Update – 23 August 2016: Announcing our full keynote line-up! Our final two speakers are now confirmed as Kaila Colbin and Scrum.org's Dave West...
This year, we're offering you a great value Master Class bundle of the option of one of two two-day courses by one of our keynote speakers – PLUS a ticket for AgileNZ Conference – at $2600 (+GST).
We're excited to announce that we'll be broadcasting live interviews with speakers and delegates at Conference this year. You can 'tune in' to AgileNZ TV Live on your mobile device by downloading the Periscope App from your App Store.Once you've got the app, just follow @AgileNZConf. You'll be notified about every broadcast as soon as it starts. Just tap the app to view, comment and send 'hearts' in real time if you like what the interviewee is saying. The more hearts received, the higher they flutter on the screen.AgileNZ TV Live's interviewer is Adam Howard, a Senior Test Consultant at Assurity and a man who's passionate about innovating in the testing space and beyond. Who better to ask testing (ahem!) questions therefore of folks living in the Agile universe. 'AgileNZ TV Live' is brought to you by our Title Sponsor Assurity. It's gonna be fun!
One of my personal missions is to help people shift their traditional, predictive mindset to an adaptive one that can better cope with our complex, modern world. New ways of thinking, leading and working are vital for NZ to lift its productivity and quality of life. So I’m incredibly proud and excited to announce that we’re bringing four world leaders to New Zealand to help improve agility in NZ.
Ahmed Sidky (aka ‘Doctor Agile’) is a well-known thought leader in the Agile community. He is currently the Director of Development Management for Riot Games and, before that, was an Agile transformation coach and consultant for Fortune 100 companies. He is the co-author of Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World and the President and co-founder of ICAgile. Ahmed was selected as the programme chair for the Agile 2009 conference and has been an invited speaker at many Agile conferences around the world speaking on topics such as the Agile mindset, how to create Lean, high-performing habits within teams and how to transform organisations in a manner that achieves sustainable organisational agility.
Assurity is a delivery consultancy for the Digital Age. Today’s customers expect relevant, quality technology to be delivered fast and frequently and they want to be delighted by new innovation too. We help clients achieve those goals by developing new ways of working inside their organisations based on the best digital thinking, practices, education and technologies. Our services include Design Thinking, User Research, Crowd Sourcing, Lean Business Analysis, Agile, Better Testing, DevOps plus a full education-by-practitioners programme and partnerships with major technology suppliers. We can help you meet today’s biggest digital challenges – focussing on the user, creating the right structures, environments, culture and practices to allow self-organising, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver the technologies your customers need.
Revera is regarded as New Zealand’s cloud services leader. Revera has developed the next generation of cloud services and command-and-control functions to automate the provision and scaling of hybrid cloud services. They are rewiring New Zealand for the new era of always on, super-connected business, optimising their services to be code driven, enabling New Zealand developers to unleash their potential and build the homegrown digital economy.
Scrum.org, the Home of Scrum, provides comprehensive training, certifications and advances in Scrum. Throughout the world, our solutions and community of Professional Scrum Trainers empower people and organisations to achieve agility. Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, founded Scrum.org in 2009 as a global organisation, dedicating himself to helping organisation improve.
CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business, from apparel to energy, is being rewritten by software. From Agile transformation consulting and coaching to cutting-edge solutions purpose-built to scale across the enterprise, we give you the tools and techniques you need to drive innovation and maximise investment at every turn and achieve your business goals at startup speed.
Founded in 2010, ICAgile is a leading global Agile accreditation and certification body that helps organisations design learning experiences that cultivate an Agile mindset and enable sustainable organisational agility. ICAgile provides world-class learning tracks to guide organisations in the development of their curriculum. ICAgile’s approach gives people the flexibility to blend flavours in a way that make sense for their reality.
Ricoh empowers digital workplaces by utilising innovative technologies and solutions to make our customers businesses work faster, smarter and leaner. An industry-leading range of devices, software and managed services including business projectors, video conferencing systems and interactive flat panels combine to deliver meeting room solutions for business, as well as positive learning environments for education.
Zen Ex Machina (ZXM) help organisations to change the way they approach knowledge work, regardless of whether it's building software or delivering face-to-face services. They focus on coaching executives, managers and their teams through the behavioural and cultural transformation that's required to effectively, and efficiently, take a digital-first approach underpinned by an Agile mindset and established Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Lean and Kanban through to NEXUS, LeSS and SAFe.
Assurity is a delivery consultancy for the Digital Age. Today’s customers expect relevant, quality technology to be delivered fast and frequently and they want to be delighted by new innovation too. We help clients achieve those goals by developing new ways of working inside their organisations based on the best digital thinking, practices, education and technologies. Our services include Design Thinking, User Research, Crowd Sourcing, Lean Business Analysis, Agile, Better Testing, DevOps plus a full education-by-practitioners programme and partnerships with major technology suppliers. We can help you meet today’s biggest digital challenges – focusing on the user, creating the right structures, environments, culture and practices to allow self-organising, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver the technologies your customers need.