Below are the 14 markers for successful Continuous Delivery within an organisation...
Little bonus game... can you guess which one of these I think is the most important to get right? 👀
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Multi-cloud sounds great, until the real constraints hit.
▶️ Lalitha will what it actually takes to make it work at scale at #YOWTLS26
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Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary Craig Walls, author of _Spring In Action_, _Spring AI in Action_, and more!
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What’s the hardest part of being a technical leader right now?
Is it... - Keeping up with AI and constant change? - Supporting your team without burning out yourself? - Balancing delivery pressure with long-term thinking? - Scaling people, not just systems?
The role of tech leader is evolving faster than ever, & most leaders are figuring it out in real time.
At #YOWTLS26, we’re bringing together leaders tackling these challenges & sharing what’s working, what’s not and what’s next.
💬 What’s been hardest for you lately?
Missed @codereport.bsky.social's talk at #YOW25?
You can catch it again here ⬇️
YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 2026 Scaling Teams without Breaking Justin Mclean Open Source Community Manager at Datastrato Headshot of a smiling man with black slicked back hair with grey temples wearing black framed glasses and a yellow and blue striped shirt
Ever been in a team where things used to feel easy, & now everything takes longer?
Justin Mclean will share real lessons from open source projects that have scaled without collapsing under their own weight.
🎟️ #YOWTLS26
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YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 2026 Melbourne and Brisbane One does not simply... rebuild a product Prakriti Mateti Senior Director of Engineering at Culture Amp Headshot of a South Asian woman with long dark hair, wearing a black top looking into the camera with a wide smile
Most rebuilds fail: too slow, lose momentum, or never deliver.
So why do it anyway?
Prakriti Mateti shares lessons from rebuilding a product serving 77k+ users.
🎟️ #YOWTLS26
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Getting a room full of drunks to agree on something sounds harder than distributed consensus.
Turns out: it's basically the same problem.
@jimwebber.org at @yowconf.bsky.social explains fault-tolerance, scalability & why computers are just confident drunks in trenchcoats.🍻
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YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 2026 Low Battery: Why Your Team is Always Mentally Drained (And How to Fix It) Callum Silock, Head of Engineering Headshot of a Caucasian man dressed in a blue-grey suit, facing right with short hair, a full ginger beard and an wide smile
Your environment is bad at protecting your team's focus.
We’ve normalised constant interruptions, & then wonder why everyone’s mentally drained by mid-afternoon.
Callum Silcock challenges this head-on!
🎟️ Join #YOWTLS26
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YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 2026 Melbourne and Brisbane Capability Before Performance: Scaling Growth in Product Engineering Teams Selena Small, Staff Engineer / Fractional Engineering Manager at Fresho Headshot of a smiling woman with dark eyes and dark brown shoulder length hair
Scaling a team is one thing - scaling how people grow is another.
Selena Small will share how Fresho transformed their approach to growth, performance & development in fast-growing engineering teams at #YOWTLS26.
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A junior dev fixed a typo. It broke production. That bug eventually led to #SpringCloudContract. @toomuchcoding.com sits down with Jakub Pilimon to talk 15y of Spring, why #observability is missing context & how AI might fix the contract testing adoption problem for good 👇
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YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 2026 Melbourne and Brisbane How I learned to manage Technical debt without talking about it Jon Eaves, Principal Staff Engineer at SEEK
Jon Eaves brings deep, hard-earned insight into 1 of the most persistent challenges in our industry in his talk
“How I learned to manage technical debt without talking about it”
🎟️ #YOWTLS26
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YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 2026 Melbourne and Brisbane How do we engineer in a world where we no longer read code? Ben Taylor, Product Engineering Team Lead at Stile Education A brunette man in a white tee and dark shirt smiling towards the camera
Announcing our 1st speaker for #YOWTLS26 👀
Ben Taylor asks a question most teams aren’t ready for: What happens when we stop reading code?… and what replaces traditional code review when it no longer scales.
🎟️ Join us in
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YOW! 2026 speaker Cole Medin, Founder of Dynamous AI The Validation-First Loop
Excited to announce our 1st #YOW26 speaker Cole Medin!
He'll share a practical engineering framework when working with AI coding assistants. Learn how to give them the right context, structure tasks they can execute reliably & build validation systems that catch issues before they reach prod
AI hype or real progress?
@t-redactyl.bsky.social & @aiwithmichelle.com
break it down on GOTO Unscripted 🎤 History, data, and hard-won pragmatism. www.youtube.com/watch?list=P...
We’ve seen tech change many times over. What hasn’t changed is the value of thoughtful leadership and learning from real experience.
Only 5 YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 🐦 Earlybird tickets in Melbourne left!
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If you’re waiting to feel “ready” before stepping fully into leadership, you might be waiting forever.
If you want to invest time in developing leadership skills, #YOWTLS26 Earlybird tickets are now available til 31 Mar.
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The CFP for this just closed and there are some fantastic talks in there. Obviously I am biased, but the program will be excellent!
If you’re a new leader, or looking to scale your org. This will be a great event.
OAuth 2.0 in SPAs isn’t as secure as many think. @philippederyck.bsky.social demonstrates real attacks and how patterns like Backend-for-Frontend can protect modern web apps. Watch the YOW session recording.
YOW! Melbourne 2026 Silver Sponsor Easygo
We're thrilled to welcome back Easygo as a #YOW26 Melbourne Silver Sponsor!
They're the Australian powerhouse behind the world's biggest online casino, pioneering a creator-1st online streaming platform with over 50 million users.
easygo.io
It's #MarioDay! 🍄⭐️🚗
Who's up for some Mario kart racing?!
Today is #DayOfUnplugging, the annual 24-hour respite from technology to inspire healthy life/tech balance.
We don't know about you, but we probably don't be able to unplug for the full 24 hours. 😅
nationaldayofunplugging.com
Sponsorship is about backing the people who build, lead & shape our tech community.
If your org cares about strong tech culture & being part of meaningful industry conversations, we’d love to have a conversation.
yowcon.com/tech-leaders... or yowcon.com/tech-leaders...
YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 2026 Melbourne and Brisbane Earlybird Available Now Closes Tue 31 March or until sold out
Earlybird isn’t about saving money, but committing to your growth early.
YOW! Tech Leaders Summit Earlybird tickets are live & extremely limited. Ends Mar 31 or until sold out.
yowcon.com/tech-leaders... or yowcon.com/tech-leaders...
#YOWTLS26 #TechLeadership
Our YOW! Tech Leaders Summit CFP closes tomorrow!
Pop in your talk submission today.
✍️ CFP details and submission: yowcon.com/tech-leaders...
@vercel.com's AI Cloud provides tools & infrastructure to build, scale & secure intelligent apps.
As the team behind Next.js, v0 & the AI SDK, & the platform trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Zapier & Canva, they help teams build for the AI-native web & ship at the speed of ideas.
YOW! 2026 Silver Sponsor Announcement: We're proud to welcome Silver Sponsor Vercel
We’re excited to welcome @vercel.com as our 2nd confirmed sponsor for #YOW26!
Joining us as a Silver Sponsor, they'll also be keeping our community fuelled with ☕ barista-made coffee in both cities (yes, your morning flat white is sorted!).
