Lead Dev Meetup - New York - July 2019
Welcome to the meetup for those who are currently (or soon to be) leading and managing technical teams!
⏰ Schedule
- 6:30pm - Arrival, refreshments, networking
- 7:00pm - Welcome
- 7:05pm - Talk 1
- 7:35pm - Break
- 7:50pm - Talk 2
- 8:20pm - Networking
- 9:00pm - Close
🌟 Speakers
Host: Jason Wong (Leadership Coach, D&I Consultant)
Speaker: Juan Pablo Buritica (VP Engineering, Splice)
Talk: Increasing Tempo: How we accelerated Splice Engineering delivery using industry insights and data
The Splice Engineering team grew almost ten times in eighteen months. The delivery practices that worked for us when we were five broke way before we got to fifty. We wanted our organization to learn faster than the market; to do this, we had to find a way to unlock our delivery. We used insights found on the State of DevOps Report and Accelerate, the book. With this knowledge and the help of metrics to visualize our delivery, we were able to get back on a high-performance track.
This talk tells the story of how we used data to engineer the performance of our engineering organization and gives you practical takeaways on how you can do it too.
Speaker: Leslie Borrell (VP Smart Cities at Intersection)
Talk: Turning Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt into Positivity, Inclusivity and Courage
Leslie will share a frank and personal journey to understand and overcome bias in her career and drive positive outcomes for herself, her team, and her organization. She will share with specific practices for reducing bias and improving inclusivity that were impactful for her team. Please join her as she discusses turning fear, uncertainty and doubt into positivity, inclusivity and courage.
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🔹 Code of conduct
As with our conference, The Lead Developer Meetup is a safe and inclusive event for all. By attending, you agree to our code of conduct: conduct.theleaddev.com
🔸 Accessibility & inclusion
We make sure to use venues that are accessible for wheelchair users and the talks will be delivered with a microphone and sound system. If you have any specific accessibility requirements, please let us know. To help make our meetup more inclusive, we provide non-alcoholic drinks and vegan and gluten-free food options.
◼️ About our speakers
Leslie Borrell – As VP Smart Cities at Intersection, Leslie oversees the Smart Cities engineering team, working to empower and inspire them to build a scalable and efficient platform for supporting our smart cities products across the globe. Including transit authorities and cities, we build and support digital kiosks and displays that provide critical information and services to people in cities around the world.
Leslie believes in a pragmatic approach to smart cities and our platform is taking root in major cities across the US and will provide invaluable feedback and learning as we enhance the platform and provide more advanced capabilities iteratively. Leslie is passionate about building tools that enable our staff and users to proactively monitor and support hardware deployed in the cities infrastructure, so that we ensure our displays maintain the best quality of service at the most efficient cost for our clients.
She brings 20 years of experience using Agile principles and practices to envision, build, and deliver software and hardware products for consumers and enterprises. With a passion for building and scaling teams, she has championed efforts in organizations like Sols, Ideeli, Etsy, and Travelocity to reduce delivery time to market, improve software quality and efficiency, and help scale businesses globally.