Talk submissions for London 2025
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Hello friends
In celebration of LeadDev's 10th anniversary, we’re launching a brand new event, and it's going to be a big one!
About London 2025 - June 16-17, 2025
The event is aimed specifically at the challenges faced by engineering leaders and explores all the ways that you can boost the effectiveness of your software delivery ecosystem: your team, working methods, and technology.
We understand that optimizing software delivery is both a technical and social challenge and no matter your place in the engineering org, there are ways you can impact change. So, if you are an Engineering Manager, a Senior Individual Contributor, an Engineering Director, or a touch more senior than that - then this is the place for you.
We’ve never been under more pressure to deliver results with fewer resources and tighter timelines. So what experience or stories do you have that could help other engineering leaders?
What topics are we interested in?
The conference will be spread across three stages, focussing on Organisational Leadership, Ways of Working, and Technical Strategy and Decision Making. We’ve detailed a bit about them below and remember, you can submit more than one idea.
- Organisational Leadership - Our organisational leadership stage covers anything related to leadership, personal development, and things that happen within the unit of your teams.
Think about: the skills that you need to be an effective leader; skills for growing people; creating inclusive and diverse environments; hiring and retention; resourcing and structuring your teams; performance, progression, compensation; understanding commerciality, context, and cost management.
- Ways of Working - Our ways of working stage covers anything related to how your teams get work done.
Think about process, workflows, methodologies; frameworks for meetings like code reviews and 1:1s, on-call; monitoring and observability; knowledge-sharing, documentation, design; metrics, KPIs, developer experience; software quality, experimentation, and training.
- Technical Strategy and decision making - Our technical strategy stage covers anything you need to run an effective technical team in 2025.
We love hearing case studies for our tech talks - real stories about what went right and wrong (which is always more interesting!). Think about new languages, frameworks, technologies; decision-making, trade-offs, benefits analysis; strategy, planning and future-proofing; legacy, tech debt, code smells; architectures, microservices, platform engineering; cloud, orchestration, cost management; migrations, re-writes, sunsetting.
The speaker experience
Working with speakers is one of our favourite things. We love to giving you the opportunity to share your stories and knowledge with our audience - and we put a lot of work in to helping your content shine. Throughout the process, you’ll have the opportunity to work with our editor on your talk descriptions, a professional coach who’ll help you hone your presentation delivery if you want it, and our content team who’ll review your talk and help you sharpen it for our audience.
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 2026
- 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
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!