ENGINEERING LEADERS CONFERENCE 2026

Leading
the AI Shift

Join engineering leaders exploring how AI is reshaping technology, leadership and organisations.

Speakers • Panels • Breakout discussions

For CTOs, VPs and Heads of Engineering, Engineering Managers and other senior technology leaders.

🗓️ October 14, 2026

🕒 09:00–17:00 Conference · 17:00–19:00 After Work

📍AWS Sweden HQ, Malmskillnadsgatan 36, Stockholm

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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

AI is reshaping how engineering organisations build, lead and scale.

Meet engineering leaders from startups, scale-ups and enterprises to exchange experiences, discuss challenges and explore practical approaches to leading in an AI-driven world.

What we’ll explore

Leading AI adoption

From experimentation to enterprise impact.
How engineering leaders drive adoption that creates real value.

Sustainable leadership in AI

Building resilient organisations while leading people through rapid AI-driven change.

Tech health for AI Productivity

Finding the principles of a tech strategy to reap the benefits from AI and avoid amplifying chaos.

Speakers

Learn from experienced engineering leaders who are actively shaping AI transformation across startups, scale-ups and global enterprises.

Åsa Bredin

CPO, Mentimeter

Tech and product executive with nearly 30 years of experience from Mentimeter, Mojang Studios, King, NetEnt and Betsson.

Building the Right Things - Right

As AI lowers the cost of building software, the bottleneck is shifting from execution to decision-making. This session explores why the boundaries between Product and Engineering are blurring and how leaders can create organisations where customer value and business outcomes guide what gets built.

Anna Söderström Persson

Head of Engineering, Volvo Cars

Engineering and technology leader with 20+ years of experience from Volvo Cars, Kry, Nordnet, Klarna and Sony Ericsson.

Leading AI Transformation in a Complex Enterprise

How do you drive meaningful AI adoption in a large organisation with legacy systems, regulations and complex dependencies? Anna shares lessons learned from leading AI transformation while balancing innovation, reliability and organisational change.

Marcus Olsson

Developer Relations Lead at Berget AI

With 15+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud-native platforms and developer advocacy, Marcus helps organisations adopt emerging technologies and unlock value from AI.

Tech Strategy for AI Productivity

AI can dramatically increase development speed, but without strong engineering fundamentals it risks amplifying existing bottlenecks. Marcus explores how engineering leaders can use metrics, feedback loops and healthy technology practices to ensure AI accelerates outcomes rather than problems.

Nils Loodin

Senior Product Manager, Spotify

Technical product leader with 13 years at Spotify, where he now leads the playback platform powering Spotify across TVs, speakers, cars, watches and more.

Using AI to Liberate the Human

Over the past year, Nils has built an AI operating system around his own work, supporting everything from daily triage to product strategy. He shares what he has learned about using AI to increase impact while preserving human judgment, learning and creativity.

Agenda

Morning

08:30–09:00
Registration and coffee

09:00–09:15
Welcome and conference opening

09:15–09:40
Leading AI Transformation in a Complex Enterprise
Anna Söderström Persson · Volvo Cars

09:40–10:15
Leadership panel: Leading AI Adoption in Practice

Martin Elwin · AWS
Maria Zetterberg · Cloudzone
Anna Söderström Persson · Volvo Cars

10:15–10:45
Coffee break

10:45–11:30
Tech Strategy for AI Productivity
Marcus Olsson · Berget AI

11:30–12:15
Using AI to Liberate the Human
Nils Loodin · Spotify

Afternoon

12:30–13:30
Lunch

13:30–14:15
Building the Right Things – Right
Åsa Bredin · Mentimeter

14:15–14:30
Coffee break

14:30–16:30
Interactive afternoon
Open Space, workshops and speed networking

16:30–17:00
Reflections and closing

17:00–19:00
Networking & After Work

Agenda subject to minor changes.

Open Space: bring your questions

Open Space gives participants room to explore emerging questions with other engineering leaders. Two conversations are already taking shape:

When development gets faster, where does the bottleneck move?

Based on interviews with tech and product leaders, Behnosh Esni invites us to explore the opportunities that emerge when AI accelerates software development and what we may need to redesign around it.

What do developers need from their leaders as AI changes their work?

Chris Sjögren invites us to explore how leaders can create the conditions for developers to continue learning, strengthen their engineering judgment and thrive as software engineers as AI changes their work.

Have a question you want to explore? Propose your own topic during the conference, or share it with us beforehand at info@engineeringleaders.se. No presentation or ready-made answers needed.

Your ticket includes

Speaker sessions on AI, leadership and tech strategy

Perspectives and experiences from senior leaders navigating AI adoption, leadership and tech health.

Panel discussions

Real conversations about leading engineering organisations through rapid change.

Breakout sessions

Peer discussions and experience sharing in smaller groups.

Engineering Leaders community

Stay connected with the Engineering Leaders community after the conference.

Lunch & refreshments

A full conference day in a central venue in Stockholm including lunch, coffee and fika.

Evening networking

Continue the conversations over drinks and snacks together with other engineering leaders.

📚 Win your next great read!

Learning doesn’t have to stop when the conference ends. We’ll raffle off three books exploring software engineering, product discovery and how leaders build empowered teams.

You might leave with fresh perspectives, new connections and a new book to dive into.

Tickets & pricing

Standard ticket

2000 SEK + VAT

Early Bird tickets are sold out.

Group discount

Planning to attend together? Groups booking three or more tickets receive 15% off. Select the number of tickets at checkout and use code GROUP15.

Enter your own contact details when booking. Afterwards, email the names, email addresses, roles and companies of the additional attendees to info@engineeringleaders.se

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