Carol Machaj

Crew Wrangler

No stranger to agile conferences having organised Agile Tga for 2 years and is the only person we’ve met who talks about bringing “more joy into projects”! Carol is busy ensuring the crew stay on track to deliver another amazing experience.

Tania McNeill

Gopher

Tania is a Scrum Master/Business Analyst who is enjoying a recent move to the Bay of Plenty. Here to help the team with the smooth running of this awesome event. Go-for this or that and always coffee.

Colart Miles

Co-Founder

Colart has worked in a variety of roles including directorships, advisory services to government and industry, and is currently involved with New Zealand’s start-up ecosystem. He has a track record of helping organisations adopt Agile practices at scale and develop high performing work cultures.

Colart is passionate about supporting our broader community to become more resiliant and adaptive in the face of unstoppable change. His aim is for Agile on the Beach New Zealand to strengthen our regional communities and create a safe space where we can explore the promise of an agile way of being.

David Morris

Co-Founder

David leads digital delivery and transformation programs with his team of agile coaches and practitioners. He has been agile since the mid-1990s (before it was even called agile), and worked with a wide range of companies, both in the UK and here in NZ.

Inspired by the philosophy of Agile on the Beach UK and its purpose of bringing Agile to the heart of the regions, David cultivated the vision of bringing Agile o the Beach to New zealand for a few years, before teaming up with Colart. Together, and with he support of the crew, they brought Agile on the Beach to life in 2018.

David is passionate about keeping people at the centre of change, and has written several books on agile topics, including Scrum, agile project management, and agile transformation.

Anneke Sezier

Swag & Comms

Anneke is a Lean Change Facilitator and a Project Manager with the Ko Awatea Innovations and Transformation Group at Counties Manukau DHB. With a background in health research at AUT, and a career in neurological physiotherapy before that, person-centered service improvement has been central to her success.

Anneke carries out many roles, including ensuring that the swag in your bag is valuable, eco-friendly and quite frankly awesome!.

Stephen Knights

Speaker Selection

Stephen is a Business & Digital Transformation Programme Manager & led his team to an award for Best use of Agile by a team in the Finance Industry.

Jakub Jurkiewicz

Speaker Selection

Currently Agile Coach at ASB and previously Agile Consultant, Team Leader and Software Developer.

Jakub worked in a startup where agility and change were harnessed every day and in big corporations where people were afraid to mention their ideas. He learned that only through collaboration, openness and trust one can build a successful environment for change, grow and innovation

Anita Heyhoe

Sponsor Liason

Anita works in Commercial & Partnership Management and is interested in team management styles of agile & how to apply across a variety of industries.

Clare Swallow

Marketing & Comms Co-Ordinator

Clare believes humans are fundementally emotional creatures and that this is not a liability but our point of difference.Since the industrial revolution we’ve been trying to treat humans as machines.

Clare helps organisations take a human centered approach to change so they can co-create a sustainable future with their employees and their customers. She does this through cultural strategy, design thinking training and experience design.

Ketaki Rasmussen

Event Social Voice

Ketaki is experienced in Marketing and Communications across many industries including technology, financial services and retail.

She is leading our social voice for Agile on the Beach 2020 to showcase the positive conversation that this event creates, and celebrating its diversity and sense of community.

Wayne Kingi

Experience Designer

Wayne is a coach, mentor and leader based in Auckland. He says his agile journey “changed [his] life” igniting a passion for people, culture and authentic leadership.

Wayne enjoys working with teams to bring them together in a way which generates high performance, high efficiency and high energy. He’s basically aiming to change the world with the power of agile!