Agenda
Wednesday 22 March
1pm – 1.20pm GMT
Welcome and Introduction to the Framework for Business Agility
Welcome and Introduction to the Framework for Business Agility
Opening and close
Peter Coesmans
Peter has been involved in agile working and its predecessors since 1997. He has helped to forward professionals in agility (co-authoring Agile Portfolio Management), project/programme/portfolio management (co-authoring IPMA’s ICB4 standard), and facilitation (setting up the international CPF assessment for IAF international). Peter often gets the opportunity to speak at professional conferences worldwide, on a myriad of topics. He is always looking for sustainable improvements and believes true change is brought forward in small steps, through learning and experimenting, and by collaborating with people with a common goal.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/petercoesmans/
Agile Business Consortium
The Agile Business Consortium is the professional body for business agility. We’re all about community – whether you’re a multinational working through a large-scale transformation, a new start-up, or a contractor, we can support you to achieve more, to grow more, and to build your business agility. As a global not-for-profit organisation that’s been around for over 25 years, our knowledge and experience around agile competencies and behaviours can offer you the guidance you need to reach your agility goals. Together with our partners, we create and share agile research, case studies, resources and tools that help you compete in today’s uncertain world. A registered not-for-profit, we’re the world’s longest-standing agile-orientated organisation. We’re the brains behind AgilePM®, AgileBA®, AgilePgM®, AgilePfM™ and AgileDS™. Based in the UK, we have members in over 30 countries around the world.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- +44 01233611162
- Twitter:
- @Agile_Biz
- Website:
- agilebusiness.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/company/agile-business-consortium
1.25pm – 1.55pm GMT
Bold.group - Change the game: Bold. group's transformation into an Agile Marketing Agency!
Bold.group - Change the game: Bold. group's transformation into an Agile Marketing Agency!
Business Agility
Rok Zajc, CEO of Bold.group, will reveal an ambitious agile transformation that has revolutionized company culture and project management for greater efficiency and customer success.
Rok Zajc
Rok Zajc is CEO and co-founder of Bold.group marketing agency. Before that, he was a Marketing manager with 5 years of experience in branding and marketing strategies for the Slovenian and EX-YU markets (Balkan region). His passion is a sports marketing and athlete branding. This is not surprising, because he is a passionate athlete and his biggest wish is to complete the Iron Man before the age of 40. He admires passionate people from whom he can learn and expand his horizons, and he really doesn't like seafood.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.boldgroup.si
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/rokzajc/
Bold.group
Bold.group is a marketing agency based in Slovenia and Croatia and is right now penetrating markets such as Serbia and Bulgaria (EX-YU). Right now, we are a team of 29 experts who complement each other extremely well in cross-functional network of autonomous customer-facing teams, where everyone "plays" their role in several different teams. We are specialized in digital creative approaches and the integration of online and offline marketing activities to achieve the most effective results for our clients. 360 degrees approach with a local touch in EX-YU countries has made Bold.group one of the most prominent fast-growing marketing agencies based in Slovenia.
We are very proud in digital & growth marketing, event management, offline marketing activities and social media like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and especially TikTok.
We are a marketing agency working in a fully agile way. Furthermore, we have been implementing agile into our company since March 2022 and we are proud to say that working in an agile way, based on agile methodology and manifesto, has become the core of our company.
- Website:
- www.boldgroup.si
2pm – 2.30pm GMT
bp - From Ambition to Action
bp - From Ambition to Action
Business Agility
Since 2020, bp has been on a journey to reimagine energy and reinvent the company, in line with its net zero and growth ambitions. Applied sciences is the home of leading scientists who harness innovation and deliver technology solutions to support bp’s transition to net zero.
Although not initially expected to substantially adopt agile ways of working, it self-organized into an Agile Transformation Unit to discover how the agile principles and practices might best be used in an R&D context. Despite early challenges, it is now recognised in the organisation as a successful agile operating model leading to higher levels of ownership and empowerment to manage the challenges in the journey ahead.
It is a story of passion, belief and courage that enabled 20 ATU members to influence 700 + people in the division to change their ways of working.
Ady Dike
Ady is transformation expert with 20 years across sectors - in start-ups and blue chips and is currently working as a Entreprise and Leadership Coach with bp.
She has over a decade’s experience leading Agile teams, the last 3-4 years, of which has been predominantly focused on coaching Entreprise and leadership agility
She is a certified leadership and entreprise coach who has been coaching leaders C-suite and leadership teams since 2018 and holds the following certifications – ICP-Ent, ICP-CAT, ICF PCC, A-CSPO and Leadership Agility
She has a background in Delivery of organisational change, Digital, Data and Lean and Agile transformations spanning a couple of decades.
She believes transformations should be tailored to the business context rather than cookie cut and enjoys helping senior leaders to do this by crafting compelling visions, and defining and implementing iterative agile operating model and evolutionary transformation journeys
She is particularly skilled at one on one and team professional coaching, facilitating design thinking and strategic workshops with senior leaders, and delivering leadership agility coaching and training
Ady has two adult children and In her spare time, she enjoys keeping fit, travelling and spending time with her family
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/ady-dike
Arlene Rebello
Arlene is an expert Technologist and Agile Coach. She has been fortunate to spend 20 years in the oil and petrochemical industry and within this time, to have experienced a range of technical and commercial roles, different project management and communication techniques and styles, in pursuit of delivering customer value.
When she was introduced to the concept of agile in 2020, through in-house training, it just made sense to her. It took the best parts of what she had experienced in the Oil and Gas industry and brought them together.
She knew then that she wanted to be a proponent of this style of working and since then, has been fortunate to be able to develop her knowledge and experience in this space. As an ICP-ATF and ICP-ACC certified coach, she has been privileged to be part of an Agile Working Group known as the Agile Transformation Unit since its inception.
As a member of this group, she has worked hard to define and embed how to apply the agile mindset and culture in her part of the business and supporting teams to select the practices and frameworks that will best help them. She believes that the Division has come a long way and that there is still more to come!
Lisa Hall
I am an instinctive cross-functional integrator who actively leans into change. I strive to inspire transformation and continual learning by creating an aligned vision, empowering teams to thrive and developing future talent.
Having worked for bp for +15 years I’ve had the opportunity to work globally with multiple teams, and the privilege of being part of an organisation that values diversity at all levels.
My career began as a Chartered Management Accountant, working in industry as a Finance business partner. My desire to lead teams and drive strategic transformation has informed my career choices. So being part of the applied sciences Leadership Team allows me to challenge the status quo to drive continuous value towards our net zero ambition.
My personal development journey has focussed on learning future skills, experimenting and implementing those skills to build greater capability in the organisation. I measure my achievement through the extent to which I can lead and support teams to deliver sustainable value. I am very fortunate that my role in bp allows me to collaborate with incredible people who share my passion for growth and learning.
bp
We are an integrated energy business with operations in Europe, North and South America, Australasia, Asia and Africa.
- Website:
- www.bp.com
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/company/bp/
2.35pm – 3.05pm GMT
Agility in Finance Panel
Agility in Finance Panel
Agility in Finance
Meet the Panellists
Rikard Olsson
Rikard has vast experience of developing control models and management processes, including from his previous role as chief controller at AstraZeneca. He is today a sought-after speaker at conferences and seminars where he challenges how we lead and manage our companies and organizations, often with headlines such as Beyond budgeting / Dynamic management, and Future Finance.
Rikard has the ability to make the difficult easy and is happy to share his international experiences. Rikard's assignments primarily include business analyses, development of new governance models and development of shared services with a focus on financial functions. He has extensive industry experience in pharmaceuticals, healthcare / real estate and real estate. Rikard has been the Managing Director of the Beyond Budgeting Institute since 2018.
- Website:
- bbrt.org/
Alistair Corrie
Alistair is a Chartered Accountant, Agile Professional and Consultant who focuses his time on helping Leaders to embrace Agile and deliver high impact outcomes with and through their Agile teams.
He has created several videos on Agile, including “The Agile Rap”, and “Agile Lessons from Churchill’s Secret Agents”, a number of articles, including “The Why and the How of Agile Adoption” and “Recession proofing ideas from the Agile Community”.
Alistair is proud to be a Professional Member of the Agile Business Consortium. He is working with their Centre of Excellence, and is involved in the Governance work being done by the Consortium.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- corriepartnership.com/
Evan Campbell
Evan Campbell is a senior technology and business executive, and management consultant. As an executive and entrepreneur, he demonstrated success with two IPOs and two acquisitions by public companies. He is currently Founder and Principal Consultant at Chinook Ranch Consulting leveraging his experience in strategy and OKR processes, business agility, digital and agile transformation to maximize clients’ competitiveness and effectiveness.
Evan has held CTO, VP of Product Development, and VP of Professional Services roles in public, private, and venture funded companies in several industries, had P+L responsibility, and has built and led organizations of hundreds of highly engaged knowledge workers.
Evan has extensive management consulting expertise in strategy and OKRs, innovation, product development, and Digital, Agile, and DevOps transformation to help clients realize peak performance and competitive advantage.
He has an MBA, an MA, is a Certified Enterprise Scrum Coach (CSC/CEC), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Certified Enterprise Business Agility Strategist, Certified in Lean Portfolio Management, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and he served in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Ranger and a Green Beret.
Contact Evan [email protected]
www.chinookranch.com
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.chinookranch.com
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/evcampbell/
Panel Host
Mwaka Lungu
As Managing Director of the Consortium, Mwaka's drive is to see the mission of the organisation fulfilled as it advances business agility worldwide and support the professional development of its members. Mwaka implements and delivers the strategic objectives as agreed by the board and maintains an extensive up to date understanding of the organisation’s finances. Her areas of special interest include finance models, forecasting, business agility and leadership, and recreational baking.
3.35pm – 4.05pm GMT
Saba - From “Infrastructure” to “Mobility”: making Agile Marketing work at Saba
Saba - From “Infrastructure” to “Mobility”: making Agile Marketing work at Saba
Agility in Marketing
In this story, Sylvia will describe the context of Saba's "Agile Story", explaining what they did and how they did it. She'll provide an overview of the framework they're using and address the key question: What do you mean “It works!”??
Sylvia Rausch
As Marketing Director of Saba, Sylvia has kick-started and driven a customer-centric digital transformation in an industry pivoting from “Infrastructure Management” to “Mobility”.
She considers the “Agile” framework that she discovered in 2016 and that she has applied ever since with the group’s global Marketing team and strategic partners to have been instrumental in this success. Putting the customer at the center, listening to her, and aligning the organization around these insights to assure on-going relevant value-creation have been at the heart of her professional career, in both B2B and B2C environments. A digital optimist, she declares “Constant Beta” her life philosophy.
Sylvia is Austrian and has been living in Barcelona with her husband and 3 now adult daughters for many years.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/sylvia-rausch/
Saba
Saba is a benchmark industrial operator in the development of solutions in the field of urban mobility, specialising in car park management. Saba has a workforce of 2,000 employees and is present in 180 cities, nine countries in Europe and Latin America, managing more than 1,000 car parks and nearly 400,000 parking spaces.
- Twitter:
- @My_Saba_es
- Website:
- www.saba.es
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/company/saba_group/
4.10pm – 4.40pm GMT
NatWest Group - What IS Agile?
NatWest Group - What IS Agile?
Agility in Marketing
The journey from this very question, to a new way of thinking and working.
NatWest Group
NatWest Group is a relationship bank for digital world. We champion potential; breaking down barriers and building financial confidence so the 19 million people, families ad businesses awe serve in communities throughout the UK and Ireland can thrive.
- Website:
- www.natwest.com
4.45pm – 5.15pm GMT
Save the Children - Agile Marketing: An ever evolving journey
Save the Children - Agile Marketing: An ever evolving journey
Agility in Marketing
In 2019, Save the Children UK turned to Agile as a guiding philosophy to shape our new culture of work and approach to fundraising and marketing. As we laid the structural foundations, we also launched a culture change initiative that put diversity, inclusion, safety, transparency, collaboration, customer focus, and respect at the heart of how we work. The changes, while not always painless, have enabled a culture of ever greater experimentation, belonging, digitalisation and risk taking. Ruth will take you through the journey so far, and the lessons learned.
Ruth McCarthy
Ruth has been a Scrum Master and Coach at Save the Children UK since 2020. She works with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to cultivate agile culture within the organisation, with a focus on transparency, outcomes, prioritisation and continuous learning.
Ruth has supported the teams within Marketing Delivery since the beginning of their agile journey, when the department restructured into multi-disciplinary squads working in scrum. Today the department has evolved to a more flexible model, using a combination of agile values and principles to plan and deliver effective fundraising and marketing.
Ruth’s career at Save the Children UK began in the Creative Team in 2017, where she held a number of roles before stepping into the role of Scrum Master in 2020.
Prior to this, Ruth worked for over ten years in the television industry as a Production Manager specialising in delivery of factual programmes.
- Website:
- www.savethechildren.org.uk/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/ruth-mccarthy-07971922/
Save the Children
Save the Children exists to help every child get the chance of a future they deserve. In more than 100 countries, including the UK, we help children stay safe, healthy and learning – finding new ways to reach children who need us most. We lead the way on tackling big problems like child pneumonia, hunger and protecting children in war, while making sure each child’s unique needs are cared for. For over a century, we’ve stood up for children and made sure their voices are heard. We wrote the treaty that sets out the rights of every child – and we’ve been upholding them every day since. With children, for children, we change the future for good.
- Website:
- www.savethechildren.org.uk/
5.20pm – 5.50pm GMT
Agility in Marketing Panel
Agility in Marketing Panel
Agility in Marketing
Meet the Panellists
Melissa Reeve
As co-founder of the Agile Marketing Alliance, SAFe contributor and Agile marketing thought leader, Melissa has over 25 years of experience leading marketing teams in the high tech, education and agile spaces. Prior to co-founding the Alliance with Jim Ewel, she created the Agile Marketing with SAFe course, founded the SAFe Business Agility podcast, and helped lead the evolution of the Agile Marketing Manifesto in 2021. An active speaker and thought leader in the Agile marketing space, Melissa lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA with her husband, chickens and dogs, where she enjoys hiking and gardening.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.agilemarketingalliance.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/melissamreeve/
Andrea Fryrear
Andrea Fryrear is CEO and co-founder of AgileSherpas. She specializes in organizational design and executive coaching, but now spends most of her time focused on the vision, culture, and strategy of AgileSherpas.
Prior to co-founding AgileSherpas, Andrea spent over a decade in marketing. Her roles included content strategist, content marketer, project manager, and editorial assistant for both brands and agencies. Once she discovered Agile ways of working, however, she dove in and has never looked back.
Andrea is one of the co-authors of the ICAgile Marketing Agility curriculum, as well as two books on marketing agility: Mastering Marketing Agility and Death of a Marketer. She holds numerous Agile certifications, including Certified Agile Leader (CAL-1), Certified Professional in Leading with Agility (ICP-LEA), Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), Advanced Product Owner (A-CSPO), [email protected] Practitioner, Certified Professional in Marketing Agility (ICP-MKG), ICAgile Certified Instructor, and Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
Her non-Agile achievements include a Bachelor’s degree in English from Austin College and a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies from Oxford University.
Although once referred to as “The Beyonce of Agile Marketing,” Andrea does spend time away from her kanban board occasionally. Her favorite pastimes are camping, skiing, and hiking in her adopted Colorado home, ideally followed by a local microbrew and a British mystery novel.
- Website:
- www.agilesherpas.com
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/afryrear
Zoë Merchant
Zoë is an agile marketing aficionado — a passionate believer in staying ahead of the competition with resilience, adaptability, and pace. After 20 years of delivering B2B marketing strategies in the IT industry, Zoë founded Bright to help tech, engineering and consulting firms get the most from their marketing investment. Using agile marketing to test, learn and build on success. Zoë leads the team in delivering results through continual and focused improvements to support clients’ business goals.
Panel Host
Pamela Ashby
I’m a career marketer, qualified coach, Scrum Master and Agile Marketing trainer who’s worked with large organisations to improve their agility. I set up the Marketing Agility Community meet-up and was part of the team updating the Agile Marketing Manifesto. For me, the Agile Business Consortium has an important role as an agnostic and inclusive professional body, advancing business agility worldwide. As Strategist, I’m happy to contribute to that goal. When not at my computer, I like to be outside enjoying the English countryside.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/pam-ashby/
Thursday 23 March
8am – 8.05am GMT
Welcome and Intro
Welcome and Intro
Opening and close
Peter Coesmans
Peter has been involved in agile working and its predecessors since 1997. He has helped to forward professionals in agility (co-authoring Agile Portfolio Management), project/programme/portfolio management (co-authoring IPMA’s ICB4 standard), and facilitation (setting up the international CPF assessment for IAF international). Peter often gets the opportunity to speak at professional conferences worldwide, on a myriad of topics. He is always looking for sustainable improvements and believes true change is brought forward in small steps, through learning and experimenting, and by collaborating with people with a common goal.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/petercoesmans/
Agile Business Consortium
The Agile Business Consortium is the professional body for business agility. We’re all about community – whether you’re a multinational working through a large-scale transformation, a new start-up, or a contractor, we can support you to achieve more, to grow more, and to build your business agility. As a global not-for-profit organisation that’s been around for over 25 years, our knowledge and experience around agile competencies and behaviours can offer you the guidance you need to reach your agility goals. Together with our partners, we create and share agile research, case studies, resources and tools that help you compete in today’s uncertain world. A registered not-for-profit, we’re the world’s longest-standing agile-orientated organisation. We’re the brains behind AgilePM®, AgileBA®, AgilePgM®, AgilePfM™ and AgileDS™. Based in the UK, we have members in over 30 countries around the world.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- +44 01233611162
- Twitter:
- @Agile_Biz
- Website:
- agilebusiness.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/company/agile-business-consortium
8.05am – 8.35am GMT
RHB Banking Group - Agile: Marathon in Sprints
RHB Banking Group - Agile: Marathon in Sprints
Business Agility
Barbara Cheong
Barbara has been part of RHB Bank’s Agile transformation journey from the start in 2018.
She is a certified Scrum Master, ICP-ATF and ICP-ACC certified coach and in the core [email protected] team in designing and delivering Agile transformation initiatives and outcomes through coaching stances and capabilities.
Barbara has the privilege and opportunity of both coaching Agile teams as well as leading a team of Agile Coaches in supporting the delivery of enterprise-level business objectives and outcomes.
Her experience and competencies in Agile, Design Thinking and Lean is an added advantage to coach and guide Agile teams on the focus areas of customer centricity, faster speed-to-market, innovative and creative mindset, effectively manage changing priorities, increase productivity and improve employee engagement.
RHB Banking Group
We are a multinational regional financial services provider that is committed to deliver complete solutions to our clients through differentiated segment offerings and an ecosystem that supports simple, fast and seamless customer experience, underpinned by cohesive and inspired workforce and relationship built with stakeholders Headquartered and listed in Malaysia, RHB Banking Group is the longest established local bank, formed though the mergers of several banks, the oldest of which was founded in 1913. RHB Banking Group and its subsidiaries provide a full range of services ranging from retail banking, business banking, corporate and investment banking, Islamic banking, transaction banking to treasury, insurance, asset management, private equity and stockbroking services. TOGETHER WE PROGRESS Our strong heritage is the foundation of our commitment to continue serving the community. For over a 100 years, we have been helping people and businesses grow and succeed, and will continue to do so. Our experience gives us an in-depth understanding of the needs of our customers and partners, inspiring us to constantly innovate and improve to serve them better. With their unending support, we have established ourselves with a strong footprint throughout Malaysia and we are now present in 9 other countries across the ASEAN region. We hope our legacy and pursuit for excellence continues as we tirelessly cultivate and nurture the next generation through our actions and words, preparing a brighter future ahead. We thank those who believe in us and welcome everyone to join us on our exciting journey of progress. The time has come for us to move forward in unison, to realise our greater potential together. Our new brand promise "Together We Progress” honours our past, celebrates the present and welcomes the future.
- Twitter:
- @RHB
- Website:
- www.rhbgroup.com/index.html
- LinkedIn:
- https://my.linkedin.com/company/rhb-bank
8.40am – 9.10am GMT
Roads and Transport Authority - The Path to A Future Proof organization is one that Builds Agility Into its DNA
Roads and Transport Authority - The Path to A Future Proof organization is one that Builds Agility Into its DNA
Business Agility
Agility, at its core, is the ability to quickly and efficiently respond to internal and external changes by reconfiguring strategy, systems, processes and structure, reallocating resources and deploying technology towards creating and protecting opportunities that sustain customer-oriented values.
In order to be truly effective, agility must be woven into the very fabric of the organization, this is driven by leadership’s vision, and best achieved via a dual top-down and bottom-up full-scale approach. That approach embraces the principles of agility and makes them a fundamental part of the organization’s culture and way of working.
Join us to get a glimpse of RTA’s Agile journey, and some of the practical approaches that RTA, as a transport oriented government agency, employed to kick-start and sustain its agile culture and practices.
Abdulla Al-Sharif
Chief Agility Transformation Specialist, Development & Corporate Agility at Roads and Transport Authority
With over 15+ years of extensive experience in the field of Corporate Development and Organizational Transformation, leading Organization Development, transformation and change management projects and initiatives. With a proven track record in successfully leading large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that result in increased efficiency, operational improvement, and enhanced customer experiences. He earned his Bachelor Degree in Science in Business Management from the University of Central Florida. In addition to obtaining multiple internationally recognized professional certifications including CSM and SAFe.
- Website:
- www.rta.ae/
Mandana Al Obeidli
Chief Transformation Officer, & Director of Development & Corporate Performance Department at Roads and Transport Authority
A proven leader with more than 20+ years of experience in the field of Corporate Excellence, Total Quality Management, Corporate Planning, Organizational Transformation and driving culture change. With a long successful track record of leading high performing teams that specialize in driving complex large-scale organization Agile transformation initiatives. In addition, she was recognized for achieving more than 20+ National & International awards over her professional career with RTA. She earned her MBA in Strategic Human Resource Management from the University of Wollongong in Dubai, in addition to obtaining over 15+ internationally recognized professional certifications including CSM, SAFe, and being a certified assessor in multiple fields like EFQM.
- Website:
- www.rta.ae/
Roads and Transport Authority
Roads and Transport Authority was established in 2005, for the purpose of planning and execution of transport, roads and traffic requirements in the emirate of Dubai, and between Dubai and other adjacent Emirates and countries.
The strategic plan defined RTA’s Vision as: ‘The World-leader In Seamless and Sustainable Mobility’ and a Mission to provide seamless and safe travel with innovative, sustainable mobility solutions and services to make every journey in Dubai a world-class experience. The strategy set five key strategic goals: Seamless and Innovative Mobility, Sustainability, Health, Safety and Security, Customer Happiness and Future-Proof Organization.
The clear vision, ambitious targets and dynamic hybrid structure supported by cross-functional teams enabled RTA to rapidly adapt and evolve to meet and overcome the challenges and future requirements of Dubai. RTA managed to deliver more than 800 projects on time including more than 40 megaprojects. This enabled RTA to achieve 100% of its Dubai plan in the past years, in addition to achieving global leading positions, and receiving more than 250 global, regional and local awards.
- Website:
- www.rta.ae/
- LinkedIn:
- https://ae.linkedin.com/company/road-and-transport-authority
9.15am – 9.45am GMT
Capgemini - What happens when a large company starts drinking its own champagne.
Capgemini - What happens when a large company starts drinking its own champagne.
Business Agility
"We are good in making plans, but our execution could improve. The market and world are constantly changing and so are our clients’ needs." Herbert and Esmee are taking you along in Capgemini’s story full of lessons learned when colleagues from sales, delivery, HR and portfolio started working together in one team. This team started transforming and adopting an agile mindset, values, and principles with the aim to bring more value to their clients. Like with any transformation, obstacles became visible. Their story will provide insights on transcending organisational silos, foster cross-team learning, and help leaders bring out their inner Max Goodwin.
Esmee van de Giessen
Esmee is a catalyst, driving change with enthusiasm and with a strong belief that the sum of the whole is greater than its siloed parts. Graduated as Master in New Media & Digital Culture and trained as Enterprise Agile Coach, she has a unique background. After being a production assistant of large festivals and entertainer in Italy she got all into tech. Not so strange with her brother and dad bringing home gadgets and a fascination for the promising stories that came with them. Starting as a member of a scrum team her scope of impact increased throughout the years as product owner for sales solutions, (delivery -, people-, workforce-) manager, and Agile Coach.
All those experiences help her to walk the talk, transforming from the inside out. She loves using them to help an organizational part from c-level to operations make sense of their role in the whole. She uses the voice of the client as feedback while she coaches Capgemini NL adopting an agile mindset, values and principles to increase the value they deliver. “In the end, I am the instrument for change, the better I understand myself, the more in tune I can be with others.”
- Website:
- www.capgemini.com
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/esmeevandegiessen/
Herbert Celen
Herbert joined Capgemini in 1990. As a consultant in Capgemini's Global Practice, Herbert has engaged with leaders in Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Retail and Logistics in more than 40 countries on 5 continents. Building upon solid experience in successful project delivery Herbert moved into business development. Herbert has proudly served as Global Account Executive for some of Capgemini's largest global clients. Mid 2019 Herbert assumed responsibilities as Chief Sales and Portfolio Officer for Capgemini Netherlands. He has been consistently recognised by his peers and Industry leaders as one of the most influential commercial leaders in The Netherlands.
Herbert believes in sales based on sustainable relationships, respect and mutual trust. That means developing skills and knowledge are crucial, just as a successful sales professional must possess perseverance, passion and a high dose of energy. He believes that if you really understand the customer and the customer's customer and know how to touch them, then you can start adding distinctive value in the relationship. Therefore, Herbert's sales motto is: “Make Meaning before You Make Money”.
- Website:
- www.capgemini.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/herbertcelen/
Capgemini
Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2021 global revenues of €18 billion.
Get The Future You Want | www.capgemini.com
#getthefutureyouwant
- Twitter:
- @capgemini
- Website:
- www.capgemini.com
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/company/capgemini
9.50am – 10.20am GMT
Agility in HR Panel
Agility in HR Panel
Agility in HR
Meet the Panellists
Dragan Jojic
As a seasoned consultant, trainer and coach with more than 30 years of experience, Dragan has worked with many organisations in retail banking, insurance, engineering and product development. Organisations like these often talk a good story but fail to evolve in a meaningful and lasting way. Dragan’s approach is to start by helping them to articulate the impact they would like to have. With that clarity, he then guides and supports them to experiment with potential paths to success.
Dragan is a founding partner of BeLiminal (www.beliminal.com), an organisational design and continuous learning consultancy.
- Website:
- www.beliminal.com
Myles Hopkins
Myles Hopkins is a business agility influencer and leads the business agility community in Africa. He is the founder of Be Agile and has been a globally respected consultant for the past 20 years.
Myles is a strategic systems thinker whose strength lies in seeing the bigger picture and understanding how that will translate across the full internal and external ecosystem that a client operates within.
He guides organisations to place the customer at the centre of everything they do whilst, simultaneously, enabling this through winning market strategies, focussed innovation, seamless and timely delivery, digital solutions and real-time business intelligence.
Myles believes that the organisations that thrive in the future are those with the best talent and drives a strong people agenda within his clients.
- Website:
- www.beagile.co.za/
Jeroen Venneman
Jeroen has made it his mission to bring agile to the organisational level. He has a lot of experience in taking agile out of the ICT domain and making the connection with business and transforming departments like HR, finance and risk. He is the chairman of the Agile Consortium in the Netherlands and examiner for the Agile Master Certificate. With more than 25 years of experience in consultancy, training and coaching, no challenge is too big for Jeroen.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/jeroenvenneman/
Panel Host
Sophie Theen
An ex- engineer, Sophie had since led recruitment projects with Ford, General Motors and IBM, before shifting focus to setting up HR practice in startups. Her focus since then was on reinventing the importance of the People function within a conservative industry like financial services and she is establishing a blueprint for the future working culture. As employee happiness is HR’s success factor, and as a mental health first aider, she created a support system to combat depression and anxiety specifically affecting rapid growth businesses. From there and only 4 years in Fintech, she became a recognized figurehead in the UK and European market as the Culture Guardian or Diversity Champion in the technology space. She was nominated for 4 Rising Stars in Women in Tech in the UK both 2018 & 2019.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/sophietheen
10.50am – 11.20am GMT
NewsUK - The Real-Life Transformational Fairytale: How News UK Technology went from Agile Crawling to Agile Cruising in Under 3 weeks
NewsUK - The Real-Life Transformational Fairytale: How News UK Technology went from Agile Crawling to Agile Cruising in Under 3 weeks
Business Agility
The Real-Life Transformational Fairytale: How the News UK Technology Team Went From Agile Creeping to Agile Cruising Within a Few weeks
Helen van der Straaten
Helen has a background in engineering and agile project management. Currently responsible for the PMO at News UK which has grown from a reactive instance to a dynamic proactive team based across Sofia and the UK. Responsibilities include recruitment, finances, strategic management reporting, establishing guidelines and governance frameworks.
- Website:
- www.news.co.uk/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/helen-van-der-straaten-aba973136/
Nzinga Gardner
Nzinga Gardner is currently a Business Operations Analyst at News UK. She has spent most of her career in the media and tech sectors performing key business functions for large complex organisations often in a state of flux due to the rapidly changing tech market. Nzinga’s roles have grounded her in business and project management, governance, strategy, communications and corporate affairs. Outside of work Nzinga enjoys the arts, photography and volunteers as a Patient Advocate and sits on the board of Trustees for a charity tackling poverty in the UK.
- Website:
- www.news.co.uk/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/nzingagardner/
NewsUK
News UK Technology (Tech) is the digital team behind big media brands such as The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, talkSPORT and Virgin Radio. It is made up of about 450 FTEs based in the UK, Bulgaria and India. We have dedicated teams for each of our brands focusing on the front-end customer experience, butunderpinning it all is our platform teams who support our cross-brand capabilities. Our Tech team is formed of talented individuals from multiple disciplines: engineering, product management, delivery, business analysis, quality assurance and product design, working collaboratively across many projects to achieve our organisational goals. Because we operate in a volatile, fast-paced and competitive technology market, we must respond quickly and adapt to change in order to remain competitive. For this reason, News UK Tech have transformed and embedded agile ways of working through learning and development, continual improvement, clear and effective communication, transparency, iterative development and valuing people over processes, empowering them to be effective, high-morale team players.
- Twitter:
- @NewsUK
- Website:
- www.news.co.uk/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/company/news-uk-technology/
11.25am – 11.55am GMT
Vodafone - Mission Impossible? A complex yet exciting journey
Vodafone - Mission Impossible? A complex yet exciting journey
Business Agility
Adopting Lean Portfolio Management is a complex journey. We have embarked on this journey towards increased Business Agility by thinking big and starting small, relentlessly going step by step towards our North Star.
We will share with you how leadership engagement and psychological safety are key for the success of our transformation, how we are adopting the concepts of crawling, walking, running, flying and how important a strong communication strategy and plan are.
Silke Eggert
Passionate about driving complex change, setting up new capabilities and providing leadership in cross-functional complex transformation programmes, Silke is the Head of Lean Portfolio Management & Transformation in the global Digital & IT organisation in Vodafone. In this role, Silke is establishing Lean Portfolio Management for Digital & IT and responsible for the implementation of SAFe for Vodafone.
Silke has 25 years of successful management experience in large-scale transformation and technology integration programmes, customer service delivery, strategic alliance management/partner management and marketing in the ICT industry. She first adopted and implemented agile ways of working in 2018 and has put SAFe into practice for the largest OSS and BSS transformation programme for VodafoneZiggo in the Netherlands. She lives near Düsseldorf, Germany, with her husband and their two daughters. Outside work, Silke enjoys spending time with her family and dog, travelling and reading
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.vodafone.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/silkeeggert/
Vodafone
Vodafone is a leading telecommunications company in Europe and Africa
We connect for a better future, using technology to improve people’s lives and enable an inclusive, sustainable digital society.
We are guided by our Social Contract – how we bring our purpose to life through what we do. It is our commitment to society, customers, and governments to connect rural communities, to enable access to education, healthcare, and financial services; and to help businesses. With these actions we also contribute to the success of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Through our business, we aim to build a digital society that enhances socioeconomic progress, is inclusive for all and does not come at a cost to our planet.
- Twitter:
- @VodafoneGroup
- Website:
- www.vodafone.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/company/vodafone/
12pm – 12.30pm GMT
Elavon Europe - It's not about Agile
Elavon Europe - It's not about Agile
Business Agility
Get ready for an exhilarating ride! Join me as I take you through the ups and downs of our 18-month journey towards Business Transformation and Product Model overhaul at Elavon Europe. While we did some fancy and fun things along the way, there was one key realization that took me over a year to grasp: it's not about Agile.
But what is it about? Join me in a quick exercise where you'll spot the pattern that took me so long to realize. From there, I'll take you on a practical journey where I'll share examples of how we embraced customer-centricity, collaboration, and focus, and how these three things are at the core of every successful organization.
Jan Otterbach
As Elavon Europe’s Business Agility lead, Jan helps lead and coaches key strategic change initiatives and plays a key role in improving ways of working across the organisation. He has been with Elavon since 2018. Having been part of both the commercial and technology side of our business, he is passionate about expanding collaborative and cross-functional ways of working that drive results and put people first.
Jan has an extensive background in technology consulting, risk management, compliance and audit – having worked for KPMG in both Germany and Ireland before joining Elavon.
He holds a Master of Science in Strategic Management and Planning from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and a number of certifications with respect to Agile Coaching and project management, as well as Information Security, Risk Management and Auditing.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.elavon.co.uk/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/janotterbach/
Elavon Europe
We’re a leading global payments company with more than 4,300 employees and operations in 10 countries. A subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, we provide businesses with the technology needed to accept payments from customers, whether they are shopping in stores, at home or on the go.
In Europe, we have around 2,200 staff in 8 countries serving around 260,000 business customers – and processing billions of payments every year.
In Europe, we have around 2,200 staff in 8 countries serving around 260,000 business customers – and processing billions of payments every year.
- Website:
- www.elavon.co.uk/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/company/elavon-europe/
12.35pm – 1.05pm GMT
Business Agility Panel
Business Agility Panel
Business Agility
Meet the Panellists
Frederik Schukken
Frederik Schukken is an agile consultant with 15+ years of experience helping organizations, management and teams. He is passionate about establishing change and growing towards high performance. Frederik has been at the forefront of large and small transformations while working for Rabobank, Quint Wellington Redwood and Pink Elephant. He’s a board member of the Agile Consortium and organizer of the annual consortium conference in the Netherlands.
- Website:
- www.agileconsortium.nl/
Alize Hofmeester
Alize is a senior advisor, and founder of TwinXter and The People Journey Circle©, she helps organizations explore and reshape the future way of working and ignites a different way of thinking to create a mindset that unleashes business agility. Her passion and dedication to the value of agility-based organizations drives her ambition to inspire managers and leaders to work and live from their purpose and unlock the human potential in their organisation with a key focus on the customers and add value to the world.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/alizehofmeester/
Vikram Jain
Vikram is an award-winning entrepreneur with a passion and proven track record in complex business turnarounds and performance improvement projects in a broad range of industries including financial services, the public sector and the energy sector. He is skilled in developing robust strategies to drive business performance balanced with an even stronger experience and passion for delivering results through inspiring others to help themselves, sheer hard work and pride in quality. Vikram is also the founder of JCURV, a consultancy with the sole focus of increasing the agility of the UK.
- Website:
- www.jcurv.com
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/vikramjain/
Panel Host
Peter Coesmans
Peter has been involved in agile working and its predecessors since 1997. He has helped to forward professionals in agility (co-authoring Agile Portfolio Management), project/programme/portfolio management (co-authoring IPMA’s ICB4 standard), and facilitation (setting up the international CPF assessment for IAF international). Peter often gets the opportunity to speak at professional conferences worldwide, on a myriad of topics. He is always looking for sustainable improvements and believes true change is brought forward in small steps, through learning and experimenting, and by collaborating with people with a common goal.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/petercoesmans/
1.05pm – 1.25pm GMT
Thank you and Close
Thank you and Close
Opening and close
Peter Coesmans
Peter has been involved in agile working and its predecessors since 1997. He has helped to forward professionals in agility (co-authoring Agile Portfolio Management), project/programme/portfolio management (co-authoring IPMA’s ICB4 standard), and facilitation (setting up the international CPF assessment for IAF international). Peter often gets the opportunity to speak at professional conferences worldwide, on a myriad of topics. He is always looking for sustainable improvements and believes true change is brought forward in small steps, through learning and experimenting, and by collaborating with people with a common goal.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/petercoesmans/
Agile Business Consortium
The Agile Business Consortium is the professional body for business agility. We’re all about community – whether you’re a multinational working through a large-scale transformation, a new start-up, or a contractor, we can support you to achieve more, to grow more, and to build your business agility. As a global not-for-profit organisation that’s been around for over 25 years, our knowledge and experience around agile competencies and behaviours can offer you the guidance you need to reach your agility goals. Together with our partners, we create and share agile research, case studies, resources and tools that help you compete in today’s uncertain world. A registered not-for-profit, we’re the world’s longest-standing agile-orientated organisation. We’re the brains behind AgilePM®, AgileBA®, AgilePgM®, AgilePfM™ and AgileDS™. Based in the UK, we have members in over 30 countries around the world.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- +44 01233611162
- Twitter:
- @Agile_Biz
- Website:
- agilebusiness.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/company/agile-business-consortium
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