Jeff Gothelf,
Co-author of Sense and Respond, Lean UX and Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking

Fundamentally, we have to move away from “integrating processes”, and break Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking down into underlying principles that we can apply to the way we work. In this talk Jeff provides 10 principles that can help us change the way we work.

Dave Farley,
co-author of the Jolt-award winning book ‘Continuous Delivery’, Founder and director of Continuous Delivery Ltd

In recent years we have discovered what really works in software development. Not everyone practices approaches like Continuous Delivery, but it is widely seen as representing the current state-of-the-art in software development. This is because at its root CD is about the application of an iterative, practical, empirical, maybe even science based approach to solving problems in software development. Is this a form of software engineering? In this talk Dave will talk about what our “Engineering” discipline should entail.

Michael Galloway,
Senior Engineering Manager – Delivery Integrations

– Timeline / motivations
– How we got started and built momentum
– War stories along the way
– Where we are today, where we are headed

Ehud Shavit,

Software development team leader

In this session I will take you through my own personal journey in OptimalPlus as a team leader. I will share my experience of how to transform a team of individuals to a fully collaborated team, how to reduce micromanagement from your superior and which tools can assist us to preform knowledge sharing and increase collaboration. I’m going to share how we increased engagement and made an impact as a team on the organization.

Daniel Sternlicht,
Frontend Guild Master @Outbrain

Growing teams and organizations are usually facing the same problems: lack of knowledge sharing and collaboration between teams, missing standardization, cross-organization infrastructure – any of these sound familiar? Well, good news, you’re not alone! In this talk, we’ll discuss the issues growing teams are facing, how to solve them, what are the challenges of creating micro-communities such as guilds, forums, and professional groups in your organization, and what it actually takes.

Joakim Sundén
ex-Spotify Agile coach, Consultant, Author of Kanban in Action

“I would have killed that if it was just me, 100%,” said Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek about Discover Weekly, a feature that would become one of Spotify’s most loved product features, almost a brand in itself. Designers and senior engineers were equally skeptical, but the team was still able to ship the feature. In this talk, you’ll learn how Spotify’s organizational culture of Agile management and autonomous teams enables innovation, using the Discover Weekly feature as an example.

Michal Kimchi
Director of Program Management, RSA Fraud & Risk Intelligence @RSA

Liat Palace
Head of Agile and DevOps implementation @Amdocs

After many years of implementing Agile and DevOps in Amdocs we hit a glass ceiling, yet we did not feel the that we fully unleashed our organization potential. We felt that the our culture is not helping us with the changes, behaviors that worked for us in the past had become not relevant anymore. Those hidden behavior codes that instructed people behavior were like DNA blueprint. And in order to change and manipulate this DNA we started to investigate Genetic engineering. In this talk we will share with you what we have learnt and what you can do tomorrow in order to change your organizational culture…

Mike Burrows,
Mike Burrows, Founder, Agendashift; consultant, facilitator, coach, trainer, and author

If you had to describe an Agile process, where would you start: “from the left”, with a backlog of work to plough through, or “from the right”, with needs met by working software? And does the difference in perspective matter? The difference does indeed matter (a lot!); we’ll see that learning to describe and introduce Agile and its frameworks “from the right” brings considerable benefits. And it’s not hard – we can all do it!

Dr. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
Associate professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics at the Stern School of Business, New York University Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School

In this talk, Professor Lifshitz-Assaf will share her cutting edge research on how to organize for innovation across industries by leveraging the digital age to dismantle the organizational and professional knowledge boundaries. Her research reveals the secret sauce to such a transformation in the innovation process that took place at NASA.