Empathy-Driven Innovation: Leadership Lessons for Successful Dev Teams
What does it take to develop ground-breaking solutions in tech while embracing diversity and inclusion in meaningful ways? Anastasia Leutloff and Natalia Ogorelysheva, co-founders of Deep Tech Collective e.V., share their experiences navigating leadership, development, and innovation as foreign mothers in Germany and female leaders in tech. Anastasia applies her skills as a Project, Program & Portfolio Lead at TRUMPF, where she drives industrial technology, workplace transformation, and fostering women in tech, while Natalia combines her experience in leading development projects in logistics at Fraunhofer Enterprise Lab and advancing research in robotics at TU Dortmund.
This session challenges the notion that diversity is a shallow checkbox item imposed by corporate mandates. Instead, Anastasia and Natalia reveal how diversity strengthens teams by enabling new perspectives, driving resilience, accelerating workflows, and fostering creative problem-solving. Inclusive practices, such as recognizing the contributions of caregivers or those balancing part-time work, are essential to achieving genuine workplace transformation.
Attendees can expect actionable insights on integrating diversity into product innovation strategies and transforming organizational cultures while maintaining focus on building, shipping, and running excellent software-driven products. With their combined leadership in research, development, and industry, Anastasia and Natalia aim to inspire tech leaders and decision-makers to create workplaces that amplify human potential while pursuing innovation. Join this talk to learn how meaningful diversity generates long-term productivity, creativity, and growth for tech innovators.
From Systems to People: Engineering Leadership That Scales Without Breaking Teams
Scaling engineering teams is not only a technical challenge — it’s a human one. Anastasia Leutloff and Natalia Ogorelysheva, co-founders of Deep Tech Collective e.V., share their experiences navigating leadership, development, and innovation as foreign mothers in Germany and female leaders in tech. Anastasia applies her skills as a Project, Program & Portfolio Lead at TRUMPF, where she drives industrial technology, workplace transformation, and fostering women in tech, while Natalia combines her experience in leading development projects in logistics at Fraunhofer Enterprise Lab and advancing research in robotics at TU Dortmund.
This talk connects systems thinking with people leadership and shows how inclusive, realistic leadership enables teams to scale sustainably — without burnout, fear, or loss of innovation.
What the Industry Doesn’t See: Decisions Through the Eyes of Women Who Were Never the Default
What the Industry Doesn’t See: Executive Decisions Through the Eyes of Women Who Were Never the Default:
Most leadership strategies are designed for a “default executive” that never existed. In this talk, Anastasia Leutloff and Natalia Ogorelysheva, co-founders of Deep Tech Collective e.V., reveal how executive decisions look different when made by women who were never the default. Both
share their experiences navigating leadership, development, and innovation as foreign mothers in Germany and female leaders in tech. Anastasia applies her skills as a Project, Program & Portfolio Lead at TRUMPF, where she drives industrial technology, workplace transformation, and fostering women in tech, while Natalia combines her experience in leading development projects in logistics at Fraunhofer Enterprise Lab and advancing research in robotics at TU Dortmund.
They show how lived asymmetry becomes a strategic advantage, exposing blind spots in digital transformation, talent strategy, and market decisions — and why organizations that ignore these signals lose resilience, innovation, and trust.
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