We’re very excited to announce our four keynote speakers for AgileNZ Conference 2015 – international thought leaders, authors, mentors and speakers. Introducing President/Co-founder of ICAgile Ahmed Sidky, Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd of the Agile Coaching Institute in the US and Lynne Cazaly from Australia, whose work is focused on change leadership, team engagement and communication and project communication and collaboration…
A speaker, author and mentor, Lynne works with leaders, projects and teams on major change and transformation projects, including with Agile and UX teams. Her work is focused on change leadership, team engagement and communication and project communication and collaboration. A master facilitator and trainer of facilitators and visual practitioners, she is a mentor on the Faculty of Thought Leaders Business School.
Co-founders of the Agile Coaching Institute which provides a rich programme of training, mentoring and thought leadership, Lyssa and Michael help take the world of Agile coaching to a new level of potential and professional rigour.
We've had two days of outstanding talks and non-stop conversation – on the floor, across social media and well beyond these shores. Over 1500 super intelligent tweets helped promote and spread new thinking and ideas about improving software delivery.
Following our call last week for Lightning Talk submissions for the 4.30-5.30pm session in the Angus Room on Wednesday, here’s the line-up. Eight talks, each five minutes max… and yes, one speaker does only have one slide!
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.