Be a Speaker

Speaker submissions to Agile Australia 2016 are now closed.

Being a speaker at Agile Australia 2016 is your opportunity to connect with an engaged audience of your peers by sharing your story and experience. Tales of your successes and failures; what has worked and what hasn’t – could all be valuable steps in moving us Towards the Agile Country!

We suggest that you read the information on this page carefully before submitting your proposal. If you have any questions about submitting please contact doctor@agileaustralia.com.au

How it works

Every year over 200 proposals are submitted via an open anonymous submission system to create a truly outstanding conference program. Usually about 35-40 proposals are invited to be part of the final program.

Submitters (and their replies to comments) remain anonymous to all. We ask submitters to try and keep their submission and comments free of any identifying information. Please note that your contact information, job title, company, referees and previous experience which you are asked to provide for is not visible to reviewers. Please ensure that you do not disclose your workplace in your proposal’s title. If you believe your proposal makes more sense with your workplace in the title ‘e.g How we used Kanban to revolutionise [company name]’s culture’ – please omit your workplace’s name to begin with. If your proposal is accepted into the final program you may add your workplace and any other identifying information back into your title after the reviewing process is complete.

The identity of shortlisted submissions is only revealed to advisors and chairs involved in the final program meeting. This meeting ensures only one submission per person is accepted and ensures no constituency is over or under represented in the final conference program.

You can login to the submissions site with your existing Agile Australia account or create a new one. Once logged in please update your information and add your phone number in case we need to contact you.

• Please limit yourself to a total of three submissions. This includes submissions where you are the second speaker or ‘co-presenter’.
• Remember there may be up to five sessions running concurrently and attendees will vote with their feet! So be enticing and accurate in your description so reviewers can see why attendees will be attracted to your session.
• You will need to classify your submission into one of the eleven topic buckets.
• Use the structure and mechanics sections to explain how you plan on using your 40 minutes.
• Make it clear that you know who is your primary audience.
• Explain how your talk will help us move Towards the Agile Country.
• Have clear takeaways and learning outcomes.
• Originality will be favoured. If you are presenting on a topic you have presented before in Australia, we suggest you be creative and think up a new angle!
• Respond to feedback – your comments will appear as ‘Author’. Submissions received early have been favoured in the past so perhaps the feedback has helped improve the chances to be accepted?!
• Remember it is entirely up to you if you take on the feedback but remember that any changes you wish to make must be updated in the submission itself, NOT in the comments.