Talk submissions for LeadingEng New York 2025
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Hello New York!
We’re super excited to announce that LeadingEng is returning to New York on 17 October 2025. We're back at the Javits Center for a day of incredible content and connections, and soon - your talk proposal!
About LeadingEng
LeadingEng is a one day event aimed specifically at the challenges that Heads, Directors, and VPs of engineers are facing. We understand the issues on your desk are different from more junior engineering leaders - which means that you need not only different content but also different ways to learn.
That’s why at LeadingEng events, we group you together with folks at similar organisations who are going through similar challenges so that you can build a peer network - because it can be lonely at the top and other engineering leaders are a valuable tool in your development.
What topics are we interested in?
Each LeadingEng event in 2025 will focus on four key themes: Strategy; Team Design & Health; Risk & Resilience; Executional Excellence.
We’ve detailed a bit about them below - but if you have an idea that doesn’t quite fit, let us know anyway! We may just find space for a special wildcard talks!
- Strategy - Think about delivering commercial value; designing and delivering engineering strategy; securing buy-in from the business, prioritization and roadmapping; understand what tech/tools to invest in.
- Team Design & Health - Anything related to managing managers; team topologies & reorgs; driving team autonomy; performance, calibration and compensation; measuring organizational health
- Risk & Resilience - Sample topics include: operationalizing risk & resilience at scale; incident management; security, safe AI deployment; controlling infrastructure costs
- Executional Excellence - Think about measuring productivity, quality, and efficiency; strategies for staying aware of everything going on in multiple teams; effective rross-collaboration with product and other business functions
The speaker experience
Working with speakers is one of our favourite things about running LeadingEng. We love to giving you the opportunity to share your stories and knowledge with our audience - and we put a tonne of work in to help your content shine. Throughout the process, you’ll have the opportunity to work with our editor on your talk descriptions, our professional coach who’ll help you hone your presentation delivery, 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
- 2 nights accommodation at the conference hotel
- Economy travel expenses
- 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!