Track 1
Keynote
From here to there and back again
60 minutes
Simon Wardley
SWARDLEY MAPS LTD
Programme 2025
Wednesday 30 September - Thursday 1 October 2026
Day 1 - Wednesday 1 October 2025
08:45
Conference registration
09:45
Welcome to Agile Cambridge
10:00
11:00
Morning break
11:30
Track 1
Talk
Organisational challenges of legacy modernisation
45 minutes
Nick Tune
PayFit
Track 2
Talk
Get your fingers on the digital product sustainability pulse: research and recommendations
45 minutes
Joanna Masraff
Pirate Jo/Green PO
Track 3
Workshop
Meeting and workshop icebreakers that don’t suck (no really)
90 minutes
Emily Webber
Tacit
Track 4
Discussion
How can working across disciplines help us drive organisational change?
90 minutes
Emily Allinson
Opencast Software
David Sarginson
Opencast Software
12:15
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12:25
Track 2
Talk
Turning ambition into action: what to do when there’s no strategy in place
45 minutes
Randy Silver
Out of Owls
Track 1
Talk
AI and developer obsolescence: is this the beginning of the end?
45 minutes
Seb Rose
Claysnow Software
13:10
Lunch break
Track 1
Talk
13.30 Agile on the Bench at Agile Cambridge 2025
30 minutes
14:00
Track 1
Talk
The trusted teams toolkit
60 minutes
Tom Dolan
Which?
Track 2
Case Study
Zero-bug policy success
60 minutes
Peter Hilton
PHC
Track 3
Talk
Jobs to be done: turning insights into action
60 minutes
Nicola Dunlop
NatWest
Track 4
Workshop
F.A.D.E. A.W.A.Y.: turning discomfort into direction
60 minutes
Tutu Ariyo
Capgemini UK PLC
Track 5
Workshop
Building neuroinclusive spaces: a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® experience
120 minutes
Jenny Martin
Collaborate Solutions
15:00
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15:10
Track 1
Talk
The Impact of Software Teaming: Insights from Real Teams
60 minutes
Woody Zuill
Independent
Track 2
Case Study
Non-blocking continuous code reviews, a case study
60 minutes
Thierry de Pauw
ThinkingLabs
Track 3
Workshop
Agile isn’t enough: why your team is stalling
60 minutes
Andrea Saez
Turtl
Dave Martin
ConfidenceIn
16:10
Break - 20 minutes
16:30
Lightning Talks
17:30
End of day - Social Evening
Day 2 - Thursday 2 October 2025
09:00
Conference registration
Track 1
Wellbeing
Awareness, joint mobility, & body-mind connection
60 minutes
Col Maggs
Vortex Cambridge | Strengths Playground
09:50
Welcome to Agile Cambridge Day 2
10:00
Track 1
Keynote
The accountability problem
60 minutes
James Shore
OpenSesame
11:00
Morning break
11:30
Track 1
Talk
Staying agile in the age of AI
45 minutes
Catherine Breslin
Kingfisher Labs
Track 2
Talk
Engineering a better future: Embedding "Sooner Safer Happier" into a digital engineering centre of excellence
45 minutes
Ragan McGill
Anglian Water
Track 3
Workshop
Becoming a great team
100 minutes
Woody Zuill
Independent
Track 4
Workshop
Build, measure, learn: a product toolkit for impactful organisational change
100 minutes
Nicola Schoonderwoerd
Independent
12:15
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12:25
Track 1
Talk
Small giants and real giants: team dynamics after AI
45 minutes
Duncan Brown
Track 2
Talk
Level collapse (and how to rise out of it)
45 minutes
Matthew Philip
Systems Intelligence
13:10
Lunch break
Track 1
Talk
13.30 Agile on the Bench at Agile Cambridge
30 minutes
14:00
Track 1
Talk
A repeatable journey to building “Elite” agile teams
45 minutes
Antony Marcano
RiverGlide
Track 2
Case Study
Calm REBEL: leading without losing yourself
45 minutes
Geoff Watts
Inspect & Adapt Ltd
Track 3
Workshop
Don’t panic: ambiguity tolerance and the case for rewilding work
90 minutes
John Le Drew
Rainbow Laces
Kylie Yearsley
Agile Games Limited
Track 4
Workshop
GenAI for agile team performance
90 minutes
Jess Brock
Independent
14:45
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14:55
Track 1
Talk
Transparency win: from “perceived to be slow” to “poster child for success”
45 minutes
Maria Scrivener
Domino Printing Sciences
Track 2
Case Study
Experimenting with my agile community of practice
45 minutes
Joelle Garden
Carl Zeiss
15:40
Afternoon break - 20 minutes
16:00
Track 1
Endnote
We still don’t have psychological safety
60 minutes
Gitte Klitgaard
Native Wired
17:00
Conference close
17:10
End of conference - gather locally for a post event refreshment!