TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

Name: TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
Start: 2026-06-11T07:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-06-11T21:59:00.000Z

Event about leadership and seniority

Full remote ticket included with Multipass.

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The Conference for Tech Leads, Staff Engineers, and Technical Eng Managers.

TechLead Conf 2026 tackles two critical challenges facing technical leaders today: navigating AI adoption in organizations and reducing system complexity. Through real-world case studies from startups to Big Tech, senior engineers and tech leads will share practical insights from the trenches.

Engage in discussion rooms, hallway track with experts, hands-on practical workshops, and tens of insightful talks.

Sponsorship opportunitites

Anna J McDougall

Blinkist, Germany

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 Ojstersek

Engineering Leadership newsletter, Slovenia

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.

Fabrice Bernhard

Tech Cofounder Theodo, UK

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.