Talk submissions for LeadDev Berlin 2025
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Hello Berlin!
We’re super excited to announce that LeadDev is returning to Berlin on 3–4 November 2025.
About LeadDev
LeadDev is an event aimed specifically at addressing the challenges faced by engineering leaders. If you're a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, Staff Engineer, Head of Engineering or Director of Engineering - then this is the place for you. The event focuses on two things: how to give you the skills and knowledge to be the most effective in your job; and how you can supercharge the effectiveness of your team.
What is the story you want to tell that can help other engineering leaders?
What topics are we interested in?
The event is focused around three big themes: team, tech, and tools. We’ve detailed a bit about them below and remember, you can submit more than one idea!
- Team - Our team talks cover anything related to leadership, personal development, and anything that happens within the unit of your teams. Think about: the skills that you need to be an effective leader; how to maximise the impact and velocity of your teams; skills for growing people; creating inclusive and diverse environments; hiring and retention; adapting to new roles.
- Tech - Our tech talks cover 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 what went wrong (which is always more interesting!). Think about: new languages, frameworks, technologies, scaling, architecture.
- Tools - Our tools talks cover anything related to the way your teams get work done. Think about: agile and other delivery methods; frameworks for things like code reviews and 1:1s; on call; observability; continuous integration; velocity and debugging productivity; maintaining a high performing team.
The speaker experience
Working with speakers is one of our favourite things about running LeadDev. We love to give 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 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 offer you:
- A free ticket to the conference
- A complimentary ticket to a LeadDev conference the following year
- 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
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!