Engineering Excellence: Strategies for Building High-Performing Teams

Join us for an insightful event dedicated to exploring effective strategies for building and maintaining high-performing engineering teams.

"Engineering Excellence" brings together industry leaders, seasoned engineers, and team managers to share their experiences and best practices.

The event will cover key topics such as fostering collaboration, the role of engineering practices in enhancing team productivity, performance metric frameworks and team health.

Attendees will gain valuable insights into leadership techniques, team dynamics, and innovative approaches to engineering challenges, all aimed at driving excellence and achieving performance in engineering projects. Don’t miss this opportunity to network, learn, and elevate your team's capabilities to the next level

Food and drinks will be provided at the start of the event, with vegetarian and vegan options available

Please note that this event is for Technology and Business Professionals and Leaders. We will review your application to attend and provide confirmation in due course.
Speakers

Matt Belcher, Head of Emerging Tech at Codurance
As Head of Emerging Technology for Codurance UK, Matt oversees Codurance UK's strategy for leveraging emerging technologies. He is responsible for ensuring the region keeps pace with fast-moving technology trends. Matt helps business leaders understand how these technology innovations can address real-world challenges. With over 15 years of experience in software consultancy, he has worked across various industries including financial services, retail and public sector both in the UK and across Europe. During this time he has worked with a wide range of technologies and played numerous roles right from software developer through to fractional CTO.

Matt is a regular public speaker and frequently participates in technology conferences, meetups and panel discussions across the UK. He is also a keen writer and was recently quoted in Tech UK's white paper "Making AI work for Britain".

Passionate about helping organisations maximise their technology investments, he focuses on the intersection of people, process and technology. In Matt's experience, this is usually where the most interesting problems are found.

In his spare time, Matt enjoys travelling, playing the guitar and keeping fit. He is also currently learning Vietnamese.
Lee Sanderson, Principal Craftsperson at Codurance
Lee has over 25 years of experience in software development as a Developer, Team Lead, Architect, Principal Engineer, Development Manager, Scrum Master, and hands-on CTO. He is a polyglot programmer, with commercial experience developing and leading teams using most modern technologies.

Since building his first ASP.NET web application in 2001 using the public beta version of .NET 1.0, Lee has become an expert in C# and the .NET stack. He has been continually involved in designing and building ASP.NET applications for the last 20 years and deploying them to Azure and AWS for the last 8.

Lee has successfully helped teams accelerate by streamlining their development processes using a combination of XP, Agile methods, and continuous delivery while maintaining clean architecture and well-crafted code.

In his spare time, Lee enjoys spending time with family and thinking about how the application of AI and machine learning will affect software engineering.
Mala Benn, Engineering Manager at Glean
Mala has worked in Software teams for over 2 decades, transitioning from developer to various leadership positions. Mala’s passion lies in understanding and leveraging the drivers of success: leadership, motivation, personality, culture, progression, and values. Her mission is to continuously learn and empower individuals and teams to achieve their fullest potential.

Andy Tyack, Deputy Director at DWP Digital

Andy Tyack is a deputy director at the Department for Work and Pensions and spends his days making sure Universal Credit is well staffed, stays up and keeps evolving. A software engineer by trade, Andy worked in telecoms for a long time and was an early advocate for Agile. He has led and grown many teams and departments in private and public sector.

More speakers TBC

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This event, part of Leeds Digital Festival will take place at the Codurance office in Leeds City Centre where we'll provide lots of opportunity for networking plus drinks and food.

Host or Publisher Codurance