AGILE AMSTERDAM 2020

Design your own Agile Power Week

In short: both in business and in our professional educational system we have massive learnings. Yet the two worlds often do not meet and do not learn from eachother.

Agile Amsterdam takes this challenge by offering this year 2 full business tracks and 1 full educational track. You can move bewteen the tracks and cross-learn from eachother.

Additionally we offer 3 certified trainings and 3 master classes to help you in transforming your buiness and in bringing agility in our education system.

Design your own agile week and learning. The certified trainings, conference warm-up evening, conference day and master classes can be chosen seperately or combined to any of your likings.

This is our fourth year of Agile Amsterdam. We stand for quality, fun and for a community feeling. Join us again and experience why we receive such a high ratings every year!

This year we are aiming for anyone anyone who wants to learn more about agility and how to apply that learning in transforming their business or schools.

To name a few roles that we expect: teachers, school board members, scrum team members, scrum master, product owner, agile coach, architect, release train engineers, portfolio owners, functional and executive leaders.

• Better than any formal training. Get tomorrow's training from today's leading voices.
• Connect with expert speakers in the field of agility, agile Organizations and agile Educators.
• Learn from agile companies such as Booking.com, Shell. Join our workshops and short Open Space.
• Learn from leading agile schools and agile educators 
• Optional Certified Trainings and Master Classes. More enrichment and take-away's for you, your school or your company.
• A fun and interactive warm-up evening with a keynote speaker and drinks.
• And enjoy Amsterdam with its canals, museums and rich nightlife.

Check out some of the testimonials on LinkedIn:

• It was so awesome. Being there feels like sharing your day with a large group of agile friends. Thanks a lot! Leonoor Koomen (link)
• Awesome event. Recommended for next year! Marlies van Beem (link)
• Great event, Nils and Jochen (Joe)! A good mix of great inspiring and thought-provoking speakers, enthusiastic attendees at a top-location. Looking forward to Agile Amsterdam 2002! Sander Veenis (link)
• It was a great event. Inspiring, energizing and full of learning. Love to attend next year. Norbert Degenhardt (link)
• Super! It was really an inspiring event. Loved the location and mostly the passion and interaction with all the other participants. Linda de Boer (link)

Mary Poppendieck’s first job was programming the #2 Electronic Switching System at Bell Labs in 1967. She has worked on systems that control roll-goods processes, interpret digitized images, and support statistical process control. She spearheaded the implementation of a Just-in-Time production system and led new product development teams, commercializing products ranging from digital controllers to lighting systems.

Mary is a popular writer and speaker, and coauthor of the book Lean Software Development: an Agile Toolkit, which was awarded the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004. A sequel, Implementing Lean Software Development: from Concept to Cash was published in 2006. A third book, Leading Lean Software Development: Results are Not the Point was published in November 2009, and a fourth book, The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions was published in 2013.

Dave West is the CEO and Product Owner at Scrum.org. He is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, that helped define new software modeling and application development processes. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational. After IBM/Rational, West returned to consulting and managed Ivar Jacobson Consulting for North America. Then as VP, research director Forrester research where he ran the software development and delivery practice.

Prior to joining Scrum.org he was Chief Product Officer at Tasktop where he was responsible for product management, engineering and architecture.

Sweta Mistry is an Organizational & Agile Transformation Coach at Bloomberg in NYC. She has 20+ years of professional experience in industries including manufacturing, retail, education, non-profit, marketing, and media. Her journey from a developer to a coach resulted from her focused interest in human behaviors, psychology, and humanizing processes.

Sweta has a BSc. in Computer Science with a minor in Psychology. She has a passion for all things related to Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and bringing those aspects out in her teams. As a "Humanizer" and change agent she guides and allows organizations to identify with core human qualities.

Joe is the author of the book Agile Portfolio Management and recently produced the Agile Transformation Kata. INCREMENTOR's portfolio is enourmous, from small start-ups to large scale organizations.

Incrementor has played a vital role in many agile transformations with international clients for more than 10 years. Today, INCREMENTOR is the first to release an actual agile process to go through an agile transformation journey with an agile mindset. They call this process pattern the Agile Transformation Kata.

The Kata can be iterative and uses a set of core techniques that support an agile mindset within the leadership and agile teams alike. You can start with the Kata by downloading their white paper or ordering the Kata Poster. The theme of Joe's talk will be about this new Agile Transformation Kata.

Daan started Make New History, a movement with a mission to build thriving teams obsessed with delivering value to customers early and often.

At Booking.com, he is leading the Agile Coach craft and acting as the Product Owner of the Agile Coach Service. Daan is also applying SCRUM to family life, together with his wife Deborah, and two kids Andreas and Salomé. His kids remind him every single day that creating value early and often comes naturally to children.

Marianne Pot is an Agile Consultant with Xebia, Scrum Booster, and Chapter Lead of the Badass Agile Netherlands Chapter.

Marianne is known for her ability to guide teams on their way to professional Scrum in challenging environments and for her enthusiasm and no-nonsense approach to life, the universe, and everything.

Laurens Bonnema is an Agile Management Consultant with Xebia, Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org, and a Graphic Facilitator.

Laurens is a mentor to leaders creating Agile organizations who makes boring business notes fun!

Derk-Jan de Grood works as agile transition coach for Squerist. He has worked for organizations like Nationale Nederlanden, ING Bank, DPD and Greenchoice and supported them in their Agile Transformation. He wrote several successful books and frequently publishes articles and columns for the major magazines.