ELC Meetups and ELC Conference · since 2024
ELC Speakers Club.
One talk gets you in. You stay for good.
Every person here gave a talk at an ELC meetup or on the ELC Conference main stage. That talk is the whole entry fee, whether it came through the call for speakers or through a partner slot.
80 members and counting
Speakers on the ELC stage have built at:
David Pavlik
CTO, Rohlik Group · ex-SpaceX
Rizwan Iqbal
Director of Engineering, Superhuman
Michal Matyjek
Sr. Engineering Manager, Netflix
Aleodor Tabarcea
Engineering Manager, Stripe
David Teodorescu
Senior Product Designer, Meta
Vojta Vondra
Partner Director of Engineering, Microsoft
Tatiana Stantonian
Principal Engineer, Financial Times
Jan Zenisek
VP of Product, Apify
What members keep
01
First call for the main stage
When the ELC Conference needs speakers, we look at the club first. 400+ leaders in the room last edition. Most of our conference speakers started at a meetup.
02
The members’ Slack
A private channel for the club only. Offers, events and opportunities reach you before the public feed.
03
The boat on the Vltava, every year
An invite-only boat party in Prague with other members, ambassadors, donors and partners. No stage, no talks.
The club, member by member
Everyone who took an ELC stage: the conference main stage and every meetup since 2024. One talk each: that is the whole entry fee.
80 members and counting
Vojtech Vit
ELC Meetup #38 · Jun 2, 2026
"Krakow: How Strong Tech Leaders Prove Their Impact is Worth $10M+ in 2026"
Tomasz Manugiewicz
General Manager
Grand Parade
ELC Meetup #38 · Jun 2, 2026
"Krakow: How Strong Tech Leaders Prove Their Impact is Worth $10M+ in 2026"
Yurii Bliuchak
ELC Meetup #37 · May 21, 2026
"12 Steps to Boost Your Value for 2027. Get Unstuck. Get Promoted."
Emre Karabulut
acttp.org
ELC Meetup #37 · May 21, 2026
"12 Steps to Boost Your Value for 2027. Get Unstuck. Get Promoted."
Vojtech Masek
FlowUp
ELC Meetup #37 · May 21, 2026
"12 Steps to Boost Your Value for 2027. Get Unstuck. Get Promoted."
Aleodor Tabarcea
Engineering Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Smart but Not Wise: Path to AI-Native Engineering Leader"
Michal Matyjek
Sr. Engineering Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"The Tech Leader Profile Nobody Wants to Hire in 2026"
Rizwan Iqbal
Director of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"What am I doing here? - Engineering Management in the age of agents"
Vojta Vondra
Partner Director of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"From Talent Pool to Product Powerhouse: How Central Europe Won Microsoft's Trust"
Tatiana Stantonian
Principal Engineer
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Building AI Into Critical Systems: Lessons Learned"
Jan Zenisek
VP of Product
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Building a Creator Ecosystem - The Art of Letting Go"
Tomas Rehor
Head of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"High Agency Is the New IQ"
Michal Poczwardowski
Founder
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Decide Like a Senior Leader: Live Lessons on Building Strong Decision-Making Habits"
Natalia Nazaruk
Engineering Squad Lead
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Debugging Self-Doubt: A Framework for Building Confidence"
David Teodorescu
Senior Product Designer
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"The Collapse of the Product Trio"
Cate Huston
CTO
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"What's my job again? Developing self-management."
Marian Kamenistak
Founder
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
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Ladislav Novak
CEO
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Most 1:1s are just surviving. Let's change that!"
Nithin SS
Head of QA
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"From Doing OK to Doing Great: A 180-Day Playbook for building High Performing Team"
Jan Cerny
CEO
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Confessions of a Teal CEO: What Engineering Managers Can Steal From a Company With No Hierarchy"
Krzysztof Ras
Head of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"I’ve Built 3 Large Technology hubs in CE: A full guide"
Viktor Didenchuk
Lead Technical Program Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"The $$$ Behind the Code: How Technical Leaders Win Budget Conversations"
Petr Krebs
Head of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Stop Apologizing for Your Codebase: Taking Radical Ownership of Tech Debt."
Limor Bergman Gross
Former Director of Engineering
LBG Consulting Services
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"What Your Manager Evaluates Before Promoting You: IC → Manager → Director."
Jiri Brunclik
VP Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Platform/DevEx/DevOps"
Jiří Helmich
Founder
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Product Management"
Jan Sovka
Product & Strategy Advisor
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Becoming the Villain: Manipulation and Politics in the Corporate Environment"
Moustafa Aboelnaga
Engineering Leader
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Same Code, Different Cultures: Managing Engineers Across Continents"
Anna Kurylo
Senior Software Engineering Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"From "we're fine" to "here's the plan": how to write status updates your leadership actually reads"
Jan Vrtiska
Engineering leadership guru
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Engineering leadership"
Goran Hielscher
Leadership Communication Trainer
THE INSPIRACY GROUP
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Why the Conversation You're Not Having Is having you!"
Ivo Klimša
Director of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"AI development"
Jan Bleha
Employer Branding Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Employer Branding"
Jan Fried
Director of Product - Strategic Planning
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Strategy/OKRs"
Alex Ponomarev
Founder & CEO
Volt
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"The AI Talent Gap Nobody's Talking About"
Daniel Ondruj
Senior Engineering Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Burn Your Playbook: Context is Your Leadership Strategy"
Nilesh Kulkarni
Sr Engineering manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Complexity Is a Feature. Now What?"
Michal Licko
CEO
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Build & Lead Your First Agentic Product Team — Wake Up, Brew Coffee, Deploy Three Teams"
Mariana Ecegiova
TA Partner
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"People/HR"
Vojta Kopal
Head of Data
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Data"
Karin Van Hoecke
Board Member, Digitalization & Innovation
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
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Carol Palombini
Tech Leadership Coach & Consultant
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Build an Elevator Pitch That Works For Networking and Job Interviews"
Shaun Dudley
Host & Speaking coach
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"x"
Michal Donát
Organizational Designer
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Value Delivery and Agility"
Kamil Kubes
VP of Engineering
Emplifi
ELC Meetup #36 · Mar 31, 2026
"How to Redesign Interviews for AI-native Candidates in 2026"
Michal Licko
CEO
Visionvolve
ELC Meetup #36 · Mar 31, 2026
"How to Redesign Interviews for AI-native Candidates in 2026"
Marian Kamenistak
Founder
ELC Meetup #36 · Mar 31, 2026
"How to Redesign Interviews for AI-native Candidates in 2026"
Jan Pačes
Director of Software Engineering
Enverus
ELC Meetup #35 · Feb 26, 2026
"From Months to Weeks: Shipping Production Code Without Writing It"
Pavel Pohorelsky
Sr. Director of Engineering
ELC Meetup #35 · Feb 26, 2026
"From Months to Weeks: Shipping Production Code Without Writing It"
Yoav Shmaria
VP R&D, SaaS Platform
Similarweb
ELC Meetup #34 · Jan 22, 2026
"From Squads to Soloists: RIP the Engineering Team"
Sara Maldon
Head of AI Automation & Transformation
ELC Meetup #34 · Jan 22, 2026
"From Squads to Soloists: RIP the Engineering Team"
Petr Kubelka
Engineering Manager
Mews
ELC Meetup #34 · Jan 22, 2026
"From Squads to Soloists: RIP the Engineering Team"
Eduard Kunce
Sr. Director Engineering
ELC Meetup #33 · Nov 27, 2025
"Stop Hiring Unicorns. Start Growing Leaders."
Michal Bachorik
VP of Software Engineering
Stats Perform
ELC Meetup #33 · Nov 27, 2025
"Stop Hiring Unicorns. Start Growing Leaders."
Luboš Housa
CTO
Barclays
ELC Meetup #32 · Nov 13, 2025
"Radical Ownership: From Talk to Team Culture"
Jaroslav Gergič
VP of Engineering
ELC Meetup #32 · Nov 13, 2025
"Radical Ownership: From Talk to Team Culture"
Michał Porzożyński
VP of Engineering
BlackLine
ELC Meetup #32 · Nov 13, 2025
"Radical Ownership: From Talk to Team Culture"
Rhona Ask
AI Team Lead
ELC Meetup #30 · Sep 16, 2025
"AI Dev Tools in 2025: Reality Check"
Peter Malina
Director of Engineering
Kiwi.com
ELC Meetup #30 · Sep 16, 2025
"AI Dev Tools in 2025: Reality Check"
Michael Olšavský
Technical Domain Lead
ELC Meetup #30 · Sep 16, 2025
"AI Dev Tools in 2025: Reality Check"
Artem Markevich
SVP
CallMiner
ELC Meetup · Aug 5, 2025
"Summer Tech Meetup"
Megi Mejdrechová
Co-founder & CTO
RoboTwin
ELC Meetup · Aug 5, 2025
"Summer Tech Meetup"
David Pereira
Product Coach, Book Author, Keynote Speaker
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Untrapping Product Teams: Are you doing product management or bullshit management?"
David Pavlik
CTO
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"From Growth To Impact: How I Scaled My Personal Value 10x"
Martin Cízler
VP of Engineering
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"The $10M Mistake: How Your Tech Strategy is Killing Your Business"
Margaux Miller
Host, TEDx Speaker, Connection Expert
MAM Media
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Conference host"
Jiří Brunclík
VP Engineering
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"From Senior Dev to Strategic Leader: Making the Most of Staff & Principal Roles"
Juraj Masar
Co-Founder & CEO
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Fireside Chat: Navigating Engineering Leadership in Startups"
Lisa Karlin Curtis
Founding Engineer & Technical Lead
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Run Towards the Fire: Why Incidents Supercharge Teams"
Jiří Mžourek
VP Engineering
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Fireside Chat: Navigating Engineering Leadership in Startups"
Zbyněk Novotný
Talent Lead
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Welcome to Hiring Hell: How to (Not) Unlock a New Level"
Jakub Svoboda
Senior Engineering Manager
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"The Solution Swap: integrating AI into a product instead of just labeling it "AI" (Workshop)"
Andreas Grabner
DevRel for DevOps & Platform Engineering
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Smarter, Not Just AI-er: The Real Path to Developer Efficiency"
Ladislav Novák
CEO & CTO
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Earning Trust in R&D: The Role of Transparency"
Filip Kirschner
Founder & COO
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"The Silent Killer of Productivity"
Petr Baudis
CTO
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"AI-Assisted Software Engineering on Enterprise Codebases: From Myth to Reality (Workshop)"
Ota Novotný
Vice Rector
University of Economics and Business
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"The Great Disruption in Education: Preparing IT Leaders for a New Era"
Andrew Kleinerman
Director of Engineering
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Engineering Meets Business: Breaking the Communication Barrier"
Martin Dobis
CTO
Greenway
ELC Meetup #19 · Sep 24, 2024
"Beyond the Grind: A Journey from Hustle to Harmony [Bratislava]"
Martina Ivaničová
Data Engineering Lead
Kiwi.com
ELC Meetup #19 · Sep 24, 2024
"Beyond the Grind: A Journey from Hustle to Harmony [Bratislava]"
Lukas Margetak
Software Engineering Lead
Multitude IT Labs
ELC Meetup #19 · Sep 24, 2024
"Beyond the Grind: A Journey from Hustle to Harmony [Bratislava]"
Petr Burian
ex-CTO
Livesport
ELC Meetup #16 · Jun 6, 2024
"How to get top talent in IT and have a 90% success rate?"
Denisa Janatová
CEO
smitio
ELC Meetup #16 · Jun 6, 2024
"How to get top talent in IT and have a 90% success rate?"
Mirela Mus
Founder & CPO
Product People
ELC Meetup #15 · May 28, 2024
"Engineering & Product Optimizing Value Delivery in 2024"
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.
Not in the club yet?
One talk is the entry fee. First talk of your life or your fiftieth, we pick on the story, not the speaking resume.
Questions about the club
Who is in the ELC Speakers Club?
Everyone who gave a talk at an ELC meetup or the ELC Conference. One talk is enough, and membership does not expire.
How do I join the ELC Speakers Club?
Pitch a talk through the ELC call for speakers. Once you give it, you are a member.
Can a company buy a place in the club?
Not directly. The club is for people who gave a talk. A partner company can buy a speaker slot at an ELC meetup, and the person who gives that talk joins like everyone else; ELC helps them with the topic and the delivery first.