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ELC Annual 2025: 2-Day Conference for Eng Leaders to Reconnect in San Francisco

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ELC Annual 2025: 2-Day Conference for Eng Leaders to Reconnect in San Francisco

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# 🚀 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

​→ Plus more challenges you’re facing today

## 🎙️ 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

## ​💡 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 — let’s shape the future together!

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