Engineering Leadership Events in Berlin
Events for engineering managers, CTOs, product leaders, and the people running technical teams sit in their own category. There's enough specific content for senior-plus practitioners that putting it under "software engineering" would bury it. This page tracks conferences and meetups aimed at the people leading the work rather than doing it directly.
This page narrows the Berlin calendar to Engineering Leadership events. It's a subset of Germany's wider tech-event schedule, useful when you want something specific to go to in the city this month.
Berlin runs one of the densest tech-event calendars in Europe. The scene is distinctively community-driven: a large share of the city's meetups run in English, many of them out of independent spaces rather than corporate offices, and the rhythm is nightly rather than monthly. Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript, and the growing applied-AI community are all particularly strong, alongside deep traditions in hacker culture (the Chaos Computer Club's Berlin chapter), privacy, and open source.
Upcoming Engineering Leadership events in Berlin
Lean Coffee for Managers & Leaders
Berlin, 🇩🇪 Germany
Join us for an upcoming in-person Lean Coffee meetup. Lean Coffee is a lightly-structured meeting format where the attendees create the agenda.
Bring your management challenges; whether you're managing people, products, processes or beyond, and solve them together with peers from a diverse set of backgrounds.
This event is great for anybody trying to create better ways of working and wants to share with + learn from others trying to do the same.
LeadDev Berlin Meetup #7
Berlin, 🇩🇪 Germany
Exciting news: The LeadDev Berlin meetup 2026 is here
Get ready for the upcoming LeadDev Berlin Meetup!
Join us for our next LeadDev meetup on Sept 15, and enjoy an evening of networking and lightning talks. Drinks and nibbles will be provided on the night, thanks to Zalando.
Date: Tuesday, Sept 15th, 2026
Time: 6 - 9 pm
Location: Zalando BHW, Hedwig-Wachenheim-Straße 7, 10243 Berlin
Spaces are limited - you must RSVP to attend.
Note: Please bring a Photo ID with you. It will be required to enter the venue.
This time we'll have 3 lightning talks followed by a panel discussion.
Schedule:
18:00 - Arrival, networking and refreshments
18:30 - Welcome from host - Zalando
18:40 - How to talk so PMs listen, and listen so PMs talk - Noa Malem-Shinitski - Senior Applied Scientist @ Zalando
18:50 - The 1:1: The conversation no one taught you to have - Kimberly Schmitt - Engineering Manager @ DeepL
19:00 - A Hidden Blocker to Becoming a Great Tech Lead - Olena Slyshkova - Principal Solution Architect
19:10 - Break
19:30 - Panel Discussion: "What's working in the AI transformation?"
- Maia Grotepass - Senior Staff Android Engineer @ Qonto
- Corina Dumanovschi - Head of Product @ Refurbed
- Mi Tian - Head of Applied Science, Economics and Experimentation @ Zalando
20:00 - Closing remarks & Networking
21:00 - Close
You can also join our Slack workspace to keep up to date with everything in our Berlin community. Join the channel #leaddev-berlin or #berlin.
If you need further information or have any questions, please email hello@leaddev.com.
Here is a friendly reminder of our Code of Conduct to help protect the safety of our community.
Don't forget to share this with your colleagues who may be interested, and keep an eye out for upcoming meetups later this year.
Thank you to our Berlin meetup partner Zalando.