We are delighted to present our speaker line-up for our eighth conference this July, in Falmouth, Cornwall.
2018 – SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS LIST
- Keynote Thursday – Gerd Gigerenzer
- Keynote Friday – Woody Zuill
- Closing Note – Gwen Diagram
Software Delivery
- BDD: Embrace Uncertainty – Liz Keogh
- You build it, you run it – Why developers should also be on-call – Chris O’Dell (ChrisAnn)
- Resilience As A Continuous Delivery Enabler – Steve Smith
- Continuous Delivery with Containers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Daniel Bryant
- Microservices are Not Worth the Trouble!!?? – James Birnie
- TDD for Testers workshop – Sarah Usher
- It’s XP Stupid! – Mike Harris
- Basic Pathologies of Simple Systems – James Lyndsay
- A Gentle Introduction to Neural Networks – Tariq Rashid
- Product Engineering to Product Management – Matthew Fitzgerald
Agile Teams
- The Power of Questions – Claire Ashcroft
- Kaizen To Karōshi – Burnout in agile teams and what you can do about it – John Clapham
- Using Neuroscience To Build High Performance Teams – Elaine Sullivan
- Agile Methods are Dangerous – Julian Holmes
- Wheelchair ramps for the mind: how we use Agile to treat ADHD – Sally Bridgewater & Francis Watters
Agile Practices
- The Agile Guide to Life – Claire Eason-Bassett & Rachel Picken
- The journey of an Agile Coach… through the looking glass! – Georgina Hopkinson
- Agile Practices Reimagining agile ceremonies – improving engagement, outcomes and service delivery – Lyndsay Prewer
- Cracking the WIP – Victoria Morgan-Smith
- Project Discovery and Liftoff with Agile Chartering – Lynne Johnson & Susan Engel
Business Agility
- We all want to eliminate waste, but are we doing it all wrong? – Ilan Kirschenbaum
- The final frontier: how to effectively engage business users in your agile development work – Richard Collings
- Turning the ship or the lighthouse – Naveed Khawaja
- Agile, Digital & the new business paradigm – Allan Kelly
- Agility in HR Analytics bringing business benefit – Nicky Clement
- Getting Them To Get It: Communicating Beyond The Agile Bubble – Judy Rees
- Powerful Powerless Leader – Anna Obukhova
- Structure Drives Behaviour – Implementing the Minimum Viable Organisation – Jeremy Renwick
- eXtreme volunteering: Applying XP practices in volunteering team – Marcin Bazydlo
Bonus Double Workshops
- Estimates or NoEstimates Mini Workshop – Woody Zuill
- Games for feedback – Stanislava Potupchik & Antonio Cobo
- Agile Adoption: Building Better Habits – Helen Lisowski
- Dealing with disempowerment – Mark Dalgarno
Product Management
- Develop Better Products by Understanding “Jobs to be Done” – Özlem Yüce
- Designing the Pivot – Julia Khusainova
- Awesome Products : Inspiration or Iteration? – Eben Halford
- Adjusting research for an Agile world – Amanda Lacey Stockwell
- Making the Jump from Design to Product – Becki Hyde
- When Trying to Figure Out What Is Worth Building Backfires – Stefan Wolpers
- Risks and problems: a healthy approach – Steve Parks
- Becoming Customer Focused – Learning to Listen – James Routledge
- What to Build First: Defining MVP with Scenarios – Tatiana Kolesnikova & Arvid Torset
Find out more about our speakers and sessions on our Speakers page
March 22, 2018