Join us for the 2022 Hybrid Business Agility Conference
Join us for the 2022 Hybrid Business Agility Conference
Wednesday, March 23 – Thursday March 24
10:00 AM – 6:00PM
Virtually or In-Person
Times Square, New York
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The Best of Business Agility
The Art of the Possible
We bring the best Executive, Thought-Leader, and Practitioner speakers to NYC to share their experiences and insights with you. No tracks, just the best stories, concisely told in 20-minutes.
Facilitated Deep-Dives
Our world-class facilitators will guide you through a meaningful dialog with your peers. Take the time to share your stories, put forward your challenges, and learn from your peers.
Social Events
We are going to take advantage of the best that New York City has to offer. Meet new friends and connect with colleagues over a Broadway show on us.
Business Agility Conference
Day 1 Agenda (US Eastern Timezone)
| 8:30 AM — [NYC] Registration Opens |
| 9:00 AM — [NYC] Moments of Connection |
| 9:40 AM — [Virtual] Live from NYC! Stream |
| 10:00 AM — Welcome and Introduction |
| 10:30 AM — Executive Speakers 10:30 AM — Nadya Ichinomiya 10:30 AM — Sony’s Servant Leadership Journey 10:50 AM — Amjed Al-Zoubi & Pete Behrens 10:50 AM — Shaping Business Agility @ Amerisure 11:10 AM — Dr Ulrich Lagas 11:10 AM — Big Bang Theory meets LiDAR |
| 11:30 AM — Break |
| 11:45 AM — Interview with the Audience (Executive Panel) |
| 12:15 PM — [NYC] Facilitated Deep-Dive — 12:15 PM — [Virtual] Lightning Talks / Facilitated Deep-Dive |
| 1:00 PM — [NYC] Lunch — 1:00 PM — [Virtual] Lunch 1:30 PM — [Virtual] BAI Townhall |
| 2:00 PM — Practitioner Speakers 2:00 PM — Neil Fasen 2:00 PM — Resilience in the Face of Futility 2:20 PM — Barbara O'Conner 2:20 PM — Culture Hacking In Action 2:40 AM — Matt Spruce 2:40 AM — Agility in an Austere environment (Battlefield to Business Agility) |
| 3:00 PM — Break |
| 3:15 PM — Interview with the Audience (Practitioner Panel) |
| 3:45 PM — [NYC] Facilitated Deep-Dive — 3:45 AM — [Virtual] Lightning Talks / Facilitated Deep-Dive |
| 4:30 PM — Break |
| 4:45 PM — Thought-Leader Speakers 4:45 PM — Dr. Annika Steiber 4:45 PM — Leading Business Transformation in a Digital Age |
| 5:15 PM — Let's Change Behaviors! (a collaborative workshop) |
| 6:00 PM — Day 1 Close |
Day 2 Agenda (US Eastern Timezone)
| 8:30 AM — [NYC] Registration Continues |
| 9:40 AM — [Virtual] Live from NYC! Stream |
| 10:00 AM — Welcome and Introduction |
| 10:30 AM — Executive Speakers 10:30 AM — Margarita Yonova-Popova & Alize Hofmeester 10:30 AM — Humanize Business from the Soul of your Organization 10:50 AM — Leandro Gonzales 10:50 AM — The Power of Business Agility in Legal 11:10 AM — Pinar Kitapci 11:10 AM — Ancient Wisdom Shedding Light to a Culture of Growth |
| 11:30 AM — Break |
| 11:45 AM — Interview with the Audience (Executive Panel) |
| 12:15 AM — MBA Research Update |
| 12:20 PM — [NYC] Facilitated Deep-Dive — 12:20 PM — [Virtual] Lightning Talks / Facilitated Deep-Dive |
| 1:00 PM — [NYC] Lunch — 1:00 PM — [Virtual] Lunch 1:30 PM — [Virtual] Social Mixer |
| 2:00 PM — Practitioner Speakers 2:00 PM — Jason Yip 2:00 PM — The Top 3 Points You Should Have Paid Attention to in the Spotify Engineering Culture Videos 2:20 PM — Rocio Briceno 2:20 PM — The Way to Include Agile in Social Impact 2:40 AM — Chris Orson 2:40 AM — Making Agility Relevant |
| 3:00 PM — Break |
| 3:15 PM — Interview with the Audience (Practitioner Panel) |
| 3:45 PM — [NYC] Facilitated Deep-Dive — 3:45 AM — [Virtual] Lightning Talks / Facilitated Deep-Dive |
| 4:30 PM — Break |
| 4:45 PM — Thought-Leader Speakers 4:45 PM — Ryan Gottfredson 4:45 PM — The Four (Justifiable) Fears that Limit Value Creation 5:05 PM — Ondrej Dvorak 5:05 PM — Overcoming Barriers to Bring Agility to Lawyers |
| 5:25 AM — Interview with the Audience (Thought-Leader Panel) |
| 6:00 PM — Day 1 Close |
Confirmed Speakers
Amerisure Insurance
Amjed Al-Zoubi | Chief Information Officer
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Founded in 1912
United States
Since 1912, Amerisure has worked tirelessly to make America’s workplaces safer. Our expertise is providing business insurance solutions to the manufacturing, construction and healthcare industries.
https://www.amerisure.com/
United States
Since 1912, Amerisure has worked tirelessly to make America’s workplaces safer. Our expertise is providing business insurance solutions to the manufacturing, construction and healthcare industries.
https://www.amerisure.com/
Shaping Business Agility @ Amerisure
Amerisure, one of the nation’s leading commercial insurance providers, has been on a 3-year journey to shape their culture inside-out towards improved innovation, speed, and customer service. Their journey highlights the critical importance of involving top-level leaders not only in the discernment process, but in the ongoing engagement of the execution itself, especially as steps in the journey impacted every area of business including field marketing, risk management, claims, operations and more.
Amjed is a strategist and business leader with over 20 years of experience delivering results by bridging the business-technology gap. Amjed joined Amerisure in 2018 and currently serves as CIO with accountability for IT, Digital, Innovation, Business Agility, and the PMO.
Amerisure, one of the nation’s leading commercial insurance providers, has been on a 3-year journey to shape their culture inside-out towards improved innovation, speed, and customer service. Their journey highlights the critical importance of involving top-level leaders not only in the discernment process, but in the ongoing engagement of the execution itself, especially as steps in the journey impacted every area of business including field marketing, risk management, claims, operations and more.
Amjed is a strategist and business leader with over 20 years of experience delivering results by bridging the business-technology gap. Amjed joined Amerisure in 2018 and currently serves as CIO with accountability for IT, Digital, Innovation, Business Agility, and the PMO.
Agile Leadership Journey
Pete Behrens | Leadership Coach
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United States
We inspire, educate and catalyze leaders and their organizations to improve business performance amid complexity, uncertainty and rapid change.
http://agileleadershipjourney.com/
We inspire, educate and catalyze leaders and their organizations to improve business performance amid complexity, uncertainty and rapid change.
http://agileleadershipjourney.com/
Shaping Business Agility @ Amerisure
Amerisure, one of the nation’s leading commercial insurance providers, has been on a 3-year journey to shape their culture inside-out towards improved innovation, speed, and customer service. Their journey highlights the critical importance of involving top-level leaders not only in the discernment process, but in the ongoing engagement of the execution itself, especially as steps in the journey impacted every area of business including field marketing, risk management, claims, operations and more.
Pete Behrens develops leaders to transform themselves and their organizations to improve business outcomes. Pete is the founder of the Agile Leadership Journey, a collaborative community of leadership trainers and coaches.
Amerisure, one of the nation’s leading commercial insurance providers, has been on a 3-year journey to shape their culture inside-out towards improved innovation, speed, and customer service. Their journey highlights the critical importance of involving top-level leaders not only in the discernment process, but in the ongoing engagement of the execution itself, especially as steps in the journey impacted every area of business including field marketing, risk management, claims, operations and more.
Pete Behrens develops leaders to transform themselves and their organizations to improve business outcomes. Pete is the founder of the Agile Leadership Journey, a collaborative community of leadership trainers and coaches.
SiAgile Social Impact Agile
Rocío Briceño | Co-founder
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Founded in 2016
Washington DC, United States
SiAgile is focused real social results using agile in multilateral organizations, and the social organizations with digitalization journey.
https://www.rociobriceno.com
Washington DC, United States
SiAgile is focused real social results using agile in multilateral organizations, and the social organizations with digitalization journey.
https://www.rociobriceno.com
How to include agile in Social Impact
Real stories about the application of agile attitudes, mindset, frameworks, and methodologies in several social projects including on the water shortage in Tegucigalpa Honduras just before the covid19 started.
Rocío is the co-founder of SiAgile Social Impact Agile with Alistair Cockburn.
Real stories about the application of agile attitudes, mindset, frameworks, and methodologies in several social projects including on the water shortage in Tegucigalpa Honduras just before the covid19 started.
Rocío is the co-founder of SiAgile Social Impact Agile with Alistair Cockburn.
AgiLawyer
Ondrej Dvorak | CEO
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Founded in 2020
Prague, Czechia
To thrive in uncertainty, team up and harness your law firm with agility.
https://agilawyer.com/
Prague, Czechia
To thrive in uncertainty, team up and harness your law firm with agility.
https://agilawyer.com/
Overcoming barriers to bring agility to lawyers
Lawyers, attorneys, paralegals and others working in law firms are often in a rush, juggling constantly changing priorities, drowning in emails, calls and messages, while keeping track of their business activities with all their might. Ondrej will share his personal story of a law firm that gained the courage to experiment with Scrum to tackle these challenges. He will recount how this project garnered international recognition and brought agile disruption to the tradition-bound legal sector.
Ondrej is the CEO of AgiLawyer and COPS Financial Systems; promoting the needs of business agility in the legal and financial sectors.
Lawyers, attorneys, paralegals and others working in law firms are often in a rush, juggling constantly changing priorities, drowning in emails, calls and messages, while keeping track of their business activities with all their might. Ondrej will share his personal story of a law firm that gained the courage to experiment with Scrum to tackle these challenges. He will recount how this project garnered international recognition and brought agile disruption to the tradition-bound legal sector.
Ondrej is the CEO of AgiLawyer and COPS Financial Systems; promoting the needs of business agility in the legal and financial sectors.
Best Buy
Neil Fasen | Senior Director of Product Practices
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Founded in 1966
Minnesota, United States
At Best Buy, our purpose is to enrich lives through technology.
https://www.bestbuy.com
Minnesota, United States
At Best Buy, our purpose is to enrich lives through technology.
https://www.bestbuy.com
Resilience in the face of futility: How I’ve learned to stay positive and motivated as a change agent
Change is hard, and leading change can feel even harder. Many companies know enough to know they have to change, but often the environment can be negative if not outright hostile for the people who are invited in to lead the change. It can be a lonely and thankless position. In this talk, I explore practices and tactics that have helped me and other change agents stay positive, recognize progress, and maintain momentum in the face of what can often feel like utter futility.
Neil Fasen is change agent who helps Enterprises evolve to more effectively compete in today’s complex world. He is both an evangelist and practitioner of business agility and product management with many years of experience working in Fortune 50-100 companies.
Change is hard, and leading change can feel even harder. Many companies know enough to know they have to change, but often the environment can be negative if not outright hostile for the people who are invited in to lead the change. It can be a lonely and thankless position. In this talk, I explore practices and tactics that have helped me and other change agents stay positive, recognize progress, and maintain momentum in the face of what can often feel like utter futility.
Neil Fasen is change agent who helps Enterprises evolve to more effectively compete in today’s complex world. He is both an evangelist and practitioner of business agility and product management with many years of experience working in Fortune 50-100 companies.
Itaú Unibanco
Leandro Gonzales | Head of Legal
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Founded in 2008
São Paulo, Brazil
The largest bank in Latin America; their purpose is to stimulate people's power of transformation.
http://www.itau.com.br/
São Paulo, Brazil
The largest bank in Latin America; their purpose is to stimulate people's power of transformation.
http://www.itau.com.br/
The power of business agility in legalLeandro Gonzales will tell a story about a law firm within the largest bank in Brazil, which was facing a downward spiral, was mired in inefficiency, demotivation, low outcomes and long working days, and how, in response to these problems, he used the agile culture, the Scrum framework and a new strategic positioning from managers to achieve expressive outcomes like exponential productivity, cost reduction, a high degree of engagement of lawyers and unprecedented client satisfaction. He will also tell how, from the success of the agile law firm, business agility spread to many other areas and started a great agile integration project - the AdvOps.
Leandro is the creator of the 1st Agile Law Firm and a mentor of legal executives and lawyers who seek to understand and apply Business Agility.
Leandro is the creator of the 1st Agile Law Firm and a mentor of legal executives and lawyers who seek to understand and apply Business Agility.
Cal State - Fullerton
Ryan Gottfredson | Professor/Researcher
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California, United States
I work with organizations to vertically develop their leaders through a focus on the most foundational aspect of their BEing: their mindsets.
www.ryangottfredson.com
The Four (Justifiable) Fears that Limit Value Creation
There are four fears that commonly arise in organizations for well-intended reasons. But, these fears also hinder agility and value creation. In this talk, Ryan Gottfredson will clearly identify these four fears, explain why they exist, and how to overcome them at both a personal and corporate level so that we and our organizations can provide greater value for all stakeholders.
Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of “Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership.” He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.
There are four fears that commonly arise in organizations for well-intended reasons. But, these fears also hinder agility and value creation. In this talk, Ryan Gottfredson will clearly identify these four fears, explain why they exist, and how to overcome them at both a personal and corporate level so that we and our organizations can provide greater value for all stakeholders.
Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of “Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership.” He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.
Twinxter
Alize Hofmeester | Entrepreneur, author, speaker
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Founded in 2019
Amsterdam, Netherlands
We believe everyone wants to grow towards a happy and sustainable future for themselves and for the people around them.
http://www.twinxter.com/
Amsterdam, Netherlands
We believe everyone wants to grow towards a happy and sustainable future for themselves and for the people around them.
http://www.twinxter.com/
Humanize business from the soul of your organization
Alize Hofmeester is a successful purpose driven entrepreneur, author of the book Purpose Driven People, speaker, and creator of the People Journey Circle© and Business Agility Scan©. As a passionate People & Change Executive, Alize helps organisations to stay relevant to their customers, by reshaping their future way of working and facilitating a fresh, new growth-mindset that leads to companywide flow and business agility.
Alize Hofmeester is a successful purpose driven entrepreneur, author of the book Purpose Driven People, speaker, and creator of the People Journey Circle© and Business Agility Scan©. As a passionate People & Change Executive, Alize helps organisations to stay relevant to their customers, by reshaping their future way of working and facilitating a fresh, new growth-mindset that leads to companywide flow and business agility.
Sony Pictures
Nadya Ichinomiya | Exec Director, CFO Corporate Functions
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Founded in 1987
London, United Kingdom
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture and television production and distribution and more.
https://www.sonypictures.com
London, United Kingdom
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture and television production and distribution and more.
https://www.sonypictures.com
Sony’s Servant Leadership Journey – From Adversity to Advantage
At Sony Pictures we first began our Servant Leadership journey a few months into the global pandemic. Since then, this way of leading has been avidly adopted in the firm. To accomplish this, we developed a deeply engaging 2-hour course on servant leadership, and over 15% of the company has taken it. More importantly, hundreds of graduates went on to enroll in our innovative 10-month follow on cohort program. This grass-roots movement went global, jumping over to sister company Sony PlayStation. Learn how the journey started, why we created the course and cohort program, and how the pandemic accelerated the program.
Nadya plays a catalytic role in inspiring Agile mindsets & practices in teams, leaders, and execs.
At Sony Pictures we first began our Servant Leadership journey a few months into the global pandemic. Since then, this way of leading has been avidly adopted in the firm. To accomplish this, we developed a deeply engaging 2-hour course on servant leadership, and over 15% of the company has taken it. More importantly, hundreds of graduates went on to enroll in our innovative 10-month follow on cohort program. This grass-roots movement went global, jumping over to sister company Sony PlayStation. Learn how the journey started, why we created the course and cohort program, and how the pandemic accelerated the program.
Nadya plays a catalytic role in inspiring Agile mindsets & practices in teams, leaders, and execs.
Koçfinans
Pınar Kitapçı | CEO
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Founded in 1995
Istanbul, Turkey
Koçfinans is Turkey’s first financing company, which was established in 1995 and consisting of expert staff, innovative structure and dynamic processes.
http://www.kocfinans.com.tr/
Istanbul, Turkey
Koçfinans is Turkey’s first financing company, which was established in 1995 and consisting of expert staff, innovative structure and dynamic processes.
http://www.kocfinans.com.tr/
Ancient wisdom shedding light to a culture of growth
A business leader shares experience on overcoming challenges of change and building a growth culture. The talk unfolds around moving in the rhythm of change, the value in coherence, leveraging logic with empathy and openness, accompanied by wisdom from a 13th century mystic poet.
Yesim Pınar Kitapçı is the CEO and Board Member of Koçfinans, a pioneering financial services company in Turkey, specialised in consumer and SME lending. Pinar is an agile enthusiast, leading Kocfinans as a lighthouse to inspire other Koc Holding companies on their way to business agility. In addition, she holds 3 board membership positions in Turkey and is an AMP alumna of Harvard Business School.
A business leader shares experience on overcoming challenges of change and building a growth culture. The talk unfolds around moving in the rhythm of change, the value in coherence, leveraging logic with empathy and openness, accompanied by wisdom from a 13th century mystic poet.
Yesim Pınar Kitapçı is the CEO and Board Member of Koçfinans, a pioneering financial services company in Turkey, specialised in consumer and SME lending. Pinar is an agile enthusiast, leading Kocfinans as a lighthouse to inspire other Koc Holding companies on their way to business agility. In addition, she holds 3 board membership positions in Turkey and is an AMP alumna of Harvard Business School.
IBEO Automotive
Dr. Ulrich Lages | Chief Executive Officer
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Founded in 1998
Hamburg, Germany
Ibeo is a worldwide technology leader in the field of LiDAR sensors (acronym for Light Detection and Ranging), associated products, and software tools. It is Ibeo’s goal to reinvent mobility by enabling cars to become cooperative partners in public transportation, thus making transportation safer.
http://www.ibeo-as.com/
Hamburg, Germany
Ibeo is a worldwide technology leader in the field of LiDAR sensors (acronym for Light Detection and Ranging), associated products, and software tools. It is Ibeo’s goal to reinvent mobility by enabling cars to become cooperative partners in public transportation, thus making transportation safer.
http://www.ibeo-as.com/
Big Bang Theory meets LiDAR - transforming society
Change management and stories thereof are not new. Most change management efforts fail over time. At Ibeo a new approach was followed: the change was initiated fast, unexpectedly, and with no option of going back by disrupting the previously in place system altogether within one minute to the next. All of this happened May 9th, 2019. Our very own Big Bang. This is the art of the possible.
Ulrich started his officer career at the German armed forces. He studied mechanical engineering and did his PhD on active collision avoiding in autonomous vehicles at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany and his Executive MBA in Maryland. In 1998 he founded Ibeo Automotive and has been the CEO ever since.
Change management and stories thereof are not new. Most change management efforts fail over time. At Ibeo a new approach was followed: the change was initiated fast, unexpectedly, and with no option of going back by disrupting the previously in place system altogether within one minute to the next. All of this happened May 9th, 2019. Our very own Big Bang. This is the art of the possible.
Ulrich started his officer career at the German armed forces. He studied mechanical engineering and did his PhD on active collision avoiding in autonomous vehicles at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany and his Executive MBA in Maryland. In 1998 he founded Ibeo Automotive and has been the CEO ever since.
Business Agility Institute
Evan Leybourn | Cofounder
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Founded in 2017
CA, United States
The Business Agility Institute is a fiercely independent research & advocacy organization for the next generation of companies.
https://businessagility.institute/
CA, United States
The Business Agility Institute is a fiercely independent research & advocacy organization for the next generation of companies.
https://businessagility.institute/
The Shape of Agility
No matter what the future brings. These 6 words are the heart of agility - but they are also an invitation. Does your organization have the freedom, flexibility, and resilience to achieve its purpose - no matter what the future brings?
Together, we will explore these behaviors to better understand the characteristics of an agile organisation.
No matter what the future brings. These 6 words are the heart of agility - but they are also an invitation. Does your organization have the freedom, flexibility, and resilience to achieve its purpose - no matter what the future brings?
Together, we will explore these behaviors to better understand the characteristics of an agile organisation.
Unum
Barbara O'Connor | Director, Enterprise Agile Office
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Founded in 1848
Tennessee, United States
A Fortune 500 company, Unum helps millions of people gain affordable access to disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision benefits through the workplace.
https://www.unum.com/
Tennessee, United States
A Fortune 500 company, Unum helps millions of people gain affordable access to disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision benefits through the workplace.
https://www.unum.com/
Culture Hacking In Action
Change follows action, and while that’s easier said than done, I’ll be sharing a “Culture Hacking” approach that you can take away and put into action. From where to start, how to start, and tips to navigate (all that troublesome) noise, we’ll look at one of our latest Culture Hacking experiences.
Barbara is a Business Agility Transformation leader who simplifies complex change with an action-orientated focus on realizing business outcomes. With 20 years of experience across the Pharmaceutical, Insurance, Education, Public Health, and Energy industries, she is known for operationalizing leadership strategy through a special blend of terminology, organization design and operating models integration.
Change follows action, and while that’s easier said than done, I’ll be sharing a “Culture Hacking” approach that you can take away and put into action. From where to start, how to start, and tips to navigate (all that troublesome) noise, we’ll look at one of our latest Culture Hacking experiences.
Barbara is a Business Agility Transformation leader who simplifies complex change with an action-orientated focus on realizing business outcomes. With 20 years of experience across the Pharmaceutical, Insurance, Education, Public Health, and Energy industries, she is known for operationalizing leadership strategy through a special blend of terminology, organization design and operating models integration.
HSBC
Chris Orson | Director
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Founded in 1865
London, United Kingdom
A British multinational financial services firm and the second largest bank in Europe.
https://www.hsbc.com/
London, United Kingdom
A British multinational financial services firm and the second largest bank in Europe.
https://www.hsbc.com/
Making agility relevant
Securities Services is in the midst of a Ways of Working transformation. Routed in the devops and agile transformation that started within technology, Securities Services has now established a business led practice to bring this to life as part of an end to end journey. Making agile relevant for our business, our clients and our staff is a cornerstone outcome for the team, and this talk explores how this is being achieved within a very large multi-national organisation.
Chris is the head of Ways of Working for Securities Services, a business unit part of Markets and Securities Services within HSBC. Chris has been in the financial services world for the last 18 years, and has covered roles within Technology, Operations and Change Management.
Securities Services is in the midst of a Ways of Working transformation. Routed in the devops and agile transformation that started within technology, Securities Services has now established a business led practice to bring this to life as part of an end to end journey. Making agile relevant for our business, our clients and our staff is a cornerstone outcome for the team, and this talk explores how this is being achieved within a very large multi-national organisation.
Chris is the head of Ways of Working for Securities Services, a business unit part of Markets and Securities Services within HSBC. Chris has been in the financial services world for the last 18 years, and has covered roles within Technology, Operations and Change Management.
Business Agility Institute
Ahmed Sidky | Cofounder
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Founded in 2017
CA, United States
The Business Agility Institute is a fiercely independent research & advocacy organization for the next generation of companies.
https://businessagility.institute/
CA, United States
The Business Agility Institute is a fiercely independent research & advocacy organization for the next generation of companies.
https://businessagility.institute/
The Shape of Agility
No matter what the future brings. These 6 words are the heart of agility - but they are also an invitation. Does your organization have the freedom, flexibility, and resilience to achieve its purpose - no matter what the future brings?
Together, we will explore these behaviors to better understand the characteristics of an agile organisation.
No matter what the future brings. These 6 words are the heart of agility - but they are also an invitation. Does your organization have the freedom, flexibility, and resilience to achieve its purpose - no matter what the future brings?
Together, we will explore these behaviors to better understand the characteristics of an agile organisation.
Capgemini (ex British Army)
Matt Spruce
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Agility in an Austere environment (Battlefield to Business Agility)
From humble beginnings as a medic in a small unit, right through to becoming the senior advisor at a deployable field hospital, the priority is the “man on the stretcher”. The patient represents a common goal, it brings the team together, pushing in the same direction to save life. There are not many situations where the pressure higher. As I have progressed through the ranks, I have ensured that I have served my team, removing impediments to allow them to flourish and deliver excellence. Giving not only ownership of the end goal, but also ownership of the process to achieve that goal has been key to my success within the military.
Matt is a Professionally Qualified Agile Delivery coach with extensive leadership experience from a successful 23-year career.
From humble beginnings as a medic in a small unit, right through to becoming the senior advisor at a deployable field hospital, the priority is the “man on the stretcher”. The patient represents a common goal, it brings the team together, pushing in the same direction to save life. There are not many situations where the pressure higher. As I have progressed through the ranks, I have ensured that I have served my team, removing impediments to allow them to flourish and deliver excellence. Giving not only ownership of the end goal, but also ownership of the process to achieve that goal has been key to my success within the military.
Matt is a Professionally Qualified Agile Delivery coach with extensive leadership experience from a successful 23-year career.
Rendanheyi Center, Menlo College
Dr. Annika Steiber | Director
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Founded in 1927
California, United States
Menlo College cultivates in its students the skills, integrity, and passion to make meaningful contributions in an innovation economy.
https://www.menlo.edu
California, United States
Menlo College cultivates in its students the skills, integrity, and passion to make meaningful contributions in an innovation economy.
https://www.menlo.edu
Annika will present on her experiences with how Chinese management principles, based on agility philosophy, has been applied in the transformation of an over 100-year-old American company. In 2016, Haier acquired GE Appliances, a proud American company that was once a flagship division of the General Electric Company. After Haier’s acquisition, all of GEA became a proving ground for the introduction and ongoing refinement of the Chinese RenDanHeyi model. This unique story is told here in comprehensive form. Ingrained with the story are lessons for managers who may wish to transform their whole companies and instead of adding new processes and practices, implement a whole new management system for agility and innovation.
Dr. Annika Steiber is a Professor, Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Founder, Investor and the Director of the Rendanheyi Silicon Valley Center.
Dr. Annika Steiber is a Professor, Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Founder, Investor and the Director of the Rendanheyi Silicon Valley Center.
Spotify
Jason Yip | Staff Agile Coach
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Founded in 2006
Stockholm, Sweden
Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets.
https://www.spotify.com/
Stockholm, Sweden
Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets.
https://www.spotify.com/
The top 3 points you should have paid attention to in the Spotify Engineering Culture videos that aren't Squads, Chapters, Tribes, Guilds
When people say “Spotify Model” they’re almost always thinking about org structure (Squads, Chapters, Guilds, Tribes). Structure is the last thing you should worry about. Before structure, I’ll expand on what you should have been paying attention to.
Jason is a Staff Agile Coach at Spotify based in NYC since early 2015. Previously he was a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, primarily based in Sydney since early 2001. He first encountered Extreme Programming in 1999 from XProgramming.com, comp.object, comp.software-eng, and the Portland Pattern Repository (aka Ward's wiki) (aka c2.com). These days he mostly posts to Twitter and his Medium blog.
When people say “Spotify Model” they’re almost always thinking about org structure (Squads, Chapters, Guilds, Tribes). Structure is the last thing you should worry about. Before structure, I’ll expand on what you should have been paying attention to.
Jason is a Staff Agile Coach at Spotify based in NYC since early 2015. Previously he was a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, primarily based in Sydney since early 2001. He first encountered Extreme Programming in 1999 from XProgramming.com, comp.object, comp.software-eng, and the Portland Pattern Repository (aka Ward's wiki) (aka c2.com). These days he mostly posts to Twitter and his Medium blog.
Erste Group Bank
Margarita Yonova-Popova | People & Culture Transformation Lead
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Founded in 1819
Vienna, Austria
Founded as “Erste oesterreichische Spar-Casse” in 1819, we are now one of the leading financial institutes in Central and Eastern Europe.
http://www.erstegroup.com/
Vienna, Austria
Founded as “Erste oesterreichische Spar-Casse” in 1819, we are now one of the leading financial institutes in Central and Eastern Europe.
http://www.erstegroup.com/
Humanize business from the soul of your organization
In her role, Margarita has a strong focus on people, culture, and leadership. Her expertise is in the reshape and implementation of adaptive organizational cultures and structures through collective input (crowdsourcing) and agile methods. Margarita is co-founder of the Agile Hub at Erste Group as a community of practice to support teams on their agile journey and to raise awareness about agile across the organization. Margarita is a strong believer that behind every successful organization there are great people with strong capabilities, courage and innovative mind. Therefore, she sees her purpose as a People & Culture Transformation Lead in enabling a healthy organizational culture for people to grow, co-create and collaborate in a better way. As part of that, she is passionate to contribute to the evolution of the HR function towards agile practices and mindset.
In her role, Margarita has a strong focus on people, culture, and leadership. Her expertise is in the reshape and implementation of adaptive organizational cultures and structures through collective input (crowdsourcing) and agile methods. Margarita is co-founder of the Agile Hub at Erste Group as a community of practice to support teams on their agile journey and to raise awareness about agile across the organization. Margarita is a strong believer that behind every successful organization there are great people with strong capabilities, courage and innovative mind. Therefore, she sees her purpose as a People & Culture Transformation Lead in enabling a healthy organizational culture for people to grow, co-create and collaborate in a better way. As part of that, she is passionate to contribute to the evolution of the HR function towards agile practices and mindset.
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Business Agility can revolutionize your organization. In our world today, modern enterprises live or die on their ability to adapt. Agile can help organizations to encourage innovation, reduce costs, and remain relevant in a changing world. There is no question as to the value of an agile transformation.
The Business Agility Conference will bring together seasoned practitioners of business agility who have walked the path to greater innovation and thrived along the way. Practitioners, executives, and thought leaders will share their insights through short “lightning” talks throughout each day. You’ll get the chance to discuss what you’re learning, share insights, and brainstorm with others in your region through “deep dive” discussion groups. Finally, you’ll enjoy expanding your local and international network, forging new connections that bring a newfound energy to your agile journey.
Most importantly? You’ll discover you are not alone on the journey.