facing today](https://sfelc.com/annual2025?utm_source=luma&utm_medium=luma&utm_id=89#topics)*

## 🎙️ Speakers

* ​**Arvind Jain** — Founder & CEO, Glean
* ​**Sulman Choudhry** — Head of Engineering, ChatGPT @ OpenAI
* ​**Lin Qiao** — CEO & Co-founder, Fireworks AI
* ​**Melody Meckfessel** — CTO, Jasper
* ​**Malte Ubl** — CTO, Vercel
* ​**Natalie Glance** — Chief Engineering Officer, Duolingo
* ​**Craig McLuckie** — Co-Creator of Kubernetes
* ​**Jyoti Bansal** — CEO & Co-Founder, Harness
* ​**Jim Palmer** — Chief AI Officer, Dialpad
* ​**Brian Balfour** — Founder & CEO, Reforge

​→ *[Plus 40+ engineering leaders ready to connect and exchange insights](https://sfelc.com/annual2025?utm_source=luma&utm_medium=luma&utm_id=89#speakers)*

## ​💡 Why Attend

* ​Gain **actionable insights** tailored for the AI era
* ​Build a **powerful peer network** that lasts far beyond the event
* ​Leave with **practical tools, frameworks, and clarity** to lead with confidence

​This is your opportunity to **evolve your leadership toolkit** and shape the future of engineering leadership.

​🎟️ → ***[Reserve your seat](https://sfelc.com/annual2025?utm_source=luma&utm_medium=luma&utm_id=89) — let’s shape the future together!***

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