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9:00am EDT

Opening Keynote

Friday October 18, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am EDT

Monon/Wabash

Keynote Speakers

Jeff Patton

Chief Troublemaker, Jeff Patton & Associates

Jeff Patton helps companies adopt a way of working that’s focused on building great products, not just building stuff faster. Jeff blends a mixture of Agile thinking, Lean and Lean Startup Thinking, and UX Design and Design Thinking to end up with a holistic product-centric way... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Monon/Wabash

Keynote

10:15am EDT

Embracing the Wave: Exploring the Transformative Potential of AI in Product Management

Friday October 18, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am EDT

Monon

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a groundbreaking technological frontier with transformative capabilities across various industries. This talk explores AI's potential and impact on Product Management, covering major AI types such as generative AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision.

Attendees will gain foundational knowledge and insights from real-world examples and case studies, including cautionary tales. Ethical considerations, such as addressing biases, ensuring transparency, and safeguarding privacy, will be emphasized.

Participants will leave equipped with strategies for integrating AI technologies to drive innovation, streamline processes, and deliver exceptional products in an increasingly competitive landscape.

Breakout Session Speakers

Faye Thompson

Agile Transformation Manager

Employing a continuous improvement minset, Faye has had a positive impact in the financial services, healthcare, advertising, marketing, automotive, retail and aviation industries. Passionate about innovating to drive value, she supports all levels of the enterprise as they transform... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am EDT
Monon

Breakout Session, AI

10:15am EDT

FAST, OKRs, modern product management, and software teaming bundled up in a 6-week dojo…a way to create positive change at warp speedMonan

Friday October 18, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am EDT

Hamilton

Are you interested in understanding how a team:
Eliminated dependencies...
increased effectiveness, deployment frequency, and quality…
reduced dependencies…
without hiring more people…
all in a sustainable and human-centric way?

Then come join this session where we will:
1. Share the story of how a team, trending in the wrong direction, accomplished the above by thoughtfully and pragmatically leveraging FAST, OKRs, modern product management approaches, and software teaming in a 6-week dojo to turn things around.
2. Dive into what that looked like from a few different points of view...Product Management, UX, and Engineering.
3. Reflect on the above together.

Breakout Session Speakers

Ryan McCann

Founder, NMRB Consulting

Ryan is an independent consultant with nearly 20 years in the agile space who focuses on carefully, thoughtfully and pragmatically curating space where people can safely strengthen relationships, experiment with potentially more effective ways of working, and foster a culture of continuous... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am EDT
Hamilton

Breakout Session, Leadership

10:15am EDT

Navigating Uncertainty using Probabilistic Forecasting

Friday October 18, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am EDT

Wabash

"Are we gonna finish on time?" How often have you been asked that question? That question strikes frustration or fear in most people. It often results in throwing up your hands in frustration or tossing out a wild guess. Surely there's a better way?

Forget story points, t-shirt sizing, historical averages. There's a better way.

Regardless your role, it's important to answer this question in a way that provides clarity and predictability. We can do that by using Monte Carlo simulations.

In this talk, we'll explore practical examples of these methods. You'll leave with tools you use starting tomorrow!

Breakout Session Speakers

Chris Shinkle

Director of Innovation, SEP

Chris Shinkle is a practitioner and maker. He is a thought leader and continually initiates new ideas and continuous improvement at SEP. His experience comes from building products with many large clients in a variety of industries: aerospace, medical, healthcare, finance, etc. He... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am EDT
Wabash

Breakout Session, Product

10:15am EDT

Unlocking Neurodiversity: Strategies for Strengthening Team Dynamics

Friday October 18, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am EDT

Connor

A Practical Guide to Neurodiversity in the Workplace. Discover the 'what's in it for me' as you learn to identify and harness the unique strengths of neurodiverse colleagues, including those with Autism, ADHD, and Dyslexia.

This session offers practical strategies and interactive exercises to communicate and collaborate with neurodiverse team members effectively. You'll gain skills to analyze workplace scenarios and adapt team practices for inclusivity, enhancing overall team dynamics.

Leave with a personalized action plan to capitalize on your diverse team's untapped potential and superpowers, boosting innovation and productivity in your professional sphere.

Breakout Session Speakers

Laura Blersch

Senior Operations Analyst, ICAgile

As a late-diagnosed individual with combined ADHD, I've followed a unique path to where I am today. With an MBA in leadership and various professional certifications, I entered agile through Scrum and project management. I thrive on facilitation and mentorship, evident in my roles... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am EDT
Connor

Breakout Session, Leadership

11:15am EDT

Avoiding False Starts with Artificial Intelligence

Friday October 18, 2024 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT

Monon

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer science fiction; it’s here today, and it’s here to stay. It is in the products you use every day: home automation, digital assistants, or credit card fraud detection, just to name a few.
Every business will be affected by AI in the coming years, and the impact will be significant. The only remaining question is, how will you influence its effect on your company? This talk will cover many false starts we've observed in failed attempts to adopt AI and how to correct them.

Breakout Session Speakers

Jordan Thayer

SEP

Jordan Thayer received her PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 2012 from the University of New Hampshire. Ever since, she's been applying artificial intelligence in academia and industry to problems including intrusion detection, planning, static analysis, and program generation. As... Read More →

Robert Herbig

AI Practice Lead, SEP

Robert Herbig is passionate about leading teams to deliver products users love. He is an AI Practice Lead at SEP, a software product design and development company. In his 15+ years in the software industry, he has delivered products across many platforms in a variety of markets and... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Monon

Breakout Session, AI

11:15am EDT

Boost your Effectiveness with Microsoft CoPilot

Friday October 18, 2024 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT

Hamilton

Boost your effectiveness by leveraging Microsoft CoPilot! This session will highlight the power of AI to reduce toil, enhance decision-making, and improve communication! We will focus on the Scrum Master and Product Owner accountabilities, but the lessons will apply to everyone on and around your team! Learn practices for using CoPilot in daily activities. We will share real-world case studies and discuss the challenges of adoption. Come elevate your AI savvy and increase your effectiveness!

Breakout Session Speakers

Dan Neumann

Vice President, Agile Thought, Agility and Enterprise Coaching

Dan Neumann is the director of AgileThought's Agility Guild. He is host of the podcast Agile Coaches’ Corner and co-author of the book Patterns of Agile Journeys. Dan Neumann has more than 20 years of experience in the software development industry. Dan helps clients realize business... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Hamilton

Breakout Session, AI

11:15am EDT

Career Mastery: Using Product Management Strategies to Land Your Dream Job

Friday October 18, 2024 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT

Wabash

Navigating today's ultra-competitive job market requires strategic precision. "Career Mastery: Using Product Management Strategies to Land Your Dream Job" equips professionals with the tools and mindset of a product manager to effectively steer their career paths.

Discover how to define your unique value proposition, uncover industry trends and opportunities, and treat your career as a product, iterating based on feedback. Learn to create a strategic career roadmap, build relationships with the precision of a product launch, and make informed career choices using data-driven decisions. Join us to unlock product management strategies for career success.

Breakout Session Speakers

Keshley Phillips-Parker

Senior Product Director, IBT Strategy and Product Enablement, Cox Enterprises

Keshley is a seasoned Product Agility Coach with over 12 years of experience as a Product Specialist. Passionate about empowering teams, she champions principles like minimizing waste, promoting a sustainable pace, and focusing on outcomes over output. With over 7 years of coaching... Read More →

Rita Emmons

Agile Delivery Leader / Product Agility, Eliassen Group

Rita is a Business Agility Leader with over 20 yrs of experience leading large-scale organizational change initiatives with Fortune 50 Companies leveraging a unique style that targets culture and mindset shifts, blended with a pragmatic approach to foster innovation from strategy... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Wabash

Breakout Session, Professional Development

11:15am EDT

How Might We Develop a High Performing Team

Friday October 18, 2024 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT

Connor

The "How Might We" (HMW) is a problem-solving method, specifically for its ability to turn challenges into opportunities for design. HMW is a method that encourages open-ended thinking focused on promoting user centric solutions. HMW exercise is a fantastic technique to brainstorm solutions that meet the user's needs. Learning more about the problem can help your team build better solutions.

Breakout Session Speakers

Rita Breen

Enterprise Coach and the Practice Director of Human-Centered Design

Rita Breen is an accomplished Enterprise Coach and the Practice Director of Human-Centered Design. She comes with over 10 years of experience in Agile methodologies and a robust 25 years in the IT sector. Throughout her career, she has offered her expertise to a range of organizations... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Connor

Breakout Session, Leadership

1:30pm EDT

CTO/CIO Panel Discussion

Friday October 18, 2024 1:30pm - 2:15pm EDT

Monon/Wabash

Breakout Session Speakers

Dave Todaro

CEO, Ascendle

Dave Todaro is a software visionary, entrepreneur, and agile project management expert. Even from an early age, Dave had a knack for technology. At age 11, he wrote his first program. At age 13, he shipped his first worldwide-distributed product. And at 15, he started his first software... Read More →

Diana Williams

Director of Agile Coaching, CTC, Project Brilliant

Diana Williams is a Business Agility Coach at Project Brilliant, with over 20 years of IT experience. She excels at fostering strong connections and guiding organizations toward their goals. Diana's diverse background includes roles such as developer, Scrum Master, and Product Owner... Read More →

John Macrina

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NCAA

John Macrina is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience in technology strategy and digital innovation. Currently serving as the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at the NCAA, John oversees the organization’s technology initiatives, driving transformation... Read More →

Matt Etchison

CIO, SVP, Ivy Tech Community College

Bio: Extreme Ownership Executive leader with over two decades of information technology leadership and experience in software and systems engineering, innovation and disruption, cloud strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), IT enterprise... Read More →

Tim Coleman

Senior Vice President, CTO, Eli Lilly and Company

Tim is currently Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Digital Core, at Eli Lilly and Company where he is responsible for technology strategy, global tech enterprise capabilities, the AI and automation centers of excellence, and the Lilly Tech Innovation Center based... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 1:30pm - 2:15pm EDT
Monon/Wabash

Panel Discussion

2:30pm EDT

Being a Courageous Leader

Friday October 18, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT

Wabash

Have you ever felt like you needed to defend your leadership principles or approach? Or where the momentum and status quo seems to be counter to your goals? You would not be alone. Once during a tense re-organization discussion, I was warned that “We have real leaders here. Not ones that focus on the fluffy stuff you do. We don’t have time for all of that.” Although I was tempted to respond inappropriately, I understood that evolving the world of leadership required courage. Did I have the courage to respond appropriately? Yet, no one could tell me "just be courageous", I had to learn tricks to build my courage. Join me in this session, to consider and adapt several tips for better responses and self-care that help you build and embrace your courage.

Breakout Session Speakers

Tricia Broderick

Leadership Agility Advisor, Ignite Insight + Innovation

Tricia Broderick, co-author of Lead without Blame, is a seasoned leadership and organizational advisor with over twenty-five years of experience in software development leadership. She specializes in transforming leaders and teams to achieve quality outcomes through authentic, inclusive... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT
Wabash

Breakout Session, Leadership

2:30pm EDT

Make TDD Make Sense: Cheaper Changes through Better Boundaries (and AI Assistance)

Friday October 18, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT

Monon

In this session, I'll show you how to draw the hard lines in your code that keep your software soft. I'll show where AI tools fit in. I'll test-drive changes in a real app—no boring toy examples here. I'll be coding live (mistakes and all), so you can see what it’s really like to work this way.

Breakout Session Speakers

Jon Fazzaro

Senior Consultant, Industrial Logic

Jon is a Full-Stack Lean Software Coach, Intrapreneur, and Benevolent Cage-Rattler. He has been a software professional for over twenty years and holds a few certifications, but prefers books. *The Coaching Habit*, *When Will it be Done*, and *Test-Driven Development by Example* are... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT
Monon

Breakout Session, AI

2:30pm EDT

Technical Agility 101: Deliver Like the Tech Giants

Friday October 18, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT

Connor

Have you introduced your teams to the Agile Manifesto, Scrum Framework, and other commonly accepted Agile practices, but they still struggle to release software at the scale of Big Tech companies? There's more to Agile than timeboxes, events, and roles.
In this no-code talk, Brad will explain how the principles of Agile Software Development are meant to be brought to life through advanced development practices. He will introduce the audience to key practices, tools, and philosophies from the DevOps movement—a movement that empowers agile teams to iterate faster and integrate feedback more effectively across the entire development process.

Breakout Session Speakers

Brad Nelson

Technical Product Manager, Ford Credit

Brad is an accomplished speaker, serving as the Host of The Agile For Agilists Podcast, and is currently the Technical Product Manager for ProdOps at Ford Credit. As a lifelong technology enthusiast, Brad has immersed himself in various roles across the industry, gaining invaluable... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT
Connor

Breakout Session, Leadership

2:30pm EDT

Why Rube Goldberg is so proud of your IT Organization

Friday October 18, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT

Hamilton

Internal policies in IT Organizations, especially those in heavily regulated environments, have become overly complicated through reactionary decision making, band-aids, and "that's the way we've always done it" reasoning. We got here by trying to be responsive to the ever-changing needs of the business and using the tools and approaches we know well, but the result often resembles a Rube Goldberg machine that constantly impedes its own best efforts, and the more we try to fix it the worse it gets. In this session we'll talk about the 3 key factors in dismantling the machine and become more Agile.

Breakout Session Speakers

Aaron Kopel

Chief Executive Officer, Project Brilliant

Aaron Kopel is the CEO of Project Brilliant and is the Momentum Locksmith. Aaron brings more than 25 years experience in IT/Tech and is one of less than 20 people in the world who hold the top 4 Scrum Alliance credentials: Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®), Certified Enterprise Coach... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT
Hamilton

Breakout Session, Leadership

3:30pm EDT

Closing Keynote

Friday October 18, 2024 3:30pm - 4:15pm EDT

Monon/Wabash

Keynote Speakers

Pete Anderson

Solution Partner, Business Agility, Turnberry Solutions

Pete Anderson is an experienced product discovery coach and leader, dedicated to helping teams define their products, customers, outcomes, and hypothesis. With over 25 years of experience in technology solution delivery, Pete possesses deep expertise in product management, agile methodologies... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2024 3:30pm - 4:15pm EDT
Monon/Wabash

Keynote

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