Our call for sessions for 2026 is now closed.

The information below is now here for information only.

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Call for Sessions closed on Monday 9 March 2026

Agile Cambridge is a leading conference on approaches to flow, lean and agile development. We encourage submissions from anyone with relevant skills, experience or knowledge to share with our community.

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What we're looking for

We want to attract speakers and practitioners working in any relevant area, our participants like to hear a range of perspectives on a subject.

Practical approaches

Our participants love takeaways that can be applied to their own work. This can be by participating in workshops to learn new techniques or case studies of projects demonstrating how you approached a problem.

Authenticity and inspiration

We love speakers who inspire our participants with their real-world experiences. Be bold, teach us something new, make us think, make us smile, but most of all, be yourself.

Fresh perspectives

Participants like a new way of exploring familiar challenges - practical, inspiring sessions that our participants can learn from and engage with.

Topics of interest

This year, our theme is: Constraint as a Catalyst

More and more, we seem to be operating from a place of constraint and crisis, and it doesn't look set to change anytime soon. So how do we harness these conditions to do great work? That's what we'll explore at Agile Cambridge this year.

The theme will cover:
 

  • Leadership and Influence – Leading teams, decision-making, coaching, and strategy
  • Teams and collaboration - multi-disciplinary working, scale
  • Systems and Impact – Flow, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Complexity, Organisational Design and Transformational Change
  • Innovation and Experimentation – Using constraints to inspire creative solutions, AI, emerging tech, and new methods
  • Methods, Tools and Craft – adaptation under constraints, data-driven evolution, skills and experience
  • Resilient careers – Job hunting and progression in difficult times, burn out and resetting in a sustainable way.
  • Accessibility and Inclusion – Delivering for everyone, ensuring equity even when resources are limited

You can also take a look at our archive of past conferences for inspiration.

Our participants like to hear a range of perspectives on any subject. For instance, on transformation you might want to present:

  • a case study on leading transformation
  • a talk about your experience of being part of a transformation programme
  • a group discussion about relationships with stakeholders in transformation 

We want our participants to have an idea of what they will get out of a session before they join it. So it’s essential to think about the clear learning points, or takeaways, your session will offer and include them in your proposal.

Types of session

Our participants want to hear about actions or approaches they can take away and use in their own organisations. 

We encourage interactive sessions that involve the audience in the discussion or give them hands-on experience. You are also welcome to present a session about something specific you've done, but you should try to structure it so people can participate and not simply sit and listen.

Our most common types of sessions are:

  • case studies
  • experience reports
  • talks
  • hands-on workshops
  • informal or format-based discussions 

You can read about these in more detail in our guidelines for submitting a proposal. 

We want our participants to have an idea of what they will get out of a session before they join it. So it’s essential to think about the clear learning points, or takeaways, your session will offer and include them in your proposal.

We also welcome novel session formats and are supportive of experimental sessions that may never have been tried before. Feel free to contact us if you’d like to discuss it before you submit your proposal.

Our participants

Agile Cambridge attracts a diverse group of participants. Some are relatively new to agile practices, while others have worked in this sector for many years. Some have very broad experience, while others are specialists in a particular field.

Our participants have specialisms such as:

  • Scrum Master
  • Delivery Manager
  • Developer/Engineer/Architect
  • Product Manager
  • Coach
  • Consultant
  • Project Manager
  • Quality Assurance 

Our participants come from many different industries, including:

  • Technology and IT Services
  • Software and Digital Solutions
  • Consulting and Training
  • Banking and Financial Services
  • E-commerce and Retail
  • Government and Public Sector
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Education
  • Manufacturing and Engineering

Inclusivity and diversity

We aim to be inclusive and diverse - in terms of our speakers and our participants.

We’re committed to creating a safe space for everyone to share ideas, try something new, get feedback, and engage with a knowledgeable, open-minded audience. We want to ensure participants can connect, network and learn from their industry peers in a positive environment. 

We provide a safe and fun place to share ideas and try something new. Our 'Code of conduct' describes expected behaviour.

Our review process is anonymous - to ensure selection based on merit and not how well a speaker is known. We want to hear your story - the first step is to submit it.

Want to create a great session submission?

Read our submission guidelines

Our review process

After the deadline closes, our selection panel will review all submissions. This usually takes around 4 weeks.

The review process is anonymous - all speaker names, biographies and other details are removed - to ensure the panel selects sessions on their merit and not on how well a speaker is known. To help us ensure personally identifying information is not included in the process, do not include this information in your session descriptions. These include links to blogs or recordings.

We’ll let you know the result of our panel’s review, even if you’re not successful this time. If you are interested in receiving any feedback our reviewers have about your proposal, let us know. 

Factors that are considered when reviewing a proposal include whether:

  • the session will align with the conference themes and complement other sessions
  • the subject to be covered is clearly defined
  • the subject will be of interest to the audience
  • the content is of high quality
  • the session will be well organised and well delivered

How we support our speakers

Agile Cambridge is organised by Software Acumen, professional conference organisers since 2007.  Our experienced, full-time team is there to ensure you get the most out of participating in the event.

Free speaker tickets

We offer at least 1 free ticket to the whole event for each session selected to be in the programme. The number of free tickets will depend on the number of named speakers and the session’s duration. We give:

  • 1 free ticket for a session between 45 and 60 minutes
  • up to 2 free tickets for a 90 minute session

We allocate free tickets to speakers in the order they are named on the proposal, unless you tell us otherwise. We also offer a discounted ticket for any named speaker who does not qualify for a free ticket.

Your speaker ticket includes:

  • participation in the full event programme, including social activities
  • lunch and refreshments at scheduled breaks
Expenses

We cover speakers’ travel and accommodation expenses in line with our speaker expenses policy. We will consider the financial cost of a session as part of our decision on whether to select it for the programme. If we accept your session, we’ll suggest a financial amount to cover expenses, depending on your location. 

See our expenses policy

Session Practice

We like to help develop speakers and provide a platform for a range of backgrounds, experience and perspectives. 

This year we will be asking speakers to give a dry run of their sessions before the event takes place, if your session is accepted you will be asked to do this in order to help refine the sessions and be given feedback ahead of time.

Supplies

We provide standard supplies for sessions, like sticky notes, markers, pens and paper. We’ll cover the cost of, or supply directly, any additional materials you need to run your session, for example printing (if submitted to us in advance). Just tell us what you need when you submit your proposal.

Audiovisual equipment

We provide screens and connections to display material from speakers’ own laptops.

Local knowledge

We’ve run conferences in Cambridge for almost 10 years and know the local area well. Contact us if you have any questions about travel or accommodation, or if you want to know more about what to do or see in and around Cambridge when you visit. You can also check out our location page.

We cover speakers’ travel and accommodation expenses

Read our expenses policy

Submit your session

We will be accepting session proposals via 'WeReview', a submission and review platform which is currently being trialled in public beta.

Go to WeReview to submit your session.

Need some help?

Read our guidelines for submitting a proposal.

What we expect from our speakers

If your session is included in our programme, there are a few things we need you to agree to as a speaker at Agile Cambridge. Do not submit a proposal if you feel you cannot agree to these.

As a speaker you will:

  • abide by our Code of Conduct
  • promote your session in the build-up to the event
  • deliver your session and otherwise participate in the event
  • respond to any requests we make to ensure your session is ready, such as making sure the review panel’s feedback has been addressed, or reviewing the programme or your slides
  • avoid any activity before the event that would bring it into disrepute or violate the code of conduct
  • ensure you have the correct visa if you are traveling from outside the UK

Our full terms and conditions are set out in the submission form.