* = talks from club members
2026 Meetings
January — When High Performers Hit Empty: A CTO’s Guide to Navigating Burnout (Diana Hu)
February —
March —
April —
May —
June —
July —
August —
+ SUMMER SOCIAL
September —
October —
November —
December —
+ WINTER SOCIAL
2025 Meetings
January — Evening casual meetup at Postdoc Brewing, Redmond
February — Code Fellows closure – AMA (Jeff Malek)*
March — Self-publishing a book – AMA (Marcelo Calbucci)*
April — Software Engineering Productivity (Simon Obstbaum & Yegor Denisov-Blanch)
May — The Five Stages of Workplace Culture (Zoe Cunningham)
June — Career development for Software Engineers (Jeff Foster)
July — Job Seeker Roundtable
August — Performance Reviews (Allison McMillan)
+ SUMMER SOCIAL
September — Agentic AI (RoundTable)*
October — Attributes for Engineer Reviews (Round Table)*
November — How To Create a Brittle Engineering Organization (Aviv Ben-Yosef)
December — How We Doubled Engineering Productivity at eBay, but Still Didn’t Save the Company (Randy Shoup)
+ WINTER SOCIAL
2024 Meetings
January — Being You vs What You Think a Senior Leader Looks Like (Cat Miller)
February — Content Credentials: Authentic Content in the Age of Generative AI (Andy Parsons)
March — Nonvilent Communication (Oren and Lon)*
April — The future of the engineering org (Peter Bell)
May — The Secret of our Success: Truly Exceptional CS Talent and Achieving Operational Excellence in the Philippines (Jared Reimer)*
June — ML Reliability & Feature quality (Archis Gore)*
July — Metrics and Tools: a Blessing or a Curse? (Ron Lichty, Krishna Kumar, Mickey Mantle, Britton Broderick)*
August — Why Things Are the Way They Are (Elisabeth Hendrickson)
August — SUMMER SOCIAL
September — Leading in Times of Uncertainty (Robert Zuber)
October — Becoming an API-first company (Ted Spence)*
November — Maintaining Technical Expertise While Scaling Leadership: Strategies for Modern CTOs (Nick Rockwell)
December — Scaling a Tech Organization (Rebecca Parsons)
December — WINTER SOCIAL
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