Over the past years, I have delivered keynotes and talks spoken at numerous conferences across the globe, participated in and moderated panels, and published articles. I’m always interested in new opportunities, please reach out with any inquiries to hi@thisdomain.com. I also wrote a guide for how I prepare conference talks.
📕 for interviews and articles, 🎤 for conference talks and keynotes
Highlights
- 📕 CTO Craft: From Zero to CTO – Meet Lena Reinhard, January 2021
- 🎤 Showing up as a leader in times of change, Keynote for CTO Craft Con, December 2020
- 📕 Forbes.com: These Are The Four Cs For Leading High-Performing Remote Teams, June 2020
- 🎤 What Engineering Managers should do (and why we don’t). – GOTO Berlin, October 2019.
- 🎤 Building high-performing engineering teams, one pixel at a time. – Keynote for O’Reilly Velocity Conference, Berlin, November 4-7, 2019.
- 🎤 A Talk about Nothing. – Closing Keynote for.concat() 2015; net awards 2015 finalist for “Conference Talk of the Year”.
All
2020-2021
- 📕 CTO Craft: From Zero to CTO – Meet Lena Reinhard, January 2021
- 🎤 Showing up as a leader in times of change, Keynote for CTO Craft Con, December 2020
- 🎤 What Engineering Teams Need From Leaders Right Now. – QCon Plus, November 2020
- 📕 Lena Reinhard of CircleCI: Five Things You Need To Know To Successfully Manage a Remote Team, Authority Magazine, December 2020
- 🎤 Leading through change and rapid growth. – Opening keynote for DevOps Summit Amsterdam (virtual), October 2020
- 📕 1 on 1 with Engineering Leaders: CircleCI VP of Product Engineering Lena Reinhard, with Codeclimate, October 2020
- 📕 How we interview software engineers: what we’ve learned, what we’ve changed, September 2020
- 📕 Forbes.com: These Are The Four Cs For Leading High-Performing Remote Teams, June 2020
- 📕 The 3 Cs of building strong teams in a remote work environment, August 2020
- 📕 How to avoid burnout: 3 things teams need from leaders now, August 2020
- 📕 A step-by-step guide to becoming a better engineering manager, June 2020
- 📕 How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations, April 2020
2019
- 📕 Managers Club: Interview with Lena Reinhard, Director of Engineering CircleCI, September 2019
- 📕 What we’ve learned about hiring engineering managers, (also available in Japanese! CircleCI がエンジニアリング マネージャーの採用から学んだこと, January 2019
- 🎤 Becoming a team, one pixel at a time. – Lead Developer Berlin, November 2019.
- 🎤 What Engineering Managers should do (and why we don’t). – GOTO Berlin, October 2019.
- 🎤 Building high-performing engineering teams, one pixel at a time. – Codemotion Berlin, November 2019.
- 🎤 Panel: The role of engineering managers, Codemotion Berlin, November 2019
- 🎤 Building high-performing engineering teams, one pixel at a time. – Keynote for O’Reilly Velocity Conference, Berlin, November 4-7, 2019.
2018
- 📕 Why we re-designed our engineering career paths at CircleCI, December 2018
- 🎤 Better communication for stronger leaders. – CTOSummit New York, November 2018.
- 🎤 Do you read me? – Better communication for stronger teams. – EmpireJS New York, September 2018. Presentation slides and speaker notes.
- 🎤 Panel: The business case for diversity and inclusion: productivity, innovation and profit, Berlin, August 2018
- 🎤 Panel: Fostering Diversity in the Workforce, Berlin, July 2018
2014-2017
- 🎤 Debugging the Tech Industry: A Talk about you and me. Software Art Thou meetup in June 2017
- 🎤 Debugging the Tech Industry. – Closing keynote for JSConf Australia 2016 in Melbourne. Here are transcript and slides.
- 🎤 Works on my Machine: Problem exists between Keyboard and Chair. – Closing Keynote for JSConf Budapest 2016 and UpFront Conference 2016. Here are transcript and slides.
- 🎤 A Talk about Everything. – Closing Keynote for ffconf 2015.
- 🎤 A Talk about Nothing. – Closing Keynote for ScotlandJS 2015.
- 🎤 A Talk about Nothing. – Closing Keynote for.concat() 2015; net awards 2015 finalist for “Conference Talk of the Year”. Full speaker notes are here.
- 🎤 This is bigger than us – building a future for Open Source. – Presented at JSConf EU 2014; closing Keynote at jsist and ArrrrCamp 2014. Slides.
- 🎤 Panel: Designing independence, ind.ie summit 2014
- 🎤 FrOSCon 2014: Coding the Dream: an introduction to Hoodie, Offline First and noBackend (slides)
- 🎤 IndieTech Summit: For the future of the Web, Diversity is non-negotiable (video, slides)
- 🎤 Codefront: Open Source and the Mayas or: Building a future for Open Source (slides)
- 🎤 up.front Meetup: Confessions of an Alien: attracting non-coding experts to Open Source projects (slides)