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Amy Kouppas

My name is Amy Kouppas and I am a cheerleader of people and lifting others and my passion is community. My career started in 1st and 2nd line support, to falling in love with SQL in a student database department, to then working in software for...

Bianca Spruit

Bianca is a Management & Leadership Consultant dedicated to helping leaders create workplaces where people feel valued, supported, and able to reach their full potential. With over 20 years in the tech industry, she has experienced both the power of...

Steve Trapps

Steve is seasoned agile and delivery practitioner with over 25 years of experience in product delivery. Positioned as a key player in nurturing high-performing teams, Steve leverage agile techniques to deliver substantial value to clients across...

James Pels

James Pels is the founder of Proven EA, where he helps organisations reduce waste, align strategy with delivery, and make improvements that actually stick. With over 20 years’ experience as an agilist across sectors including defence, healthcare,...

Seun Alabi

With a strong background in strategy, partnerships, and digital transformation, Seun combines business acumen with stakeholder management to drive successful product development. With over a decade of experience in ICT, she has worked with...

Sorrel Harriet

Having bounced around academia and the tech industry in various roles, Sorrel now works part-time as a research software engineer at Leeds University, and part-time as a freelance learning coach and consultant. She loves building connections between...

Matthew Carr

Matthew Carr - The Agility Guy - much like Gordon Ramsay stepping into a “Kitchen Nightmare”, I’ve spent the last 25 years transforming struggling environments. In my case, though, they’re technology teams and organisations rather than restaurants....

Mark Moreau

Mark is originally from Liverpool but currently lives with his young family in Saltaire. He has worked for several technology startups, scale-ups and enterprises as a Product Analyst, Product Owner and Product Manager. He is currently a Product...

Amardeep Sirha

Amardeep Sirha is the Co-Founder and Head of Data at amarti – a leading UK-based data consultancy. Amarti specialises in delivering powerful technical solutions for some of the market’s leading organisations such as The Very Group, Tide, OVO, Dr....

Steve Martin

Steve is an Agile Coach, Obeya Consultant, and IC Agile Instructor, passionate about transforming how organisations communicate and collaborate. With over 13 years of experience, he specialises in developing Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches into...

Rohit Ratan Mani

Rohit Ratan Mani, CEC,CTC, ICF-ACC, ICAgile Trainer, ICE-AC, will share insights, personal anecdotes, real experiences, and pragmatic guidelines to help realign the transformation journey. He will also discuss typical anti-patterns and impediments...

Catherine Bonner

Catherine Bonner is Managing Director of leadership communication consultancy, Ambient Tribe... and our Public Speaking Partner at Agile Yorkshire. Catherine helps ambitious leaders connect, engage, and inspire the people that matter to their world...

Yann Golanski

As an accomplished leader in greenfield project management, Yann adeptly incorporates security protocols from the project's inception, thereby emphasising a proactive Shift Left approach. During his quarter of a century career, Yann has gained...

Lewis Bellwood

Lewis is a dedicated Release Train Engineer at Sky with previous experience as a Scrum Master. With a keen focus on Flow Metrics and Monte Carlo Forecasting, Lewis is known for his expertise in optimizing project delivery and ensuring seamless...

Clement Pickering

Clement is an independent coach and consultant focused on helping tech leaders increase both their impact and personal fulfilment through compassionate, people-focused leadership. He combines a background in technology and consultancy with his...

Katja Obring

After 20 successful years in the software industry, she now teaches teams and individuals shift-left testing strategies and leveraging DevOps practices to achieve speedy delivery with predictable quality. Her tenure at companies such as Linden Lab...

Tom Hoyland

Tom is an Agility and DevOps Practitioner, Coach and Mentor at That Agile. With more than 20 years in tech, Tom has led Agile, DevOps and Digital Transformations working with clients across the globe to build teams, grow capabilities, and promote...

Bina Champaneria

Bina is an experienced Project Manager and Accredited Trainer in PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, AgilePM, and APM PFQ, with a career spanning industries such as garment manufacturing, construction and higher education. She has successfully managed complex...

Amy Thompson

Amy, an experienced Agile practitioner since 2012, has worked across sectors including finance, retail, medical and leisure, gaining deep insights into fostering Organisational and Business Agility. She is passionate about harmonising cultural,...

Adam Mitchell

Adam is currently leading a start-up in Dubai while commuting between the vibrant city and his home in Yorkshire. With nearly two decades of experience driving digital transformation across the globe, Adam is passionate about enabling meaningful...

Dan Hammond

Dan is a passionate advocate for effective teamwork and the founder of Squadify, a SaaS and services platform that leverages data to identify and close gaps in team dynamics. By enabling teams to boost engagement and drive performance, Squadify...

Carly Watson

Carly is an ADHD coach passionate about holistic approaches to managing ADHD. She works with clients seeking alternatives to medication, offering one-on-one coaching, ADHD-friendly meditation sessions and retreats that focus on practical, drug-free...

Luca Sabato

Luca Sabato is a technical architect with extensive experience in Agile methodologies and customer-centric product development. Skilled in requirement gathering, stakeholder communication and delivery management, he excels at transforming complex...

Simon Cookson

As an introverted people pleaser, Simon learned to move beyond "winging it" during crucial work conversations and discovered effective ways to lead teams with confidence. Now, he coaches leaders of technical and professional services teams, helping...

Tom Preval

As a Certified SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC), Tom is passionate about empowering teams and organisations to reach their full potential. He focuses on fostering continuous improvement, driving innovation and enhancing collaboration to create lasting...

David Westgarth

David works as DM at BJSS and has held numerous roles and extensive experience in agile delivery and tech, ranging from developer to manager across several industries. He's an active advocate of agile and works to enhance teams and workplaces by...

Catherine Bonner

Catherine is a communication consultant, coach, and trainer with over 15 years of experience helping business leaders and teams master how they communicate. With a background in the tech industry, Catherine has a deep understanding of the challenges...

Rebecca Dainton

Rebecca is a passionate and driven advocate for modern product development, with extensive experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, and Leader. She is dedicated to helping organizations adopt and excel with modern product delivery practices,...

Penelope Hindle

Penelope is the Senior Technical Programmes Manager at Code First Girls, the largest free provider of coding courses for women. With a strong background in Software Development and Product Management, she has built a career dedicated to empowering...

Matthew Skelton

Matthew Skelton is one of the foremost leaders in modern organisational dynamics for fast flow, drawing on Team Topologies and related practices to support organisations with transformation towards a sustainable fast flow of value and true business...

Royd Brayshay

Royd is the founder of NewRedo, a Leeds-based IT services and consultancy company that delivers software, IT services, and trusted consultants to its customers. He has been active in the agile community since 2007 and has organised Agile Yorkshire...

Amy Thompson

After starting her Agile career in humble yet essential ScrumMastery back in 2012, Amy has gained experience of working with Agile practice from the bottom up. Having worked in finance, retail, medical and leisure sectors, her understanding of how...

Andy Burgin

Andy is a Principal Platform Engineer at Flutter UK and Ireland. He considers himself a Kubernetes and DevRel fettler, spending far too much of his spare time running software in containers that really shouldn't be. He is a small part of the...

Sharon Dale

Sharon Dale is a coach and systems convener. As a coach, she gently supports individuals and groups through an exploration of the present, helping them to see possibilities and decide on how to move forward. As a systems convener, she brings...

Lauren Ackroyd

Lauren has worked as a Scrum Master for 10 years, and over that time has developed a passion for coaching, learning, and sharing knowledge. Lauren loves to help others develop their coaching skills and build on their self-awareness.

Robin Hackshall

Robin's goal is to help individuals, teams and organisations solve complex problems simply. Robin is an experienced Agile Coach and Scrum Master working within Agile environments since 2011. Originally starting out as a Product Owner he has...

Vernon Richards

I’m a Quality Coach & Tester who helps teams build better products by understanding the relationship between quality & software testing. I’ve been testing since 2002 starting with video games on PS2, Xbox & PC. It may not sound like a real job but...

Lindsay Baker

Lindsay is an experienced Digital Delivery Leader and Agile Adoption Coach, specialising in building effective and efficient delivery practice for organisations. As a neurodivergent female in tech she is passionate about the value of diversity in...

Aaron McKenna

Aaron is a highly experienced Agile Transformation Coach and Trainer, specialising in helping companies better align strategy and execution using agile practices at scale.

Matthew Turnbull

Hello! My names Matt, I’m 24 and I’m from… LEEDS! (Doing my best “take me out” impression). I’ve been working as a scrum master for 18 months. My journey so far has been unbelievable, but has of course had its ups and downs! During my talk I will be...

Kieran Baker

Kieran is currently the Chief Digital and Information for South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board. Kieran has over 10 years' experience in the NHS in Digital, Data Technology, with roles spanning provider, system and national organisations.

Rachel Carrington

Rachel is currently the Head of Portfolio and Operations at South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board. Rachel has over 15 years' experience in the NHS, predominantly in project and delivery roles related to national digital and data programmes.

Alan Raison

Alan is an experienced developer, DevOps engineer and engineering team leader, who is constantly looking for ways to improve his teams' ways of working.

Jutta Eckstein

Renowned author, Jutta Eckstein, works as an independent coach, consultant, and trainer. She has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make an Agile transition. She has a unique experience in applying Agile processes within medium-sized...

Matthew Skelton

Matthew was recognised by TechBeacon in 2018 and 2019 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps, Matthew curates the well-known DevOps topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com and is co-author of the books Continuous Delivery with Windows...

Gwen Diagram

Gwen Diagram is a technology professional from Leeds who specialises in testing. She is an avid automation evangelist with a focus on testing complemented by repeatable build processes with monitoring. She has had varied roles throughout her...

Sophie Weston

Creating and running software is a team sport and yet all too often the way that technology teams themselves are created and run is left too much to chance. In this talk, Sophie will look at some of the ways that we can make our technology teams...

Malcolm South

Malcolm is a Product Owner specialising in fintech at Equiniti Credit Services

Kev McCabe

Kev McCabe has been working as an agile coach at William Hill since March 2018. Working on multiple transformation initiatives over this time. Kev works with multiple teams and helps them improve their ways of working by listening to the team and...

Tom Hoyland

With a background in software engineering, product development and service transformation, Tom likes to get under the bonnet of products and teams to understand what makes them tick and how they could be better. He’s led a range of agile and digital...

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Guest Speakers

Amy Kouppas

Bianca Spruit

Steve Trapps

James Pels

Seun Alabi

Sorrel Harriet

Matthew Carr

Mark Moreau

Amardeep Sirha

Steve Martin

Rohit Ratan Mani

Catherine Bonner

Yann Golanski

Lewis Bellwood

Clement Pickering

Katja Obring

Tom Hoyland

Bina Champaneria

Amy Thompson

Adam Mitchell

Dan Hammond

Carly Watson

Luca Sabato

Simon Cookson

Tom Preval

David Westgarth

Catherine Bonner

Rebecca Dainton

Penelope Hindle

Matthew Skelton

Royd Brayshay

Amy Thompson

Andy Burgin

Sharon Dale

Lauren Ackroyd

Robin Hackshall

Vernon Richards

Lindsay Baker

Aaron McKenna

Matthew Turnbull

Kieran Baker

Rachel Carrington

Alan Raison

Jutta Eckstein

Matthew Skelton

Gwen Diagram

Sophie Weston

Malcolm South

Kev McCabe

Tom Hoyland

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