Speakers at Agile Eastern Europe Conference: Season 6

• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP®)
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM®)
• Certified Product Owner (CSPO®) 
• Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
• ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP)
• ISTQB Certified Software Tester (CTFL)

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Дмитрий Гадомский - адвокат, партнер практики IТ и медиа права адвокатского объединения “Юскутум”, преподаватель Киево - Могилянской академии и Киевского университета права (право информационных технологий).

Среди клиентов Дмитрия компании Ciklum, Inline Group, Innovecs, ISM, Jelastic, Smile, Camo -IT, WannaBiz, Global Technology Foundation и другие компании, так или иначе работающие в сфере IТ и диджитал. Дмитрий принимал участие в качестве представителя/защитника в наиболее резонансных делах последних лет: дело относительно портала EX.UA, по эмитенту электронных денег , об изъятии серверов иностранной социальной сети, а также в крупнейших в Украине делам о хакинге.

Agile process improver Managing Partner, ScrumTrek. Agile trainer and consultant. CEO @ Octoberry products

Nikita Filippov started his career as a developer, and now is the product manager in a major Russian web company. The last 5 years he is implementing Lean and Agile approaches and principles of product management at various levels in various companies – from start-ups to large corporations, with number of people in IT block 300 and more.

Now Nikita land a new company Product Design Bureau -- Octoberry, which builds new business models , product launch stategies on demands for companies who searche for new points of growth and innovation. 

Liz Keogh is a Lean and Agile consultant based in London. She is a well-known blogger and international speaker, a core member of the BDD community and a contributor to a number of open-source projects including JBehave. She specializes in helping people use examples and stories to communicate, build, test and deliver value, particularly when faced with high risk and uncertainty.

Liz's work covers topics as diverse as story-writing, haiku poetry, Cynefin and complexity thinking, effective personal feedback and OO development, and she has a particular love of people, language, and choices. She has a strong technical background with over 15 years’ experience in delivering value and coaching others to deliver, from small start-ups to global enterprises. Most of her work now focuses on Lean, Agile and organizational transformations, and the use of transparency, positive language, well-formed outcomes and safe-to-fail experiments in making change innovative, easy and fun.

Andrew is CEO of Stanfy –  a design and development company specializing in UI/UX and development across mobile and wearable devices.

Initially started as an engineer and made his way to leading a company, while maintaining his technical skills in a good shape. Consulting startups and companies in new and existing technologies. Constantly focused on making software development process more efficient with Agile methodologies.

Has a masters degree in computer science

Артем Быковец - основатель и тренер центра подготовки QA специалистов StartIT, ScrumMaster (BetLab), Crtified Scrum Master. 

Окончил НТУУ КПИ по специальности "Технологии электронных мультимедийных изданий". Начинал карьеру в IT в 2007 году с позиций "сотрудник отдела обработки данных" а после контент-менеджера различных интернет магазинов. После перешел в QA, где поработал на различных проектах в Software MacKiev, Global Logic, Ciklum (Playtech), QA Team Lead в Intego Group LLC, а сейчас занимаю позицию ScrumMaster двух команд разработки в BetLab, принимаю активное участие в переходе на SAFe внутри компании.

Кроме этого уже более чем 2 года занимаюсь тренерской деятельностью и читаю свой курс для желающих начать карьеру тестировщика ПО. Около 240 выпускников, более 50% трудоустроились и уже получили первые предложения по улучшению условий труда. Развиваю новые курсы и партнерские направления StartIT, с огромным удовольствием выступаю на различных конференциях: SE Conf 2014, регулярный участник Grammarly Test Club, AgilePizza, AgileBaseCamp.

 Гордейчук Павел Александрович, Руководитель проекта УМНЯША. smgames.ru

Окончил Военную академию им. Петра Великого по специальности "Прикладная математика". Служил в Космических войсках РФ на инженерных должностях. Руководил ИТ-подразделениями в ряде коммерческих компаний, прошел путь от зам. начальника ИТ-отдела до CIO крупной международной компании. С 2010 года участвовал в развитии проектов по направлению "Информационное общество". Участвовал в организации с "нуля" службы эксплуатации и технической поддержки портала gosuslugi.ru и управлении другими проектами инфраструктуры Электронного правительства. С октября 2013 года возглавляет компанию UNITEST.BIZ и развивает парадигму независимого тестирования и обеспечения качества государственных информационных систем.

В октябре 2014 года вместе с командой из 13 человек запустил проект УМНЯША - бесплатное мобильное приложение для раннего развития детей от 1 года. smgames.ru

Мы уже протестировали «Умняшу» на нескольких десятках детей. Результат превзошел себя – дети начинают повторять, запоминать и узнавать предметы и явления уже в возрасте 1 года!

Команда «Умняши» будет рада разделить радость успеха с Вами!

Co-founder & trainer @ E5
Senior Scrum Master @ Ciklum
IC Agile certified professional

Работает в IT более 10 лет, из них 9 лет на менеджерских позициях. Прошла путь от сотрудника отдела поддержки до менеджера проектов и руководителя офиса.
Занималась, помимо управления проектами и людьми, разработкой систем обучения. Проводит тренинги и коучинг по гибким методологиям разработки, менеджменту и мотивации.
Последний проект - открытие киевского офиса аутсорсинговой компании в Киеве.
Также занимается созданием сообщества менеджеров в ИТ, организовывает встречи ITKaiZenClub.

Aviram is the founder and CEO of Ignite, a global software development company that specializes in Mobile, Web and Gaming Development. In the last decade Aviram assisted Microsoft, Intel, NSN, VMWare, Marvell, Thomson Reuters and others to harness Agile and Scrum best practices in order to optimize the performance of their distributed development teams. Aviram heads the Software Development Forum in Israel, organized the Agile Tour conferences in Israel and Ukraine and is an acclaimed speaker in Agile events.

Annette Vendelbo has true passion for projects, and what makes project management and methods work in real life. Her background is 25 years of project management and general management in global consulting firms eg. Reuters, Digital/Compaq/HP, and Avanade. In 2008 she founded the consultancy company, Xvoto, delivering project management – both traditional and agile, and PM training, mainly Scrum and Kanban. She also delivers advisory services regarding implementation of (agile) methods. Annette’s main focus is incorporating agile elements in her customers’ project management methods and PMO organizations using CBPM – Context Based Project Management®.

CBPM® combines traditional and agile thinking, with the purpose of introducing an evolutionary approach to making traditional organizations become more agile by putting the best from both worlds to use. She has proven that the combination of good practice from traditional methods with agile principles from Scrum and Kanban can generate amazing project results. In 2014, she founded APMA – Agile Project Management Association®.

Nataliya Trenina (@natatara) has 10+ years of experience in the technology field and have played key software development roles from engineer to project manager and consultant.

Since 2009 Nataliya is an Agile Team Coach running and co-owning SCRUMguides company.

Professional Features:

• Product development background with the main experience in corporate enterprises
• Certified Team Coach, Certified ScrumMaster
• Executive partner and Agile coach at the SCRUMguides LLC since 2009
• Main producer of the Agile Eastern Europe conferences since 2009
• Author of a series blog posts about collaboration, teamwork and social skills
• Author of training programs: “Social Skills For Geeks”, “Software Development as The Team Game”

Professional Interests:

• Erickson Coaching International (www.erickson.edu)
• Deep Democracy Institute (www.deepdemocracyinstitute.org)
• Imagine Chicago Network (imaginechicago.org)
• NASA 4-D Network(www.4-dsystems.com)

Social Portrait:

• dreamer & entrepreneur, coach, skier, travel abscessed & snow addicted
• loving people, following the joy, join to the club ;)

Sergey Alpaev is seasoned software delivery executive with successful track record of growing software delivery units, bootstrapping new software delivery services and transforming client delivery organizations by implementing Agile practices

Anton Vidishchev is an active speaker on different technical conferences in Ukraine and outside. He tries to combine both technical and management expertises, by being a Microsoft MVP and a Program Manager for a multilocation developemnt center.
He was deeply involved in growing a project of 3 people to a product line with 80+ technical specialists, and building an agile environment for tight collaboration of a number of SCRUM teams.

Вишнивецкий Максим, сертифицированный менеджер проектов РМР, IPMA; тренер учебного центра Стратоплан.ру и Нетология.

В 2003 году окончил географический факультет Киевского национального университета, там же в 2008 – аспирантуру. Пришел в ИТ 2004 году на позицию редактора веб-сайта, имея за плечами три года журналистики в различных печатных и электронных изданиях. За прошедшие с тех пор 10 лет занимал позиции менеджера проекта, директора департамента, руководителя проектного офиса.

Докладчик отраслевых конференций WhaleRaider, Softwarepeople, SPM, Прагматик-ПМ, Agilebasecamp, Стратосфера, IT-Weekend,  Lviv PM Day.

Marc Löffler  works as an Agile Coach with KARL STORZ. Before getting in touch with agile methods and principles in 2006 he was working as a traditional project manager for companies like the Volkswagen AG or the Siemens AG. His passion is to help teams implementing agile frameworks like Scrum and XP and to transform our world of work.

Marc has a passion for helping teams that are struggling with agile transitions and overcoming dysfunctional behaviour. He loves to generate new insights by approaching common problems from the other side and trying to deliberately make havoc of the process.

Dmytro Mindra holds the position of Software Development Engineer in Test at Unity Technologies. He is one of the Toolsmiths who are developing tools for test automation. Prior to joining Unity, Dmytro has worked for Microsoft and Lohika. He is a frequent speaker at various conferences and User Group meetings.

Project Manager at Namecheap, Inc.

A guy who believes in you.

2 years overall expirience in IT. Ohh, come on, I am joking. I started as a software engineer which is I am currently. A Scrum was part of all my work expirience so I started trying myself as a ScrumMaster a year ago. I was dissapointed in Agile and I am but this is what keeps me improving on methodologies. You can find more in my linkedin profile, facebook account but I believe you are courages enough to drop me a message.

Proactive, self-motivated, result-oriented etc.

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Докладчики:

Юрий Лапин - Руководитель консалтингового направления в компании Ciklum, практикующий менеджмент консультант в IT. Последние 5 лет занимаюсь вопросами разработки аутсорсинговых стратегий, операционной эффективности IT бизнеса и IT подразделений традиционного бизнеса, а также цифровыми трансформациями в бизнесе.

Тимофей Евграшин - тренер и консультант по внедрению гибких методологий управления проектами Agile/Scrum в Ciklum Consulting,  SAFe Program консультант, автор блога The Improved Methods. Более 13 лет создает и руководит командами по разработке программного обеспечения c обучением Agile – разработке и внедрением Scrum.

In 2002, Gino started working with some of Belgium's most prominent Agile promoters. Very soon after that, he joined the Belgian XP/Agile User Group and became actively involved in promoting Agile techniques and practices, because he believes in their effectiveness. As a consultant he has shifted his practice to coaching individuals and organizations as they embrace Agile and is now responsible for the Agile competency centre at EPAM Systems. Gino strongly relies on his passion for team dynamics, his experience in leadership positions, and his technical expertise. Gino is actively involved as a participant and speaker in a number of Agile user groups in Canada. He likes to spend his spare time with family and friends enjoying cycling, travel, art, music, poetry and bragging about the supreme quality of Belgian beer.

Angel is a very energetic Agile coach that truly enjoy challenges. His specialty and passion is putting in place Lean and Agile concepts and practices in very complex environments. As a matter of fact, he successfully led one of the biggest Agile transformations in europe, including IT and business departments of a 1000+ employees bank, from the trenches starting from scratch. In his 15+ years of experience in IT he has worked in various roles: Agile Coach, R&D manager, software developer, software architect, scrum master and trainer.

Alexey Krivitsky is an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Java, .NET an RoR developer. 

Since 2007 has worked as an Agile coach co-owning SCRUMguides company.

Main achievements:

• Strong development background with main experience in Java.
• Executive, main Agile coach and Scrum trainer at SCRUMguides LLC since 2008
• Main producer Agile Eastern Europe conferences in 2009, 2010 and 2011
• Founded Agile Ukraine community in 2007.
• Invented a popular Scrum Simulation with LEGOs.
• Author of a blog on Outsourcing 3.0: offshoring done the Agile way.

Full Resume is available >>> 

 ICAgile ICP, ICP-ATF, PSM. 12 years overall experience in IT, mostly as a delivery manager and a head of department. Currently working as an Agile coach and a trainer in Kiev Luxoft Agile Practice. I work closely with delivery managers, teams and clients, perform project process assessments, provide team and individual coaching, create and conduct trainings and workshops. I enjoy seeing how understanding of this or that concept reaches a person mind and a-ha effect appears, I feel very inspired, when know that I described or showed something innovative and useful for a person or a team that make their live sparking with new colors and daily duties stop being a burden and become being fun.

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.Net Architect, coach and team lead with 9+ year of experience.

As coach I've trained juniors to become a senior developers and tech leads. Master classes about TDD and unit testing (inside a company and public) was part of my way to become good coach.

As a team lead I stick to Agile methodologies: Scrum with XP practices is effective way to build large variety of products. There were times I was replacing ScrumMaster and ProductOwner therefore I know process from all sides.

As a .Net Architect I have strong knowledge of large variety of technologies, libraries and frameworks, ect.

I have stared to work with Agile more than 7 year ago. For that time I have organize IT Laboratory with more than 100 student, where there are 5 projects, train Scrum Masters, Teams and BAs. Also I have worked as coach and consultant for more than 3 projects. My primary activities are development, trainings and willing to improve people skills :)

Vladimir is consultant and trainer, conference speaker and CEO, husband and dad :)
Bringing Project Management virtue and ITIL Goodness to organisations, putting Projects in order, making organisations more Agile and Lean, helping to implement Changes, training through games.

He is IPMA-B and ITIL Expert certified, board member at International Project Management Association Latvia, IPMA 4 level certification system assessor and active member of regional IPMA, itSMF and Agile societies. Teaching Programme and Project Portfolio Management for masters in Project Management.

Owner of ITSM.International, company that is solving IT Management issues, providing consulting and trainings, Consultants/CIOs/PMs/ITguys for rent, adopting and adapting IT Service Management and ITIL.

Vladimir is experienced speaker and have spoken at conferences that are not only Agile related (also IPMA, itSMF, IT) in the following countries: Sweden, Kazakhstan, Russia, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus.
Latest examples are: topconf.com, ipma2014.com, agiliaconference.com, agiledayriga.lv etc
See some presentations here: http://www.slideshare.net/vivanovs
And more bio here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vivanov

Luis Goncalves is a Co-Founder of Oikosofy, Agile Coach, Co-Author, International Speaker and a Blogger.

Luis has been working in the software industry since 2003, being an agile practitioner since 2007. He has a lot of experience in integrating sequential projects phases like localization into an Agile Framework and pioneering agile adoption at different companies and different contexts. Luis has a technical background yet his passion lies at the Management 3.0.

He is a co-author of a book called: "Getting Value Out of Agile Retrospectives". In a near future, he is going to publish an Oikosofy Series Book: “Get rid of Performance Appraisals”.

Moreover, he is a co-founder of a Meet-Up community group in Munich, Germany called High Performing Teams. Together with his friends they created this group with the vision of "Define the future of Management and Leadership". The aim is to collaboratively generate several ideas/theories and try them out in the professional life.

He likes to write and share ideas with the world and this made him a passionate blogger. He gets an inspiration from his professional life as well as from the books that he reads frequently. You can follow his blog on: http://lmsgoncalves.com/.

Ben Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality and Continuous Improvement, based in The Netherlands. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives & What Drives Quality.

As an adviser, coach and trainer he helps organizations by deploying effective software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver business value to customers.

Ben is an active member of several networks on Agile, Lean and Quality, and a frequent speaker and writer. He shares his experience in a bilingual blog (Dutch and English) and as an editor for Agile at InfoQ. You can find him on twitter: @BenLinders.

A licensed Management 3.0 trainer and Agile coach with many years of experience of working with a variety of organizations from start-ups to international enterprise corporations. The main focus of my training is Agile Leadership practices and its applications in the organization culture. As a Coach, I am not going to tell your organization what to do but will help you to find the right solution on your own. My current passion is building an engaging creative-work culture in the team, company and community levels by using a variety of creative concepts from coaching to business games . My motto is "Delivering Value".

15+ years experience. Product and team management. Software architecture and design. Business and system analysis. Sophisticated products with elusive goals. Agile practitioner more than 10 years. Creator of engineering and management frameworks.

Gil Zilberfeld has been in software since childhood, writing BASIC programs on his trusty Sinclair ZX81. With more than twenty years of developing commercial software, he has vast experience in software methodology and practices.

Gil is an agile consultant, applying agile principles over the last decade. From automated testing to exploratory testing, design practices to team collaboration, scrum to kanban, and lean startup methods – he’s done it all. He is still learning from his successes and failures.

Gil speaks frequently in international conferences about unit testing, TDD, agile practices and communication. He is the author of "Everyday Unit Testing", blogs at http://www.gilzilberfeld.com and in his spare time he shoots zombies, for fun.

Pawel Brodzinski is a leader, a team builder and a change agent, but most of all he is an always experimenting practitioner trying to make his teams work better (and learn in the process).

He led the first Kanban implementation in software industry in Poland and he is the first Pole to become a Kanban Coaching Professional.

Pawel is well-recognized public speaker and blogger sharing his thoughts about software project management at his site. Pawel leads Lunar Logic, web software shop in Krakow, Poland, where he field tests his ideas on improving management methods.

Software Engineering Team Lead @ Seamless Payments / IT Coach @ Sages / Professional Scrum Master + Product Owner / 'MBA for IT' student @ Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego

On daily basis I try to bridge the gap between technology and business worlds being convinced and convincing others that it's actually one world because of a common goal. If I were to put tags next to my name it would be: agile, scrum, lean and devops.

I work at Seamless Payments and take part in development of our own product which is a mobile payment system called SEQR. In the meantime I'm also a coach at Sages helping other organizations improving their businesses by adopting certain technologies (eg. Spring, Hibernate, REST, JBoss Drools) or methodologies/mindsets (eg. Agile Development Day - http://www.agiledevelopmentday.pl/).

My last conference talks include:

- 'War stories about Scaled Agile Framework' at Agile By Example'14

- 'Do you still pay with cash or card, or already with your mobile?' at Mobilization'14 (in Polish)

More about me can be found at http://linkedin.com/in/tomekatwork .

Claudio Perrone, aka Agile Sensei, is a well-known Lean & Agile management consultant, entrepreneur and startup strategist.

Claudio has been playing key roles in Lean & Agile transformations for global organizations as well as for some of the fastest-growing technology startups in the world.

Today, he integrates Lean & Agile product development, Lean Change and Lean Startup to help teams and individuals converge to success.

As an award-winning public speaker, Claudio uses unique storytelling and cartoon-style illustration abilities to share thought-provoking ideas and actionable methods and techniques.

He considers himself an “activist by invention”. His passion is to create strategies and tools to help people develop insanely-good habits of thinking and make a difference in this world.

He is a Fellow of the Lean Systems Society, inventor of the Popcorn Flow thinking model of continuous change experimentation, and the creative force behind A3 Thinker, a formidable set of brainstorming cards and mobile solutions based on Toyota’s Lean management approach.