Cameron Barrie | Director & Technical Lead, Bilue
 Cameron Barrie is the director and technical lead for Bilue, a Sydney based software consultancy specialising in mobile development. As an engineer, Cameron is focused on developing and deploying compelling user experiences onto mobile platforms, distilling business requirements, and advising business on how to navigate issues such as continuous deployment and iterative builds within mobile platforms. Cameron's focus is on sustainable and maintainable code bases with simple, navigable and high quality user interfaces. Cameron has extensive experience working with some of the countries biggest media companies to help them deliver a compelling and integrated experiences, keeping them sustainable, maintainable and avoiding the pitfalls of bad releases in the AppStore.
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Lalitha Biddulph | Director IT, Enterprise Services, Telstra
 Lalitha Biddulph is Telstra's Director of Enterprise Services, providing infrastructure and technology services to Telstra's enterprise customers, her largest customer being Telstra itself. Lalitha’s primary goals are bringing alignment between internal consumption and Telstra’s ‘go to market’ products, and maturing the services based framework to deploy infrastructure across a hybrid cloud environment. Lalitha has over a decade of success driving top level technology performance for global blue chip operations including American Express and IBM. Lalitha is a sought after and respected change agent, coach and mentor renowned for capacity to build loyal, skilled and high performance technology teams.
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James Brett | Head of Development, MI9
 James Brett is currently Head of Development at MI9. As a digital leader, James wants to shape an environment that attracts top talent and use that talent to build amazing products. James has global experience in product design, development and management. For over ten years, James has been doing, coaching and leading agile development and organisational transformation. James has over 17 years in the software industry as a developer, consultant, coach and leader. James loves technology, building products and working with smart, passionate people.
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Em Campbell-Pretty | General Manager, Strategic Delivery, Telstra
 With close to 10 years experience as a senior manager in information management, Em Campbell-Pretty is currently the General Manager for Strategic Delivery within Telstra's Business Intelligence Centre of Excellence. Em leads the team responsible for delivery of business intelligence, analytics and marketing campaign solutions from the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
Em is recognised as having established one of the most successful implementations of the Scaled Agile Framework in Australia. She is a certified Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant (SPC) and an active member of the Agile community. Em is a recognised expert in Scaling Agile and Agile Data Warehousing and frequently speaks about her experiences at conferences across Australia and the United States.
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Lynne Cazaly | Owner, Lynne Cazaly
 Lynne Cazaly is a communications specialist and master facilitator. Lynne provides clarity to project complexity through workshops, training and visual strategy. Lynne trains, facilitates, speaks and coaches on visual facilitation, visual thinking and other engaging tools for project people, to help boost buy-in, collaboration and engagement.
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Anne-Marie Charrett | Test Consultant, Testing Times
 Anne-Marie Charrett is a software test consultant has training classes organized in the UK, Ireland and Sydney. Anne-Marie regularly speaks and trains at conferences both in Australia and Internationally. Anne-Marie spoke at Agile Tours 2013, and has keynoted at Software Test Professional Conference, New Orleans 2012. This year Anne-Marie will be speaking at Lets Test, Sweden 2013 and CAST 2013 (Madison, USA) where she will be holding a tutorial on coaching testers Anne-Marie has close ties to many testing communities. In particular Anne-Marie is the co-organiser of Sydney Testers Meet-up, and until recently was on the committee for Softtest Ireland. Anne-Marie has developed a systematic approach to coaching testers. This approach has been developed in conjunction with James Bach (Co-author of Lessons Learned in Software Testing) and is the result of coaching hundreds of testers online.
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Pete Cohen | Business Analyst, RHoK Star, DiUS Computing
 Pete Cohen is an experienced BA who has helped deliver numerous successful bespoke web and mobile software applications in a diverse range of industries. Pete is passionate about applying technology to benefit humanity, and is heavily involved in Random Hacks of Kindness as a participant and facilitator. Pete has presented at Business Analyst’s World Conference 2012 and participated in numerous webinars and interviews. Prior to his IT career, Pete was a professional musician, touring internationally for ten years with his band Sodastream. Pete is still an active musician, spending his weekends moonlighting as a double bass player.
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Paul Coia | CTO, Redbubble
 Paul Coia has been knee deep in Agile teams since the beginning of his career. Working first with Object Consulting and then with Thoughtworks, Paul has been exposed to the challenges of Agile software delivery within big and small, public and private companies. A strong focus on finding pragmatic solutions to the most important business problems meant that Lean Startup has become an integral part of Paul’s current role as CTO at Redbubble where he leads the product engineering team.
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Ken Collier | Director, Agile Analytics, Thoughtworks
 Ken Collier is the author of "Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing" and is a frequent keynote and invited speaker at conferences such as TDWI World Conference 2010 & 2011 and HEDW 2011 & 2012. Ken pioneered the adaptation of agile techniques to complex data analytics system development. His current focus at ThoughtWorks is on advanced analytics in big data ecosystems. See http://theagilist.com/2013/01/29/carpenters-cabinet-makers-furniture-makers/ for video of a recent keynote address.
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David Colls | Lead Consultant, ThoughtWorks
 David Colls loves solving interesting problems, especially when they form at the intersection of customer needs, organisational design, and technology delivery. David has spent over 10 years solving such problems, from delivering the world's first bulldozer simulator, to machining impossible shapes, to re-imagining the economics of automotive design, to helping over 100 people go Agile all at once.
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Ed Cortis | Head of Solution Delivery, Bankwest
 Ed Cortis is the Head of Solution Delivery at Bankwest, where he is focused on changing the way software is delivered within the Bank. Ed heads a team of 350 colleagues, involving a mix of Business Analysts, Testers and Developers. Ed has had over 10 years of IT management and leadership experience in executive management in large and small organisations, including previous roles with Lonely Planet and General Motors. His previous successes include integrating Agile software development with world-class ITIL compliant IT operations within Lonely Planet. Outside work, Ed is a keen runner and thoroughly enjoys his collection of beautiful shirts!
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Jo Cranford | GreenHopper Developer, Atlassian
 Jo Cranford has worked for over seven years in Agile teams at Expedia, ThoughtWorks and Atlassian. In the last three years, Jo has become more interested in JavaScript and in particular how to effectively automate tests for JS-heavy web applications, influenced by BDD testing techniques and driven by the desire to write clean, well tested code in any language. Jo has presented on this subject over the last year at DDD Sydney, SydJS and Girl Geeks.
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Megan Dell | User Experience Manager, MYOB
 Megan Dell cut her teeth in the field of user experience almost 10 years ago working at Suncorp, designing online quoting applications for Australia's largest personal insurance brands. After a sojourn into agency-land where she also worked as a visual designer, Megan is back working client-side at MYOB, and this time, she's building an army of people who get a kick out of making interfaces that are super easy to use.
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Michael Dijkstra | Start-up Founder and Product Manager, PwC Create Digital
 Michael Dijkstra is a serial entrepreneur. Over the past five years he has founded two of his own start-ups and helped create more than five star-tups for Pollenizer, a Sydney incubator. Michael is currently working with PwC to help create an incubator inside a corporate environment. He is a Certified Scrum Product Owner and a Lean Startup advocate. He taught the inaugural Lean Product Manager course for Pollenizer Academy and has spoken before at tech events and workshops in the Sydney startup community.
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Jesse Dumoff | Head of Group Solutions, Veda Advantage
 Jesse Dumoff is currently responsible for improving the application development and maintenance competency for a rapidly growing software / data company and has introduced many of the Agile practices since joining in 2012. He has realigned the software organisation into a series of persistent and product aligned teams, each of which is delivering in some flavour of iterative, scrum or Agile methods. Prior to joining Veda, Jesse was responsible for a number of senior IT leadership roles for a large financial services organisation, including most recently introducing Agile practices into the application management and production support teams.
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Patrick Eltridge | Chief Information Officer, Telstra
 Patrick Eltridge joined Telstra as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Executive Director IT in 2010. Patrick has responsibility for the end-to-end design and delivery of IT infrastructure and applications as well as Telstra's data centres and managed information services. Prior to Telstra, Patrick had been engaged in banking and IT for over 20 years with experience in financial services, technology start-ups, management consulting and related commercial activities including M&A, strategic sourcing, expense management, strategy and product development. Patrick's focus has been on embedding and aligning IT delivery more closely with business teams, fast growth, and rapid time to value.
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Gareth Evans | Agile Coach, Assurity
 Gareth Evans has over 16 years experience in the IT industry, including over a decade in London where he first put his degree in economics to use as a software developer. Gareth gained experience in the banking industry on numerous large IT projects from front office investment banking to wholesale banking compliance as both a developer and team leader. During his time in the UK Gareth Gareth also gained an MSc in computing science including a thesis on evolutionary algorithms. Gareth's last UK role as an Agile Software Coach at BBCWW allowed him to specialise in Kanban and Lean whilst participating in a highly successful case study as a member of the first team at BBCWW (and BBC) to transition to Kanban: "I believe it will be one of the most significant papers in Software Engineering this decade." - David Anderson. Gareth returned to New Zealand in 2009 where he has been working for Assurity as the Kanban Practice Lead. Gareth has enjoyed bringing successful economic outcomes to clients using Agile and Lean principles combined with solid technical practices that support continuous delivery.
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Stewart Gleadow | Mobile Practice Lead, Thoughtworks
 Stewart Gleadow is a consultant and developer with Thoughtworks Australia, and helps lead the Thoughtworks mobile development practice. Stewart helps companies create quality iOS applications and build high performing mobile development teams. Stewart’s particular focus is on sustainable mobile architectures and automated app testing. Stewart has extensive experience in agile software projects, and how to combine agile and innovative mobile product and delivery teams. Stewart is a regular speaker on mobile and agile software development.
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Caroline Gordon | Programme Manager, Brandscreen
 Caroline Gordon has built and led successful product development teams for almost 20 years. Caroline's skills have been utilised by boutique companies through to national and international corporations in fields as varied as manufacturing, health products, smart cards and EFTPOS technologies, digital entertainment and telecommunications. Caroline has led large programs of work and implemented many project and program management methodologies. Caroline has a double degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Sydney and holds PMP Certification. Caroline runs the Sydney Project Manager's meetup.
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Paul Gordon | Senior Lawyer, REA Group
 Paul Gordon is a senior in-house lawyer at REA Group, with a key role in developing the technical skills and commercial acumen of the REA legal team. He has over 10 years experience in commercial and IT law gained in Australia, the UK and New Zealand. Paul is a member of the Regulatory Council of the Interactive Advertising Bureau - a key influencer of digital media law and policy in Australia. He has a special interest and expertise in software development and services arrangements that incorporate Agile principles.
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Cameron Gough | General Manager - Digital Delivery Centre, Australia Post
 Cameron Gough is a seasoned technology executive with a deep delivery background and broad experience in different consulting and senior executive roles across the Telco and Finance industries. Cameron currently leads the creation of Australia Post's Digital Delivery Centre - a new business unit with a significant emphasis on utilising Agile delivery methods. Cameron is passionate about building high performing teams and has a keen appreciation for the environment required to achieve this. Cameron is a firm believer that having the right value driven culture is critical to sustainable Agile adoption and that organisations must be willing to let go of traditional governance models to unleash the inherent potential of Agile teams.
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Torbjörn Gyllebring | Development Manager, Cint
 Torbjörn Gyllebring is a developer that grew frustrated with solving the wrong problems and the resulting waste of human potential. Torbjörn decided to do something about it, thus starting a journey of exploration, discovery and distinctly non techie things. Having introduced XP and Scrum with varied success he started digging deeper into value & the human side of things, this led him to Lean, System thinking and a constantly growing list of ideas that he's busy collecting & synthesising in an attempt to understand and improve the way work works. In Torbjörn's current role as Development Manager at Cint AB he's using Kanban help evolve processes, coaching teams and occasionally even gets to write some code. Twitter: @drunkcod
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Beverley Head | Freelance Journalist
 Beverley Head is a Sydney-based freelance writer who specialises in exploring how and why technology changes everything - society, business, government, education, health. Beverley started writing about the business of technology in London in 1983 before moving to Australia in 1986. She was the technology editor of the Financial Review for almost a decade, and then became the newspaper's features editor before embarking on a freelance career, during which time she has written on a broad array of technology related topics for the Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Age, Boss, BRW, Banking Day, Tech Life and Government Technology Review. Beverley holds a degree in Metallurgy and the Science of Materials from Oxford University and a deep affection for things which are shaken not stirred.
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Lachlan Heasman | Agile Coach
 Lachlan Heasman is an independent coach and trainer. He has wide experience and knowledge from working on several major and many small Agile change programs in Australia. He also has all the requisite certifications to boot. He has deep experience in all facets of Agile practice but in the interest of quality leaves the development work to people who do it well. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org, a member of the ScrumPLoP community and the founder of the Sydney Scrum User group. Lachlan has strengths in Restorative and Ideation (Strengths Finder 2.0) and Love of learning with Curiosity (from VIA) which has lead him to attaining a Masters in Coaching Psychology, this gives Lachlan a unique (and often annoying) perspective on coaching, leadership and change in the Agile community. His industry experience includes retail and online banking, insurance, telecoms, media, retail, legal and government.
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Lindsay Holmwood | Software Manager, Bulletproof Networks
 Lindsay Holmwood is a engineering manager, living in the Blue Mountains just outside of Sydney. Lindsay runs a distributed infrastructure development team at Bulletproof Networks that builds hassle free tools. Lindsay was responsible for ensuring 100% uptime for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 Movember campaigns, and works on scaling both internal and customer facing systems. When not mentoring on building awesome monitoring infrastructure, Lindsay organises the monthly Sydney DevOps Meetups, and organised the DevOps Down Under conference in 2010 + 2011. Lindsay also won third place at the 1996 Sydney Royal Easter Show LEGO building competition.
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Neil Killick | Agile/Lean Consultant, Iterative
 Neil Killick is an independent coach and consultant with over 17 years of experience delivering software in various capacities. He provides software delivery coaching, project management and BA services in the Agile/Lean space, and is passionate about effective software delivery and humanising the workplace. Neil is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and Certified Scrum Professional/Practitioner (CSP). Aside from Agile Australia he is also a regular speaker at organisations, meetups and industry events such as Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Agile BA & Scrum groups, Limited WIP Society & LAST (Lean Agile Systems Thinking) Conference.
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Steve Lawrence | Agile Coach & Pragmatist, Rally Software
 With over 19 years in the IT sector as a manager, consultant and coach, Steve Lawrence has seen and experienced the good, the bad and the ugly. Steve has worked as a leading Agile Coach and practitioner to two of Australasia's largest Agile transformations (Suncorp & Telstra), as well as a large number of different organizations across Australia and New Zealand. Steve is now the Lead Agile Coach for Rally Software across Australia & New Zealand. Steve has previously spoken at Agile Australia, PMI Australia and various meetups.
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Anna Leibel | General Manager, Delivery, Telstra
 Anna Leibel leads the Delivery team in Enterprise Services at Telstra IT. Anna's career has a consistent infrastructure theme where she thrives on the stakeholder experience rather than "design and build". Over a decade ago, Anna's time at seek.com.au exposed her to the culture of a start-up and she became determined to recreate that environment at a large corporate. Two years ago Anna established a grass-roots cultural change program in Telstra IT. The community of over 260 volunteers design and implement initiatives to make Telstra IT "the best place to work".
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James Lewis | Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks
 James Lewis is a Principal Consultant for ThoughtWorks based in the UK where he has helped introduce evolutionary architecture practices and agile software development techniques to various blue chip companies: Investment Banks, Publishers and media organisations. As a member of the ThoughtWorks Technical Advisory Board and as the organisation's European Architecture Consulting Lead, James works with technology and business leaders both within and outside Thoughtworks to in the areas of web integration, evolutionary architecture, emergent design and lean thinking. James believes that writing software is the easy part of the problem. Most of the time it's about getting people thinking right.
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Kate Linton | Experience Design Principal, ThoughtWorks
 Kate Linton is a user experience designer at ThoughtWorks. Kate has over 20 years experience in visual communications, interaction design, branding, information architecture, customer research and user testing. Kate enjoys the collaborative process of designing in multidisciplinary teams. Kate has worked extensively in financial services, government and not-for-profit organisations. Through continuous design practices and customer research she enables agile delivery teams to build better products.
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Stuart Liston | Developer, Hooroo
Stuart Liston develops software for the web, with an emphasis on communication through expressive code. By day Stuart get his kicks on the hooroo.com, Qantas and Jetstar accommodation sites. By night Stuart hacks on just about anything that looks interesting. Having endured dark, unproductive years in his homeland of Scotland working on large, process-heavy corporate waterfall projects, Stuart is a strong advocate for Lean Thinking, Continuous Delivery and sensible application of the right agile practices, based on the needs of the job at hand. If Stuart was a pig, Ruby would be his mud.
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Sandy Mamoli | Director of All Things Agile, Nomad8
 Living proof that love will make you do crazy things, Sandy Mamoli moved to NZ in 2007 to follow her heart and has been trapped in the wilds of Wellington ever since. From working with Sony Ericsson's global enterprise website in Amsterdam and Copenhagen to being one of NZ’s leading Agile coaches and Chair of Agile Welly (www.meetup.com/agilewelly), Sandy brings her practical European flair and passionate advocacy of all things Agile to NZ businesses. She’s a former Olympian, a geek, a gadget junkie and emerging triathlete. Sandy is one of the owners and co-founders of Nomad8 (www.nomad8.com). She knows quite a lot about Agile.
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Ash McKenzie | Senior Developer, Hooroo
 Ash McKenzie is a Senior Developer at Hooroo. Ash is a passionate software engineer with a background in Unix and Linux operations. Ash loves trialling new technology and discovering new ways of being productive. Ash especially loves participating in hack-a-thons and prototyping software with other passionate hackers. Ash has organised and presented at a number of Melbourne technical user groups, including Infrastructure Coders and DevOps.
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Sam Newman | Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks
 Sam Newman is a technical consultant at ThoughtWorks, where he has been for nine years. Sam has worked all over the world helping build complex systems for his clients. Sam has written articles of O'Reilly, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. Principally a Java developer, Sam also spends lots of time with Clojure, Python and build systems that hate him.
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Nick Payne | Head of Technology, World Nomads Group
 Nick Payne is the Head of Technology at online travel insurance company, World Nomads Group. It is the second and largest agile transformation Nick has undertaken having scaled to 8 teams of over 30 people all up. Nick enjoys seeing agile principles pervade the organisation from IT outwards into other areas. Nick recently spoke about building better Product Owners at the Sydney Agile Tour 2012.
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James Pierce | Founder and Partner, Luna Tractor
 James Pierce is a passionate leader, thinker and student. James has been running software teams and IT organisations using Agile and Lean practices for longer than he knew that was the right name to use. As a generalist, James has a wide range of experience gained from time working in experimental physics labs, startups like Aconex and RedBubble as well as big business like Ericsson. This diverse background makes James deeply interested in the question of WHY things are the way they are. He's also fascinated by what drives individuals, what makes a sustainable high performance team and how to build great software along the way. Currently the principal partner at Lun a Tractor a boutique consultancy based in Melbourne; James has also been the Director of Engineering at Lonely Planet, CIO at the New Zealand Exchange, Aconex and CLEAR Interactive as well as engineering roles at Melbourne University and Ericsson.
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Mike Pollard | Agile Coach, Bankwest
 Mike Pollard has recently migrated to Australia from the UK and is currently working at Bankwest in Perth. Mike started his Agile journey in 2005 and has worked as a Scrum Master, Product Owner and Agile Coach, for a number of organisations, from Nokia Music and O2 to small start-ups and online retailers.
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Robert Postill | Development Manager, C3 Products
 Robert Postill is a development manager with over 15 years in the technology space, right from operations through to architecture via development. Robert runs a team of six inside a small business trying to reach profitability. Robert has spoken at numerous conferences including Rubyconf AU, DevOps Down Under 2012, Agile Australia (2012) and Linuxconf. Robert is also a regular face at a number of Melbourne technology groups.
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Andrew Prentice | QA and Development Manager, Atlassian
 Since joining Atlassian, makers of collaboration and software development tools such as JIRA & Confluence five years ago, Andrew has created the QA team and strategy that supports Atlassian's rapid release, Agile development process. This involved replacing most of the knowledge acquired over 10 years in testing and project management roles at large IT services and telecommunication companies in Australia and the United Kingdom, to creating Bonfire, a session based testing tool that is now sold commercially. Andrew has spoken on testing and continuous deployment at Agile 2012 in Dallas, as well as the CAST & StarWest testing conferences.
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Simon Reason | Agile Coach, Bankwest
 Simon Reason has been working to Agile principles since 2006 using Scrum and XP as Developer, Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Simon is currently working at Bankwest on their Agile transformation and has previously worked with Nokia Networks, TomTom, StatOil, O2 and others in Scrum and Agile.
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Mark Richards | Director, Richdata Pty Ltd
 Mark Richard's 25 years in IT has provided him with two careers. In the first, Mark conceived a passion for achieving outcomes through building better software. This saw Mark speaking at his first conference at 23, and over the following years he gained broad experience as a technical leader, conference speaker, trainer and mentor. Drawn to Agile in 2000 through its focus on software craftsmanship, Mark’s career pivoted as he came to realise that building better teams was far more effective at delivering outcomes. Mark has since assisted organisations to harness Agile in the Finance, Technology, Defence and Telecommunications sectors. Recently, Mark has focused on Agile at scale. A certified Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant (SPC), he has considerable practical experience coaching on its application.
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Bernd Schiffer | Agile Coach, Bold Mover
 Bernd Schiffer is an Agile coach, trainer and consultant in Melbourne, Australia. He founded his own Agile company called Bold Mover, and he's been doing Agile and Lean for about 12 years. He often works at the client's introducing Scrum and Kanban at team and management level. He deeply cares about his work, and he's passionate about running long distances.
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Jonny Schneider | Lead Consultant - Experience Design & Strategy, ThoughtWorks
 Jonny Schneider is an experience designer and product strategist who has nine years experience working on digital products and services. Jonny is an expert in mobile with a strong reputation for delivering quality products. Having worked in customer research, experience design, product strategy and project delivery roles, Jonny has expertise across a range of domains including retail, automotive, banking, directories/search, and telecommunications. Jonny is passionate about balancing business outcomes with customer needs and defining pragmatic and sustainable solutions to complex problems.
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Lynn Shrewsbury | Agile Practitioner, Solnet Solutions
 Lynn Shrewsbury has spent 25 years working in project teams across the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Her experience with a wide range of methodologies and practices in team coaching have been successfully directed to drive better results in governance, leadership, project management and business analysis. Lynn loves to help teams to realise their potential of delivering great results to customers while becoming self-organised, empowered, and having fun.
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Bobby Singh | Agile Delivery, Infosys
 Bobby Singh has over 10 years project delivery experience and is a passionate Agile convert having moved from traditional project delivery to the pace and agility offered in a successfully oiled Agile delivery team. Bobby has worked across a number of large portfolios delivering projects through the successful application of SCRUM and XP practices. He has successfully applied the Agile principles, planning, coaching and estimation practices to provide organisations with full transparency and visibility of project Whole of Life planning and forecasting; whilst increasing team performance and delivery maturity. Bobby is a hands-on Agile delivery practitioner with many scars to boot!! and is currently working with Infosys to scale Agile delivery and push the boundaries of co-location and distributed delivery.
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John Smart | CEO, Wakaleo Consulting
 John Ferguson Smart is a specialist in the domain of behaviour driven development, automated testing and software life cycle development optimization. John is a well-known speaker at many international conferences and events. John is the author of the popular “Java Power Tools” and “Jenkins: The Definitive Guide”, both published by O'Reilly, and is currently working on "BDD in Action" for Manning. John is also the founder and lead developer of the Thucydides project, a new open source library that helps teams organize and implement more effective automated acceptance tests.
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Adrian Smith | Head of Technology, Ennova
 Dr. Adrian Smith is an engineer who is passionate about technology and helping to increase productivity and quality using Agile and Lean principles. Although he is an entrepreneur at heart, Adrian has worked for organisations like Airbus, BBC, GKN and Suncorp where he has led teams developing products for the aerospace, digital media and construction industries. Adrian has presented at Agile Australia 2010, 2011, STANZ 2011, Fusion 2012 and at Agile 2011 and Better Software 2013 both in the US.
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Craig Smith | Agile Coach, Unbound DNA
 Craig Smith has been active in the IT industry for over 15 years. Craig has been an Agile practitioner for over 10 years and is a Certified Scrum Master and a member of both the Scrum Alliance and Agile Alliance and as an Agile Coach he has worked on a number of high profile technical and business projects. Craig regularly conducts Agile training and has presented at a number of Australian and international conferences. Craig is also an Agile Editor for InfoQ and co-hosts an Agile podcast called The Agile Revolution.
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Julian Smith | Senior Policy Officer - Environment Protection Policy, Department of Sustainability and Environment
 Julian Smith is a Senior Policy Officer, Environment Protection Policy at the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment. Julian’s role brings together a wealth of experience in policy development, policy analysis, systems thinking, options appraisal, multi-criteria assessment, survey design, teamwork, and networking. Deeply passionate about sustainability for more than 20 years, Julian has presented at many international industry and academic conferences and worked with community groups both locally and throughout the EU and Africa. As a part of his role at the Department, Julian is also a professional firefighter responding to wildfires throughout Victoria and supporting the planned burning program. Julian has been involved with RHoK as a product owner and subject matter expert to help develop a disaster response solution.
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Stefan Sohnchen | Agile Solutions Development Coach, Tait Communications
 Stefan Sohnchen is an anthropologist by trade who coaches technologists. Stefan’s love affair with Agile started 7 years ago when, based in London, he worked with teams distributed around the globe. Stefan has presented at various academic conferences in the past and this is his first appearance at an Agile conference. Stefan’s current quest is to explore how to best generate synergies between Agile principles and design thinking methods.
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Ted Tencza | Director of Engineering, Bigcommerce.com
 Ted Tencza has over 16 years of experience in Software Development, the last 8 of which have been in leadership roles. Created and ran the innovation team at Atlassian, and has organised innovation days like ShipIt (FedEx days).
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Renee Troughton | Agile Coach, UnboundDNA
 Renee Troughton is an Agile Coach with over 16 years of experience in software development, coaching and organisational change. Specialising in large scale adoption, Renee has spent 10 years working with teams and organisations applying a variety of implementation models from undercover evangelists to broad reaching, cross department organisational changes. A Certified Scrum Master, Renee applies techniques from Scrum, XP, Kanban and Lean into both software development and knowledge work domains.
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Scott Turner | Senior UX Designer, MYOB
 Scott Turner is an enthusiastic and passionate UX Designer with a proven 15 year history in undertaking a lead role in major project work with experience in many facets of website production, online marketing, usability, interface design, project management and visual design. More recently, Scott has joined the team at MYOB and been an instrumental part of the UX team delivering change within the company and creating some awesome interfaces along the way.
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Dylan Verheijden | Capability Uplift Manager, NAB
 Dylan Verheijden has been a leader in the adoption of Agile at NAB for several years now. Initially through applying it in his Development Lead and ScrumMaster roles and establishing the NAB Agile Community of Practice in 2010. Over the last few years through driving the adoption of Agile engineering practices (such as Continuous Delivery) and Agile Delivery processes (such as Scrum) across the broader organisation in roles such as Agile Delivery Practice Manager. Along the way, Dylan has found adapting Agile to the needs of organisational leaders and threading organisational change management principles through everything to be absolutely invaluable, as well as an area of passion for him.
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Jenny Wood | Director - Products and IT Enablement, Telstra
 Jenny Wood has worked in Telecommunications and Finance for the past 20 years, including Telstra, AAPT and Westpac. Jenny has a diverse background, leading operational areas to deliver exceptional customer service, outsourcing initiatives, and significant IT Leadership and Program Management experience. Jenny joined Telstra in 2011, and is currently the Director responsible for IT delivery to support Telstra Innovation, Products and Marketing and the people, change and strategy program for IT. This role unites Jenny’s experience and passion for enabling change. Jenny’s current focus is embedding cultural change within Telstra IT to focus on delivering value for their customers.
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