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