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.