May 20, 2027
Amsterdam
TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2027: Adopting AI in Orgs
Event about leadership and seniority
The Conference for Tech Leads, Staff Engineers, and Technical Engineering Managers
TechLead Conf 2027 explores how technical leaders can move beyond AI experimentation to build effective AI-powered engineering teams. From integrating coding agents into development workflows to measuring real productivity gains, maintaining code quality, and evolving team roles, discover what it takes to scale AI adoption without scaling complexity.
Through real-world case studies from startups to Big Tech, senior engineers and engineering leaders will share practical approaches to human–AI collaboration, agent oversight, and balancing faster delivery with reliable, maintainable systems.
Engage in discussion rooms, hallway track with experts, hands-on practical workshops, and tens of insightful talks.
Anna J McDougall
HashiCorp / IBM, 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.
Patrick Kua
Tech Lead Academy, Germany
Patrick Kua is a technology leader, author and international keynote speaker with more than 25 years of experience, from hands-on software development to executive leadership, including senior roles at N26 and ThoughtWorks. For over a decade, he has grown technical leaders from Tech Leads to CTOs through training, coaching and mentoring. He helps them navigate the challenges of leading people, teams and organisations, as well as industry shifts such as AI. He has authored three books, including Talking with Tech Leads (https://leanpub.com/talking-with-tech-leads) and Building Evolutionary Architectures (https://evolutionaryarchitecture.com/), and shares practical leadership insights through his Level Up newsletter, Managing Managers podcast (https://levelup.patkua.com/) and self-paced courses at the Tech Lead Academy (https://techlead.academy/).