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title: "KotlinConf’26 Speakers: In Conversation With Lena Reinhard"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/kotlinconf-26-speakers-in-conversation-with-lena-reinhard-curpnkyat
source_url: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/04/kotlinconf-26-speakers-in-conversation-with-lena-reinhard/
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source: "Kotlin"
published: 2026-04-02T09:38:07.372Z
updated: 2026-04-02T09:38:32.251Z
tags: ["career", "leadership"]
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# KotlinConf’26 Speakers: In Conversation With Lena Reinhard

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## Summary

Lena Reinhard, leadership coach and KotlinConf'26 Day 2 keynote speaker, discusses the growing uncertainty in the tech industry driven by AI, job insecurity, and shifting career promises. She critiques the hype around AI productivity, warning against measuring output over outcomes and noting that AI tools require experienced engineers to be useful. On leadership, she emphasizes that leaders often underestimate how much time teams need to process change, and that acknowledging uncertainty openly is more effective than projecting false confidence.

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