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Delia McCabe
Neuroscientist, Author and Researcher. Speaker on Neuroscience, Psychology & Nutrition
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Jon Kern
Agile Wrangler Consultant at Adaptavist. Co-Author of the Agile Manifesto.
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Chet Hendrickson
Co-Creator of Extreme Programming (XP). First signatory of the Agile Manifesto.
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Mirko Kleiner
Founder, President at Lean-Agile Procurement Alliance, Trainer and Coach.
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Sonja Blignaut
Founder of More Beyond. Trainer in the Fields of Complexity & Cynefin framework.
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Miriam Schwarz
Senior VP Enterprise Agility Center of Excellence, Bank of the West and Chair of the SDLC
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Luxshan Ratnaravi
Co-creator of Comic Agilé. Enterprise Agile Coach and Speaker.
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Pete Behrens
Trainer, Founder and Leadership Coach at Agile Leadership Journey.
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GeePaw Hill
Master Software Development Coach and Extreme Programming (XP) expert
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James Shore
Agile Consultant and Coach; author of The Art of Agile Development; co-creator of Agile Fluency® Model.
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Mikkel Noe-Nygaard
UX Designer
Co-creator of Comic Agilé. Cartoonist and Speaker.
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Nigel Thurlow
Organizational design expert, Author and Speaker
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Sophie Durand
Agile Management Coach, Consultant and Workshop Design and Facilitation
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Paolo Sammicheli
Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker, Registered Scrum Trainer and Coach
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Philipp Engstler
Agile coach & trainer - RST - Leadership Guide
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Joshua Kerievsky
International Speaker CEO of Industrial Logic Inc and Software Developer
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Ivar Jacobson
International Speaker, CEO of Ivar Jacobson Intl, PhD in Computer Science
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Simon Girvan
Agile Coach and Consultant at Ivar Jacobson Intl.
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Etienne Salborn
Founder of SINA - Social Innovation Academy
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René Massatti
Co-founder, Director at PLAYROOM by Edding | Keynote Speaker | University Lecturer
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Joe Justice
Chair Of The Board Of Directors
at Agile Business Institute
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Fabricio Laguna
Senior Advisor at IIBA, Business Consultant, Teacher and Professional Speaker
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Brian Taylor
Principal Strategic Consultant at Chevron
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Peter Stevens
Creator of The Personal Agility System, Chief Agility Officer, Author, Keynote Speaker
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Get to know the CEO's

Andreas Holmer
Experience Designer, CEO at MAQE, Writer at WorkMatters
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John Abel
Technical Director, Office of the CTO at Google Cloud
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Mark Hoplamazian
President & CEO at Hyatt Hotels Corporation
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Hugo Lourenço
Founder of eXperience Agile, Agile Human Factors and The Agile Thinkers, Speaker
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Annika Steiber
Professor, Executive, Advisor, Author and Speaker. Expert in Management for the Digital Age. Executive Advisor in Tech.
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Curt Carlson
Author, Entrepreneur and University Professor
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Carlota Perez
Researcher, Lecturer, International Consultant and Professor
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Darrell Rigby
Author, Partner and Director at Bain & Company
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Hendrik Esser
Manager Special Projects at Ericsson
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Hunter Hastings
Economist, Entrepreneurial Advisor, Innovator and Executive Director, Center for Individualism
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Michael Lurie
Writer, Speaker and Partner at McKinsey & Company
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Rita McGrath
Author, Speaker, Strategic Advisor, and Professor at Columbia Business School
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Stephen Forte
Economist, Entrepreneurial Advisor, Innovator and Executive Director, Center for Individualism
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Behnam Tabrizi
Advisor to boards & C-suits, Author and University Professor
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Get to know our Workshop Speakers

Thomas Friend
Organizational design expert, Author and Speaker
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Carol McEwan
Organizational design expert, Author and Speaker
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Brian Rivera
Agile Coach and Consultant. Pilot in the US Navy and US Air Force
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Katie Taylor
Chair at the Agile Business Consortium, and lead developer of Learning Experience
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Peter Coesmans
Chief Agility Officer at the Agile Business Consortium, and Lead reviewer for the Agile Business Awards
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Bryan Beecham
Agile and HumanRefactor Consultant, International Speaker, Video Author of TDD, Refactoring, and Pair Programming
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Colm Diamond
Productivity & Org. Change Lead, Global Procurement at Roche
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Jérémy Bégot
Contract & Procurement Director at Enerkem
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Shannon Ewan
Managing Director at ICAgile
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Tim Cummins
President at World Commerce & Contracting; Professor (retd), Leeds University School of Law; Chair, International Commercial & Contract Management
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