Speakers

Henrik Kniberg is an Agile/Lean coach at Crisp in Stockholm, working primarily with Spotify. He enjoys helping companies succeed with both the technical and human sides of software development. During the past 15 years he has been CTO of 3 Swedish IT companies and helped many more get started with Agile and Lean software development.

Henrik is former board member of the Agile Alliance and works regularly with Mary Poppendieck, Jeff Sutherland, Alistair Cockburn, and other thought leaders. He is the author of “Scrum and XP from the Trenches” and “­Kanban and Scrum, making the most of both” and “Lean from the Trenches“. These books are available in over 12 languages, have over 500,000 readers, and are used as primary guide to Agile and Lean software development by hundreds of companies worldwide.­

twitter: @henrikkniberg

Expert on Lean Product Development

Don is the President of Reinertsen & Associates, a consulting firm specialized in themanagement of product development. He has worked with leading product development organizations for over 3o years, and taught executive courses at Caltech for 14 years. 

He is the author/co-author of three best-selling books on product development, and is considered one of the leading thinkers in the emerging field of lean product development. 

His latest awarding winning book, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development, has been praised as, “... quite simply the most advanced product development book you can buy.”

Twitter: @dreinertsen

Speaking about: Rethinking Robustness – Uncertainty is Not the Enemy (Keynote) 

Jim Benson is CEO of Modus Cooperandi, a collaborative management consultancy in Seattle, Washington. After being steeped in Agile for many years, Jim started working with Kanban and Lean thinking in 2005. In 2008, he started taking this idea further with Personal Kanban, which brings flow based work to the individual and team. Since then he has been integrating Agile and Lean into his work with his own software company, as well as clients like the United Nations, British Telecom, NBC Universal, and the World Bank. Jim started Seattle Lean Coffee in 2009 to form a community of practice around Lean thinking. Lean Coffees have now spread worldwide including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Stockholm and Sydney. He has recently co-authored Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life with Tonianne DeMaria Barry.

Twitter: @ourfounder

Speaking about. How to convince others to limit WIP

Troy is an experienced executive who has been involved in many leading software organizations over 20 years. Most recently, Troy founded Focused Objective to build tools and training for simulating and forecasting software development projects, including the Monte Carlo techniques as described in his book Forecasting and Simulating Software Development Projects – Effective modeling of Kanban and Scrum projects using Monte Carlo. Troy’s work has recently been recognized by his peers with the Brickell Key Award, an award given yearly to highlight achievement, leadership and contribution to the Lean community. Troy is a regular speaker and trainer at conferences and workshops on improving Agile processes.

Twitter: @t_magennis

Speaking about: Risk Management and Forecasting

Liz is an experienced Lean and Agile consultant and well-known international speaker. Coming from a strong technical background, her work covers a wide variety of topics, from software development and architecture to psychology and complexity thinking. She is best known for her involvement in the BDD community, and was presented with the Gordon Pask award in 2010 for deepening existing ideas in the space and "coming up with some pretty crazy ones of her own".

Twitter: @lunivore

Speaking about: More than the Sum of our Parts

Dr. Arne Roock works with the Jimdo in Germany – a company that provides a really easy-to-use constriuction kit for websites.
Arne has a great deal experience with Lean and Kanban in different contexts like start-ups, medium sized companies and international corporations. He is fascinated by Systems Thinking and loves to experiment with ideas from Ackoff, Drucker, Deming etc.

Back in 2012, Arne has been rewarded with the Brickell Key Award for his engagement in the Lean/Kanban community.

Follow Arne on Twitter at: @arneroock

Speaking about: The beauty of problems

Pawel Brodzinski is a leader, a team builder and a change agent, but most of all he is an always experimenting practitioner trying to make his teams work better (and learn in the process). He has been a leader of the first Kanban implementation in software industry in Poland and he is the first Pole to become a KCP. Pawel is well-recognized public speaker and blogger sharing his thoughts about software project management at http://brodzinski.com Pawel leads Lunar Logic, Ruby on Rails software shop in Krakow, Poland, where he field tests his ideas on improving management methods.

Follow Pawel on Twitter at @pawelbrodzinski

Speaking about: The Leadership Gap

Esther started her career as a programmer, and over the years she's worn many hats, including business owner, internal consultant and manager. From all these perspectives, one thing became clear: their level of individual, team and company success was deeply impacted by their work environment and organizational dynamics. As a result, she has spent the last twenty-five years helping companies design their environment, culture, and human dynamics for optimum success.

Esther has written over 100 articles, and co-authored two books–Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. She writes about management, leadership, collaboration, organizations and change (or another topic she is currently exploring).

She is one of the founders of the AYE Conference—the first conference to offer all experiential sessions. She served two terms on the Agile Alliance Board of Directors.  She holds an M.A. in Organizational Leadership.

Follow Esther on Twitter: @estherderby

Speaking about: Leadership at all Levels

Fridtjof is co-founder of website creator, Jimdo – Pages to the People. Profitable since 2009 without VC - Jimdo is sustainable and product focused with a fantastic company culture inherent to it's success. Fridtjof is the founder responsible for design and product development, he's closely involved with ensuring that the company culture remains flat and lean as its teams grow. He believes that transparency, communication, flexibility and fun help to provide the stability necessary to deal with big changes. Fridtjof balances work with his love of sports, outdoors and travel.

Follow Fridtjof on Twitter at @fridel

Speaking about: The Management principles of Jimdo's success

Marc Burgauer has experienced professional life as a biologist, an award-winning performance artist and musician, enterprise database architect and early web applications programmer, founder, board member and manager in multiple startups, project manager and coach in multinationals and public services.

Complexity theory defined Marc's worldview early in life. He quotes Erich Jantsch's “The Self-organizing Universe” as the pivotal book that he read as a teenager. Marc’s interest in theories about work, including his acclaim of Peter Drucker, was re-ignited when he first adopted XP in 1999.

For the last 15 years, Marc has been keen to test ideas and, as a practitioner, enjoys the application of theories in day-to-day work.

Marc currently focuses his studies on innovation and cultural change while, as a consultant, he encourages organizations to adopt lean and agile practices.

Eric-Jan has been involved in the Tech-Business for almost 20 years. The Dutch born political scientist, and certified industrial controller always shifts his attention between the big picture and the necessary details. Since 2007 he has been working for Blizzard Ski in Mittersill (Austria) as Controller and Head of Information Services. Since 2013 he heads the area of Business Process Engineering and Information Services of Blizzard's Italian mother Company Tecnica Group SpA - world-wide leading provider of sporting goods, with its well-known brands Tecnica, Blizzard, Nordica, Lowa, Rollerblade, Dolomite, and Moonboots.

For his pioneering implementation of kanban in IT he received the Austrian CIO-Award 2013.

Twitter: @claptonline

Speaking about: You don't become Olympic Champion in One Day

Stefan Roock (it-agile GmbH) started with agile software development in 1999 and has used Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban and FDD since then. He worked as a developer, ScrumMaster, coach and trainer in dozens of projects in different companies. He has shared his experiences with books, articles and conference sessions. Nowadays his clients think he is most valuable for them when he does management coaching and consulting.

Twitter: @stefanroock

Speaking about: Participatory Decision Making - beyond majority voting

Chris is a Technical Director at digital product strategy, service design & engineering agency Friday. He has been leading engineering teams since 1999. He was pivotal in the BBC’s adoption of Agile in 2000-2001 using it to deliver the pioneering Multi-Screen Wimbledon Service for Sky. Since then he has worked for broadcasters and platform owners including Dish Network in the US and Deutsche Telekom in Europe. Most recently he lead the development team for the YouView Set Top Box User Interface and headed up engineering for YouTube’s largest Content Network outside the US; Base79.
He is an active member of the Lean/Kanban community speaking at conferences across Europe.

Twitter: @worldofchris

Speaking about: Discovering Hidden Knowledge

James McLeod is an experienced software developer with 8 years experience in building complex solutions for a wide variety of customers. He has a keen interest in the ‘way we work’ and is always on the look out to improve the way in which work is delivered, with the focus around agility, effective communication, failure management and visibility of the work.

Speaking about: Discovering Hidden Knowledge

Head of Business, Technology Solutions at Momentum, and sponsor of the initiative. Background in Software Development and passionate about team-orientated solution delivery.

Twitter: @aj_amjidali

Speaking about: Introducing Kanban as Instrument of Change – a Journey of learning

Wolfgang is a LKU accredited Kanban trainer and Kanban Coaching professional working for it-agile. As a software developer, head of operations and ScrumMaster he gained experience in different areas of IT and sectors.

He is the co-founder of the Limited WIP Society Munich, which meets regularly every month since 2011. Today he shares his experiences as a trainer and coach and helps companies to get started with the Kanban Method and supports them in their change process.

At agilemanic.com he shares his thoughts and experiences on the Kanban  Method and Agile in general.

Follow Wolfgang on Twitter: @wwiedenroth

Speaking about: By the power of metrics

Tim works as "Team Coach" at Wooga, helping the game teams to collaborate better. Before that, he worked as programmer on four promising but ultimately unsuccessful Wooga games. Tim started programming on a Commodore 64 when he was 12. He lives in Berlin with his girlfriend and two daughters (7 and 5).

Follow Tim at Twitter: @tlossen

Speaking about: Embracing Failure

Martin is currently working as Director of Digital Hub´s at TUI Travel PLC. He has a background as MD, Development Manager, Consultant, CIO and entrepreneur and has since 2006 held various leadership roles in TUI Nordic and Germany. Martin has an Internet
start up background from 1996. He brings experience from on driving cultural change in big organizations and has as MD for TUI.com in Berlin emphasized cultural in his approach of running a successful business.
Speaking about: Culture is THE competetive advantage