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As well as being an author, speaker, podcaster and trainer from the UK, Geoff Watts is an agile leadership coach and the co-creator of ORGANIC agility.

Keynote—Standardised Autonomy: Balancing self-organisation with organisational alignment

Janet Gregory is an agile testing coach and process consultant with DragonFire Inc. She specializes in showing agile teams how testing activities are necessary for the whole team to develop good quality products.

Keynote—Building quality into your process and your product

Jeffrey K. Liker is Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Operations Engineering at The University of Michigan and President of Liker Lean Advisors, LLC. He is the author of the best-selling book, The Toyota Way, Second Edition, and has coauthored nine other books about Toyota including The Toyota Way to Service Excellence, Designing the Future, and The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership.

Keynote—The Toyota Way and Software Development

Roman Pichler is an internationally acclaimed product management expert. He has played a leading role over the past 10 years in advancing product management and developing new practices that help agile organisations and teams create successful products.

Keynote—Tips for Effectively Applying the Product Owner Role

Speakers

Arek Benedykt is a software developer by heart and by profession. Currently works as an Engineering Manager at Pitney Bowes where he focuses on developing people. Enabling them to do their best at supporting the business of package delivery at the scale of millions per day.

Why developers do not need your Agile

Arne Åhlander is a principal consultant, coach and trainer at Aqqurite. Agile, Lean,  Leadership practices and Process Improvement are key elements in his collaboration with the management teams of his customers.

Building Blocks for Self-Organization

David Anaya has been a software engineer for almost 20 years, working in consultancy and product, from backend to frontend to mobile, as a software developer in waterfall teams to tech lead in agile ones.

Should you go from individual contributor to manager?

Edyta Ryszkiewicz–Tum has worked as a Scrum Master for 4 years, currently at Digital New Agency in Łódź, Poland. She used to be a Software Developer for 12 years.

Try it yourself! Back to development

Jason Yip is a Senior Agile Coach at Spotify in NYC. Previously he was a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, mostly in Australia. He first encountered Extreme Programming in 1999. He was formerly a committer on the first Open Source Continuous Integration server, CruiseControl.

Using BAPO to apply "structure follows strategy" to your organisation

Karaleise has worked as a business analyst for over 10 years, she has spent most of that time working with agile teams to build best in class software for different industries to solve complex business problems such as loan application processing, revenue optimization, customer success and customer support among many others.

Writing good user stories

Marcin Tatarski is an Agile practitioner & Lean thinker, involved in the enterprise IT world for more than 15 years. Using the advantages of Scrum, Kanban, XP or Lean, he always tries to improve the product, find the right goals, reduce waste and support people and the organization in continuous learning.

Efficient Product Backlog refinement in practice

Michael Kacprzak is a tech product expert and entrepreneur with more than a decade of experience developing products and technologies to make people’s life easier.

The art of launching successful products based on Booste.com case study – 12 months from launch and 12 M € funding raised

Michał Parkoła is an Engineering Manager at Appsilon as well as the founder and operator of Grow Together Academy. You can find his writings about collaboration and leadership at fluidcircle.net.

An Agile Approach to Forging Talent—a Case Study from Appsilon

Paweł Rzymkiewicz has been a developer, quality assurance engineer, agile coach, product and technology manager for over 15 years. He is an Engineering Manager at Appsilon, overseeing commercial projects and building an environment for people to thrive. Formerly Paweł was a Vice President of Engineering at Codility and Head of Technology at Sotrender.

An Agile Approach to Forging Talent—a Case Study from Appsilon

Seb Rose has been a consultant, coach, designer, analyst and developer for over 40 years. He has been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from architecture to support, from BASIC to Ruby.

Example mapping: a structured, collaborative discovery technique

Viktor Cessan is a senior system and agile coach based in Stockholm, Sweden. He's coached organizations and teams for over a decade at companies such as Spotify, Slack, King Games, Viaplay, Avanza Bank, Ikea, and H&M. He does context-specific coaching and adopts a research-based approach to coaching.

Informed Interventions

Trainers

Bartosz Juszczak values work not only on team level but also at organization level in order to promote awareness of agility as a way of thinking. Tireless propagator of the values and principles behind Agile, unfortunately so often being overlooked.

Workshop—Evidence-Based Management as practical way for improvements and agility