ELC Meetups · Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Krakow · every month
120+ engineering leaders. One evening. Your war story.
39 editions in, the format is settled: one track, a senior room, questions that run long. Microsoft, Apify, Ataccama and Everpure have hosted. None of them bought a slot. Bring the talk you would give your own team.
Watch past meetup talksFirst talk of your life or your fiftieth. We pick on the story, not the speaking resume.
Hosts and speaker companies
See the room you would stand in
Twelve nights a year across four cities. Recent rooms: Microsoft, Apify, Ataccama, Raiffeisenbank, CodeNOW, and a loft in Krakow.
Why this room is different
Everyone in the room leads engineers
CTOs, VPs, directors and engineering managers. You are not explaining what a 1:1 is. You can open at the level you actually think at.
Hosts give the room, not the slot
Microsoft, Apify, Ataccama, Make and Everpure have all hosted. None of them bought stage time. Talks are picked on content, every single edition.
39 editions of practice
Twelve nights a year across Prague, Brno, Bratislava and Krakow. The format is settled, the audience knows the drill, and nothing about your evening is an experiment.
Questions, not polite applause
Single track means nobody is half-listening in a competing room. Expect pushback, war stories back at you, and a Q&A that runs long.
One evening, not a marathon
Two or three talks and it is done. Your session is not buried in a nine-track grid at 4pm on day two.
The room is the community
2,000+ members across Central Europe. The people in the seats are the ones you keep running into for years afterwards.
Become an ELC speaker: the room, the recording, and the shortcut to the main stage
One talk and you are in: the recording, the promo clips, and a shot at the conference main stage next April.
120+ leaders, one relaxed evening
Monthly, in person, single track. Senior engineering leaders in the seats, not a general tech crowd.
The audition for the big stage
The strongest meetup talks get invited to the ELC Conference main stage. Most of our conference speakers started exactly here.
A recording you can point to
Your talk lands on the ELC YouTube channel. That video is what gets you your next stage.
A push, not just applause
LinkedIn announcement and promo clips built for you to reuse anywhere.
Low stakes, real support
First talk ever? We prioritize the story over the resume, and a speaking coach helps you prepare if you want one.
Beer with the room afterwards
The conversation after the talks is half the point. You will leave with more contacts than you came with.
Aiming straight for the big stage? Pitch for ELC Conference 2027 instead: 500+ leaders last edition, speakers from Netflix, Stripe and Meta.
The company you would keep
Everyone who took the meetup stage across the last seven editions. This is the room you would be joining, and the bar you would be judged against.
Luboš Housa
CTO
Barclays
Jaroslav Gergič
VP of Engineering
Michał Porzożyński
VP of Engineering
BlackLine
Eduard Kunce
Sr. Director Engineering
Michal Bachorik
VP of Software Engineering
Stats Perform
Yoav Shmaria
VP R&D, SaaS Platform
Similarweb
Sara Maldon
Head of AI Automation & Transformation
Petr Kubelka
Engineering Manager
Mews
Jan Pačes
Director of Software Engineering
Enverus
Pavel Pohorelsky
Sr. Director of Engineering
Kamil Kubes
VP of Engineering
Emplifi
Michal Licko
CEO
Visionvolve
Yurii Bliuchak
Emre Karabulut
acttp.org
Vojtech Masek
FlowUp
Vojtech Vit
Tomasz Manugiewicz
General Manager
Grand Parade
Marian Kamenistak
Founder
Their talk titles, dates and rooms are all on the past events page. Nothing there is a product demo wearing a talk as a costume.
Topics our audience is hungry for
A starting list, not a fence. If your best story lives outside it, pitch that instead: the form has a field for exactly that.
AI-native engineering
- Running the org where agents write most of the code: what breaks first
- Who owns an agent's mistake? Accountability for autonomous AI in production
- Code review is the new bottleneck: rebuilding quality gates for AI output
- The new technical debt: how AI-written systems fail differently
Measuring what matters
- Your token bill is growing faster than your productivity. Now what?
- AI impact metrics that survive the CFO: beyond acceptance rates
- Evaluating AI dev tools without the vendor drama
- What 2,000 CEE engineering orgs should measure in 2027 (and stop measuring)
The manager's job in 2027
- The EM role is splitting in two: pick your half
- Leading the flat org: bigger spans, fewer managers, same humans
- The AI-augmented EM: which parts of your job to hand to an agent
- Back to IC: why senior leaders step off the ladder, and when you should
Talent and the human side
- The junior crisis: who trains your next seniors when agents do the junior work
- Hiring in 2027: please blink if you are human
- Burnout as a team failure mode, not a personal one
- Mentoring when learning goes quiet: growing engineers who let AI think
What actually wins a slot
Actionable over generic
A Monday-morning toolkit beats another framework slide.
War stories over success theater
What actually broke, and what you would do differently.
Connection over lecture
Polls, questions, energy. We want a room, not an audience.
English delivery, with pro support
We provide professional speaker coaches to refine your narrative and delivery before the big day.
Context, not sales
No vendor pitches. No product demos wearing a talk as a costume.
First talk of your life? Good. We prioritize the story over the resume, and a professional speaking coach helps you prepare if you want one.
Ready to pitch?
About 3 minutes, 8 short steps, and your answers are saved in your browser as you go, so you can leave and come back. Once we confirm your slot, we handle the rest: the room, the recording, and a speaking coach if you want one.
Submit your talkNot sponsor-driven. Nobody buys a slot here.
Doubts? Our public speaking coach is here for you. You will shine on stage.