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Agenda

16 April 2026   ✦   Prague, Czechia
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14 Talks

on main stage

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18 Workshops

for registered users

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10 Mentors

1:1 sessions with top leaders

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All day

networking with leaders

Morning

8:00

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9:15

Open doors & Breakfast

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9:15

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9:25

Opening Keynote

Anna Kožuch

Co-Founder & CEO @ ELC

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9:25

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9:50

Smart but Not Wise: Path to AI-Native Engineering Leader

Aleodor Tabarcea

Engineering Manager @ Stripe

Home

9:50

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10:15

The Collapse of the Product Trio

David Teodorescu

Senior Product Designer @ Meta

Home

10:15

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10:40

Decide Like a Senior Leader: Building Strong Decision-Making Habits

Michal Poczwardowski

Founder @ Perspectiveship

Home

9:30

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10:40

Workshop

What Your Manager Evaluates Before Promoting You: IC → Manager → Director.

Limor Bergman Gross

Former Director of Engineering @ LBG Consulting Services

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Home

9:30

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10:40

Workshop

Broken 1:1s? A Full Guide to Turn Them into Sessions People Love

Ladislav Novak

CEO @ Jablotron

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Home

9:30

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10:40

Workshop

From Doing OK to Doing Great: A 180-Day Playbook for building High Performing Team

Nithin SS

Head of QA @ Lodgify

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Home
Late Morning

10:40

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11:10

Coffee Break

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11:10

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11:35

The Tech Leader Profile Nobody Wants to Hire in 2026

Michal Matyjek

Sr. Engineering Manager @ Netflix

Home

11:35

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12:00

I’ve Built 3 Large Technology hubs in CE: A full guide

Krzysztof Ras

Head of Engineering

Home

12:00

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12:25

Building AI Into Critical Systems

Tatiana Stantonian

Principal Engineer @ The Financial Times

Home

12:25

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12:50

The Missing Competency in Tech Leadership

Carol Palombini

Tech Leadership Coach & Consultant

Home

11:10

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12:20

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The AI Talent Gap Nobody's Talking About

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Alex Ponomarev

Founder & CEO @ Volt

Home

11:10

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12:20

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The $$$ Behind the Code: How Technical Leaders Win Budget Conversations

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Viktor Didenchuk

Lead Technical Program Manager @ JPMorgan

Home

11:10

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12:20

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Stop Apologizing for Your Codebase: Taking Radical Ownership of Tech Debt

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Petr Krebs

Head of Engineering @ Make

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Afternoon

12:50

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13:50

Lunch

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13:50

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14:15

From Talent Pool to Product Powerhouse: How Central Europe Won Microsoft's Trust

Vojta Vondra

Partner Director of Engineering @ Microsoft

Home

14:15

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14:40

What's my job again? Developing self-management

Cate Huston

CTO @ Twill

Home

14:40

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15:05

What am I doing here?

Rizwan Iqbal

Director of Engineering @ Superhuman

Home

14:00

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14:50

Workshop

Burn Your Playbook: Context is Your Leadership Strategy

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Daniel Ondruj

Senior Engineering Manager @ Rohlik

Home

14:00

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14:50

Workshop

Making Difficult/Necessary conversations easy

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Goran Hielscher

Leadership Communication Trainer @ THE INSPIRACY GROUP

Home

14:00

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14:50

Workshop

Complexity Is a Feature. Now What?

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Nilesh Kulkarni

Director @ ActionLabs

Home

14:50

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15:30

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Becoming the Villain: Manipulation and Politics in the Corporate Environment

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Jan Sovka

Product & Strategy Advisor @ BigHub

Home

14:50

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15:30

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From "we're fine" to "here's the plan": how to write status updates your leadership actually reads

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Anna Kurylo

Senior Software Engineering Manager @ SentinelOne

Home

14:50

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15:30

Workshop

Same Code, Different Cultures: Managing Engineers Across Continents

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Moustafa Aboelnaga

Engineering Leader @ SolarWinds

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Evening

15:05

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15:35

Coffee Break

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15:35

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15:55

Confessions of a Teal CEO: What We Learned While Scaling Freedom

Jan Cerny

CEO @ Applifting

Home

15:55

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16:15

Debugging Self-Doubt: A Framework for Building Confidence

Natalia Nazaruk

Engineering Squad Lead @ Kingfisher

Home

16:15

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16:35

Building a Creator Ecosystem: The Art of Letting Go

Jan Zenisek

VP of Product @ Apify

Home

16:35

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16:55

High Agency Is the New IQ

Tomas Rehor

Head of Engineering @ Aisle

Home

16:55

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17:05

Closing Remarks

Marian Kamenistak

Founder @ ELC

Home

16:10

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17:10

Workshop

Decide Like a Senior Leader: Live Lessons on Decision-Making

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Michal Poczwardowski

Founder @ Perspectiveship

Home

16:10

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17:10

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Build an Elevator Pitch That Works For Networking and Job Interviews

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Carol Palombini

Tech Leadership Coach & Consultant

Home

16:10

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17:10

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Build & Lead Your First Agentic Product Team: Wake Up, Brew Coffee, Ship 3 Sprints

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Michal Licko

CEO @ Visionvolve

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Closing

17:05

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20:00

🎉 Afterparty

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The agenda may be subject to minor updates.

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Mentors

You can book a 1:1 with this mentor in the Conference App and discuss anything on your mind.

Mariana Ečegiová

TA Partner @ IP Fabric (ex-Productborad)

Jiří Brunclík

VP Engineering @ Attacama

Jiří Helmich

Founder @ B2B Minds

Jan Vrtiška

Engineering leadership guru @ Everpure

Ivo Klimša

Director of Engineering @ Tricentis

Jan Bleha

Employer Branding Manager @ Datamole

Jan Fried

Director of Product - Strategic Planning @ EUROWAG

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