November 28, 2025
TechLead Conference
London, UK & Online

TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

Event about leadership and seniority

Full remote ticket included with Multipass.

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

TechLead Conf 2025 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.

Anna J McDougall
Anna J McDougall
HelloBetter, 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.
Maxim Salnikov
Maxim Salnikov
Microsoft, Norway
Talk: From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams
Maxim Salnikov is a tech and cloud community enthusiast based in Oslo. With over two decades of experience as a web developer, he shares his extensive knowledge of the web platform, cloud computing, and AI by speaking at and providing training for developer events worldwide. By day, Maxim plays a crucial role in supporting the development of cloud and AI solutions within European companies, serving as the leader of developer productivity business at Microsoft. During evenings, he can be found running events for Norway's largest web and cloud development communities. Maxim is passionate about exploring and experimenting with Generative AI possibilities, including AI-assisted development. To share his insights and connect with like-minded professionals globally, he founded and organized the inaugural Prompt Engineering Conference, the first of its kind on a global scale.
Gregor Ojstersek
Gregor Ojstersek
Engineering Leadership newsletter, Slovenia
Talk: How AI is Impacting Engineering Leadership
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.
Andy Kuszyk
Andy Kuszyk
Typeform, UK
Talk: Democratising AI in Engineering: Lessons from Typeform's Journey
Andy Kuszyk is a Staff Engineer at Typeform, an occasional blog author, and an Emacs enthusiast! He's mostly worked in backend systems with the likes of Go, Terraform, and Kubernetes, but also enjoys thinking about the way teams work, communicate, and transfer knowledge.