The Serious Scrum Virtual Conference 2023 Lineup

The Serious Scrum Virtual Conference is right around the corner!

We have a great set of speakers lined up with compelling, relevant topics, as voted on and selected by our audience.

Read more about our speakers and what they are going to talk about below:

Fabian Kleeberger

Fabian Kleeberger isn't your typical product leader; he's the secret ingredient that spices up the world of agile transformations! With a unique blend of organizational sociology, psychology, and a tech-savvy mindset, Fabian switches effortlessly between strategic visions and hands-on analysis, serving as the bridge between the worlds of technology and business, connecting dots that others don't even see.

Fabian is all about making agile concepts relatable and practical. His holistic perspective embraces all aspects of product development, enabling organizations to craft their very own recipe for agility, staying true to their unique strengths and culture. He ensures that all disciplines work in harmony to create products that users love.

Over the years, Fabian has been the driving force behind many complex agile transformations. He's built empowered product teams from scratch and guided existing ones to impressive successes. Fabian firmly believes that ordinary people possess extraordinary product-creating powers. All they need is the right guidance and the freedom to unleash their agile and product-centric spirits.

Fabian's career has taken him to product leadership roles in award-winning companies of all sizes. Beyond that, he shares his expertise as a popular product consultant and personal product coach, helping others on their journey to agile product development.

Serious Scrum Talk: EMBEDDING DESIGN IN AGILE TEAMS

Lavaneesh Gautam

Lavaneesh Gautam is a Professional Scrum Trainer with?Scrum.org ?and a Professional Kanban Trainer with?ProKanban.org . He is on a mission to help people and teams in delivering great outcomes via training, coaching, and consulting.

Lavaneesh has a wealth of experience in various industries such as Banking, Automotive, Financial Services, and Consulting.

Serious Scrum Talk: IS DELIVERING INCREMENT ENOUGH?

Alexander A. Giurca

Alexander A. Giurca makes brain-friendly and psychologically safe spaces for trainers and product leaders to develop the skills and know-how needed in the 21st century for great collaboration and communication.

As a Training from the BACK from the Room! Trainer, he supports trainers, agile coaches, and teachers to create brain-friendly training that sticks!

Additionally, he is an Agile & Product Coach and actively supports agile teams, product executives, owners, teams, and individuals to thrive and work better together. He helps improve the overall product with lessons from his own product management and solution-focused experience.

Serious Scrum Talk: IMPROVE STAKEHOLDER AND TEAM COLLABORATION WITH SOLUTION-FOCUSED LANGUAGE

Philip Ledgerwood

Philip Ledgerwood loves to help companies grow into faster, leaner, more predictable, and more humane ways of working. He believes increasing production, being more responsive to the market, and making your company a great place to work are not mutually exclusive goals but rather go hand in hand.

On top of that, he can send you a team of software developers to build out your product and show you how it's done.

Serious Scrum Talk: WHY DOES KANBAN HATE US?

Amber Bartlett

Amber Bartlett is a proven agile leader with over 10 years of IT experience. Experienced in multiple software engineering frameworks including Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, and Waterfall.

Amber implements data-informed decisions which lead to lower cycle time and lead time, smaller feedback loops, and accurate value delivery to delight customers.

Serious Scrum Talk: CAMPAIGNS, QUESTS, AND COACHING: HOW BEING A DM MADE ME A LEADER

????Chris Stone ????

As The Virtual Agile Coach, ???? Chris Stone ???? is on a mission to help people continuously improve each and every day and have fun while they do it.

With over a decade of experience creating high-performing teams across a range of industries, from smaller, lean enterprises to some of the world's largest companies, he is dedicated to creating environments where people can be their best selves on their best day and be supported on their worst.

He's the Managing Partner of Virtually Agile, a challenger consultancy, a regular on the conference circuit, podcaster, trainer, blogger, and soon-to-be author. He always seeks new ways to share his expertise and inspire others to think creatively about how they can continuously improve.

Serious Scrum Talk: FROM MEETINGS TO EXPERIENCES. CREATING ENGAGING, PLAYFUL, REMOTELY INCLUSIVE SESSIONS THAT PEOPLE ENJOY.

Willem-Jan Ageling + Pietro Maffi

Willem-Jan Ageling coaches teams to create high-value products in complex environments. He is the co-owner of and writer for Serious Scrum. He currently works as a Senior Agile Coach at Worldline.

Pietro Maffi has extensive experience as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach in the web telecommunications and finance sectors. He has been a certified Scrum Master since 2008 and consistently applies an agile mindset in his daily activities.

His involvement in projects spans various areas, including Agile transformations, enhancing delivery quality through CI/CD applications, implementing TDD, ATDD, and DevOps approaches, as well as managing Microservices and Kubernetes deployments in both backend and frontend projects.

He is actively engaged in application delivery utilizing Cloud platforms such as AWS and IBM ICP.

Serious Scrum Talk: WE FIXED OUR SCRUM WITH UNFIX

Sonja Vuli?-Mancilla

Sonja Vuli?-Mancilla is a dedicated and enthusiastic Scrum Master and former educator with over 6 years experience in advocating for businesses, teams, stakeholders, students, and communities. Proven success in utilizing Scrum and Agile methodologies resulting in the development of self-organizing and confident teams that ‘own’ their product. Drives continuous improvement in processes through the facilitation of events, nurturing deep collaboration on teams, and driving effective change management. I thrive on growing lasting relationships and putting the people on my teams first.

Serious Scrum Talk: JUNIOR SCRUM MASTER - BULL IN A CHINA SHOP?

Antoni Tzavelas

Antoni Tzavelas is an experienced Agile coach with 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He focuses on finding leaner ways of working within teams while challenging the cultural status quo to inspire and invite positive and learning mindsets.

Antoni’s past as a Systems Admin, DevOps Engineer, and Cloud trainer helped in serving the Agile, cloud, and DevOps community by teaching, coaching, and mentoring those who are new to the domain while providing them with the necessary strategies and mindset to help cultivate a learning culture built on positivity, happiness and ultimately, trust.

Serious Scrum Talk: THE HAPPINESS BLUEPRINT: POSITIVITY EXPERIMENTS FOR POWERFUL TEAMWORK

Patty A. (Patty Aluskewicz)

Patty A. (Patty Aluskewicz) is an Agile Coach for PwC and the founder of Agile Mindset Consulting. With over 15 years of experience, she assists businesses and their employees in building fundamental Agile and Scrum skills, improving team dynamics and communication, and successfully implementing organizational change.

Serious Scrum Talk: ON SHAKY GROUND: WHAT PLATE TECTONICS CAN TEACH US ABOUT RESISTANCE TO SCRUM

?? See the schedule for the speakers below:

1200 Central European Time / 0600 Eastern US Time: Opening by Willem-Jan Ageling

1210 Central European Time / 0610 Eastern US Time: Track 1 - Alexander Giurca | Track 2 - Chris Stone

1300 Central European Time / 0700 Eastern US Time: Track 1 - Lavaneesh Gautam | Track 2 - Willem-Jan Ageling & Pietro Maffi

1400 Central European Time / 0800 Eastern US Time: Track 1 - Antoni Tzavelas | Track 2 - Sonja Vulic-Mancilla

1500 Central European Time / 0900 Eastern US Time: Track 1 - Philip Ledgerwood | Track 2 - Fabian Kleeberger

1600 Central European Time / 1000 Eastern US Time: Track 1 - Amber Barlett | Track 2 - Patty Aluskewicz

1650 Central European Time / 1050 Eastern US Time: Closing remarks