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

# 🚀 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!