We’re have begun the process of reviewing submissions and we have some great ones.
As part of the process, once we have selected a proposal and confirmed the speaker will be attending, the session will be announced and described in the blog.
We should do one every couple days until the full schedule is announced mid-May.
We are excited to announce Sue McKinney as a featured speaker at the conference. Sue is responsible bringing Agile to 25,000 IBM developers. A little more about Sue is below.
Sue McKinney is currently responsible for development transformational activities with IBM’s software development group. Her major emphasis is driving adoption of agile and lean principles into the mainstream of software development. Prior to this, Sue was a Vice President of Development for the Lotus Division where she led worldwide development for Lotus Domino, IBM Sametime, and WebSphere Portal. In addition to driving transformational activities within IBM, Sue works with large clients to share IBM’s experience and help them scope opportunities for their own transformational activities.
We are excited to announce Isael Gat as a featured speaker at the conference. Israel is a major contributor to the blog The Agile Executive. His experience working with the management and executive aspects of Agile is a real asset to the industry. A little more about Israel is below.
Israel Gat is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium’s Agile Product & Project Management practice. He is recognized as the architect of the Agile transformation at BMC Software. Under his leadership, BMC Software development increased Scrum users from zero to 1,000 in four years. Dr. Gat’s executive career spans top technology companies, including IBM, Microsoft, Digital and EMC. He has led the development of products such as BMC Performance Manager and Microsoft Operations Manager, enabling the two companies to move toward next-generation system management technology.
We are excited to announce that Alistair Cockburn will a featured speaker at the conference this year. Alistair is a native Utahn and invaluable member of the local Agile community, and the Agile community worldwide. Below is a brief bio.
Dr. Alistair Cockburn is a world-renowned expert in Agile development, having co-founded the Agile movement and co-authored the Agile Manifesto. Dr. Cockburn is the author of the Jolt award-winning books Writing Effective Use Cases and Agile Software Development. He has more than 30 years of experience leading projects around the world, in hardware and software, research and industry, in companies of all sizes and specialties. Much of his material is available online at http://alistair.cockburn.us.
