Devin AndersonCprimeDevin Anderson has been Chief Product Officer and Head of Product at multiple companies. As a product management leader for the last 15+ years, he has delivered enterprise IT solutions in endpoint management, endpoint security, and asset management totaling over $1B in sales. Today, he balances between being a head of product and a strategic product coach for Cprime where he helps organizations be more strategic with their product teams. Session: Metrics that Matter in the Boardroom – Measuring More Than Progress |
Mike BrevoortSlackMike Brevoort is Director of Engineering for Workflows at Slack. He was the founder and CEO of Missions, a messaging based workflow platform acquired by Slack in 2018. Mike has over 20 years experience in startups and established companies in SaaS, EdTech, Healthcare, Engineering and Financial Services. Mike lives with his family in Colorado where he is a reluctant runner and a procrastinating cyclist. Session: How Slack builds Slack |
Jackie DeFreitasIndependentJackie is an Agile coach, executive, and leader with over ten years of experience leading Agile change in organizations. She is passionate about transformational change and how organizations as systems evolve toward Business Agility. Specifically around culture and environments that create great places for people to come to work and enjoy what they do. She is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech and a member of Women In Agile. Session: Is your Organizational culture messing with your Agile success? |
Steve ElliottAtlassianSteve Elliott has a proven track record of leading successful teams and transforming large scale organizations to agile. His software startup AgileCraft was recently acquired by Atlassian, dedicated to pioneering enterprise agility, for 166M USD. Prior to this, he has already led several other startups, sales, support, strategy development, and engineering teams. |
Neil FasenBest BuyNeil Fasen has been an agile evangelist and practitioner for more than a decade, helping large companies adopt agility and product management at scale. Session: OKRs in the Real World |
Michaele GardnerGardner, Kievoet, & AssociatesMichaele Gardner started out as a counselor at an emergency crisis line. Clients were too messy: defined inputs did not lead to predetermined outputs. So she moved into the world of IT and has not looked back, but has always stayed closed to her roots in counseling. As a COBOL developer, Michaele loved diving into the clean logic and flow of well written code as well as working with other developers. Her next iteration was to move the problem space closer to the solution space which led her to Object Oriented coding. Landing as a Java developer on an XP team brought together her interests in psychology, flow, teamwork and problem solving. Her next step was to help engineers and organizations understand business value at a micro and macro level. Session: Why worry about putting on the oxygen mask first when you can fly the f!#%^ plane? |
Brian HackersonIndependentBrian is a reformed functional manager, turned agile coach. Since that personal transformation, he has become curious about neuroscience with a keen interest in understanding flow state, the greatest place to be. At his core, he is a data enthusiast, having background in healthcare data analytics before it became cool. Using common agile metrics applied in uncommon ways, he has shaped his personal agile journey. Session: Why worry about putting on the oxygen mask first when you can fly the f!#%^ plane? |
Sarah KlarichUSAASarah Klarich is the Director, Coaching and Skill Development for Business Agility at USAA. Prior to joining USAA she coached and consulted at various companies across multiple industries including telecom, airlines, financial, and utilities. Sarah is a passionate change agent and has been active in the agile community through volunteering. Session: Stealth Agility – Using the Culture you have |
Christi KrautbauerThomson ReutersChristi Krautbauer is the Director of People Strategy & Planning at Thomson Reuters. She is passionate about bringing agile ways of working to life across organizations. With a background in product management and design thinking, Christi recently helped build the HR Consulting pool at Thomson Reuters. She is the architect of the group’s business agility practices and provided agility coaching to get the team off the ground. In her current role, Christi supports the People Function’s overall strategy and priority initiatives. Session: On “The Importance of Being Agile” |
David LaribeeIndependentDavid Laribee is an independent coach, author, teacher, and speaker in the area of software-intensive product development. He believes in the power of collaboration, simplicity, and feedback. Over the last 20 years, David has built teams and products for companies of all shapes and sizes. He’s founded startups and consulted in Fortune 50 enterprises. He’s developed digital products in a wide variety of domains: banking, retail, consumer electronics, insurance, beverage distribution, and higher education (to name a few). David is a two-time Microsoft MVP in C# and Solutions Architecture and co-founder of the ALT.NET movement, which spawned dozens of user groups across the globe dedicated to open source and modern engineering practices. Before striking out on his own, David coached the product development team at VersionOne, a market leader in agile project management tools. David started work life at the early age of five on a farm in Upstate NY — an upbringing that accounts for his lead-from-the-front approach, appreciation for small/cross-disciplinary teams and disdain for fake maple syrup. Session: Sensible Metrics for Teams and Dojos |
Michael LevineUS BankMichael Levine has been leader in lean/agile space as an executive at Wells Fargo and US Bank, now SVP/CIO for Consumer Lending & Business Banking. His teams have delivered breakthroughs in consumer lending and business banking, and dealt with the hardest problems that emerged from the mortgage default crisis. His three-book trilogy, The Tales of Agility (TheTalesOfAgility.com), use exposition and compelling stories to make learning about agile engaging regardless of technical sophistication. His latest book is People Over Process: Leadership for Agility, published October 2019. Session: Facilitating Agility: Obligations of organizational leaders |
Kelly LooneyAWSKelly is a 30+ year veteran in the software development arena. He has built software in everything from assembly language to Smalltalk, Unix/C, and to Kubernetes and Lambda. He has taken an abiding interest in improving organization’s software delivery from Agile, to DevOps, to Serverless and NextOps. Session: Agile and Next Generation Software |
Laura O’BrienTravelersLeveraging a background in quantitative methods, a passion for collaboration and keen eye for patterns Laura O’Brien is a self-proclaimed dot-connector. Over the past 25 years in technology she has worn several hats including analyst, developer, tester, architect, strategist, change agent and coach. Session: Agile Value: Systems Thinking and Balancing Autonomy at Scale |
Mary PoppendieckPoppendieck, LLCMary Poppendieck’s first job was programming the #2 Electronic Switching System at Bell Labs in 1967. She has worked on systems that control roll-goods processes, interpret digitized images, and support statistical process control. She spearheaded the implementation of a Just-in-Time production system and led new product development teams, commercializing products ranging from digital controllers to lighting systems. Session: Too Many Metrics |
Kurt SchmidtFoundryKurt Schmidt is the President of Foundry, a digital product, and experience agency and hosts a weekly Podcast named the “Schmidt List” where he interviews industry leaders to learn their thoughts on bridging modern management techniques, design thinking, and cutting-edge technology for our ever-increasing “agile” world. The Schmidt List Podcast LIVE: Leading by Example for a Purpose-Driven Culture |
Molly StiehmThomson ReutersMolly is certified Agility Coach supporting employees at Thomson Reuters in their transformation to becoming good Agilists. With over 15 years of experience as a people leader, she continues to explore the extraordinary power of servant leadership. Session: On “The Importance of Being Agile” |
Milinda Rambel StoneProvation MedicalMilinda Rambel Stone is an executive security leader with extensive experience building & leading security programs including information security governance, vulnerability management, incident investigation & response, security awareness, and risk management & compliance. Session: The Value of DevSecOps and its Organizational Impact. A CSO’s perspective |
Lynn WinterManageDigitalLynn is a Digital Strategist and Project Manager who combines 19 years of experience in content strategy, user experience, and project management to bring a holistic approach to her work. She has spoken at numerous local and national conferences on a variety of topics and hosts an annual conference for Digital Project Managers called Manage Digital (http://managedigital.io/). You can connect with her at lynnwintermn.com. Session: Conquering Burnout |