One of the most difficult bridges to cross in the tech world is the one from technical practitioner to technology leader. Countless developers, engineers, and architects watch other people get promoted into the leadership ranks - either internally or via company change - and wonder how on earth they can achieve the same.

The answer to this isn't to take another thankless "lead developer" role on a monster project. It's to learn how to talk about yourself as the solution to the problems technical leaders solve.

In this session, Diana will share key differences between the problems senior individual contributors in tech solve versus managers / directors in tech. She'll teach you how to talk about yourself in a way that makes it clear you are ready for the challenge of leading people.