Track 1
Keynote
Building teams that thrive
60 minutes
Alison Coward
Founder, Bracket
Programme 2024
Wednesday 30 September - Thursday 1 October 2026
Day 1 - Wednesday 2 October
08:30
Conference registration
09:35
Welcome to Agile Cambridge
09:45
10:45
Morning break
11:15
Track 1
Case Study
Flow, value, culture, delivery: How we measure team agility across ASOS.com
45 minutes
Nicolas Brown
Thrivve Partners
Track 2
Talk
Defects: A final countdown
45 minutes
Wouter Lagerweij
Lagerweij Consulting and Coaching
Track 3
Workshop
Building team connections and empathy, quickly
90 minutes
Emily Webber
Tacit
Track 4
Workshop
The whole story: moving ideas to delivery
90 minutes
Martin Bate
Ticketmaster
Vicky Lamont
Golden Charter
Track 5
Workshop
Paradigm shift(er)s: Learnings from 10 years of IT transformations
90 minutes
Carlo Beschi
Treatwell
Switchover
Switchover
12:15
Track 1
Talk
Unearthing improvement hot spots: Team topologies in action
45 minutes
Himanshu Swaroop
The Bright Moon Limited & Conflux Digital Limited
Track 2
Talk
The subtle art of supporting a mature product: Unveiling key practices and transformative learnings
45 minutes
Flavia Circiumaru
FundApps
13:00
Lunch break / Agile on the Bench
Track 1
Talk
13.30 Agile on the Bench at Agile Cambridge 2024
30 minutes
14:00
Track 1
Talk
Shades of Conway's Law
60 minutes
Thierry de Pauw
ThinkingLabs
Track 2
Talk
10 things nobody tells you about OKRs: one of these might be the answer to the troubles you’re having!
60 minutes
Neil Vass
Delivery Decisions
Track 3
Workshop
How to progress forward as a whole organisation: Lessons learnt from leadership coaching
60 minutes
Premalatha Balan
Knowledge Era Ltd
Track 4
Workshop
Tech ethics in an agile world
120 minutes
Jo Stansfield
Inclusioneering Limited
Shân Millie
Bright Blue Hare
Euan Matthews
Track 5
Workshop
Work smarter: Build intelligent organisations and teams with the help of 4E cognitive science
120 minutes
Daniel Susser
Embodied Agility
15:00
Afternoon break
15:30
Track 1
Case Study
The code quality advantage: Debunking the speed vs. quality myth with empirical insights
60 minutes
Adam Tornhill
CodeScene
Track 2
Talk
Do more with less: Scaling delivery management in large organisations
60 minutes
Francesca Salvati
Just Eat Takeaway
Track 3
Workshop
Moving beyond Cassandra’s curse and the people pleaser syndrome with leaders
60 minutes
Diane Gombart
Coach to Manage
Workshop continued
Workshop continued
16:30
Social evening
Day 2 - Thursday 3 October
08:45
Conference registration
Track 1
Wellbeing
Awareness, joint mobility, & body-mind connection
45 minutes
09:35
Welcome to Agile Cambridge
09:45
Track 1
Keynote
Beyond transparency: next-gen communication strategies
60 minutes
Elizabeth Ayer
Public Sector Product Lead
10:45
Morning break
11:15
Track 1
Talk
The walls and the turrets: Engage and enable your engineers
45 minutes
Dan Abel
Gousto
Track 2
Talk
Feature factory or value vehicle?
45 minutes
Liz Robinson
Cyted Health
Track 3
Workshop
Influence without power: Why empathy is your best friend
90 minutes
Suzanne Lagerweij
Lagerweij Consulting and Coaching
Track 4
Workshop
Greening agile
90 minutes
Giovanni Asproni
Asprotunity Ltd
Track 5
Workshop
The play way: Harnessing your leadership through the power of play
90 minutes
Portia Tung
The School of Play
Switchover
Switchover
12:15
Track 1
Talk
Next-level leadership: Embracing supervision for growth
45 minutes
Katalin Zanaty
Just Eat Takeaway
Track 2
Talk
Ensuring data quality in agile environments: Strategies and best practices
45 minutes
Nimit Bhardwaj
Booking.com
13:00
Lunch break / Agile on the Bench
Track 1
Talk
Agile on the Bench at Agile Cambridge 2024
30 minutes
14:00
Track 1
Talk
Unveiling viability risk: The crucial missing piece in building products
60 minutes
Cei Sanderson
Bango
Track 2
Talk
If agile is difficult, try artful making
60 minutes
Elcin Marasli Ball
Independent
Track 3
Workshop
Bringing products to life: Ideas to inception
120 minutes
Rucha Ramchandra Kapare
Springer Nature
Ankit Agrawal
HSBC
Track 4
Workshop
Navigating difference and disagreement
120 minutes
Joel Chippindale
Monkey's Thumb
Ray Cooper
&breathe
Track 5
Case Study
Experimentation culture: A collaborative approach to organisational improvement
60 minutes
Serena Caruso
Codeplay Software
15:00
Afternoon break
15:30
Track 1
Case Study
From project chaos to product nirvana
60 minutes
Ricardo Tomé
HSBC
Track 2
Talk
Go beyond nice: Unleashing kindness for team flourishing and success
60 minutes
Jenny Martin
Collaborate Solutions
Workshop continued
Workshop continued
Track 5
Case Study
“Are we (ever) there yet?”: Working through complex change in a large organisation
60 minutes
Joelle Garden
Carl Zeiss Microscopy
16:30
Social evening
Day 3 - Friday 4 October
08:45
Conference registration
09:35
Welcome to Agile Cambridge
09:45
Track 1
Keynote
How to say no to things you actually do not want to do
60 minutes
Aino Vonge Corry
Serious instigator of fun at work, Metadeveloper
10:45
Morning break
11:15
Track 1
Talk
Psychological safety and remote work
45 minutes
Matthew Philip
Systems Intelligence
Track 2
Case Study
From novice to pioneer: Breaking the agile mould
45 minutes
Kate Hughes
Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Track 3
Workshop
Retro workshop
90 minutes
Aino Vonge Corry
Serious instigator of fun at work, Metadeveloper
Track 4
Workshop
Generating change without generating resistance
90 minutes
Roy Marriott
Marriott Coaching Ltd
Track 5
Workshop
Agile 2049: The next iteration!
90 minutes
Farah Egby
Sanger
Çiğdem Saka Jackson
Bumper
Switchover
Switchover
12:15
Track 1
Case Study
Squads assemble! Keeping engagement high when teams go remote first
45 minutes
Stephen Janaway
Bloom & Wild
Track 2
Case Study
How we conquered dependencies and started releasing each month: A case study from a large Ukrainian bank
45 minutes
Julia Puzyrova
Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine
13:00
Lunch break
13:50
Track 1
Talk
Hidden meanings: The power of behavioural science in research & design
45 minutes
Annika-Marie Leick
SPARCK / BJSS
Track 2
Talk
Decoding the algorithm: Why explainability and transparency matter when building AI-driven systems
45 minutes
Marcel Britsch
Complex Made Easy Ltd
Track 3
Workshop
Rescue higher education from grave peril while cutting some groovy team topologies shapes
90 minutes
Sorrel Harriet
Learning-as-a-Service
Clem Pickering
Independent
Track 4
Workshop
Feeling your way: Five group dynamics that you already experience but can become a guide for getting things done
90 minutes
Rich Watkins
Let's Go
Steph Orme
MiM
14:35
Afternoon break
14:55
Track 1
Talk
The journey to agile leadership
45 minutes
Karim Harbott
Agile Centre Ltd
Track 2
Case Study
Kickstarting your AI journey: Practical insights, starting points, and developing proof-of-concepts
45 minutes
Timothy Crittenden
BJSS
Workshop continued
Workshop continued
15:40
Agile Cambridge wrap up
15:50
Conference close