Conference Programme & Schedule
KEYNOTE: What if we were made for this time?
Lyssa Adkins
In an age of acceleration and disruption, do agilists have the skills and influence to step up. Lyssa will share her learning and insights from the Regenerative Leadership program she has been on.
Mini keynote: quiet ChangE - Reframe for trust
Clarke Ching - “The bottleneck guy’
Clarke will tell you a true story about agile. Well, not about ‘agile’ exactly more about rebuilding trust…
Keynote: Dynamic Reteaming
Heidi Helfand
Team change is inevitable. People join and people leave. Teams split or merge. New teams start. People switch teams. All this reteaming can feel quite dynamic, quite exhilarating, and at times, quite unnerving.
Keynote: Seeking Adversity
Mish McCormack & Greig Rightford
Living and working in dynamic environments ultimately means living with continual change and challenge. This 'Seeking Adversity' workshop will help you to acknowledge that adversity is a part of life and understand that our response is the fundamental difference.
Keynote: Tales from the dark side
Dawie Olivier
Dawie shares his change journey towards enterprise-level agility. A journey full of stories, lessons learned, growth and maturity.
The Fine Art of Zero F***s Given
Alex Sloley
In contrast to how ZFG is often described on the interwebs, ZFG does not mean "I don't care"! ZFG is a mindset that embraces a myriad of concepts: fear, empathy, objectivity, neutrality, bias, drama, emotional intelligence, and more!
Drinking Champagne
Biunca Hooper
We wanted to know, if we drank our own champagne, could we build a self-organising, self-evolving organisation? In this talk Biunca will share EPiC Agile’s journey over the last year to do just that - the decisions made, the highs and lows and learning along the way.
Empowerment - we all have a role to play
In this workshop we explore reframing empowerment - what is it, why we should pursue it, who is responsible for what, and diving deeper into how to enable true empowerment.
Saturday evening: Agile Taboo - agile words that cannot be spoken
Jakub Jurkiewicz
Based on the popular game Taboo, where players have their partners guess an agile-related term without using the word itself or related words listed on a card. This session guarantees energy, laughter, enthusiasm and a new look at the agile knowledge base.
Creating Unity with systems thinking
Noah Cantor
Effective change is often hampered by leaders’ lack of agreement as to what the ‘real’ problem is and what solutions are likely to lead to success. Systems Thinking is a validated way to approach this common problem.
Is this the end of Agility? Who wants fast and adaptive anyway?
Susan Abishara
Despite providing huge benefit to many organisations, there is noise in market that 'agile is dead'. Agile is based on empiricism which is evidence-based. Negative and positive findings are both critical for success. Let’s not be afraid of this question. Lets have the confidence to address and own it.
Why Brains Need Stories
Anthony Marter
In this workshop Anthony will introduce the basics of how our brains process information and why this makes effective communication so hard. He'll then help participants understand with practical examples why storytelling is necessary to sneak information past the defences of our brains so that it lands effectively with the audience. The workshop will be from the perspective of someone who uses these techniques daily as a product manager and agile organisational coach, so will be peppered with real world examples of how this works (and doesn't work) in the day to day reality of the audience.
Adaptability - A toolkit for survival
Soma Mazumder
The idea of change scares a lot of people! Like IQ and EQ, we need to understand the Adaptability Quotient, or AQ, to succeed. In this session you will explore what AQ is and how it’s tied to our personal mental model. Shared activities will help you learn how to identify your mental model and make it more adaptable.
Lift off for the Agile Release plane
Lee Thomas
A pretty cool story on how Flight Centre was tasked to design and deliver an ambitious program to redefine how the company operated after the devastating impact of Covid on the industry and its people.
Leading the Workforce of the Future
Mispah Carelsen
Feminine leadership is critical in leading the younger generation of employees who are soon to be the majority. Feminine leadership is not exclusive to females, nor is it anti-male, its a style that can be embraced by anyone brave enough to do so.
Friday evening: Agile cheer- Bring it on!
Alex Sloley and Roslyn Martin
An enterprise agile coach and an award-winning former professional cheerleader will take lessons from professional cheerleading and apply them in an agile team context. They will cover the 4 pillars of agile cheerleading and explore the fundamentals and benefits of an agile cheer so that you can super-charge your teams.
Design Thinker Profile: The Six Questions for Leading Yourself and Others Through Change
Dani Chesson
So, you want to make a change? In this talk, we explore the
brain science of why we struggle with change and the six questions
research shows helps us to keep moving forward.
Agile Coaches: You get what you ask for
Sally Sloley
This talk will help understand what values you should hold to be a successful agile coach. Sally will share stories of the things that will help you succeed and show you how to spot the things you should avoid.
The Power of Empathy: Applying Personas and Empathy Mapping to help you Re:Form your WoW
Zach Heywood
In this workshop we will discuss the importance of understanding the people within your organisation, the power of Personas, and how empathy mapping can help you Re:Form your ways of working.
Is agile increasing burnout at work?
Cheryl Tansey
Cheryl explores some emerging patterns in the workplace wellbeing space + how we might use agile to design more sustainable ways of working.