Our Speakers

Nana Bambara-Abban

CEO/Product Owner

Akaditi limited

Organic Agility / H2H (Human2Human)/ Ubuntu/ RTT: Red Team Thinker / Coach / Trainer / Agile / Scrum / Scaling Scrum / Transformation - Life Coach / Organic Farmer. Promoting Wellness. Land Rover Defender Builder. What makes a great company? How do you increase enterprise or programme agility and help organisations and teams become Agile? How do you inspire employees to reach for the stars and build great products and services that delight customers? Great companies invest in new ways of working. They gather people around an inspiring vision that gives employees a sense of direction toward a meaningful purpose (a dream). Great organisations empower their people to become agile and self-organising, they treat their people as responsible adults and professionals not as resources, they also trust them to get the job done. Great companies are smart, they recognise that revenue and profits are simply by products of "value". They know that creating amazing value that delights employees and customers will result in better cash flow, more revenue and incredible profits. When everyone is focused on creating value based on collectively agreed priorities then productivity goes through the roof. The energy from the alignment, engagement and transparency is unstoppable. What I do as an Organic Agility and Life Coach; I help grow the level of joy and positivity across many industries. I bring out the best in people, systems and companies From the Shop floor to the Board room working with Dev or Project Teams, Architects, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Customers, Stakeholders and Executives. 1. Kick off and energize a new Scrum Team or an Agile Project or Agility (Change) Team - Greenfield 2. Turn around and energize a failing project, programme and or Transformation initiative - Brownfield 3. Coach Executives and Senior Managers on how to increase enterprise agility and lead their business by making smarter decisions using evidence. I help to measure the investment in agile, scaling scrum and ROT (Return on Team) with meaningful agile and business agility metrics. EBM. Experiences include H2H, B2B, B2C, B2B2C, B2E NOW SHIFTED TO H2H (Human to Human) across all sectors in non profit, private and public.

Colleen Johnson

CEO of ProKanban

Colleen is the CEO of ProKanban.org, an international Kanban community that has helped over 10,000 people learn to apply flow practices in their teams and organizations. She is also co-founder of ScatterSpoke, an Atlassian Ventures portfolio company helping teams turn retrospective data into real, measurable improvement. For more than 25 years she has coached, taught, and spoken on agile to audiences across the world, working with global enterprises including Wells Fargo, E*Trade, Home Depot, and Southwest Airlines. Her work centers on helping organizations see how work actually moves end-to-end, so delivery stays predictable at scale. Colleen has served on the boards of Agile Denver and the Agile Uprising, and chaired the Mile High Agile Conference. She is happiest in the woods, camping with her three kids and very patient husband.

Dave West

CEO/Product Owner

Scrum.org

Dave West is the Product Owner and CEO at scrum.org. In this capacity, he engages with partners, and the community to drive scrum.org’s strategy and the overall market position of Scrum. Prior to joining the Ken Schwaber and the team at Scrum.org he was Chief Product Officer at Tasktop where he was responsible for product management, engineering and architecture. As a member of the company’s executive management team was also instrumental in growing Tasktop from a services business into a VC backed product business with a team of almost 100.As one of the foremost industry experts on software development and deployment, West has helped advance many modern software development processes, including the Unified process and Agile methods. He is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports. He also is the co-author of two books, The Nexus Framework For Scaling Scrum and Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational. After IBM/Rational, West returned to consulting and managed Ivar Jacobson Consulting for North America. Then he served as vice president, research director at Forrester Research, where he worked with leading IT organizations and solutions providers to define, drive and advance Agile-based methodology and tool breakthroughs in the enterprise.

Jonathan Baker

Global Transformation lead

Jonathan Baker is a senior global transformation leader with over 15 years of experience delivering large-scale organisational, digital and operating model transformations across financial services, retail, technology, pharmaceutical, industrial and government sectors.He operates at Board, EXCO and MANCO levels, helping organisations translate strategy into execution, optimise portfolio flow and embed adaptive ways of working that deliver measurable enterprise value.Jonathan has delivered over £1B in enterprise value, £100M+ in cost savings and productivity improvements, and has led some of the largest and most complex Agile and operating model transformations globally.His leadership style blends commercial rigour, people-centred change and disciplined execution, making him particularly effective in regulated, high-scale and high-risk environments. Within Akaditi, Jonathan strengthens executive governance, operating discipline and sustainable capability transfer, supporting clients across Africa to build resilient, future-ready organisations.

Evelien Roos

PST

Xebia

Evelien Roos is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) and AI thought leader helping organizations move from "doing Agile" to building AI-native teams. With 15+ years of experience training and coaching at companies including ING, Rabobank, ASML, and Unilever, she now focuses on a question too few teams ask: who's missing from this model? She is currently writing a book on gender bias in AI and has spoken on the topic at conferences including XPDays, SDE, and in 2026 she will be talking at the Regional Scrum Gathering Brussels, and Agile Testing Days Potsdam. Ranked #8 among Management & Leadership thought leaders in the Netherlands, Evelien has delivered keynotes and sessions at 60+ conferences in 15+ countries. She leads Xebia Academy's AI-Native Scrum and Product Owner training programs and is a Training from the Back of the Room (TBR) facilitator.
Current project, ideas and initiatives:
Organizing Women in Agile Europe in Barcelona November 27
Researching and writing a book on Gender Bias in AI
Writing a book, the Power of Personal Engagement (former Speaker at Scrum Day London)    

Allen Jellas

Mentor / Speaker

I advise senior leaders and organizations undergoing growth, complexity, and transformation, helping turn strategic intent into measurable business results.My work focuses on strengthening leadership effectiveness, aligning organizations around clear outcomes, and enabling operating models that deliver speed, clarity, and sustained performance. I partner directly with executives across product, technology, and supply chain organizations to resolve execution challenges, accelerate value delivery, and build leadership capability. Across engagements with organizations including Schneider Electric, Blue Water Shipping, and E.ON Sweden, my work has delivered: • 25% reduction in operational waste through improved strategic alignment and leadership discipline • 30% increase in productivity by establishing clarity, ownership, and outcome-focused execution • Up to 40% faster delivery cycles within months, accelerating time-to-value • Significant improvements in leadership effectiveness, organizational alignment, and delivery predictability My approach integrates leadership advisory with organizational transformation, ensuring leaders not only achieve immediate performance gains but also build the capability to sustain results independently.I am typically engaged when organizations need to improve execution, align leadership, or navigate critical transformation with confidence and clarity. If you are leading transformation, scaling your organization, or strengthening leadership effectiveness, I welcome connecting.

Ade Shokoya

Founder

Ajyle AI

You've probably already got AI running somewhere in your business. A tool someone signed up for. A workflow someone automated. Content being generated somewhere. Most of it working quietly in the background, outside of anyone's oversight.That's a common problem I see inside businesses. I'm Ade. I help founders and business leaders adopt AI they can actually trust. Not hype. Not promises. A clear picture of where you stand, what's at risk, and how to build systems that protect what you've built. Here's how we usually work together: We start by mapping where AI's already running in your business, where time's being lost, and where your data might be exposed. You get a plain English report you can act on.From there, we build the guardrails you own and control. Your voice stays yours. Your data stays protected. And as tools change and regulations shift, I stay in your corner. The founders I work with don't just understand AI better after we're done. They're less stressed by it.