About
DeveloperWeek Management is the premier virtual conference & expo for engineering managers, dev team leads, and technical executives (VP, Director, CTO, CXO). Join 2,000+ virtual attendees for a fully immersive education and innovation experience, where you can learn & gain insights from top engineering leaders about team management, best practices, and developer tools & technology decision-making.
With a fully immersive virtual experience, we’re bringing you: 6+ tracks, 40+ speakers, 7 technical keynotes, a live 2-day Virtual Expo with 15+ technologies & tools, product demos, and 1:1 topic-focused networking.
Speakers include leaders from IBM, VMware, AWS, Stack Overflow, Wix.com, Lucid Software, Turing, New York Times, LinearB, Foursquare, MariaDB, and many more.
May 9-10, 2023
Virtual Conference & Expo
Last Year’s Agenda
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
All times listed are PT – Pacific Time
7:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT
Virtual Expo Open
7:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT
EXPO, OPEN TALK & BONUS Challenges (Win Rewards!)
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT
Stages Live
Main Stage
KEYNOTE: ScyllaDB — Embracing Chaos: 20% Individual Projects and Your Companies Success
Vice President of Research and Development @ ScyllaDB
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: 5 Ways to Boost the Strength and Flexibility of Your Organization
VP Engineering Operations @ Fairwinds
Main Stage
Managing Growth Pains
SVP R&D @ PerimeterX
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Nurturing an Empathic Culture: Harness the Power of Lean, Agile, and DevOps for a Happier Workforce
Executive Advisor @ VMware
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
Networking Break (Topic Focused) + Virtual Expo
Main Stage
Democratize or Drown – Scaling DevOps in an Impossible Landscape
Data Infrastructure R&D Manager @ Wix.com
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Building a High-Performing Interrupt-Driven Team
Director of Client Solutions Engineering @ Foursquare
Main Stage
KEYNOTE: Lucid Software — Fixing the DevOps Communication Problem
VP of Infrastructure and IT @ Lucid Software
OPEN Stage
Bringing Balance between Dev and Ops with Service Level Objectives
Site Reliability Engineer @ Kabisa
Main Stage
Architectural Patterns of Devops and SRE Teams
Senior Technical Staff Member – Automation SRE Architect @ IBM
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Metrics Driven Prioritization for SRE
Founding Team Member @ Blameless
Main Stage
Getting Past the Password
Co-founder and CTO @ Stytch
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Essential Strategies for Managing Distributed Teams
Engineering Manager @ Code Climate
Main Stage
How to Use Vendor Technical Due Diligence/Exit Prep to Maximize the Valuation of Your Tech Company
VP of Engineering @ Contino
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Essential Strategies for Managing Distributed Teams
Engineering Manager @ Code Climate
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM PDT
Networking Break (Topic Focused) + Virtual Expo
Main Stage
OPEN TALK: Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn’t Tell Me
CTO @ LinearB
OPEN Stage
Stage Closed
Main Stage
Developer Learning Patterns & Fostering High-Performance Teams
Director of Engineering @ Stack Overflow
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Why Engineers Ignore You: The Care and Feeding of Software Developers
Founder, CEO, CTO @ Smarty
Main Stage
KEYNOTE: LinearB — Communicating Engineering Progress to Your CEO
Co-founder & COO @ LinearB
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Tales from Both Sides of the Fence
Snr. Developer Advocate @ AWS
Manager, .NET GTM and Developer Advocacy @ AWS
Main Stage
KEYNOTE: LinearB — Communicating Engineering Progress to Your CEO
Co-founder & COO @ LinearB
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Tales from Both Sides of the Fence
Snr. Developer Advocate @ AWS
Manager, .NET GTM and Developer Advocacy @ AWS
Main Stage
How to Simplify Event Driven Architecture with Data Wrangling
CTO @ Push Technology
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Distributed SQL and Operational Analytics
Senior Director of Product Marketing @ MariaDB
Main Stage
Digital Transformation Through a Design-first Approach to APIs
CEO @ Stoplight
OPEN Stage
Supercharge Your Team with Software Engineering Analytics
Chief Technology Officer @ Kydon Group and Zillearn
Main Stage
KEYNOTE: ActiveCampaign — Managing Dev Teams through Trust
Senior Vice President of Platform Strategy @ ActiveCampaign
OPEN Stage
OPEN Talk: Scaling Open Source Big Data Cloud Applications is Easy/Hard
Technology Evangelist @ Instaclustr
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
VIP Networking AfterParty: Fireside Chat w/Featured Speakers
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
All times listed are PT – Pacific Time
8:00 AM – 2:00 PM PDT
Virtual Expo Open
8:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
EXPO, OPEN TALK & BONUS Challenges (Win Rewards!)
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM PDT
Stages Live
Main Stage
KEYNOTE: VMware – Advanced Development and Accelerated Enterprise Innovation with xLabs and VMware
Senior Director of xLabs @ VMware
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Why Can’t We Build Secure Software
Director of Developer Relations and Community @ Bright
Main Stage
How Cognitive Biases and Ranking Can Foster an Ineffective DevOps Culture
Strategic Software Delivery Consultant & Behavioral change consultant @ Xebia
Socio-technical and Domain-Driven Design architect @ Xebia
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: You Can’t Code Career Development – A Technical Professional’s Guide to Soft Skills in the Workplace
Evangelist – Global Communities @ Turing
Main Stage
VIP Fireside Chat w/Featured Speakers
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: What is Developer Relations and How to Hire/Manage a DevRel
Developer Advocate @ Lightrun
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM PDT
VIP Networking: Fireside Chat w/Featured Speakers
Main Stage
KEYNOTE: Mattermost – How to Accelerate Hiring and Retention of Software Engineers through Developer-Friendly Workplace PR
CEO, Co-Founder @ Mattermost
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Why and How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry
Director of Developer Education @ Lightstep
Main Stage
OPEN TALK: Driving Value into Your DevOps
Field CTO for CEM Digital @ Everbridge/Xmatters
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: The Rise of Fake Data: How to Achieve 100% Use Case Coverage with Advanced Data Synthesis
Co-founder + CTO @ Tonic.ai
Head of Product @ Tonic.ai
Main Stage
Stage Closed
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: The Rise of Fake Data: How to Achieve 100% Use Case Coverage with Advanced Data Synthesis
Co-founder + CTO @ Tonic.ai
Head of Product @ Tonic.ai
Main Stage
Can Cybersecurity and DevOps Collaborate to Achieve DevSecOps in a Cloud-Native World?
VP of DevSecOps @ Sophos
OPEN Stage
OPEN TALK: Accelerate Application Development with Agile Microservices Management
Co-Founder & Chief Architect @ Cortex
Main Stage
“Tech Hiring Is Broken” Is Broken
Senior Engineering Manager @ The New York Times
OPEN Stage
Stage Closed
Main Stage
KEYNOTE: Cortex – Eight Hours Ahead: How to Build a Successful Remote Engineering Team
Founding Engineer @ Cortex
OPEN Stage
Stage Closed
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
Closing Remarks + Challenge Prize Winners
Platform
2023 Conference Tracks

Dev Executive & Engineering Management
The Dev Executive track invites senior technical managers and executives to discuss dev organizations, dev technologies, and product goals from a strategic perspective. How do CTOs and heads of engineering make critical decisions? Hear from top worldwide tech execs.