Leading Under AI Pressure — Engineering Managers Meetup, Budapest
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AI is rewriting how software gets built — and engineering managers are absorbing the pressure from every direction: teams that move faster but think less, metrics that look great but feel hollow, and a tooling landscape that shifts every quarter.
Three leaders from ElevenLabs, Tines, and Google join us to share what's actually working — and what isn't.
This is what we're exploring at our next ShareTech meetup, hosted by **Diligent. No theory, no buzzwords, just hard-won insights from teams already living this shift.
Especially relevant for engineering managers, team leads, heads of engineering, and senior technical leaders navigating team performance and organisational change.
📅 Date & Time: May 5. 2026, 17:30
📍 Location: Diligent Office 2nd floor - Budapest, Szervita tér 8, 1052
🎤 The Talks
🔹 Gergely Bihary — Growth, ElevenLabs
Small Teams, Massive Output: How ElevenLabs Builds Like a Startup at Scale
Gergely will share how ElevenLabs massively expanded their website reach and scaled from a small content footprint to tens of thousands of pages — without growing the team. He’ll explain how AI as a force multiplier is collapsing the line between builder and marketer, and why the same pattern is emerging across every function in one of Europe’s fastest-scaling companies.
🔹 András Gombosi — Data, Tines
Leading Through an Industrial Shift: Engineering Management in the AI Era
What happens to the EM role when PR volume shoots up 5x but signal-to-noise plummets? András draws on real conversations across his EM network to tackle the unglamorous challenges: vetting agent-generated code, managing AI-assisted performance reviews, and coaching junior engineers who are learning to think with — not through — LLMs.
🔹 Antal Mihályi — Engineering Manager, Google
Managing Teams That Build AI, Not Just Use It
Most AI management advice assumes you're adopting tools. Antal leads ML and GenAI teams that are building them — a fundamentally different pressure. He'll talk about what sustainable change management looks like when the rules rewrite themselves monthly, how to protect team wellbeing under that stress, and what's actually worked in practice.
🕓 Agenda
17:30 — Arrival & welcome
18:00 — Talks
20:00 — Panel Discussion
20:30 — Networking
21:00 – Wrap up
*Please note: 🇬🇧 All presentations will be conducted in English to welcome our growing number of international members.
** Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster.
In 2021, Diligent established its global Product Innovation Center in Budapest. The teams cover a range of activities including software development, product management, and product design. More than 470 highly skilled professionals collaborate to create a unified GRC experience, continuing to shape the future of the Diligent platform.
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