Speakers
Dave Thomas
Dave Thomas is the Founder and Chairman of Bedarra Research Labs (BRL), which specializes in emerging software technologies and practices. BRL enables clients rapidly deploy innovative solutions using the latest practices and technologies. Dave is a popular, humorous, albeit opinionated international keynote speaker with an impressive breadth of business experience and technical depth. With a [...]
Dave West
Dave West is the Chief Product Officer at Tasktop. In this capacity, he engages with customers and partners to drive Tasktop’s product roadmap and market positioning. As a member of the company’s executive management team, he also is instrumental in building Tasktop into a transformative business that is driving major improvements in the software industry. [...]
Harrison Owen
Harrison Owen has worked on virtually every continent with organizations ranging from small villages to large corporations and NGOs. His major concern has been to assist organizations as they negotiate a transforming world. In some cases his role has been little more than holding the hands of the anxious. In other situations his function was more [...]
Stanley Pollack
Stanley Pollack is the author “Moving Beyond Icebreakers” an innovative approach to group facilitation, learning and action. He began his career in the early 1970’s working with juvenile offenders in Trenton, NJ. From 1973 to 1982, as a youth worker and later as director of the Mayor’s Office of Youth Services in Somerville, MA, he [...]
Richard Sheridan
From kid programmer in 1971 to Forbes cover boy in 2003, “outlier” Richard Sheridan (U-M grad BS Computer Science ’80, MS Computer Engineering ’82) has never shied from challenges, opportunities nor the limelight. While his focus has always been around technology, his passion is actually process, teamwork and organizational design, with one inordinately popular goal: [...]
Don McGreal
In his role as VP of Learning Solutions at Improving Enterprises , Don McGreal is a hands–on agile consultant and instructor. As a consultant and certified scrum professional, he has fulfilled whatever role is most needed: developer, business analyst, scrum master, and process coach. As an instructor and certified scrum trainer with Scrum.org , he has authored and taught [...]
Organizer: Jochen (Joe) Krebs
Jochen (Joe) Krebs (@jochenkrebs) is an agile coach, trainer, consultant and practitioner. Joe started Agile NYC in 2007 with the goal to create a community of agile professionals in NYC who have a platform to learn from each other. Since then, Agile NYC steadily grew to approximately 1,500 professionals interested in agile in the tri-state area alone. Joe [...]
Organizer: Matt Ganis
Matthew Ganis is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and ibm.com site architect. Matt was was co-founder of the Agile@IBM Community and was an early adopter of agile within IBM. He currently teaches Disciplined Agile Development and has published numerous articles and papers on the use of agile methods within ibm.com both within its traditional web [...]
Organizer: Belkis Vasquez-McCall
Important to Know about Belkis: ▪ Has over 14 years of IT experience ▪ Part of a globally distributed application development team ▪ Spent past 6+ years leading and coaching project teams ▪ Collaborated with other Agile experts on defining the Product Owner role Belkis’ philosophy: 1. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people don’t dare.
Ellen Grove
Ellen Grove is an Agile coach who helps teams do better work through coaching them to create the circumstances in which they can work most productively and effectively. Her Agile coaching practice is founded in over 10 years experience leading software testing, development and implementation teams in global enterprises, a passion for exploratory software testing [...]
Peter Bell
Peter Bell is Senior VP Engineering and Senior Fellow at General Assembly. He has presented at a range of conferences including DLD conference, ooPSLA, RubyNation, SpringOne2GX, Code Generation, Practical Product Lines, the BCS Software Practices Advancement conference, DevNexus, UberConf, the Rich Web Experience and the No Fluff Just Stuff Enterprise Java tour. He has been [...]
Angela Druckman
Angela Druckman is an agile coach and Certified Scrum Trainer. She specializes in Agile Transformation, helping teams and organizations all over the world improve their competitive position and effectiveness through agility. Whether working with tiny start-ups or Fortune 100 companies, Angela’s experience and guidance have helped her clients achieve extraordinary and measurable success with their [...]
Ilio Krumins-Beens
Ilio Krumins-Beens is an agile practitioner and coach with over 15 years working with teams to build software and web applications. He has spent the last eight years working with teams to roll out Scrum and Scrum-ban practices. Currently, the Executive Director of Agile Practices, at Kaplan Test Prep, Ilio is responsible for the transformation [...]
Mariya Breyter
Mariya Breyter, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSP is an IT management and project management professional with over ten-year experience ranging from government jobs to versatile corporate experience in media and education, including managing large teams on multimillion-dollar projects. She is a passionate agilist and an active member of New York City agile community. Mariya is also [...]
Andrew Burrows
Andrew has worked in video game development for over 12 years, during which time he has shipped titles on numerous titles, including The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Transformers: The Movie and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. For the past 5 years, Andrew has been working at Large Animal [...]
D. André Dhondt
For over a decade, André has led agile adoptions, providing guidance to teams and organizations seeking shorter development cycles, higher quality, and more effective discovery of customer value. Playing various roles, from developer, manager, product owner and scrum master, he’s done everything from hiring and building teams in startup environments to coaching teams for an organization [...]
Heang Ly
Heang Ly has over Thirteen years of experience leading both youth and adult groups in a variety of settings. She has organized and led teams in schools, non-profits, community groups, and universities. As Director of Consulting and Training at The Center for Teen Empowerment, Heang provides trainings as well as short term and long term technical support [...]
Organizer: Sweta Mistry
Sweta is a Certified Scrum Master, Coach, Agile enthusiast and a consultant with over 13 years of Project Management and Software Development Life Cycle experience – successfully taking products from inception to completion. Over her career, Sweta has taken on many waterfall roles as a Developer, Project Manager, and Business Analyst in various industries including, [...]
Hyde Park
Between 2.00pm and 4pm, we will practice self-organization within the track self-organization. During the 2 hours segment, we will create a forum for self-expression similar to the Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park in London. Because there is no stage or defined speaker area other than a soap-box speakers stand on, we will run this session in the [...]
Jordan Houbanov
Jordan is an experienced Agile coach and team member. Although his current title contains a few sought after corporate buzz words, he considers his current role as a coach of coaches. He enjoys the daily challenges of leading 9 highly distributed development teams while putting up with the politics that come with the territory. In [...]