BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T113227Z UID:12P2cw DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190430 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20190320T115149 DESCRIPTION: Welcome to the meetup for technical leaders! This event is hos ted by Squarespace in New York. \n\n ⏰ Schedule \n\n \n 6:30pm - Arrive\ , refreshments &\; networking \n 7:00pm - Welcome \n 7:05pm - Logan McD onald \n 7:25pm - Yaphi Berhanu \n 7:35pm - Break \n 7:45pm - Lisa van Gel der \n 8:15pm - Networking \n 9:00pm - Close \n \n\n 🌟 Speakers \n\n H ost: Jason Wong (Leadership Coach\, Fractional VP of Engineering\, Diversi ty &\; Inclusion Consultant.) \n\n Speaker: Logan McDonald (Site Reliab ility Engineer\, Buzzfeed) \n\n Bio: Logan is a security-focused Site Reli ability Engineer at BuzzFeed\, based in New York City. She is a maintainer of BuzzFeed's open source centralized sign-on platform\, sso\, and has wr itten for dev.to and Increment Magazine. She is obsessed with learning\, b ut especially with the learning process that accompanies onboarding people new to security\, operations tooling and concepts. If Logan has a persona l brand\, she hopes it is "Friendly Neighborhood Operations Engineer." \n\ n Talk: Optimizing for Learning \n\n The talk is about the most powerful t ool developers have at their disposal: the human mind! Drawing from cognit ive science\, we'll explore how we can improve how we learn and store info rmation about our systems in order to respond better to incidents and anom alies. Infused with practical examples of how to improve our memory and le arning\, this talk moves from advice for individuals to how we can form an d develop learning teams. It's a talk broken into four parts: preparing to learn\, gaining knowledge\, building mental models\, and enabling a team to learn well together. \n\n \n\n Speaker: Yaphi Berhanu (Sr. Software Eng ineer\, Squarespace) \n\n Bio: Yaphi (rhymes with taffy) is a Senior Softw are Engineer at Squarespace working on the front end. He appreciates clear user experiences wherever they are. In his spare time\, he can be found g aming\, writing JavaScript tutorials\, and enjoying the gym. \n\n Talk: Ho w to Talk About Your Work Without Diminishing It \n\n The story you tell a bout your work is as important as the work itself. You can do great work\, but if you talk about it the wrong way\, you can destroy its impact. For example\, the wrong story can diminish your work\, hurt your team's credib ility\, and throw off project estimates. I know because I've messed this u p many times. \n\n In this talk\, I'll share the hilarious and painful mis takes I've made as well as the strategies I've learned to avoid these mist akes. By the end\, you'll hopefully have a better idea of how to talk abou t your work. \n\n \n\n Speaker: Lisa van Gelder (VP Engineering\, Meetup) \n\n Bio: Lisa has been in software for over 18 years and built teams as a VP or SVP since 2015. She has worked in a wide range of companies from ea rly-stage startups to large media companies like the BBC &\; the Guardi an newspaper. She used to debug code\, now she debugs teams for a living. Lisa is currently VP\, Engineering at Meetup. She is mostly powered by cof fee. \n\n Talk: The four components of high performing teams \n\n Do you h ave a great team &\; a great mission but don't understand why the pace of delivery is so slow? Architecture &\; tech stack is only one part of the story \n\n I believe high performing teams need four things to be eff ective: \n\n \n Mastery - The skills &\; knowledge needed to do a great job\, and a clear path to get to the next level. \n Autonomy - The space to figure out their own solution to a problem &\; how they want to work \n Purpose - A clear sense of direction\, and the knowledge of how what t hey’re working on fits into the big picture &\; helps their team succ eed. \n Safety - A team that is afraid won’t take risks or experiment\, a team that is afraid of finger-pointing won’t learn from mistakes. \n \ n\n In this talk I’ll explain why those four things are key to teams bei ng successful and give examples of how I’ve turned teams around by fixin g the lack of one or more of them. Audience members will leave with pract ical examples of how to diagnose &\; improve the performance of their t eams. \n\n \n\n The Lead Developer is an international conference for tech leaders in London\, Austin and New York. Check out 100+ talk videos on im poster syndrome\, leading and scaling technical teams\, and lots more at t heleaddeveloper.com. \n LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T214412 LOCATION:Squarespace\, New York City ORGANIZER:mailto:hello@whiteoctoberevents.co.uk SUMMARY:Lead Dev Meetup - New York - April 29\, 2019 URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/the-lead-developer-meetup/newyork-april-2019 URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/the-lead-developer-meetup/newyork-april-2019 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR