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April K. Mills is an engineer by training and a change agent by passion. She's known for energizing individuals, organizations, and communities to achieve their full change potential through clear words, vivid stories, and practical tips.

Keynote—The Answer is in the First Line of the Manifesto

Workshop—How to Accelerate Your Agile Implementation

Bob Marshall often describes himself as an Organisational Psychotherapist. He brings psychotherapy techniques out of the therapy room and into the organisation as a whole. When trying to change the culture and thinking of a whole organisation, what better way than Organisational Psychotherapy?

Keynote—Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Workshop—The Shrink is IN

Jeff Gothelf help organizations build better products and executives build the cultures that build better products.

Keynote—Sense & Respond: Continuously learning our way to better outcomes

Jurgen Appelo is the author of the book Management 3.0, one of the best leadership speakers in the world and co-founder of the Agile Lean Europe network.

Keynote—Shakeup and Speedup

Willy Wijnands is a passionate Science teacher on the Ashram College in Alphen aan de Rijn and Aikido teacher.  He is the initiator and founder of eduScrum and co-founder of the worldwide initiave "Agile in Education".

Keynote—Transforming education with eduScrum

Workshop—eduScrum: an opportunity to close the gap between the educational offer and the market requirements?

Speakers

Agnieszka Balcer-Thinlay is a Director of Product Research at Codility, working with both qualitative as well as quantitative data and advocating for insights-driven decision making.

Relax and enjoy the data

Agnieszka Szóstek has worked with many organizations: from Google, Philips, IKEA and Samsung; banks, insurance companies, ceramics and construction materials manufacturers, to national parks, governmental institutions and local design centres.

Workshop—Where can the product backlog, which aims to deliver customer value, come from?

Alberto Brandolini is a software architect that cares about the human side, a consultant that understands the business, a human being that smells bullshit.
He invented EventStorming and started flooding the world with orange stickies to improve organizations, software, and users' life.

Software design as a cooperative game with EventStorming

Aleksandra Pyta is a Senior Project Manager and Team Leader at Netguru. She is responsible for a portfolio of over 10 projects which involve around 75 people. 

User story mapping

Andrea Provaglio is an independant agile coach working for such colossus as Procter & Gamble or Barclays Capital.

A Language for Change

Workshop—Leadership and the Art of Listening

Andy Brandt is one of Poland's most experienced experts on Agile.

The overlooked aspects of “Agile transformations”

Arturs Gedvillo is a project manager and PM supervisor in business automation and Enterprise Resource Planning, warehouse management, manufacturing planning and retail software implementation projects.

From Confusion to Transparency

Denis Vanpoucke is Agile passionate since more than 6 years, I have been working on different roles to implement and ensure the best possible Agile mindset within different organisations.

We are SAFe, but are we Agile?

Dominika Bula is Agile Practitioner and enthusiastic participant of Agile and DevOps Community of Practice at Opensource.com.

The Secret to Scrum with Distributed Teams

Having caught the technology bug at age 9, Elaine Sullivan started her IT career straight from school and by age 24, was the Network Manager for Compaq UK; she also spear-headed their European Network Managers group to facilitate European wide collaboration.

Using neuroscience to build high performance teams

Workshop—Humanity's ultimate exercise in goal setting, the Lunar Landing

Ewa Fijolek is an Engineering Manager for Sumo’s Application Security, SRE and Software Delivery team.

Why and how to rotate

Ewa Koprowska has been working in the IT industry for 20 years. She's a Partner & CHO in Code Sprinters.

Workshop—Where can the product backlog, which aims to deliver customer value, come from?

Agile Transformation on TRIAL

Jakub Bażela is Agile Coach, consultant, licensed Management 3.0 trainer, co-author of the book "How to tame Agile. A guide practically agile "(2018).

Dealing with DDD: Disruption Driven Development

John Le Drew is a coach, consultant, trainer, experienced engineer and international keynote speaker.

When Andrew met Michael

No serendipity without chaos

Workshop—Facilitating Powerful Retrospectives

Kamil Puk is an Agile Practice Lead in Netguru, responsible for growing the agile mindset and practices across the fast-growing digital consultancy company.

Staying aligned with the value in a short-lived project

Workshop—Tailored-made retrospectives that make a difference

Karol Krupnik is Agile Coach in ING Bank in Poland supporting teams and leaders though a journey to become agile.

Choose your weapon—external agile consultant vs internal agile coach team

Krystian Kaczor is Professional Scrum Trainer, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, ICF Associated Certified Coach, Accredited ISTQB Trainer.

Before you start scaling

Krzysztof Majewski is working as Scrum Master at HRS. He enjoys helping people to grow (also as personal coach).

Personal growth—how to ignite proactivity?

Krzysztof Niewiński is an agile coach and entrepreneur.

Build your own Agile framework

Kylie Yearsley is a passionate advocate of experiential learning. Anything can be better understood if you give people the tools to experience it for themselves.

Empowering your teams by leaving them alone

Workshop—My only complaint is that my cheeks hurt from laughing so much

Leonardo Bittencourt is Principal Lean and Agile Consultant at Ammeon Solutions where he works alongside companies to accelerate their delivery of software-enabled products and services.

Understanding How Work Works to Improve Flow

Louise Elliott is one of the organisers of Agile in Leeds, a free UK based community event for sharing ideas and sparking debates, and writes a blog at louise-elliott.com.

Stories from the Trenches (or how not to do agile)

Łukasz Szóstek is a consultant working on the border between business and technology.

Agile Transformation on TRIAL

Malcolm Campbell spent most of his career in software development: from academic, to embedded software, to online services, and finally medical devices.

Transforming an Organisational Culture

Martin Hinshelwood has deep expertise in Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, DevOps, Scrum, & Kanban.

An Enterprise transformation that shows that you can too

Mateusz Ryba is Agile Coach at ING responsible for supporting and consulting agile transformation.

Choose your weapon—external agile consultant vs internal agile coach team

Michał Grześkowiak is a Scrum Master with 10Y experience of working with Agile Teams. He used to work with IT teams but with some scientists as well.

Remote work(s)

Michał Jaworski is Global Operations Manager w EcoVadis.

Good practises sharing

Paweł Słowikowski's mission is to create environment for people to grow and use their talents to their fullest extent.

Self-organization with Holacracy. Be careful what you wish for.

Piotr Kuczyński is a Programmer,  Consultant,  Product Owner.

Hitting your head against concrete

Workshop—Why do your initiatives die—the problem with solving problems

Piotr Leszczyński is a coach at Ocado Technology as well as a co-creator of an organisation of trainers dedicated to helping teams collaborate through NVC and teal concepts across businesses.

Responsible Leader—a year long story from self-application of the Responsibility Process

Workshop—Restorative Practices—an essential leadership skillset not only for conflicts

Piotr Majkowski is often described as a passionate and empathetic leader focused on empowering teams and people to be the best version of themselves possible.

What a black hole can tell us about engineering management—a Spotify’s transition from Chapter Leads into Engineering Managers

Przemysław Witka is an Agile Coach working for Intel, Nordea and few other IT companies.

Complexity Thinking and Systemic Approach in Role Definitions (Intel Example)

Workshop—ScrumTale—Simulation Game

Radoslaw Orszewski is a Lean & Agile coach and practitioner.

Upstream Kanban—what's in there for Product people?

Workshop—Build, Measure, Improve—Introduction to Kanban Method

Simon Wright for the last 14 years has developed his own client base including the Russian Atomic Energy Authority, Moscow, The European Spallation Source, Lund, Novo Nordisk, Denmark and The Norwegian Army, Oslo.

AI Techniques for Agile Estimation

Stanisław Matczak is fascinated by process of developing complex IT systems and fascinated by process of developing complex human cooperation networks.

Help, my team doesn’t want to Scrum!

Tomasz Serafin is a Scrum Master by position, Man Of Many Parts by duties. He was a php, c#, ObjC developer, project manager, team leader, product owner.

SenseMaker® by example

Zuzanna Konarska has been working as a Scrum Master for small startup teams, later with several teams in the energy industry in Poland (PGE Systemy) and now, for several months runs an international team at Lufthansa Systems and implements Scrum practices in the organization.

Help, my team doesn’t want to Scrum!

Trainers

Agnieszka Szóstek has worked with many organizations: from Google, Philips, IKEA and Samsung; banks, insurance companies, ceramics and construction materials manufacturers, to national parks, governmental institutions and local design centres.

Workshop—Where can the product backlog, which aims to deliver customer value, come from?

Andrea Provaglio is an independant agile coach working for such colossus as Procter & Gamble or Barclays Capital.

A Language for Change

Workshop—Leadership and the Art of Listening

April K. Mills is an engineer by training and a change agent by passion. She's known for energizing individuals, organizations, and communities to achieve their full change potential through clear words, vivid stories, and practical tips.

Keynote—The Answer is in the First Line of the Manifesto

Workshop—How to Accelerate Your Agile Implementation

Arleta Szczygielska has a lot of experience in different roles: from Project Manager to Scrum Master. People have always been important to her regardless of her position. 

Workshop—Why do your initiatives die—the problem with solving problems

Bob Marshall often describes himself as an Organisational Psychotherapist. He brings psychotherapy techniques out of the therapy room and into the organisation as a whole. When trying to change the culture and thinking of a whole organisation, what better way than Organisational Psychotherapy?

Keynote—Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Workshop—The Shrink is IN

Dominika Ciszewska is an educated engineer and passionate agility trainer. She likes simple solutions and early verification of  ideas.

Workshop—Define structures—how to start when something goes wrong in agile cooperation

Having caught the technology bug at age 9, Elaine Sullivan started her IT career straight from school and by age 24, was the Network Manager for Compaq UK; she also spear-headed their European Network Managers group to facilitate European wide collaboration.

Using neuroscience to build high performance teams

Workshop—Humanity's ultimate exercise in goal setting, the Lunar Landing

Ewa Koprowska has been working in the IT industry for 20 years. She's a Partner & CHO in Code Sprinters.

Workshop—Where can the product backlog, which aims to deliver customer value, come from?

Agile Transformation on TRIAL

Izabela Goździeniak is a Lean & Lead Agile Coach at Allegro.

Workshop—Define structures—how to start when something goes wrong in agile cooperation

Kuba Szczepanik is an Agile Consultant and Trainer and a co-counder of portal agile247.pl.

Workshop—Definition and decomposition of product in agile-outside-IT initiatives

John Le Drew is a coach, consultant, trainer, experienced engineer and international keynote speaker.

When Andrew met Michael

No serendipity without chaos

Workshop—Facilitating Powerful Retrospectives

Kamil Puk is an Agile Practice Lead in Netguru, responsible for growing the agile mindset and practices across the fast-growing digital consultancy company.

Staying aligned with the value in a short-lived project

Workshop—Tailored-made retrospectives that make a difference

Klaudia Komacka is Agile and Lean Catalyst // Design Thinking Facilitator.

Workshop—FAIL—first attempt in learning

Kylie Yearsley is a passionate advocate of experiential learning. Anything can be better understood if you give people the tools to experience it for themselves.

Empowering your teams by leaving them alone

Workshop—My only complaint is that my cheeks hurt from laughing so much

Lech Wypychowski is an experienced PM with Agile mindset.

Workshop—ScrumTale—Simulation Game

With over 13 years of experience in IT, Luiza Lipień held a variety of roles from Project and Portfolio Manager, through to Scrum Master, Head of Scrum and IT People Manager, gaining knowledge both in the traditional and Agile approaches.

Workshop—Scaled Agile Simulation Game

A licensed Management 3.0 trainer, Agile Coach and Scrum Master.

Workshop—FAIL—first attempt in learning

Mateusz Srebrny is a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, animator of Agile Warsaw community and AgileByExample conference.

Workshop—Bring Your Own Problem

Piotr Kuczyński is a Programmer,  Consultant,  Product Owner.

Hitting your head against concrete

Workshop—Why do your initiatives die—the problem with solving problems

Piotr Leszczyński is a coach at Ocado Technology as well as a co-creator of an organisation of trainers dedicated to helping teams collaborate through NVC and teal concepts across businesses.

Responsible Leader—a year long story from self-application of the Responsibility Process

Workshop—Restorative Practices—an essential leadership skillset not only for conflicts

Piotr Radaj supports both start-ups and corporations as Scrum Master and Lean-Agile Coach.

Workshop—Bring Your Own Problem

Przemysław Witka is an Agile Coach working for Intel, Nordea and few other IT companies.

Complexity Thinking and Systemic Approach in Role Definitions (Intel Example)

Workshop—ScrumTale—Simulation Game

Radoslaw Orszewski is a Lean & Agile coach and practitioner.

Upstream Kanban—what's in there for Product people?

Workshop—Build, Measure, Improve—Introduction to Kanban Method

Tomasz Manugiewicz is Agile enthusiast and Coach. Engineer at heart. Former Development Manager, Scrum Master and Software Developer.

Scaled Agile Simulation Game

Workshop—Scaled Agile Simulation Game

Willy Wijnands is a passionate Science teacher on the Ashram College in Alphen aan de Rijn and Aikido teacher.  He is the initiator and founder of eduScrum and co-founder of the worldwide initiave "Agile in Education".

Keynote—Transforming education with eduScrum

Workshop—eduScrum: an opportunity to close the gap between the educational offer and the market requirements?

Coaches

Bożena is one of the coaches that will be available at the Coaching Corner.

Available for coaching sessions

Dorota is one of the coaches that will be available at the Coaching Corner.

Available for coaching sessions

Marzena is one of the coaches that will be available at the Coaching Corner.

Available for coaching sessions