Talk submissions for LDX3 New York 2026
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Hello friends!
LDX3 is coming to New York in 2026, bringing together what was previously LeadDev, StaffPlus, and LeadingEng into one expanded event. There’s even more to explore this year — two main stages, a Director+ track, a workshop track, two demo stages, and a lively hallway track packed with activities and conversations.
About LDX3 New York 2026 - September 15–16, 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 a social challenge, so whether you’re an Engineering Manager, Senior IC, Director, or more senior, this is a space to share what you’ve learned along the way.
What topics are we interested in?
We’re looking for 25-minute, practical case studies and experience-led stories that will help other engineering leaders learn, reflect, and grow. Your talk might explore one of the areas below — or something adjacent that you think our audience needs to hear.
Leading your organization - Frameworks, practices, and tools for leading high-performing teams
- Leading humans: management, sustainable leadership, growth
- How to structure and operate teams
- Hiring and retaining talent, skills development
- Culture, diversity, and inclusion
- Strategy, planning, and future-proofing, impact
- Communication and influence
Making technical choices - Case studies and insights for making technical decisions and running high-performing systems
- Reliability, quality, security, and production readiness
- Evolving and scaling systems
- Developer productivity
- AI/LLMs
- Planning and technical roadmaps
- Legacy, tech debt
- Architectures, microservices, platform engineering
- Decision-making, trade-offs, benefits analysis
If your idea doesn’t quite fit into one of these categories, that’s okay — if it’s practical, thoughtful, and grounded in real experience, we want to hear it.
The speaker experience
Working with speakers to help ideas shine on stage is one of our favourite things. We’ll support you throughout the process, from crafting your talk to preparing for the day itself.
As a speaker for the event, we'd also offer you:
- A free ticket to the conference
- A free +1 ticket for the event
- 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
A couple of notes on the above offering
At LeadDev, we aim to cover travel and accommodation for speakers wherever possible, to make speaking at our events as inclusive and accessible as we can. As a small business, this is a significant cost for us, so if you work for a larger organisation and are able to have these expenses covered by your employer, we’d be very grateful if you could explore that option — it helps us support more speakers overall.
Visas are the responsibility of the speaker, but LeadDev can issue a letter of invitation to support an application if required.
As an extra help, 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!