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ETLS Connect

Virtual|February 26, 2025

The new half-day Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit event available virtually everywhere (with in-person watch parties hosted worldwide by Equal Experts).

A Message from Gene Kim

"If you're like me, you've experienced firsthand how GenAI reshapes our relationship with technology. At ETLS, we're expanding our GenAI programming to match the pace of breakneck innovation we're seeing in the industry. But more importantly, we'll learn how organizations are achieving real outcomes - what worked, what didn't, and why."

Why Attend ETLS 2025?

For over a decade, we've created an environment where real learning happens through:

Experience Reports: Learn directly from technology leaders at large, complex enterprises sharing what worked, what didn't, and why

Expert Knowledge: Gain insights from the foremost experts in GenAI, DevOps, and platform engineering - the people who are shaping these fields

Meaningful Connections: Connect with fellow travelers in similar roles - whether you're a CIO, VP, or Platform Leader - who understand your challenges because they're living them too

Our Focus for 2025

The key questions your organization is asking about GenAI:

What outcomes are organizations actually achieving?
How are they organizing their teams?
What skills and capabilities do we need?
How do we separate real opportunities from hype?

Conference Format

Deep Learning Days: Intensive sessions on GenAI, DevOps, and platform engineering led by practitioners who've done it
Problem-Solving Sessions: Small group discussions with peers facing similar challenges
Experience Report Track: Leaders from large enterprises sharing their transformation stories
Expert Discussions: Direct access to thought leaders shaping our industry
Leadership Strategies: Get actionable approaches for team development, technology adoption, organizational design, and skill development

"The conversations that emerged in real-time and through the evening 'back home' have been open, honest, positive and vulnerable - and it's this community's stimulus through talking and sharing that makes this possible."

RJ

Ways of Working, Nationwide UK

"Still amazed at this conference's ability to come year after year and still provide a wealth of new and fresh ideas to share!!"

Matt Ring

Sr. Product & Engineering Coach, John Deere

"I think this could be the best conference from a content fit perspective."

Philipp Göllner

CEO/Founder, XALT Business Consulting GmbH

"Stunned. Just stunned at the community here. All of the sessions. The books. The surprisingly intimate AMA sessions. Just wow!"

Frotz Faatuai

Tech Systems Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco

"I've enjoyed how the conference continues to bring not just great talent, but people of influence within their organizations. It tells me that our community continues to grow, not just with engineers and practitioners, but with leaders among the giants of industry."

Garrin Ball

DevOps Leader, Delta Dental of Michigan

"This is exactly what I was needing. Stories, personas and challenges that I could relate to."

Nick

BNP Paribas

Featured Speakers

Fernando Cornago, Vice President Digital Tech, adidas

Further Results of Our 500-Person GenAI and Developer Pilot

Stefan Ostwald, Chief Product Officer, Parloa

Rewiring The Engineering and Product Organization to Deliver A Customer Support GenAI Service

Peter Petrovics, Strategic Advisor, Equal Experts

Rewiring The Engineering and Product Organization to Deliver A Customer Support GenAI Service

John Rauser, Director of Software Engineering, Cisco

Creating A GenAI Platform To Accelerate Deliver Cross-Product Integrations

Anand Raghavan, Senior Director of Engineering, AI, Cisco Secure

Lessons Learned Creating an AI Platform for The Cisco Security Product Suite

Nathan Labenz, AI R&D, Waymark

Research Revealing Deception And Scheming In LLMs

Christine Hudson, Co-founder, The Welcome Elephant

Tactics for Culture Change—Setting Norms and Increasing Engagement

Steve Yegge, Head of Engineering, Sourcegraph

Why Coding By Hand Is Dead: Lessons Learned in Chat-Oriented Programming

Scott Prugh, CTO, Uturn Data Solutions

Coordination Costs and Rewiring Organizations to Win With AI

This four-hour, half-day event will have three main focuses:

Improve our sociotechnical system (experience reports)
Enable great careers for our teams and ourselves
Learn from the best subject matter experts

We're inviting speakers from our most popular and highly-rated presentations. Gene Kim will be asking follow-up questions, digging deeper into some of the concepts mentioned during their talk.

All sessions will be conducted "live," and just like at our in-person events, you'll be able to interact with speakers and the rest of the community via Slack.

Equal Experts will be hosting watch parties, which are perfect opportunities to learn together with fellow travelers.