Barbara is a transformation leader and lifelong learner with a 25+ year career spanning both business and academia. She is currently VP at Telenet, leading the company’s Agile Transformation. Previously, she was a Principal at Bain & Company, a Partner at PE firm Gimv, and COO at Groupon, an internet scale-up.

My journey has taken me from academic research, to the public sector, to companies like KLM, Nike, ASML, and many more. In parallel to AWS, I'm a bit back at the Academy through research at the Antwerp Management School on team communication patterns, decision-making, IT/Business alignment and enterprise architecture.

I have held leadership roles such as Head of Projects, Head of Delivery, Center of Expertise (CoE) Lead (Program Delivery & Ways of Working), Program Manager, and Enterprise Agile Coach.

With a strong track record in Telco, Banking, Utilities, Retail, and Federal Government, I specialize in Transformation and Complex Delivery at scale.

My commitment to growing the industry and my track record of delivery were recognized when I was appointed the Oceania representative for the Agile20Reflect Festival, celebrating 20 years of the Agile Manifesto.

Kief Morris (he/him) is an Infrastructure Automation Architect who helps infrastructure teams move from hand-crafted infrastructure management that creates friction and toil to a platform approach that focuses on enabling users to deliver better outcomes faster. An infrastructure platform approach involves adopting a composable infrastructure architecture and self-service environment management, which needs changes to team workflows and topologies.

I am an accomplished leader in delivery management and service excellence, with over 19 years of experience driving transformative programs in dynamic business environments. As the Head of Delivery at CI&T, I am recognized for my strategic vision, innovative approach, and ability to deliver impactful results.

Coach and facilitator enabling teams to unlock their potential, focusing on strategic alignment, and sustainable change leading to cumulative transformation. Offering genuine guidance of working structures agnostic of organisation structure to cultivate autonomous, resilient and most importantly effective sustained teams with a culture of continuous improvement at their core.

Highly experienced Subject Matter Expert in Value Stream Management, DevSecOps, DevOps, ALM, SDLC, and IT4IT, with extensive management and consultancy experience spanning end-to-end IT disciplines since 1992. Certified in Value Stream Management, DevOps, SAFe, CMMI, ITIL, TOGAF, and PRINCE2.

Over the course of my career, I have successfully provided services and management expertise to organizations including Accenture, Cognizant, Deutsche Bank, Borland, BT, EDS (part of HP), the Met Office, and AstraZeneca.

With over a decade of experience spanning software development, team leadership, and strategic consulting, I have cultivated a career that blends technical expertise with a passion for organizational improvement. Currently, as a Principal Consultant at Team Rockstars IT, I empower development teams by fostering agile mindsets, optimizing team structures, and aligning technical projects with business objectives.

Naren is a seasoned Engineer and Architect with over 20 years of experience, passionate about identifying the right problems to solve and designing lasting, effective solutions. His consulting career has spanned a wide array of industries—from Mining and Fintech to Insurance, Media, and M&A—giving him a unique perspective on diverse business and technical challenges.

I am a motivated professional and Subject Matter Expert in the Observability domain, known for my ability to structure business problems effectively and resolve cases quickly and diligently. With strong technical skills and extensive experience working with international teams, I remain focused on achieving goals and consistently strive to exceed project milestones and expectations.

Leading people, teams, and companies is my calling. I thrive on building relationships and cross-org partnerships that calm chaos, ease decision making, carry out change, and elevate performance. It excites me to develop strategies that reimagine how work is performed and unite people to get it done. Throughout my career I have joined organizations that are going through significant people, process, and technology changes. Regardless of the subject matter, my leadership agility becomes the north star that guides people through complex challenges to achievement of enterprise goals.

With an unconventional background in Digital Arts, Malte Fiala brings 21 years of experience in the IT industry. Over the past seven years, he has honed his expertise in enterprise architecture (EA), with a specialization in socio-technical architecture, data architecture, and DevOps/cloud-native solutions. Currently, Malte focuses on AI strategy consulting through his firm, Spacelike AI GmbH.

I have 25 years of experience in IT, working across large organizations with a focus on digitalization, product management and agile delivery. As an Enterprise Agile Coach and Transformation Expert, I've had the chance to contribute to some meaningful initiatives, like a multi-year lean-agile transformation and helping to set up a dual operating model. At Roche, I founded the first Global SAFe Community of Practice, where I brought together a passionate team and trained over 500 people in agile methods. Additionally, I’ve enjoyed designing and implementing new team topologies to support high-performing teams and drive lasting, positive change within the organization.

At my core, I am an engineer. As a business and technology enabler, I bring decades of experience in building distributed systems, adopting modern technologies for faster flow, and growing high-performing, autonomous teams. Throughout my extensive career, I’ve worked with enterprises of various scales, actively sharing knowledge through writing and public speaking. My current focus lies in cloud technologies, AWS, and serverless architecture. As an AWS Hero, I have the opportunity to reach a global audience, assisting them on their cloud and serverless journeys.

An accomplished and dynamic Product Delivery Leader with a successful track record leading complex global digital transformation programmes for FTSE 100 companies. Building teams and programmes grounded in customer insight and data driven product development, Agile ways of working and Lean portfolio management.

I'm a seasoned consultant, business leader and international speaker. Experienced in transformation strategy and leadership coaching, solution design, pre-sales, sales, change and line management. I love nothing more than focusing upon improving the flow of value within an organisation and I'm often found working as a coach/ advisor, designing solutions and workshops to remove impediments to adoption or geeking out over the impact of organisational structures, team dynamics and behaviour economics. I'm passionate about doing work that matters and enabling others to do their best work.

Kevin has played a pivotal role in some of the largest digital transformation projects in Finnish insurance, with a strong emphasis on agile transformation and organizational development. His extensive experience includes working with multicultural teams across Europe and India, enabling him to effectively manage and collaborate in diverse environments.

With over 17 years of expertise in product delivery and program management across diverse industries and countries, Prachi Tiwar is a leader in driving organizational transformation. She has a strong passion for Japanese lean methodologies, utilizing tools such as Obeya for work alignment, Hoshin Kanri (Lean Value Tree) for strategic planning, and Kanban (program walls) to manage complex workflows.

Thomas is a long time engineer and tech lead who has transitioned into an interim engineering manager and consultant role. As an early adopter of DevOps, including DevOps Topologies (which later evolved into Team Topologies), he possesses a deep understanding of Platform Engineering and product thinking. He has successfully led multiple enabling teams in initiatives such as architecture modernization and reliability engineering practices.

Throughout my career, I have successfully facilitated organizational change by introducing Lean and Agile practices tailored to cloud-native environments. I have led cross-functional teams in designing technical solutions that balance operational efficiency, scalability, and resilience. Before joining Red Hat, I held various leadership roles at OCTO Technology, where I advanced Agile and DevOps adoption within large-scale programs. My deep understanding of value streams and team topologies enables me to align technical and organizational strategies, driving sustainable success in the digital age.