TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

Award-winning engineering leader, TEDx speaker, and author of Amazon bestselling career guide "You Belong in Tech". She started coding at 8 and has since led teams across consulting, health tech, AI innovation, and media. In 2024, she won Software Engineering Leader of the Year with the WomenTech Global Awards; and in 2025, her technical interview structure, "The McDougall Method" was revealed in a blog post which shot to prominence.

Gregor is an engineering leader with 12+ years of experience in the engineering industry. In his career, he grew as an engineer to Senior Software Engineer and after to Lead roles (Team Lead to Engineering Manager to Head of Engineering to VP of Engineering to CTO). And now he is helping people and teams/companies to thrive with Fractional/Interim CTO roles, tech advising, coaching and mentoring. He is also writing one of the fastest growing newsletters for engineers and managers called Engineering Leadership newsletter.

Lindsey Simon is the VP of Engineering at Vercel. Making the Web faster has been his lifelong career ambition. Prior to Vercel, Lindsey spent seven years at Google, where he helped launch App Engine as an original core team member, and worked as a tech lead on the Google Translate and Web Performance teams. Lindsey has lived in San Francisco for the past 15 years, and his creative hobbies (beyond coding) include writing music and hunting for wild mushrooms.

Founder of Theodo, a tech consultancy he scaled with Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle from 10 to 700 people in 10 years. He worked on his first large legacy modernisation in 2008 and has been back in the trenches to experiment first-hand how AI is revolutionising this challenge. Fabrice has shared his Lean Tech and AI modernisation expertise at various conferences, including CraftConf, DevopsDays and Lean Summits.

Tech Lead • Front-End Advocate • Mentor & Educator • Tech Blogger • Published Author • 100+ IT Certifications • 30K+ Followers • Docker Captain • Expert in React.js, Next.js, Angular, DevOps, Web Accessibility & Security Kristiyan Velkov is a seasoned software developer and technical leader with more than 10 + years of expertise in JavaScript and open-source development. His comprehensive skill set includes: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js,DevOps,Web accessibility,Security and DevOps. A lifelong learner, Kristiyan has earned over 100 IT certifications. With experience at some of the world’s leading IT organizations, Kristiyan thrives as a technical lead, driving innovative projects and mentoring teams to achieve growth and excellence. His thought leadership has garnered a significant following: - 30,000 LinkedIn connections - 7,000 Medium subscribers - 100,000+ monthly readers - 4 IT books.

Ilya Pukhalski is a founder and partner at ENDGAME. He spent 20+ years in software engineering, architecture and product development, designing and delivering large transformation programs for IKEA, Primark, Nike, Albert Heijn. He founded ENDGAME on a conviction: software engineering is in a renaissance, and machines amplify great engineering minds rather than replace them. At ENDGAME he builds a dark factory of autonomous agent pipelines, and helps other organizations make the same leap into agentic product development.

Daniel Frey is a Tech Lead and AI Architect specialized in building autonomous agent systems that bridge the gap between LLMs and real-world execution. As the founder of FiveTimesFaster, Daniel is a pioneer in the "Agentic OS" movement, leveraging frameworks like OpenClaw and LangGraph to build AI teams that autonomously manage complex engineering and sales workflows. Currently leading high-impact initiatives at Nationale-Nederlanden, Daniel combines 9+ years of full-stack expertise with a focus on agentic orchestration. He is a recognized voice in the AI community, exploring the future of human-AI collaboration through his podcast and hands-on implementation of self-improving agent loops that have already driven 40% performance gains in production environments.

Richard is a Senior Software Engineer at Sentry on the Issues team, where his recent projects include redesigning the Issues UI and creating LLM-based Issue Detection. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, skiing, and being disappointed in the Ferrari F1 team.