LeadDev New York Meetup

Get ready for our final LeadDev New York Meetup of the year! ❄️🚀

This event's theme is all about scale - with talks focused on increasing impact and supersizing systems - just in time for you to plan how you want to go bigger in 2026.

Join us for an evening of networking and practical takeaways to help you lead bigger teams, build bigger systems, make sharper decisions, and communicate impact with confidence. Drinks and snacks will be provided thanks to our generous sponsor, Datadog.

Date: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
Time: 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Location: New York Times Building, 620 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018
Spaces are limited – RSVP required to attend. Please bring a government-issued ID if required by the venue.

Schedule:
6.00 pm - Arrival, networking and refreshments
6.20 pm - Welcome from our hosts
6.30 pm - Architectural trade offs: Modernizing systems without disruption (Bhupendra Mishra, Senior Staff Software Engineer, SiriusXM Radio)
6.50 pm - Building a Startup within Datadog (Caitlin Elfring, Senior Engineering Manager, Datadog)
7.10 pm - Break
7.15 pm - Scaling Teams, Skills, and Systems Panel Discussion (Sally Northmore, Climatebase Fellow, Dan Shultz, Senior Engineering Manager, Ro, Neha Srivastava, Staff Software Engineer, Attentive Mobile Inc.)
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!