Ahmed Sidky, ICAgile.org
Ahmed Sidky has gained popularity and respect in the agile community and is frequently referred to as Dr. Agile because of his free online agile readiness assessment tool www.doctoragile.com. As Executive VP at Santeon, Ahmed is responsible for software delivery and agile services. He is also a frequent speaker at Agile conferences as well as the co-author of Becoming Agile. Ahmed helps guide both small and large organizations during their transition to agile software development and enjoys coaching and educating agile teams around the world. You can reach him at asidky@x2aconsulting.com.
Ahmed is presenting A Fresh Approach to Certification

Alan Cyment, Agilar
I’m a Certified Scrum Trainer from Buenos Aires, Argentina (and currently the only Spanish-speaking CST in the world). I discovered Agile in 2004, after a whole year working as a Smalltalk developer. I guess I was spoiled and there was no way I was going to be a developer after that. I just love seeing software development from a human perspective. I strive for honest, passion-driven, great-but-not-perfect emergent design. For software for humans, rather than machines; looking people in the eyes, rather than reading e-mails. Together with my background in acting and psychoanalysis, I managed to develop a very passionate, body-driven way of transmitting knowledge and feelings. Theatre is passion and so is agility.
Alan is presenting Tales of Oppression: Challenging Autocratic Corporate Cultures

Alex Pukinskis, Rally Software
Alex Pukinskis has helped over 30 software teams transition to Agile development since giving XP a try in 2001. He’s worked as an agile coach through Rally, ThoughtWorks, and as an independent, helping organizations of all sizes succeed with Agile. Prior to coaching, Alex was developer and manager of software teams. Alex is a regular presenter at conferences, including Agile, Agile Roots, SD Best Practices, and Better Software. He’s a Certified ScrumMaster Practitioner, and holds a B.A. from the University of Connecticut. Alex currently works for Rally Software in Boulder, Colorado.
Alex is presenting The Product Owner’s Guide to Saying No

Dr. Alistair Cockburn, Humans and Technology
Dr. Alistair Cockburn is a world-renowned expert in Agile development, having co-founded the Agiel 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 alistair.cockburn.us.
Alistair is presenting the invited talk The New Methodology Isn’t A Methodology and co-presenting A Fresh Approach to Certification

Anders Ramsay, ThoughtWorks
Anders Ramsay has 10+ years industry work evolving his User Experience Design practice. Anders is very active in the UX community, as an instructor at Smart Experience, panelist and speaker at the IA Summit and founder of the New York City IA Meetup. He has contributed articles to the Boxes &Arrows online magazine, and blogs about all things UX at www.andersramsay.com. He is currently a UX Designer and Strategist at ThoughtWorks.
Anders is presenting Agile UX – The Developer Perspective

Arlen Bankston, LitheSpeed
Arlen Bankston is an established leader in the application and evolution of Agile software development processes such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Certified ScrumMaster Trainer. Arlen has led Agile and Lean deployment and managed process improvement projects at clients such as Capital One, T. Rowe Price, Freddie Mac, and the Armed Forces Benefits Association. Arlen has presented frequently at both industry conferences and to Fortune 100 clients.
Arlen is presenting Agile Team Performance Management

Arlo Belshee, Electron Cascade
Arlo does a little bit of everything, but what he really does is inspire courage. He challenges every assumption he can find, and helps people learn to change – always and continuously. He has been involved in Agile since 1999. He’s a strong believer in discipline and the agility that comes from it, in punctuated continuity, and in change as the only constant. Don’t do anything he says, but learn why he says it and come up with something better. The best compliment he’s received was when a co-worker termed him the Company Jester – because Arlo always has permission to laugh at the King.
Arlo is presenting Test Driven Design: Coupling Loosely

Ben Carey, Rally Software
Ben Carey is an Agile Coach with Rally Software in Raleigh, North Carolina. His experience includes over 10 years in the software development industry. Ben has participated on Agile teams as an Architect, Team Lead, Developer, Tester, Analyst, Designer, and ScrumMaster. He blogs at The Sherpa Project (www.thesherpaproject.com) and can be found on Twitter (www.twitter.com/bencarey).
Ben is presenting Discount Usability Testing for Agile Teams: An Approach For Attacking Mediocrity

Ben Mabey, LeadTune
Ben currently works at a startup called LeadTune where he wears multiple hats ranging from developer, data scientist, dev-op, and tester. He has contributed to and started many open source projects including various Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) tools. He is part of the core Cucumber team and is an active member of the RSpec community. He is known as ‘bmabey’ on github and twitter. While not coding Ben can often be found running barefoot through the neighborhoods and surrounding mountains of Salt Lake City.
Ben is presenting Cucumber: Automating the Requirements Language You Already Speak

Chris Sims, Agile Learning Labs
Chris Sims helps software development teams improve their productivity and happiness. His approach combines experiential training, coaching, and even direct technical contribution. Chris is the founder of Agile Learning Labs, as well as the Bay Area Agile Managers Support Group. He is on the board of BayAPLN, the Bay Area chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network, and is a past chair of the IEEE Technical Management Council of Silicon Valley. He has published over 50 articles on agile topics on InfoQ.
Chris is presenting The Great Agile Requirements Showdown

Dan Harrelson, Adaptive Path
Dan Harrelson is a design technologist at Adaptive Path. Dan is an advocate for the use of technology in UX design, writing and speaking on the topic often. He enjoys bringing the message of user centered design to audiences of developers. Past appearances include UX Intensive, UX Week, MIX and Agile ’08. His professional interests include prototyping, agile methodology, mobile, web and desktop apps.
Dan is presenting My Brother from Another Mother: Agile and User Experience Design

Dan Phillips, Skybend
As co-founder of Skybend, Dan focuses on working closely both with the clients and the design team to bring branding stories to life using powerful visuals. Over the years he has worked with brands such as Sony, Taco Bell, Pepsi, Charles Schwab, and Cisco. He now draws on that experience in helping businesses of all sizes with their design needs.
Dan is presenting I’m on the development team, why can’t marketing just handle that branding junk?

David Brady, Shiny Systems LLC
My name is David Brady, and I am eminently unqualified to talk about anything. I dropped out of college to pursue love and a career in computer science. I found both along the 20 year path since then, but neither was where I went looking, and that has made all the difference.
David is presenting Using Your Head: The Agile Mind

David Broschinsky, Usable Patterns
Dave is the founder of the Usable Patterns consultancy and the manager of Usability at The Burton Group, a Gartner company. He has over 18 years of software experience in technical and design positions of progressive responsibility. He is experienced in a wide variety of disciplines including requirements gathering, project management, user experience design, object modeling, usability, software testing, and quality assurance.
Dave is presenting Guerilla Usability: Embedded User Experience Design

Dennis Britton, Agile Visioning
Dennis Britton is Chief Consultant at Agile Visioning. He helps organizations explore and communicate their product vision more effectively, ensuring the right product gets built for the right people and the right purpose. He’s been an Agile Coach for companies like HP and Tacit Knowledge, and has presented at Agile Open 2007 and 2009, Agile Coaches Camp, and the Bay Area APLN.
Dennis is presenting Using Skits and Storyboards to Explore and Communicate the Product Vision

Desirée Sy, Autodesk Canada
Desirée Sy was one of the earliest user experience advocates for Agile UCD. In 2002 at Alias (now Autodesk), she was one of the UX team members who shaped the Agile UCD methods used to design innovative 2D and 3D graphics software. She’s presented, taught, discussed, and written about this and other UX work at Agile 2009, UPA, CHI, and in the Journal of Usability Studies. Today, she thinks that practicing user-centered design is more powerful in an Agile environment than in a traditional “waterfall” framework.
Desirée is presenting Creating Big Picture Designs Without Big Design

Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting
Diana Larsen consults with leaders and teams to create work processes where innovation, inspiration, and imagination flourish. With more than fifteen years of experience working with technical professionals, Diana brings focus to the human side of organizations, teams and projects. She activates her clients’ capability for shaping an environment for productive teams and thriving in times of change. Current chair of the Agile Alliance Board of Directors, Diana co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great! Diana discovers solutions and possibilities where others perceive barriers and obstacles.
Diana is giving the invited talk Managing Agile: Transforming the Three Dysfunctions of Management

Elizabeth McClellan, Session Graphics
Elizabeth McClellan is an artist/teacher based in Pacifica, California who has pioneered the practice of “Session Illustrations” at several agile events. Samples of her session illustrations can be viewed at http://www.elizmcclellan.com.
Elizabeth is sharing her techniques with us during the breaks with her Bringing Persona to Life with Illustrated Posters

Francine Goitz, ARUP Laboratories
Francine is co-presenting the experience report The View from Here: Reconciling User Experience, Product Management and Agile Development

Dr. George Fairbanks, Rhino Research
Dr. George Fairbanks has been teaching software architecture and object-oriented design for ten years for companies including Kinetium, Valtech, and Platinum Technology. He is currently the president of Rhino Research, a consulting and training company specializing in software design and architecture. He holds a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. George is a program committee member for 2009 Working International Conference on Software Architecture and has reviewed for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and IEEE Software. http://georgefairbanks.com
Dr. Fairbanks is presenting Expressing Design in Code: Architecturally-Evident Coding Patterns

Ian McFarland, Pivotal Labs, Inc.
I started doing a little TDD when being cajoled to do so by my friend Alex Chaffee about 7 years back, and got a lot more serious about developer testing from then on. I joined Pivotal Labs in 2004, a company that’s been doing Agile since the beginning. As we moved from doing larger engagements to doing more work with start-ups in Ruby on Rails, it was such a pleasure to find a technology space where Agile wasn’t a fringe phenomenon, but firmly at the center of the community.
Ian is presenting Enough Design

Israel Gat, Cutter Consortium
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. Dr. Gat currently focuses on enterprise-level agile deployments. In addition to publishing with Cutter, he posts frequently at http://theagileexecutive.com/. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.
Israel is presenting Toxic Code: Technical Debt Analytics

James Goebel, Menlo Innovations
James is a founding partner in a product design company, Menlo Innovations, that uses highly collaborative project teams to design and implement innovative products for clients that place high value on user adoption. The team he helped build at Menlo Innovations has successfully blended an Extreme Programming development team, usability design specialists, a quality assurance practice, and formal project management. Representatives from start up companies as well as large Fortune 500 firms routinely tour Menlo’s Software Factory environment to study its implementation of agile.
James is presenting the workshop Planning Projects Using Agile Practices – A Simulation

James Shore, Titanium I.T. LLC
James Shore is an XP/Agile consultant and practitioner who has been leading agile teams in success and failure since 1999. A long-time member of the agile community, he was one of the first ten people to sign the newly-released Agile Manifesto in 2001. In 2005, he was an inaugural recipient of the Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice, and in 2007 he coauthored The Art of Agile Development. James blogs at jamesshore.com.
James will be taking the side against automated acceptance testing in To, Through, and Away: Ten Years of Agile Acceptance Testing

Jason Dean, AgileScrumPro Consulting
Jason Dean’s 18 years of experience in Information Technology, participating in all phases of the IT software delivery process, has enabled him to create solutions, processes, and strategies to deliver real
business value in projects of all sizes and scopes. Jason has a B.S. degree in Project Management, an MBA, is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Scrum Practitioner (CSP), and Agile Scrum Master (CSM). Jason has his own Agile Training and Consulting business called AgileScrumPro Consulting http://www.AgileScrumPro.com, and blogs at http://www.AgileScrumPro.com/blog.
Jason is presenting Systems Thinking and the Learning Organization

Jeff Grover, Raytheon
Jeff Grover has worked in the software industry for over 20 years, and is currently developing military-grade security software for Raytheon. He coaches and consults with companies exploring agile methods, and has presented highly interactive sessions at several conferences beginning with XP/Agile Universe 2002, and most recently at AgileRoots 2009. The subjects of his presentations have ranged from technical mocking techniques and test-driven katas to applying ideas from autism therapy to the psychology of development team interaction.
Jeff is co-presenting the coding workshop Let’s Build an xUnit Framework in Javascript

Jeff Patton, AgileProductDesign.com
Jeff Patton has specialized in the application of user experience design practice to improve Agile requirements, planning, and products. Some of his work on the subject can be found at www.AgileProductDesign.com and in Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal Clear. Jeff works as an independent consultant, and a consulting partner with LitheSpeed, DevJam, and Cooper. He’s the founder and moderator of the agile-usability Yahoo discussion group, a columnist for StickyMinds.com and IEEE Software, a Certified Scrum Practitioner, and winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to Agile Development.
Jeff is presenting the keynote Nobody Wants Your Stupid Process

John Heintz, Gist Labs
John D. Heintz is the owner and principal consultant of Gist Labs. He is an Agile/Lean coach and mentor enabling teams and organizations to deliver more quickly and reliably.
John is co-presenting Toxic Code: Technical Debt Analytics

Kealy Opelt, Menlo Innovations
Kealy Opelt is a software developer for Menlo Innovations with eleven years programming experience including over five years focused work on Extreme Programming (XP) team projects. Kealy has presented her experience on Agile teams at Agile 2008 and OOPSLA 2009. With her passion for XP she continues to expose others to XP and agile. Kealy has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Michigan Technological University.
Kealy is presenting What we learned in 8,829 hours of Pair Programming

Lee Henson, VersionOne
Lee Henson’s experience spans a broad array of technical software production roles and responsibilities. Lee is best known to the world as AgileDad, author of the AgileDad blog and monthly Agile Mentor Newsletter. He has worked hands on as a Certified Scrum Trainer, GUI web developer, QA analyst, automated test engineer, senior product manager, senior project manager, ScrumMaster, agile coach, consultant, and ADDIE training professional. His client list includes Fortune 500 companies, government sector projects, and multiple successful large scale e-commerce implementations.
Lee is presenting Facilitation Foundations: Eliminating Waste From Agile Meetings

Luke Hohmann, The Innovation Games® Company
Luke Hohmann is an internationally recognized expert on the use of serious games to solve complex problems. He is also the author of three books and numerous articles on software product management. He is also a frequent speaker at software and other industry events. He loves his job, and is happiest when he’s helping his clients build great products and services. He’s especially enjoys watching clients get excited about creating new products and services as the result of playing Innovation Games® with their customers, integrating these into new product development practices, and creating them through architecturally sustainable Agile methods.
Luke is presenting the keynote Innovation Games: Software Powered Innovation Through Collaborative Play

Mike Moore, AT&T Interactive
Mike is presenting Writing for Humans: Designing better software by keeping humanity in mind

Nate Jones, Skybend
As co-founder of Skybend, Nate oversees all development efforts. He brings the graphic designs to life on the web. Nate’s ability to visualize how an entire solution should function helps deliver a markedly better product. Over the years he has successfully guided the implementation of large software systems at numerous companies such as American Express, Packard Bell/NEC, and Franklin Covey.

Nate is presenting I’m on the development team, why can’t marketing just handle that branding junk?

Nichole DeVries, ARUP Laboratories
Nichole is co-presenting the experience report The View from Here: Reconciling User Experience, Product Management and Agile Development

Pat Maddox
Pat Maddox is a generation XPer. He was 14 when he wandered into a bookstore and, drawn by an interest in computer programming and extreme sports, picked up a little book called Extreme Programming Explained. In the years since, Pat has taught himself a variety of languages before falling in love with Ruby. He took a strong interest in RSpec when it first came out and has been using it and sharing it with other programmers ever since. His hobbies include tracking down and pestering famous XPers with his questions, and cooking.
Pat is presenting Growing up Agile

Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova
An international leadership expert, Pollyanna Pixton developed the models for collaboration and collaborative leadership through her thirty-eight years of working inside and consulting with many organizations. She helps companies create workplaces where talent and innovation are unleashed—making them more productive, efficient, and profitable. Pollyanna is a founding partner of Accelinnova, president of Evolutionary Systems, and director of the Institute for Collaborative Leadership. She is the co-author of Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility. She co-founded the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and has chaired Leadership Summits in the US and England. Contact her at ppixton@accelinnova.com.
Pollyanna is presenting Collaborating with Non-collaborators

Ray Dahl, ARUP Laboratories
Ray Dahl is a User Experience Designer at ARUP Labs. He has developed web-based applications for the public and private sector for over 10 years. He teaches web design and usability at the University of Utah, and practices what he preaches at ARUP Labs during the day. ARUP Laboratories is a leading national reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology.
Ray is presenting the experience report The View from Here: Reconciling User Experience, Product Management and Agile Development and co-presenting the workshop Guerilla Usability: Embedded User Experience Design

Richard Sheridan, Menlo Innovations
After only two years in business, Rich Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations became the Forbes “Hire Yourself” cover story for all those choosing entrepreneurship over unemployment. The next year, he was featured in a Wall Street Journal article on the unique office Menlo uses for software design and development. Within six years, Menlo became one of Inc. 500′s fastest growing privately held firms in the US. Sheridan is regularly invited to present nationally and internationally sharing the secrets of the Menlo Software Factory™ with all who wish to learn how to build a Learning Organization that can keep pace with today’s advances in software and design.
Rich is presenting A Tale of Two Teams: A CEO’s Path to Agile

Richard Thomson, Pahvant Technologies
Richard is presenting You Can Test Anything

Sanjiv Augustine, LitheSpeed
An industry-leading agile and lean expert, Sanjiv is a co-founder and board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). He is also the author of several publications and the book Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005); and the founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management discussion group. He presents regularly at several agile conferences worldwide, and project management conferences including Project World and Project Summit. For more information, see Sanjiv’s website: http://www.sanjivaugustine.com or the LitheSpeed website: http://www.lithespeed.com.
Sanjiv is presenting Agile Team Performance Management

Scott Duncan, Agile Software Qualities
Scott Duncan is a Certified Scrum Practitioner with over 37 years in software development, quality/process assessment and improvement, metrics, training and consulting mostly in commercial or in-house development environments, though with some government/non-profit experience. Last 3 years devoted exclusively to agile consulting, training and coaching, including two different large organizations’ projects each with 5 Scrum teams distributed in the USA, Europe, Singapore and/or India.
Scott is presenting the experience report A Tale of Two Cities

Steve Bockman, Agile Learning Labs
Steve Bockman is an independent software developer and certified ScrumMaster who has worked in speech recognition, terrain analysis, computer graphics, desktop publishing, industrial automation and web applications. As the founder of North Bay Agile, a special interest group dedicated to the pursuit and study of Agile software development in the San Francisco North Bay, Steve continually strives to communicate the essence of Agile development to novices and advanced practitioners. He has given presentations on estimation, test-driven development, pair programming and refactoring at North Bay Agile, BayXP, BayAPLN , BAADD and Agile Open California 2008, as well as the Agile2007 and Agile2008 conferences.
Steve is presenting the hands-on workshop Flying Through Bottlenecks

Ted Layher, Menlo Innovations
Ted Layher is a software developer at Menlo Innovations with 5 years experience in agile projects. His professional career started in the middle of the dot com bubble and has survived despite several companies’ best efforts. Ted brings an interesting mix of operational, systems knowledge and Test Driven Development skills to his teams. He influences the team through excellent coaching skills. Ted has a B.S. in Computer Science from Eastern Michigan University.
Ted is presenting What we learned in 8,829 hours of Pair Programming

Todd Little, Landmark Graphics
Todd Little is a senior development manager for Landmark Graphics Corporation. For more than twenty-five years he has been involved in almost all aspects of software development with a focus on commercial software applications. Todd is on the Board of Directors for the Agile Alliance, a co-author of the Declaration of Interdependence for Agile Project Leadership, and a founding member and past president of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). Todd is a well-known speaker and writer on software engineering topics including business value, uncertainty, complexity, and leadership.
Todd is presenting Risky Business – Real Options @ Work

Todd Wilkens, Adaptive Path
Todd Wilkens is a senior practitioner and manager of Adaptive Path’s Austin, Texas office. Thanks to over a decade of experience in research and design, Todd holds a passionate belief that by truly understanding people, we can create compelling product and service experiences for users and real value for businesses.
Todd is presenting My Brother from Another Mother: Agile and User Experience Design

Travis LaFleur, uGenius
Travis is presenting the experience report Agile Development with Interns

Zhon Johansen, Independent Consultant
Zhon has studied, practiced, taught and coached companies to adopt Extreme Programming since 1999. He has been writing software for over 15 years, and for the past 11 years, has written all of his code using TDD. Zhon has a long presentation and teaching history beginning with XP/Agile Universe in 2002, and continuing through to today. He’s the founder of XP Utah and frequent moderator for the Salt Lake Agile Roundtable.
Zhon is presenting Let’s Build an xUnit Framework in Javascript, You Can Test Anything and co-presenting You Can Test Anything