Program Schedule

  •  Keynote Speaker
  •  Business and Enterprise Agility
  •  Lean, Product Development and Start-up
  •  System and Design Thinking
  •  Cultural, Leadership and Change
  •  Technical Stake in Agility
  •  Panel Discussion
  •   Program Introduction

Friday 26th May

Time Event
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:00 "Agile, Agility and Complexity"
Dave Snowden
(Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge)
10:00 - 10:15 Program Overview - Noopur
10:15-11:15 "DevOps > CI + CD"
Sudipta Lahiri
(Sr. Vice President- Engineering and Professional Service, Digite, Inc.)
11:15-11:30 AM Break
The Royal Room 1 The Royal Room 2
11:30 - 12:15 "Survival is a matter of change…change requires Business Agility!"
Gerald Cadden
(Senior Principal Transformation Consultant, CA Technologies)
"Technical Agility with DevOps : A new dimension to Faster Delivery, Customer Satisfaction"
Ajay Kabra
(Sr. Director - Agile Transformation, Xebia)
12:15 - 13:00 "Agile is a Flexible Mind-set"
Gautam Mahajan
(President, Inter-Link and Customer Value Foundation & Founder Editor Journal of Creating Value)
"Why We Need Coaching Skills"
Saket Bansal
(Lead Trainer, iZenBridge Consultancy Private Limited)
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00 "Workshop - Agile thru Mindfulness"
Dov Tsal
(Agile Transformation Coach, Krungthai Axa)
"Enterprise Agility - It’s all about ROI and Customer Experience"
Harsha Vardhan
(IT Director, United Health Group)
15:00 - 15:30 "Lean Agile Performance Management in Action"
Thriveni Shetty
(Consultant, INNOVATION ROOTS)
15:30 - 15:45 PM BREAK
15:45 - 16:15 "Travelogue: An Engineer to a Design thinker"
Makarand Purohit
(Process Consultant, Unisys)
"Modern Enterprise Agility Pattern"
Saikat Das
(Associate Director - Agile Program Management, Cognizant)
16:15 - 17:00 "Agile Adoption Journey in Travel domain"
Meetu Singh
(General Manager, Business Intelligence at Interglobe Technologies)
"Please solve the right problem!"
Jisha Sharma
(Product Family Manager, McKinsey & Company)
17:00 - 18:00 Panel Discusssion: "Fish bowl Format"
Panelist: Gautam Mahajan, Dov Tsal, Priyank Pathak, Harsha Vardhan
Facilitator: Sudipta Lahiri

Saturday 27th May

Time Event
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:00 "Accelerating Innovations and Startups in the Age of Disruptive Technologies"
Prof. P B Sharma
(Vice Chancellor, Amity University)
10:00 - 10:15 Program Overview - Noopur
10:15 - 11:15 "Impact of Autonomics on IT Industry and How it can Prepare Itself for Future"
Rajiv Sodhi
(Senior Corporate Vice President, HCL Technologies)
11:15-11:30 AM Break
The Royal Room 1 The Royal Room 2
11:30 - 12:15 "The adventures of Dr No and Mr Right."
Dov Tsal
(Agile Transformation Coach, Krungthai Axa)
"All sprint teams are guilty unless proven innocent"
Deepak Chopra
(Vice President, Genpact)

12:15 - 13:00 "How we combined Design Thinking and Agile Practices"
Ritu Mehta
(Sr. Director Product Development & Global Agile Head, Pitney Bowes Software)
"Experience Report - Building an Agile Culture"
Anand Murthy Raj
(Partner Agile Consultant, Blinklane Consulting NV)
13:00- 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00 " Agile Relationship Status - It's Complicated!"
Nirbhay Gandhi
(Agile Transformation Coach, Blue Agility)
"Team's Agility Assessment"
Prashant M J
(Lead Consultant, INNOVATION ROOTS)
(14:00 - 14:45, 45 min)
15:00 - 15:30 "Blame it on Culture"
Deepak Gururaja
(Sr. Agile Consultant, SolutionsIQ)
"Agile Analytics and Visualization"
Mohit Jain
(Senior Director - Agile Governance, hCentive)
(14:45 - 15:30, 45 min)
15:30 - 15:45 PM BREAK
15:45 - 16:15 "Are we providing a culture for Agile to thrive?"
Srinath Chandrasekharan
(Senior Manager - Program Management, hCentive India)

"Targeted Regression Testing in Large Scale Agile Environment"
Hemant Gurav
(Agile Coach, Independent)
16:15 - 17:00 "Agile Leadership Culture and Similarities with Leadership Principles of Internet Innovators"
Sarath Chandra
(Head of Technology Solutions, S2 Scaled Services, Google)
"Craft your story"
Prashanth Madhavan & Khaarthigha Subramanian
(Lead Consultant , Thoughtworks)
17:00-18:00 "Identify potential pathways for Agile as a movement"
Dave Snowden
(Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge)

Ambience Island, National Highway 8, Gurugram - 122 002