Track 1
Discussion
Lean Coffee
45 minutes
Julia Wester
55 Degrees
Programme 2026
Lean Agile Scotland
29-30 October 2026
Lean Agile Scotland 2026 Theme - The Age of Disruption. Practitioner-led talks, workshops and keynotes.
Day 1 - Thursday 29 October
08:15
Conference registration opens
08:45
09:35
Welcome to Lean Agile Scotland
09:45
Track 1
Keynote
Software engineering in an AI world
60 minutes
Dave Farley
Continuous Delivery Ltd
10:45
Morning break
11:15
Track 1
Talk
Thoughtfully leading an AI transformation
45 minutes
Stephen Janaway
Bloom & Wild
Track 2
Talk
RIP certainty theatre: fixing the language of commitment
45 minutes
Julia Wester
55 Degrees
Track 3
Workshop
10 questions to help your strategy survive disruption
90 minutes
Karl J Scotland
Karl Scotland Ltd
Track 4
Workshop
Planning under uncertainty: thinking in probabilities
90 minutes
Agnieszka Reginek
Ørsted
Agnieszka Cieślawska
KMD Group
12:00
Switchover
Switchover
12:15
Track 1
Talk
GreenOps for incident management: better recovery, lower carbon
45 minutes
Sarah Hsu
Author of O'Reilly's Building Green Software
Track 2
Talk
Survival of the curious: continuous learning in the age of AI
45 minutes
Dave Westgarth
Unifeye
13:00
Lunch break
14:00
Track 1
Talk
Seams & signals: the quiet infrastructure of cohesion
60 minutes
Tiani Jones
Founder, Proper Science, Ltd
Track 2
Talk
Building agile capabilities beyond frameworks: an agile agnostic, competency‑driven upskilling approach
60 minutes
Patrick Niebergall
Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar GmbH
Track 3
Workshop
Who wrote this system? Exploring the social system runtime
90 minutes
Xin Yao
Ypma Consulting
Track 4
Workshop
When good enough beats perfect: a game for teams under pressure
90 minutes
Marianne Rady
mariannerady.com
Katrin Mäntele
kleiner-wahnsinn.com
15:00
Afternoon break
15:30
Track 1
Talk
"The smoothest reorg I've ever seen": lessons in collaborative org design
60 minutes
Joakim Sundén
Better Product Work
Mikael Brodd
Better Product Work
Track 2
Talk
Neurodivergent agility 101
60 minutes
Sophia Ashley
Scott Logic
16:30
Switchover
16:45
Track 1
Lightning Talks
Lightning talks
45 minutes
17:15
Evening social
Day 2 - Friday 30 October
08:45
Conference registration opens
08:45
Track 1
Discussion
Lean coffee
45 minutes
Julia Wester
55 Degrees
09:40
Welcome to Lean Agile Scotland
09:45
Track 1
Keynote
Cat's keynote title coming soon...
60 minutes
Cat Swetel
Senior Director of Engineering, Nubank
10:45
Morning break
11:15
Track 1
Case Study
Architecture for flow: scaling decisions without centralising control at DHL eCommerce BeNeLux
45 minutes
Kenny Schwegler
DHL eCommerce BeNeLux, Weave IT
Marc Rooding
DHL eCommerce BeNeLux
Track 2
Talk
Against scale
45 minutes
Duncan Brown
CTO Digital Prevention Services, NHSE
Track 3
Workshop
Cut through complexity - the OOPSI Framework
90 minutes
Jenny Martin
Collaborate Solutions
Track 4
Talk
Disrupted from within: how a platform team broke the project factory
45 minutes
Francesca Salvati
Just Eat Takeaway
12:00
Switchover
Switchover
Switchover
12:15
Track 1
Talk
Beyond burnups: the different ways to forecast delivery (and when to use them)
45 minutes
Nicolas Brown
Thrivve Partners
Track 2
Talk
Now what? If the robots can do my job, what do I do?
45 minutes
Vernon Richards
Phrase / NewRedo
Track 4
Case Study
From budget tension to strategic alignment: the power of participatory budgeting
45 minutes
Cécile Auret
France Travail
13:00
Lunch break
14:00
Track 1
Talk
What we (should have) learned from Lord of The Rings
60 minutes
Aino Vonge Corry
Instigator of fun, Metadeveloper
Track 2
Workshop
Where do you first notice? Finding early signals in delivery
60 minutes
Cameron Leask
Calba
Mark Kiehlmann
Calba
Track 3
Workshop
Alastair's session coming soon...
60 minutes
Alastair Somerville
Acuity Design
15:00
Afternoon break
15:30
Track 1
Endnote
Mind Your P's and Queues
60 minutes
Daniel Vacanti
ProKanban.org
16:30
Conference close
16:40
Drinks in the bar
Two days of practical learning in Edinburgh
The Lean Agile Scotland 2026 programme explores The Age of Disruption - how teams, organisations and the industry are navigating a period of profound change. 32 speakers across 29 sessions - talks, workshops, lean coffees, a lightning talk session and three keynotes. Every session is practitioner-led and selected by community reviewers, not a programme committee.
Sessions span software engineering, product management, engineering leadership, flow, DevOps, systems thinking, organisational design, AI, architecture and human-centred ways of working. There is something worth your time on every slot.