Park Bench Panel Discussion

This interactive discussion will allow questions from the floor to be answered and discussed by the speakers of the day and attendees. We're extremely grateful that Steve Bohlen will be chairing the discussion.

Comfort Zone?

Featuring Dennie Declercq

You live your life as a developer. You write code, always the same code, the same language, the same stack. At your work, you'll talk to the same coworkers, you have the same hours, the same routines. But if you are someone who always finds the zone within your comfort zone, your life is...

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Lightning Talk: Delivery at Scale

Featuring James Ford

At CompareTheMarket.com they've gone from 1 release a month just a few years ago to a rate of 200 releases a month. The secret sauce behind this transformation is confidence - and having the systems in place that give the confidence they need to push out releases and deliver new features to...

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Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy; a Foundation for Better Relationships in Our Teams

Featuring Louise Cantrill

Louise will unpack the importance of secure relationships and how they enable you to thrive as human beings. She'll explore practical ways that you can all use to shift your mindset to one of relating to others through, thinking, feeling, communicating, and behaving.

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Ceci N’est Pas Un Scrum

Featuring Martine Devos, Colin Deady and Gitte Klitgaard

How exciting! "Agile is mainstream," and there are now hundreds of thousand of Scrum “masters”. Is that great? Or is it that we fell in a trap? We can sell books, talks, coaching services and classes, but we can not buy and sell ideas.

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Value Streams are Made of People

Featuring Liz Keogh

For millenia, human beings have survived by learning, then applying learning to different contexts; with a fierce drive to find those patterns, even when they don’t exist. It leads to a desire for predictability across every aspect of human life, affecting beliefs, behaviour and even identity, to...

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Leading Smart People

Featuring Julia Harrison

Michael Dell's famous quote tells you to "never be the smartest person in the room". But how does that help when people are looking to you for the answers?

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Maximising 10 Percent Time

Featuring Liz Pope

Does your team have 10 percent time? Think it could be more effective? Perhaps you are struggling to get dedicated learning, development and innovation time approved? This talk covers how to implement 10 percent time effectively and how to maximise it for individual, team and business benefit.

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Lightning Talk: Design Patterns for Difficult Conversations

Featuring Hywel Carver

In mentoring/coaching CTOs and other tech leaders, one repeated phenomenon Hywel has seen is that people know they need to have a difficult conversation with other people they work with, but then shy away from having the difficult conversation for a variety of reasons.

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Keynote: Playful Leadership - How to Enable Transformational Change and Have Fun Doing It

Featuring Portia Tung

Does creating change seem like a constant uphill struggle? Are you blocked by relentless resistance? Do you feel lost and alone in your efforts to create positive change?

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