Ángel Medinilla @angel_m

Ángel Medinilla (Córdoba, Spain, 1973) has 15+ years working experience in the ICT market. On 2007 he started his own Agile Consulting firm. Today, Proyectalis is considered the leading Agile consulting and coaching company in Spain, offering Agile training, consulting and implementation services to a wide spectrum of software, telco and internet local and worlwide companies. Customers include Ericsson, Vodafone, Electronic Arts, EADS, Abengoa, Odigeo, Auchan, Tui Travel, Schibsted, Thomson Reuters…

He is a regular speaker at Agile conferences in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, United States, Ireland, Slovenia, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland and, of course, Spain,

He is a Management 3.0 Licensed Trainer and a member of both the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance. He is also a well known member of the Spanish Agile community, founder of Agile Spain and also a sponsor and chairman of the first Agile events ever done in Spain: Agile Open Space 2009 and Agile Spain Conference 2010.

He is the author of Agile Management (Springer) and also contributed to Beyond Agile: Stories of Agile Transformations, (Modus Cooperandi). He is currently working on an upcoming book on Agile Kaizen – Continuous Improvement in Agile Environments.

Steve Arnold @sarnold_at_work

Steve works for IBM Rational in the UK as a technical consultant, and lives in Twickenham, London, with my wife and young daughter. He’s a certified scrum master specializing in software development tools, methods and helping customers deliver software faster and better.

Peter Stevens @peterstev

As an experienced Scrum coach, trainer and mentor with a passion for helping organizations transform themselves to thrive in the 21st century, Peter Stevens have been training Scrum Masters, Scrum Developers and Scrum Product Owners in around the world 2008.

Peter is a Certified Scrum Trainer and recognized Radical Management Trainer based in Switzerland. His coaching focus is on transforming organizations. “I teach teams, their leaders, their management and their stakeholders to do Scrum well, to understand Scrum deeply, and to live Scrum values.”

Peter is an engaged leader of the Agile community in Switzerland and worldwide. He initiated the Stoos Gathering, an interdisciplinary summit to catalyze a lasting change in business management along Agile principles.

Brindusa Axon @gbrindusa

Brindusa Axon is a Lean and Agile coach, currently based in the UK. Having a broad experience working with teams, inhouse and offshore, her biggest passion is to create environments where learning and transformation happens. Brindusa writes her ideas on her blog

Carl Myhill @carlmyhill

Carl has been a User Experience designer for over 20 years and has worked in industries including Water, Geographic Information Systems, Power Generation, Education, Police, Forestry and Investment Banking. Carl is very engaged in the UX community and co-founded the Cambridge UPA group.

He adopted the Cooper Goal Directed Design process when he started running a large international team 13 years ago and has stuck with it – this was the best documented UX process we could find. As with other design processes, such as that of IDEO, it looks waterfall. But, notwithstanding that, Carl is big on Agile as an effective way to get things built and has become pretty clear on how to integrate UX and Agile on projects.

Carl’s education is in Applied Psychology (Human Computer Interaction), AI and Maths. He’s pretty terrible at graphics, leaning much more towards the human factors/ethnography side of design, and is a keen proponent of accessibility.

Steve Hayes @Steve_Hayes

Steve led his first XP project in 1999 and has focussed on delivering business value using agile techniques ever since. This has included turnkey development, agile transition consulting, and founding his own Australian company, Cogent Consulting. He has been a regular presenter at industry conferences in Australia and is now the technical lead for Compliance Technology in a global investment bank.

Over his 25 year career, Steve has been a programmer, a business analyst, a data modeller, a project manager, a development manager and an entrepreneur. He believes that choosing between quality and speed is a false dichotomy – quality is the only path to rapid delivery. At the same time he believes most software development is a social problem rather than a technical problem. He writes Java for a living, Ruby for fun, and would appreciate more Clojure.

Uberto Barbini @ramtop

Started programming at ZxSpectrum times and never stopped. Worked in C, Delphi, Python, Java, Scala. Recently is working as contractor for many companies, from startup to enterprise.

He’s passionate about Agile and code well written (OO and Functional).

Tony Bruce @tonybruce77

Tony is a professional, constantly learning, coaching and teaching agile team member who specialises in Testing and people.

He works in an exploratory style with agile techniques and testing with different perspectives; ranging from functional testing through to performance testing, using appropriate tools. He believes there is a need to effectively communicate progress and provide information on testing performed and keep a constant stream of information flowing through the team.

He has worked in various industries with organisations such as Skillsmatter, Channel 4, Ernst & Young, LMAX and The Children’s Society. He is an active member of the Testing community, he hosts the London Tester Gathering and speaks at conferences all over the world.

And in case his accent has you confused, it’s 1-part Aussie, 1-part English and 1-part American.

Giovanni Asproni @gasproni

I’m an independent consultant specialised in helping companies and teams to become more effective at producing and delivering high quality software, and I write code as well.

I’m an expert is agile development, and a frequent conference speaker. I have been involved with the organisation of several international conferences–I’m a past Conference Chair of the London XPDay (http://www.xpday.org), and of the ACCU conference (http://www.accu.org/index.php/conferences). I have contributed two chapters to the book “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” published by O’Reilly.

Ernst Perpignand @eperpignand

Ernst is an Agile Coach and Trainer currently working with GROUPE ONEPOINT in France. He has started his career as a software developer, evolved into a .NET architect and now focuses on improving agility in development organizations using Scrum. As a trainer with scrum.org, he teaches the Professional Scrum Master and Professional Scrum Developer courses.

Ernst regularly shares his knowledge of Agile methods and engineering practices with teams while coaching managers, scrum masters and product owners in their adoption of agile values, mindset and behaviors. He focuses on improving human interactions and relations in his coaching as a way for teams to build great products people will love.

Arber Pllana @arberp

Arber is the EMEA Product Manager at Unruly, global leaders in social video and dedicated to agile principles since its startup days in 2006. Arber has a cross-functional background that spans Operations, Product Support and Product Management. He’s seen Unruly through a period of rapid growth from a team of just 30 to 130, now liaising with a globally distributed network of stakeholders across 12 offices. Arber works at the heart of Unruly’s XP product development team facilitating the incubation of user stories and researching new ideas that feed into our Activate product set.

Allan Kelly @allankellynet

Allan is a Software Business Consultant based in London. His focus is on the business side of the software development. To do this often means addressing the technical side. As he sais: I am fortunate to have a number of very talented associates who help with specific technologies.

He started his career coding (Pascal, C++, C, Java), after a sojourn in Silicon Valley he returned to London and realised he could fix the code problems. The more significant problems were what we were building and how we were building. That led me to an MBA, Patterns, Product Management, Agile and writing two books.

Portia Tung @portiatung

Portia specialises in Agile Enablement and organisational change. Her passion is in building effective and meaningful teams by pragmatically applying Lean and Agile Values, Principles and Practices.

She’s had a number of roles over the years, ranging from Java developer and technical team lead at The Financial Times to development manager at BBC Worldwide. She enjoys working in a multi-disciplined and technical capacity to enable organisations to deliver higher business value faster through the power of teams.

Alex Cuva @Cuvaalex

Alexandre Cuva is an Independent Agile Coach and a trainer in Switzerland. He is currently working as a CTO and an Agile Coach at Smartlink a Swiss Financial company. In addition to coaching Alexandre holds courses and free talks about agile, scrum, kanban, team dynamics, culture hacking, happiness, agile leadership, management 3.0, agile adaptation, large scale agile and xp practices. He co-founded diverse agile communities in the French Switzerland like ScrumBeer, Stoos Satellite..

Alexandre has seen both pragmatic and truly agile, lean, big, organic and team oriented organisations (that still tries to improve and learn). Based upon his experiences he understands that agile is a big experiment and in some peoples mind still is an unproved hypothesis. But as long as there are people who believe in top-down management, long term planning, that there is a “best” way of doing things and that continuous learning costs too much, he believes there is still room for improvement in the world.

Seb Rose @sebrose

Seb Rose is an independent software developer, trainer and coach based in the UK. He specialises in working with teams adopting and refining their agile practices, with a particular focus on delivering software through the use of examples.

He first worked as a programmer in 1980 writing applications for estate agents and solicitors in compiled BASIC on an Apple II. He has worked with many mainstream technologies since then, for many well-known companies, such as Amazon, IBM, NCR, HBOS, Standard Life and Aegon. He is a regular conference speaker (XP2013, ScanDev, NDC, SPA, ACCU, XPDay, Agile North, Developer Day Scotland, Agile on the Beach, Lean Agile Scotland) as well as a contributing author to O’Reilly’s “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know”

Dror Helper @dhelper

Dror is a senior consultant at CodeValue.

He has been writing software professionally for more than a decade, during which he has worked for industry giants such as Intel and SAP as well as small startup companies. Dror has designed and developed software in various fields including video streaming, eCommerce, performance optimization and unit testing tools.

His first encounter with agile happened a few years ago while working for a software vendor specializing in unit testing tools, since then he has been evangelizing agile wherever he went – at his work, speaking at conferences and today as a consultant.

In his blog Dror writes about programming languages, software development tools, unit testing and anything else he finds interesting.

David Tanzer @dtanzer

David is a freelance consultant and trainer who helps clients to increase quality and become agile. He also develops software. Most of the time, David programs in Java. He likes to create web applications using Wicket and JPA, but he also knows other technologies. He “speaks” C# too and was working with .NET for 1.5 Years. In his spare time he co-created the web framework “JSXP” and some other open source software. As a developer and architect, he is very interested in agile software development, architecture in agile projects and how to create the right software using agile acceptance testing and realistic examples.

Oliver Szymanski @SourceKnights

Oliver Szymanski is an international independent Java Enterprise consultant with a diploma in computer science/information technology. His focus lies on efficient software development what he promotes with the jsxp.org and source-knights.com initiatives. Currently he works in the financial sector for banks in the UK and US.

He is also founder of the Association of Java User Groups (ijug.eu) and formerly member of the board of directors and he founded the Java User Group Erlangen/Nuremberg. He works as an author for IT-magazines like Heise Developer Channel, S&S Entwickler, Java aktuell, Java Magazin and as speaker at several conferences like DOAG-conference, Jazoon, Source Talk Days, Java Forum Stuttgart, JAX, Basta.

He is principally involved in Java Enterprise backend technologies but maintains proficiency in other platforms including Objective-C, .NET, and Scala.

Nigel Runnels-Moss @Sleepyfox

Nigel Runnels-Moss, aka @sleepyfox, is a seasoned software craftsman with 25 years of experience in the software industry. He has a passionate interest in behaviour, methodology, social dynamics and organisational change. Nigel has shepherded the success of a wide variety of projects drawn from many business sectors and also has had the privilege of spending 5 years of his life working on the largest IT disaster in history, the £22bn white elephant known as NPfIT.

Nigel runs the London Code Dojo: http://www.meetup.com/london-code-dojo helping professional developers improve their standards and rediscover the joy of coding. An active speaker and teacher in London’s Agile community for more than a decade, he has taught XP, Scrum, dX and Crystal to many teams over the years, and believes that we can leverage convergent research from multi-disciplinary sources such as psychology, learning theory and cognitive science to enhance our effectiveness as software professionals.

Craig Strong @craigstrong

Craig specialises in Agile practices and lean principles to empower teams and drive organisational change. Craig has a passion for continuous improvement cultures and optimising delivery workflows through visual collaboration and team work.

He has been in the software industry for over 12 years and has a variety of roles ranging from developer to manager. He is a regular presenter in the Agile community, more recently presented at the Scrum gathering Barcelona and regular organiser of meet ups across London (http://www.meetup.com/AgilePractitioners/) . Craig is currently a Scrum Master/Agile Coach and Pearsons

Daryn Holmes @DarynHolmes

Daryn has worked in varied projects across multiple industries including telecommunications, finance, pharmaceuticals and the energy sector, which has exposed him to many challenging domains. As an experienced Agile practitioner and trainer, Daryn can often be found presenting and facilitating coding dojos at many London based groups. Daryn is ScrumMasters working NowTV (the latest media streaming service from Sky).