Making Agile Real

The Agile 2009 conference is created by a production team of highly respected Agile experts and practitioners to present a program that spans the whole spectrum of agile practice.

The Agile conference series is a organized as a program of the Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to uncovering better ways of developing software inspired by the values and principles of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. A selection of past Agile Alliance conferences can be found at www.Agile200x.org

Conference Chair: 
Johanna Rothman - Rothman Consulting Group Inc, USA

Program Chair: 
Ahmed Sidky - TenPearls, USA/Middle East

Sponsor Liaison: 
Phil Brock - Agile Alliance, USA

Media Sponsors: 
Pollyanna Pixton - Accelinnova, USA

Press: 
Christie Denniston - Catapult PR-IR, USA

Publication Chair: 
Philippe Kruchten - University of British Columbia, Canada

Marketing Stage Producer: 
Nancy Van Schooenderwoert - Lean Agile Partners, Inc.

Volunteer Coordinator: 
Christine DelPrete - Infopia Inc, USA

Web Producer: 
Rachel Davies - Agile Experience Ltd, UK
Website Content: Peter Edstrom - Independent, USA

Stage Production Team

Agile Adoption
Producer: Greg Smith, Washington Mutual, USA
Assistant Producer: Amr Elssamadisy, Gemba Systems, USA

Agile Frontier
Producer: Olav Maassen, QNH Application Development & Solutions, Netherlands
Assistant Producer: Eric Willeke, Inkubook.com, USA

Agile & Organizational Culture
Producer: Mitch Lacey, Mitch Lacey & Associates, USA
Assistant Producer: Paul Hammond, Microsoft Corporation, UK

Agile Product Management
Producer: Rich Mironov, Enthiosys, USA
Assistant Producer: Steve Johnson, Pragmatic Marketing, USA

Coaching
Producer: Chris Sterling, SolutionsIQ, USA
Assistant Producer: Gil Broza, 3P Vantage, Canada

Customers & Business Value
Producer: Greg Goodman, Genesis 10, USA
Assistant Producer: Jen Kintzle, Kintzle Consulting, USA

Developer Jam
Producer: Kirk Knoernschild, Burton Group, USA
Assistant Producer: Nayan Hajratwala, Chikli Consulting LLC, USA

Distributed Agile
Producer: Tamara Sulaiman, Applied Scrum LLC, USA
Assistant Producer: Monica Yap, SolutionsIQ, USA

Leadership & Teams
Producer: Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova, USA
Assistant Producer: Alida Cheung, Salesforce.com, USA

Live Aid
Producer: Bob Payne, Electroglide, USA
Assistant Producer: Sanjiv Augustine, LitheSpeed, USA

Main Stage
Producer: Robin Dymond, Innovel, USA
Assistant Producer: William Wake, Independent, USA

Manifesting Agility
Producer: Dan Mezick, New Technology Solutions Scrum Coaching, USA
Assistant Producer: Dan Caron, MassMutual, USA

Muzik Masti
Producer: George Platts, Independent, UK

New to Agile
Producer: Steven "Doc" List, ThoughtWorks, USA
Assistant Producer: Ola Ellnestam, Agical AB, Sweden

Open Jam
Producer: Esther Derby, Esther Derby Associates Inc, USA

Research
Producer: Yael Dubinsky, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Assistant Producer: Tore Dybå, sSINTEF, Norway

Telling Our Stories
Producer: Steve Adolph, WSA Consulting, Canada
Assistant Producer: Geoff Hewson, Software Productivity Center, Canada

Testing
Producer: Lisa Crispin, ePlan Services Inc., USA
Assistant Producer: Bob Galen, ChannelAdvisor, USA

Tools for Agility
Producer: Michael Hüttermann, Training & Consulting, Germany
Assistant Producer: John Ferguson Smart, Wakaleo Consulting, NZ

User Experience
Producer: Angela Martin, University of Waikato, NZ
Assistant Producer: Lane Halley, Cooper, USA