Talare 1: Emily Webber

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Team memory, sharing and serendipity in hybrid workplaces A long time ago, in the land before 2020, many people were collocated with colleagues in an office. They (mostly) understood what this meant and how to navigate things. Then things changed. The world went to working from home almost overnight, and just as they started to find their feet, hybrid working became the thing, and we don’t really know what that means. In the beforetimes, we had (somewhat of) a grip on what was going on and how to share information. We benefitted from casually bumping into colleagues in corridors and learning about information from things on walls. But how does this work now, when some people are in the office, some are at home, and some are a bit of both? How do we get the right information to the right people, find what we need and bump into ideas that can lead to something else? And were we really doing it that well before? This talk explores how teams share and remember and what keeping up-to-date and serendipity could look like for hybrid organisations.

Emily Webber is a UK-based independent organisational consultant, coach, trainer and speaker. She focuses on creating environments where people thrive so that organisations can thrive. She works with organisations worldwide in the public and private sectors to create conditions that enable effective collaboration and iterative, user-focused delivery. To do this, she works with leadership teams, embeds communities of practice and leads initiatives that allow for learning and growing capabilities, all of which help create sustainable change.

Talare 2: Maarit Laanti

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Maarit: TurboBoost your Product Development with Agile Hardware - 10x faster, with better quality

Maarit is a pioneer in agile at scale, and she did her dissertation on that subject in 2013. She has a 20-year background in R&D at Nokia, in development, management, and leading agile transformation. For the past 12 years, she has worked as a full-time management consultant for organizations aspiring to agile transformation. In 2023, Maarit co-founded a consultancy company called WikiAgile, located in Finland, Germany, and Poland, partnering with Agile Business Institute by Joe Justice. Maarit is currently interested in agile hardware in the context of product development and has been consulting in the energy and semiconductor industries. She has been nominated to SAFe Fellow, LIA 100 listing women agile contributors in agile and five times in the ICT-influencer list in Finland. She has also been a Track and/or Program Chair for Agile Alliance’s XP conference from 2000 to 2024. In 2024, Maarit published a book on Business Agility in Finnish. Learn more from her website maaritlaanti.com

Talare 3: Maarten Dalmijn

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The 5 Obstacles to High-Performing Teams

Subtitle: Why Organizations Sprout Bureaucratic Tentacles and How Teams Can Escape Their Soul-Crushing Grasp

Why do we see so few empowered teams?

Why do most Agile transformations fail?

Why are many people quickly become disappointed after joining a new company?

The beam of a lighthouse doesn't illuminate the ground underneath the lighthouse. When we're part of an organizational system, it's difficult for leaders to see the obstacles that stand in the way of high-performing and empowered teams. In this talk, I will present a simple model you can leverage to build high-performing teams within your organization. The problems we have usually have little to do with expertise, but our inability to shine a light on the (dys)functioning of our organizational system. Let's shift our conversations from processes and rules, towards creating an environment for high-performing empowered teams.

Maarten helps teams to beat the feature factory all over the world. Millions of practitioners have read his best-practice articles on Agile, Scrum and Product Management. He specializes in helping companies to build empowered teams that can discover better ways of delivering value. Maarten is a frequent speaker at Fortune 500 companies, government organizations and international industry conferences. He has worked with many award-winning start-ups and scale-ups. He is the author of the Amazon bestseller Driving Value with Sprint Goals. Maarten currently works as a consultant, speaker and trainer at Dalmijn Consulting.

Talare 4: Nancy Beers

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The Power of Play

Are you ready to get up out of your seat and add a little spice to your life with the Power of Play? Join the Happy Game Changer and ‘Queen of the Energizers’ Nancy Beers on an exhilarating journey exploring the power of playing and playfulness in a business setting. Using the full breadth and depth of her scientifically-backed knowledge, she shows you the ways in which play can bring measurable, impactful and positive change to the way we interact, think, and create. Nancy will delve deep into the dynamics of playing games in a session perfect for those looking to shake things up in their personal or professional lives, in teams, business, and organizations.

Nancy believes that play is serious business, and it is her motto ‘Change the world, one game at a time’ that guides her in creating some of the engaging and energizing keynote events and talks around.

ON STAGE

From her home-base of the stage, Nancy draws people into her seriously playful philosophies and empowering views on teamwork, creativity, emotions, and work-life balance.

If this sounds dry, you’ve got the wrong end of the stick.

Humor, laughter, movement and energy are the hooks with which she charms and engages her audiences. Using her intrinsic energy and people power, Nancy deploys the power of games to show (not tell) her audiences why play and playfulness are an absolutely essential tool in changing the world, one game at a time.

It is no surprise that Nancy was once called a ‘unicorn’ by a conference organizer. Her events have a dash of the magical to them, in the way they foster engagement and connection and encourage creativity, divergent thinking and growth in the audience.