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DAY ONE: WEDNESDAY 30 MAY 2012
Time	Grand Ballroom 1 & 2	Grand Ballroom 3	Stradbroke Room
8.30am	When the Stakes are High » Fiona Wood - WA Burns Service
9.30am	Agile: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Adapt, Innovate, Collaborate & Deliver » Craig Smith - Suncorp » Nigel Dalton - REA Group » David Joyce - ThoughtWorks » Simon Bristow - SEEK
10.30am	MORNING TEA
11.00am	Agility@Scale: IBMs Journey of Agile Transformation » Rick Weaver - IBM Rational Software Services	Bottleneck! » Jay Rogers - Atlassian	Hiring for agility: How to build a high performing Agile team » Michael Bromley - NBN Co
11.45am	Mainframe Test Automation within SCRUM - How did we at the BNZ get it to work? » Bram Surti - Bank of New Zealand » Rob White - Bank of New Zealand	Definition of Agile at NAB - Adapting Agile to the constraints of a large organisation » Dylan Verheijden - NAB	Agile Sales! Is that a thing? » Kurt Solarte - IBM
12.10pm	From shaky beginnings: The evolution of the earthquake reinstatement programme » Cara Talbot - GE Capital » Emma Kerley - Vero Insurance	Agile UX - Marriage made in heaven or just staying together for the kids » Tref Gare - Aconex » Shane Morris - Automatic Studio » James Ross - Aconex » Andrew Green - Cogent » Robert Postill - C3 Business Solutions » Leon Messerschmidt - Aconex	Easy ways to break up! » Dipesh Pala - Solnet Solutions
12.30pm	LUNCH
1.20pm	Agile Practices Proven in Highly Regulated Environments » Victor Rodruigues - Cochlear » Craig Langenfeld - Rally Software	PANEL: Agile Governance - The new disinfectant » Renee Troughton - Suncorp » Paul Watson - Suncorp » Sarah Pollard - BankWest » Carolyn Smart - Telstra » Peter Tansey - Petoni Mahi (Moderator)	What happened to people over process? » Sarah Taraporewalla - ThoughtWorks
2.05pm	Building high-performing teams to deliver awesome business outcomes » Nish Mahanty - MYOB	Inroads in Outsourcing: Ebay's (mis)adventures with offshoring » Megan Folsom - eBay.com » Robin Zaragoza - eBay.com	Practical Kanban for software development » Perryn Fowler - ThoughtWorks
2.50pm	Continuous Design » Jason Furnell - ThoughtWorks » Kate Linton - ThoughtWorks	Guild Leadership in Agile environments - How your role as a manager changes and what you need to do to adapt » Erik van Eekelen - Elabor8	Value and Culture OVER Practices and Processes - Driving Agility at Bankwest » Sandra Dalli - BankWest » Sarah McAllister - BankWest
3.30pm	AFTERNOON TEA
4.00pm	Building the right thing through collaboration and continual discovery » Brent Snook - Zooatrope	AgileTrek - The Next Frontier » Marc Galbraith - ThoughtWorks » Steve Lawrence - Rally Software	Failure: A love story » Tom Sulston - ThoughtWorks UK
4.45pm	The Lean/Agile PMO vs The Traditional PMO » David Joyce - ThoughtWorks	Agile Attitudes & Abilities: The ScrumMaster role and how its core principles can be applied to any form of Agile leadership » Ilan Goldstein - Reed Elsevier	Safe to Fail » Phil Abernathy - Purple Candor
5.25pm	CLOSE

DAY TWO: THURSDAY 31 MAY 2012
Time	Grand Ballroom 1 & 2	Grand Ballroom 3	Stradbroke Room
8.30am	Empowering Teams » Mark Thompson
9.30am	Software for Humanity » Roy Singham - ThoughtWorks
10.30am	MORNING TEA
11.00am	The Yin and Yang of Agile - Adventures in Chinese Agile » Rick Wingfield - AIA » Alexandra Stokes - AIA	Leadership Secrets for Agile Adoption » Colin McCririck - Suncorp	Agile Board Hacks - get the best out of your wall » Fiona Siseman - Lonely Planet » Nicholas Thorpe - ThoughtWorks
11.25am	Agile Infrastructure: Not an Oxymoron - Using infrastructure web services to support continuous integration & deployment » Simon Elisha - Amazon Web Services	How Lonely Planet Used Agile With SAP and Delighted Customers » Ed Cortis - Lonely Planet	Using Agile to deliver smarter business outcomes, not projects! » David Carpenter - IAG
11.50am	Changing methods is easy - changing culture is hard » Patrick Eltridge - Telstra	Building a mobile team and getting a product to market » Richard Durnall - REA Group » Stewart Gleadow - ThoughtWorks	Continuous Risk Management » James Brett - ThoughtWorks » Marina Chiovetti - ThoughtWorks
12.30pm	LUNCH
1.20pm	Adaptive Leadership for Turbulent Times » Keith Dodds - ThoughtWorks	SEEK's approach to product innovation » Doug Blue - SEEK	The trouble with time machine » Matthew Hodgson - Zen Ex Machina
2.05pm	Using Lean Product Engineering to achieve business objectives » Herry Wiputra - REA Group » Nichola Gill - REA Group	Why nothing you ever do might make the slightest difference: A crash course in the Theory of Constraints » James Ross - Aconex	Emerging Paradigms in Software Testing » Kristan Vingrys - ThoughtWorks
2.50pm	Agile and Portfolio / Program Management » Martin Kearns - SMS MT	Distributed Agile: Operating Agile delivery centres at scale » Daniel Haughey - realestate.com.au » Kai Hu - ThoughtWorks China	Design Eye for a Dev Guy » Julian Boot - Majitek
3.30pm	AFTERNOON TEA
4.00pm	Now for the hard part - the Agile Enterprise » Daniel Oertli - LIIIFT	Agile Executive: The Naked Truth! » Kelly Waters - ThoughtWorks	Articulating Vision and Need: Collaborative Analysis and Design » Eli Marks - NBN Co » Meaghan Waters - ThoughtWorks
4.45pm	Implementing Continuous Delivery » Darren Smith - ThoughtWorks » Evan Bottcher - ThoughtWorks	Agile Development on Large Legacy Architecture » Tony Young - Integrated Research	Design as a Business Practice » Steven Caddy - REA Group
5.25pm	Closing drinks and networking