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TechLead Conference Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs

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echLead Conference Amsterdam 2026 is a two-day event designed for hands-on engineering leaders navigating AI adoption. The conference features practical talks, panels, and real-world case studies from startups to tech giants, focusing on how engineering organizations can successfully adopt AI. Attendees will benefit from interactive sessions, unconference d…

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10Voices
14Underwriters
0Exhibitors
35On the bill · sessions
22Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at TechLead, in alphabetical order.
Ben Brandt
Zed
Daniel Frey
Tech Lead & AI Architect · FiveTimesFaster.com
Fabrice Bernhard
Tech Cofounder · Theodo
Gregor Ojstersek
Engineering Leadership newsletter
Ilya Pukhalski
Founder and Partner · ENDGAME
Jessica Andersson
Jesande
Kristiyan Velkov
Tech Lead · Docker
Kseniia Korostelova
Senior Engineering Leader · Aristocrat Interactive
Lindsey Simon
VP of Engineering · Vercel
Richard Roggenkemper
Senior Software Engineer · Sentry
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
CodeRabbitPlatinum
RenderGold
Kickstart AISilver
Canva
Couchbase
MUI
NX
Okta
Oracle
SentryPartner
Storyblok
Twilio
VercelPartner
VihattechnologiesPartner
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The Programme

Selected from 35 sessions on the bill.
  • 07:00

    Registration

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 09:10

    Opening Ceremony

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 09:30

    Effective Thinking in the Age of Augmented Tooling

    AI tools are writing more code than ever — but the engineers and leaders getting the most from them aren't the ones with the best prompts. They're the ones who think most clearly.D…

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 09:50

    QnA with Lindsey Simon

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 10:00

    Agentic AIrways: Orchestrating a Dev Team with Multi-Agent Systems

    Workshop
  • 10:00 - 13:00

    Unconference - Redefining Engineering Careers in the AI Era

    Unconference & After-party
  • 10:15

    Why Engineers Must Become Multipliers in the AI-Era

    The role of engineers is evolving in the AI era. As development tools become more powerful and accessible, the expectations for engineers are shifting from simply writing code to c…

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 10:35

    QnA with Gregor Ojstersek

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 10:50

    Building Blocks of an Agentic Engineering Platform: What SRE Taught Us About Running Agents

    Agents are the next distributed system: non-deterministic, autonomous, and tool-connected. Some patterns we rely on to run distributed systems reliably transfer directly; others br…

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 22 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

22 companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
2All threespeak · spons · exh
12Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
8Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Sentry·Vercel

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

30% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner220%
  • VP-level110%
  • Manager / Lead220%
  • Engineer · IC110%
  • Other roles440%

Of 10 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01SentrySp·P1V
  2. 02VercelSp·P1V
  3. 03CanvaSp
  4. 04CodeRabbitSp·P
  5. 05CouchbaseSp
  6. 06Kickstart AISp·S
  7. 07MUISp
  8. 08NXSp
  9. 09OktaSp
  10. 10OracleSp
  11. 11RenderSp·G
  12. 12StoryblokSp
  13. 13TwilioSp
  14. 14VihattechnologiesSp·P
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum1
7% of 14
gold1
7% of 14
silver1
7% of 14
partner3
21% of 14
unspecified8
57% of 14
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters