Career Navigator Summit: Beyond the SE

​Something is shifting in presales, and most of us are feeling it before we can fully name it.

Buyers are showing up more self-educated and less receptive to the traditional SE playbook. Products are releasing faster than teams can keep up with. The skills that got you into this career aren’t necessarily the ones that will take you further. And somewhere in the mix, a new kind of role called the Forward Deployed Engineer is showing up, and nobody can quite agree on what it is, where it lives, or what it means for the rest of us.

The presales career is being rewritten in real time. Career Navigator is where we talk about it honestly.

This year we’re going beyond the SE title, into the changing shape of solutions careers, what skills are actually compounding in value right now, what the rise of the FDE means for where this function is headed, and how you position yourself well when the path forward is anything but clear.

One day. Four conversations. No generic career advice.

​The Full Agenda:

​8:10am PT: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: The SE Skill Conversation We Need to be Having
Which skills are actually compounding in value for solutions professionals right now, and which are quietly becoming table stakes? This session gets honest about what separates the SEs who are thriving from the ones scrambling to keep up.

9:00am PT: Beyond the SE: The FDE and What It Means for Your Career
The Forward Deployed Engineer title is everywhere and nobody can agree on what it actually is. We're getting into it honestly: what these roles look like, where they sit, and what their rise means for every solutions professional today.

10:10am PT: Owning Your Career When Nobody Else Will
A fireside conversation with Mahathi Devulapalli on what it actually looks like to navigate this career on your own terms, building leverage, making deliberate moves, and not waiting for someone else to hand you the next opportunity.

11:00am PT: The Ceiling Is a Lie: How SEs Break Through When the Bar Keeps Moving
Every job description asks for experience you can only get by already having the job. This session gets practical about what it actually takes to break through, what worked, what didn't, and how to build credibility before the resume is there to back it up.