ENGINEERING LEADERS CONFERENCE 2026
Leading
the AI Shift
A conference for engineering leaders navigating AI adoption, sustainable leadership and tech health.
Speakers • Panels • Breakout discussions
🗓️ October 14, 2026
📍AWS Sweden HQ, Stockholm
🎟️Early Bird 10% off with code EARLYBIRD
Limited to the first 20 registrations
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
AI is reshaping how engineering organizations build, lead and scale.
Join engineering leaders sharing experiences, challenges and 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
Leading people and organizations through rapid AI-driven change with clarity, resilience and purpose.
Tech health for AI Productivity
Finding the principles of a tech strategy to reap the benefits from AI and avoid amplifying chaos.
Speakers
Join engineering leaders from startups, scale-ups and established companies as we explore how AI is reshaping engineering leadership.
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 organizations 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 organization with legacy systems, regulations and complex dependencies? Anna shares lessons learned from leading AI transformation while balancing innovation, reliability and organizational 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 organizations 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.
Guest Speaker
Head of Data and Insights at a lat a leading European AI scale-up
From Manager to Co-Creator
As AI changes how software is built, engineering leaders are becoming more hands-on in strategy, product and technology decisions. This session explores the rise of the "Co-Creator" leader and what the future engineering management role may look like.
Speaker to be announced.
Agenda
9:00 – 17.00 Conference sessions
- Speaker sessions on AI, leadership and tech strategy
- Leadership Panel discussion
- Parallel tracks with lightning talks and peer discussions
- Speed networking and interactive workshops
- Facilitated Open Space discussions
17.00 –19.00 Evening networking
Continue the conversations over drinks and snacks together with other engineering leaders.
Additional speakers and agenda details will be announced continuously.
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 organizations through rapid change.
Breakout sessions
Peer discussions and experience sharing in smaller groups.
Community access
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.
Tickets & pricing
Early Bird ticket
1800 SEK + VAT
Limited to the first 20 registrations (10% off with code EARLYBIRD).
Standard ticket
2000 SEK + VAT
Hosted by Engineering Leaders
Johanna Belfrage
Leadership and transformation within Product & Tech
CTO, advisor and transformation leader
Cecilia Borg
Interim CTO and transformation lead at Be Afraid and Do IT Anyway
Board member, Kaplans auktioner