World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage
Why Smart Engineering Teams Make Bad Decisions
Magdalena Szumna
Founder of INDIGO Diversity Consulting
World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage
Right now in your company, a brilliant technical idea is dying on the boardroom table.
It’s not because the idea is bad, but because it got lost in translation. While engineers speak the language of architecture and implementation, executives speak the language of ROI and risk. When this translation gap occurs, decision-makers default to “no” simply to protect the company.
In this talk, Anastasia Shabalina, founder of makemeHEARD, shares a powerful communication framework designed to bridge this gap. You will learn how to debug the “human operating system” of decision-makers, escape the smart person’s trap of leading with technical jargon, and utilize a reliable four-step algorithm to structure your pitches.
Whether you want to protect your system from a revenue crash or reclaim your team’s time, this session will show you how to transform your technical insights into business necessities. Stop letting your best ideas stay on your local machine –it’s time to engineer the momentum toward a definitive yes.
World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage
Magdalena Szumna
Founder of INDIGO Diversity Consulting
World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage
Anna W Kriss Petersson
Leadership Coach @Thinking People
World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage
Oskar Kruschitz
Head of Product at Advanced Engineering
World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage
Christina Rohrmoser, Stefan Wöhrer