October, 2026
London, UK
TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
Event about leadership and seniority
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.
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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.
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.
Dünya Kirkali
Remote.com, Netherlands
Dünya Kırkalı is an engineering leader and software engineer whose journey spans building mobile apps, web services, data pipelines, and visualizations across diverse industries and teams. This breadth of experience shaped him into a true generalist, an asset when leading engineers from different disciplines. It also set him on the path to the field he fell in love with: engineering management. Left to his own devices, Dünya enjoys putting on a Joe Pass record and reflecting on ways to create tools and techniques to help engineering managers discover their own global maxima.