Thanks for considering to the LeadDev Call for Proposals.
Our open CFPs can be found below with more details of the process, the support we provide and what topics we look for.
Hello friends
After a sold-out 2025, LDX3 London returns in 2026 with even more to explore — three main stages, a Director+ track, demo stages, and a lively hallway track packed with workshops and activities.
About LDX3 2026 - June 2–3, 2026
LDX3 is designed for engineering leaders who want to improve how software gets delivered — from culture and collaboration to architecture and automation. We know that optimizing delivery is both a technical and social challenge, so whether you’re an Engineering Manager, Senior IC, Director, or more senior, this is the place to share your experience.
What topics are we interested in?
We’re looking for 25-minute-long practical case studies and stories that will help other engineering leaders learn, reflect, and grow. You might talk about:
Your organisation: leading high-performing engineering orgs
- Managing and leading teams
- Hiring and retaining talent
- Culture diversity and inclusion
- Strategy, planning and future proofing
- Leadership skills
- Mentoring
Building for production: building systems to support high performance and delivery
- Monitoring, observability and understanding
- Reliability, quality, security
- Being a tech lead
- Incident management
- Structuring your team to work effectively
- Documentation
- Systems metrics and developer productivity
Technical choices: evolving your systems and innovating your architecture
- System design & untangling systems complexity
- Planning and technical roadmaps
- Architectures, microservices, platform engineering
- AI/LLMs
- Legacy and tech debt
- Data management
- Decision-making, trade-offs, benefits analysis
The speaker experience
Working with speakers to help your ideas shine onstage is one of our favourite things.
As a speaker for the event, we'd also offer you:
- A free ticket to the conference
- A complimentary ticket to a LeadDev conference in 2027
- Up to 2 nights' accommodation at the conference hotel
- Economy travel expenses if you need them
- Professional speaker coaching if requested
- Dedicated support from our team at all stages of your participation in the conference
Visas are the responsibility of the speaker but LeadDev can issue a letter of invitation to support an application if required.
You might be interested in reading a recent article on LeadDev.com by Jonathan Fielding on Crafting a LeadDev talk submission.
Good luck!
We hope that's given you all the information you need to submit a great proposal. We can't wait to read them!
Who will you be writing for or speaking to?
Our audience consists of all senior engineering folk, from tech leads to VPs and senior ICs. They are consistently technical (across a very broad range of technologies and industries) with many line managing people in their organisations. It’s also important to note that some attendees have just been promoted, or are trying to figure out what skills they need to progress into a more technical role.
What does LeadDev offer?
If we choose your article for publication, we’ll offer all the support we can in the creation of your article. After a first draft has been handed in, it will be passed to our in-house editor who will work with you to ensure that your article is the best that it can be.
We also pay an honorarium of $250 to everyone who writes an article for our site.
What subject should you focus on?
- Team (anything related to people management, inclusive & diverse environments, hiring & retention, challenging issues etc.)
- Tech (anything related to new languages, frameworks & technologies, trends & changes, scaling, architecture etc.)
- Process (anything related to the way your team works, Agile & other delivery methods, maintaining a high-performing team etc.)
- Personal Development (anything related to improving leadership skills, maintaining your mental health, adapting to a new role etc.)
- StaffPlus (anything on big picture thinking, making the right technical decisions, or influencing at scale)
How our article review process works
We review all of the article proposals on a monthly basis. Article proposals will be reviewed the month after they have been submitted. Article proposals are reviewed during the first week of the month, and you’ll hear from the team during the second week of the month.
For example, if you submit an article proposal in February, we’ll review your submission during the first week of March. You’ll then find out if your proposal has been selected for publication during the second week of March.
If you haven’t heard back from us, please give us some time before reaching out to enquire about the status of your article proposal - we might just be running a little late! If it has been 4 or more weeks, feel free to get in touch with a member of the team to enquire about the status of your submission :)
If your article has been selected, we’ll be in touch with the next steps and the timeline for you to write your article within (this tends to be 3-4 weeks).
If you have any questions about the article submission process, you can contact a member of the team at hello@leaddev.com