Keynote
Seven habits of a (mostly) successful team
60 minutes
Sander Hoogendoorn
Chief Technology Officer, iBOOD.com
Programme 2025
Lean Agile Scotland
29-30 October 2026
Day 1 - Wednesday 24 September 2025
08:45
Conference registration
09:45
Welcome to Lean Agile Scotland
10:00
11:00
Morning break
11:30
Talk
Agentic AI: redefining autonomy in intelligent systems
45 minutes
Shalini Goyal
Engineering and AI Leader || Ex-Amazon || Author
Talk
Real World Agility: improving flow, value, culture and delivery
45 minutes
Nicolas Brown
Thrivve Partners
Workshop
Navigating complexity using current reality trees and experimentation
90 minutes
Suzanne Morrison
Outcome Over Output
Vinnie Gill
Outcome Over Output
Track 4
Discussion
How can working across disciplines help us drive organisational change?
90 minutes
Barbara Mertlova
Opencast Software
Emily Allinson
Opencast Software
12:15
Switchover
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12:25
Track 1
Talk
The convergence: how AI is changing agile roles, teams, and practices
45 minutes
Stuart Munton
AND Digital
Talk
Unlocking the fast flow machine: the antidote to organisational drag
45 minutes
Toli Apostolidis
Flipdish
Andy Norton
Flipdish
13:10
Lunch break - 50 minutes
14:00
Talk
Navigating uncertainty in complex software systems
60 minutes
Jitesh Gosai
BBC
Talk
Building a product ops framework: from chaos to clarity
60 minutes
Cristiane Pitzer
Laya Healthcare
Workshop
Fix the small stuff: everyday kaizen with your team
60 minutes
Ketan Kulkarni
ATOS Ltd
Suvarna Kulkarni
Independent
15:00
Switchover
15:10
Case Study
What agile can learn from lean manufacturing, and vice versa
60 minutes
Andrea Provaglio
Independent
Track 2
Talk
Jobs to be done: turning insights into action
60 minutes
Nicola Dunlop
Natwest
Workshop
Escape room: product edition
60 minutes
Jess Brock
Independent
Track 4
Workshop
F.A.D.E. A.W.A.Y.: turning discomfort into direction
60 minutes
Tutu Ariyo
Capgemini UK PLC
16:10
Break - 30 minutes
16:40
Track 1
Case Study
Making Ford Europe's customer experience (CX) organisation agile
45 minutes
Benjamin Igna
Stellar Work GmbH
Track 3
Talk
How we accidentally got agile teams to try something new without starting a fight
45 minutes
Ade-Lee Adebiyi
SoPost
17:25
End of day - Social Evening
Day 2 - Thursday 25 September 2025
09:00
Conference registration
09:00
Lean Coffee
09:50
Welcome to Lean Agile Scotland Day 2
10:00
Keynote
Navigating Workplace Dynamics with Nonviolent Communication
60 minutes
Jenny Martin
Collaborate Solutions
11:00
Morning break - 30 minutes
11:30
Talk
Breaking barriers: the agile career playbook for women in leadership
45 minutes
Hindoli Roy
JP Morgan & chase
Talk
From ripples to waves: cultivating meaningful and lasting change
45 minutes
Kathy Thomson
Independent
Talk
The four endings of a retrospective
45 minutes
Dave Westgarth
Unifeye
Workshop
Expecting the unexpected: how to become resilient
90 minutes
Charles Weir
Lancaster University
12:15
Switchover
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12:25
Track 1
Talk
From AI to Agility: designing coaching cultures that transform
45 minutes
Emma Collingridge
BBC
Claire Campbell
BBC
Talk
Supercharging transformation: how to unlock deeper value in strategic change through communities of practice
45 minutes
Lynsae Tulloch
Eolas Comms
Workshop
Pre-mortems: before it breaks - lessons from the future
45 minutes
Roberto Real
Calba Ltd
Mark Kiehlmann
Calba
13:10
Lunch break - 50 minutes
14:00
Case Study
Team health in GOV.UK, GDS: from tracking to meaningful change
45 minutes
Anna Sherrington
Government Digital Service
Track 2
Case Study
So you’ve built it, now support it: aka doing the gardening at Bloom & Wild
45 minutes
Stephen Janaway
Bloom & Wild
Workshop
Six bricks, six ways
100 minutes
Robin Hackshall
Enigma Consulting and Solutions Ltd
Track 4
Workshop
Don’t panic: ambiguity tolerance and the case for rewilding work
100 minutes
John Le Drew
Rainbow Laces
Kylie Yearsley
Agile Games
14:45
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14:55
Track 1
Talk
Get your fingers on the digital product sustainability pulse: research and recommendations
45 minutes
Joanna Masraff
Pirate Jo/Green PO
Sophia Ashley
Scott Logic
Talk
Rethinking stable teams: a practitioners guide to dynamic reteaming
45 minutes
Chris Smith
Leading Agile Teams
15:40
Break - 30 minutes
16:10
Endnote
From here to there and back again
60 minutes
Simon Wardley
SWARDLEY MAPS LTD
17:10 Conference close
17:20
End of conference - gather locally for a post event refreshment!