As every year, we managed to gather an amazing speaker lineup with internationally acclaimed experts

and practitioners from companies like Google and N26.

For the third time in a row we will host a co-author of the agile manifesto.

Alistair Cockburn

One of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto

Dr. Alistair Cockburn (Cō-burn). One of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto. Voted in “The All-Time Top 150 i-Technology Heroes” for his work in Use Cases and Agile Software Development

Speaker’s workshop

Andrea Goulet

CEO of Corgibytes

Andrea Goulet is the CEO of Corgibytes, a software development shop dedicated to maintaining and modernizing software applications and has been named by LinkedIn as one of the Top 10 Professionals in Software Under 35. She’s the founder of LegacyCode.Rocks, a sought after keynote speaker, and is easily recognizable by the JavaScript tattoo on her wrist.

Peter Sage

World-class Speaker

He is a sought after expert in human behaviour, leadership,business, high performance, creativity and motivation.

As a well-known international and serial entrepreneur with over twenty-five years experience in growing fast-paced enterprises, he has launched, operated, and brought to success over two dozen companies, several of which he took from scratch to over eight figures.

Jeff Patton

Agile, Lean, UX and Product Design Evangelist

Jeff Patton is the glue that connects good product management and strategy, lean user experience and agile delivery practices together. He has authored numerous articles, essays and, most recently, a book, “User Story Mapping.” An independent consultant with a unique teaching and speaking style, he uses hand-drawings and engaging story telling to share his passion for product design.

Patrick Kua

Chief Scientist at N26

He is currently Chief Scientist and former CTO of the mobile bank N26 (Berlin, Germany) where he is building the engineering group that will change modern retail banking for people like you and me. Formerly a Principal Technical Consultant at ThoughtWorks for almost 14 years, he brings a balanced focus on people, organisations and technology to optimise the flow of software.

Emily Bache

Technical Agile Coach at Praqma

Emily Bache is an experienced Technical Agile Coach, Trainer, Software Developer and Architect, with a focus on Test Driven Development and automated testing in general. In her current role Emily helps teams with the technical side of Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. Emily Bache is an excellent programmer, particularly skilled with Python and Scala, but also Java, Ruby and C++.

Speaker’s workshop

Yariv Adan

Group Product Manager @ Google

For the past 12 years, Yariv has been leading products and product teams at Google. In his current role, he is leading the Zurich product team working on the Google Assistant. Prior to this role, Yariv worked on a wide range of products, including proprietary Google infrastructure, privacy and security, products designed for the Emerging Markets, and YouTube ads. 

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Engineering Manager at F-Secure

Maaret Pyhäjärvi is feedback fairy with a day job at F-Secure, where she works as Engineering Manager. She identifies as empirical technologist, tester and programmer, catalyst for improvement, author and speaker, and community facilitator and conference organizer. She was awarded as Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person 2016 and has spoken at events in 25 countries delivering close to 400 sessions.

Steve Smith

Continuous Delivery consultant at Continuous Delivery Consulting Ltd.

Steve Smith is a Continuous Delivery consultant at Continuous Delivery Consulting Ltd. Steve was an
early adopter of Continuous Delivery in 2007, and has overseen large scale Continuous Delivery
adoption programmes in private and public sector organisations.

Francesco Mondora

CEO, Benefit Maker and an optimist

Francesco is one of the founders of mondora.com. He has over 20 years of experience operating, assessing and improving IT functions, by
leveraging and building on good pratice, such as ITIL, TOGAF and ISO standards.

Alberta Soranzo

Transformation Design Director, at Lloyds Banking Group

Alberta is a firm believer that there’s always another way to look at a challenge and she has been hacking things to make them work better for humans since she was a child.

Alberta Soranzo is an incorrigible nomad, she has lived and worked in Italy and California and she is now based in London, UK.

Thiago de Faria

Head of Solutions Engineering at LINKIT

Thiago de Faria is the Head of Solutions Engineering at LINKIT, a knowledge-driven organization with IT experts supporting partners with a transparent path toward pain mitigation and solving business problems. Passionate about data, programming and the people behind it, he’s given many talks and workshops at conferences.

Glaudia Califano

Agile Adventurer

Glaudia started her technology career in 2005 and has worked with software and non-software development teams in various capacities, from facilitating training and workshops to getting deeply involved ‘in the trenches’ with teams.

Glaudia is passionate about helping organisations identify how value to the customer is delivered.

David Spinks

Agile Adventurer

David’s professional experience spans roles of; Agile Trainer, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Kanban Service Delivery Manager, Team Leader and Software Developer in a variety of industries, including finance, eCommerce, social housing and education.

Mike Burrows

Founder at Agendashift, Director at Positive Incline Ltd

Agendashift founder Mike Burrows is the author of Kanban from the Inside (2014) and Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2018); his third book Right to Left: the digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile is due in 2019.

Speaker’s workshop

Helin Ece Akgül

Software Engineer at TransferWise

Helin is a Software Engineer at TransferWise, where she works on large scale refactoring and Greenfield projects to scale the TransferWise platform and the business product.

Dimitris Andreadis

Director Of Engineering at Red Hat

Dimitris has 20 years of experience in IT and he is currently Director Of Engineering at Red Hat. He served as the JBoss AS project lead for several years and he has been a JBoss addict and contributor from the early start-up days. He worked previously at Intracom and Motorola in the areas of NMS/OSS, designing reusable frameworks and distributed systems.

Emma Sephton

Account Manager at ProdPad

Emma Sephton is Account Manager at ProdPad and loves talking with different organisations about their approach to Product Management. As a Project Manager turned Product Manager, she understands where the two disciplines can be complementary to each other and where they work best separate. Emma is also Founder and Co-organiser of ProductTank Oxford, a meetup group for all things product.

David Bogaerts

Agile & Lean coach at ING

David Bogaerts has been an Agile & Lean coach within ING since 2007. When ING started with the Agile & IT transformation 9 years ago, David was asked to join in.

This transformation started in 2010 with the introduction of agile/scrum, after which Continuous Delivery was introduced in 2012, DevOps in 2013 and BuzDevOps in 2016.