THIS YEAR'S THEME
Beyond Software, Learning from our challenges

Authored Scrum Master (book), created eXtreme Manufacturing, founded WIKISPEED. ABI-agile.com

Speaker at Harvard, Airbus, Volkswagen, Agile Munich

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joejustice/

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A software engineering manager and a pragmatic agile coach, striving for high performing teams. Worked in small startups as well as big corporates. 
Certified trainer, mentor, and lecturer for business agility in the Israeli industry and globally. 
Passionate mentor, optimistic motivator, patient listener, creative resolver and self-learner.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/erezmorabia/

Neta Agmon, VP Product

Nofar Ben-Kereth, R&D Operation Manager 

​With over more than 11 years in the Agile environment, I now fully focus on sharing knowledge; teaching, conferences, developing and improving of trainings and trainers. As a trainer at Xebia Academy I focus on teaching. I teach trainings from Scrum.org and I am also certified to teach the ‘Training From the Back of the Room’ and have co-created the Virtual Edition of it with Sharon Bowman.

As the Director of R&D Program Management at StoreDot, Carmit manages multiple R&D agile-based projects in the development of a proprietary extreme fast charging (XFC) Li-ion battery. Connecting between the corporate business and the research division, she manages R&D projects in multiple disciplines, including organic and inorganic synthesis, nanomaterial development and electrolyte development. Carmit joined StoreDot's electro-chemistry group in 2014 and then headed the company's battery innovation group.   Carmit has PhD and MSc in Biotechnology with focus on Electro-chemistry, both from Tel-Aviv University, and a BCs in Biotechnology Engineering from Ben Gurion University. 

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmit-ophir

Jose Casal is a business agility consultant & trainer with extensive experience. He is dedicated to helping organisations and individuals embrace modern management concepts including Flow Thinking, Kanban, Flight Levels & Scrum. Strongly motivated towards continuous learning and research, he is able to help organisations achieve better Agility. His goal is to create thriving and engaged organisations. Jose is an international speaker and organises the in-person Lean Agile London (LALDN) and the virtual Lean Agile Global (LAG) conferences. Jose's experience covers the full breadth of Agile approaches. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Flight Levels Guide (FLG), Professional Kanban Trainer (PKT), Enterprise Kanban Coach (EKC) & Certified Trainer for Training from the BACK of the Room! (TBR-CT). He is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He co-founded Actineo Consulting LLP in 2015.

Idan, head of product & Vadim, R&D group, at Sprial, love to plan, hate to waste, eager need to get things done!

Love leading teams into organized Agile processes, defining great products and making our users happy

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Over his career, Ahi Gvirtsman has accumulated a rich experience in forming, building and running innovation programs for various types of organizations both as the manager of such programs and as a mentor to innovation managers of diverse types of organizations (corporations, municipalities, military). He personally designed, built and managed the innovation program of HP’s software division covering 20,000 employees worldwide. In his book “The PEAK innovation principles”, released in 2017, Ahi Gvirtsman offers a common framework based on his experience that can be implemented by any type of organization in any industry as a way of turning itself into being innovation proficient. He is a 25+ year veteran of the software industry with roles ranging from large corporations to small startups and has an MSc in computer science from the Technion and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University. Currently, Ahi is the co-founder of Spyre, a company which guarantees at least a doubling of any organization’s innovation outcomes.