Sponsors

We are Sky, one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies and we are proud to be part of Comcast Corporation. Across six countries our innovative products connect 23 million customers to the best apps, and all the entertainment, sports, news, and arts they love, including our own award-winning original content.

Headquartered in Scotland, our Agile Technology Teams design, build, and operate the platforms which connect Sky to our customers in the UK, Ireland and beyond. Our systems handle thousands of sales every day, deliver millions of calls to our contact centres each year, process billing and payments for billions in revenue; and everything else to power a best-of-breed customer experience.

A team of more than 1,000 technology professionals from all disciplines and all walks of life, we’re all about agile transformation and continuous improvement. We’re creative, innovative, forward-looking, and restless. We proudly champion diversity and inclusion in all its forms.

If that sounds like a great place to work, that’s because it is! If you have the right stuff – ability, passion, and a collaborative nature – there’s a place for you here at Sky.

We are your partner in agile.

Calba are based in Scotland and proud to have sponsored the conference every year since it started in 2012. Every organisation is unique. We work with clients to co-develop their own approach to agile. We focus on knowledge transfer and capability development to achieve lasting change.

Agile Coaching & Workshops

• Organisational alignment
• Agile planning/discovery
• Building trust
• User story mapping
• Agile team start-up/refresh
• Agile engineering best practice
• Leadership coaching

Agile Training
Our most popular courses are:

• Agile Practical (1-day)
• Product Owner Training (1-day)
• Scrum Master Training (1-day)

We also offer certified training from Scrum.org, Scrum Alliance, LKU, SAFe and ICAgile.

Delivery Services
Usually on a full-time contract basis for 3+ months, our specialists include:

• Agile Coaches
• Scrum Masters
• Product Owners
• Agile Business Analysts
• UI/UX Specialists
• Technical Specialists (Developers, DevOps, Architects)

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At Agile Mastery Institute our aim is to empower professionals to feel capable and confident in making a real impact in your roles. We envision a future where "agile certification" is synonymous with meaningful, long-term development, not just two-day classes.

Through our work, we have come to value:

• Experienced guides over professional trainers
• A continuous learning pathway over one-off courses
• Group exploration over individual reflection
• Guided navigation over a solo journey

We do value the items on the right, but we cherish those on the left even more.
Our pathways, designed for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, coaches, agile teams, and leaders, span at least six months and comprise:

• Engaging, great-practice training workshops
• Six months of coaching on real-world challenges
• Asynchronous support, including books, coaching cards, on-demand videos, and smartphone app
• A psychologically-safe community for real-time support
• Meaningful certification

All of our pathways are led by highly experienced guides who are not just great trainers but are also amazing coaches, community developers and passionate about agile mastery.
If you are interested in learning more drop by our stand or visit us at Agilemasteryinstitute.com

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We’re partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity.

We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia.

As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That’s the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

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Border Crossing UX is a user experience design consultancy based in Edinburgh and London.

We accelerate innovation, adoption, and growth. For over 10 years, our research, facilitation, strategy, and user centred design services have produced profitable outcomes across sectors.

Medium-to-large companies and public sector organisations choose us to:

• Evaluate experiences
• Explore new opportunities
• Solve complex problems
• Launch new value propositions, products, and services.

Clients include: The Scottish Government, National Galleries of Scotland, NHS Scotland, NHS 24, NHS GGC, Lothian Buses, CGI, Webhelp, MDDUS, and Lockton Insurance.

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The BBC is the world’s leading public service broadcaster

We’re impartial and independent, and every day we create distinctive, world-class programmes and content which inform, educate and entertain millions of people in the UK and around the world.

We do this across:

• A portfolio of television services, including the UK’s most-watched channel BBC One, the pioneering online-only youth service BBC Three, and our multi award-winning channels for children, as well as national and regional television programmes and services across England. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
• Ten UK-wide radio networks, providing the best live music broadcasting in the UK, as well as speech radio which informs, educates and entertains. We also have two national radio services each in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and 39 local radio stations across England and the Channel Islands, providing an invaluable and unique service to listeners across the UK
• Our digital services including BBC News, Sport, Weather CBBC and CBeebies, iPlayer and BBC Sounds, BBC Red Button and our vast archive

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We are Quality Without A Name, an initiative of pragmatic practitioners. We train and mentor teams, coach individuals and carry out bespoke development projects. We specialise in agile and lean software development.

Our mission is to bring success to our customers by improving their system development practice. We advise, coach and train management, product owners, project leaders and developers. And we develop software ourselves - above all, we are software developers.