Diagrid at LDX3 New York 2026
The Festival for Modern Engineering Leadership.
LDX3 New York is LeadDev's festival for modern engineering leadership, where teams come to work through real decisions, real trade-offs, and the patterns shaping the year ahead. This year, Diagrid is on the ground.
If your team is building AI agents or workflows, come talk with us at booth #615.
Agenda
LDX3 runs two content stages plus a DirectorPlus zone and two open networking zones. Day 2 follows the same shape as Day 1.
Day 1 — Tuesday, September 15
Organizational Leadership stage — host David Yee
- 08:00–09:15
Arrival & coffee
- 09:15
Welcome — David Yee
- 09:30
Keynote: The state of the software engineering industry — Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer
- 10:10
I thought my team knew what mattered — Melody Olson, Activated
- 10:40–11:10
Morning break
- 11:10
Cold start crisis leadership — Boomie Odumade, TechBees
- 11:40
Building the next generation of engineers: The case for apprenticeship — Reuben Ogbonna, The Marcy Lab School
- 11:50
The state of AI in software development: Insights across 500+ organizations — Justin Reock, DX
- 12:30
Honing the right engineering skills in the age of AI — Kaya Thomas, PostHog
- 13:00–14:25
Lunch
- 14:30
The Big Debate: Is your token bill growing faster than your productivity? — Stephen Poletto (Span), David Kiger (Yelp), Inés Sombra (Fastly)
- 15:15
Protecting innovation under pressure — Kabir Sikand, Tailscale
- 15:40
Your Slack has a neurotypical bias — Rebecca Koniahgari, Uptrend Motion
- 16:10–16:40
Afternoon break
- 16:40
What handcrafted servers taught us about handcrafted code — Charity Majors, Honeycomb
- 17:20
Keynote: 114 miles to the final cut — Nick Means, Shopify
- 17:50
Wrap up
- 18:10–19:35
Networking mixer
Making Technical Choices stage — host Maude Lemaire
- 09:15
Welcome — Maude Lemaire
- 09:30
Keynote: How we migrated from manual deploys to agent-driven development in under six months — Will Larson, Imprint
- 10:10
A practical framework for working with AI in modern engineering — Madona Wambua, Capital One
- 10:40–11:10
Morning break
- 11:10
One shot at scale: Surviving the Super Bowl signup surge — Vadim Uchitel, Fetch
- 11:50
AI-native development: How to actually get the most out of your agents — Ameya Kanitkar, Larridin
- 12:30
The Big Debate: Are we teaching junior engineers to think or just to prompt? — Rachel Laycock (Thoughtworks), Mattan Bitner (Lyft), Randy Shoup (Thrive Market)
- 13:15–15:15
Lunch
- 15:15
The real impact of AI on software engineering — Dan Moore, FusionAuth
- 15:40
Building trustworthy agents at scale — Kinsey Durham Grace, GitHub
- 16:10–16:40
Afternoon break
- 16:40
Legacy as leverage: How brownfield work builds technical judgment — Shine Garg
- 17:20
How I learned to stop worrying and love distributed systems — Jez Humble
- 17:50
Wrap up
Running alongside all day: DirectorPlus plenaries and roundtables (Director+ pass only), Office Hours with speakers, speed coaching, peer hangouts by role, and community representation groups in the Connection and Community Zones.
Evening — End-of-day-one cruise on the Hudson. Embarkation from 6:45pm at Chelsea Piers, about a 20-minute walk from the Javits. RSVP through the event app.
Day 2 — Wednesday, September 16
Same two-stage format, running through to late afternoon.
Times and rooms are subject to change.
Book time with the team
Tell us what you're building and we'll find time to connect in NYC.
