Bernie Maloney

Ever feel like the market moves faster than your marketing team? Or, wonder how flexible your finance (& leadership!) teams would really be if self-direction glitched and blew $1M? Organizations introduce Agile believing it will lead in part to greater responsiveness and resiliency. Yet, why do so many fail to achieve those outcomes? It isn’t just that they’re structured and operated by default along hierarchical lines rather than by design for iterative work. Achieving the full benefits of Agile comes from shifting the culture and mindset of a whole organization, sometimes as radically as encouraging it to "Make New Mistakes." This very philosophy was a driver in the fastest division in HP’s history to reach $1B, a hardware division that was focused on manufacturing operations, with razor thin margins, and markets that changed 3x faster than the development lead time. Through a series of short stories and exercises, attendees will explore 5 practices from that business which led to roaring success. We’ll probe their parallels in Lean / Agile practice. With each one, you’ll briefly self-inspect the state of your own organization, as well as create a backlog you can use to adapt in your "real world" beyond the conference. Do you have, or want, a vision that takes you beyond high performing teams, to a high performing, resilient business? Come hear how you can help your organization shift from mechanics that "do" Agile, and walk away with a feel for what’s possible when not just development, but a whole organization surfs the flow of "being" Agile.

In a recent publication by the National Center for Women & Information Technology, it was found that gender diversity at top management levels improves companies’ financial performance - yet the numbers show that we're far behind in hitting goals of balancing leadership roles. Join an international panel of leaders from design and tech for presentations and a town hall discussion. Learn how these individuals develop goals and practices to move toward leadership equality while addressing the similarities and differences between American, European, and Asian cultures and the way we work together. Panel Sue Cooper, Co-Founder, Cooper Reema Diwan, Corporate Director - Technical Services & Interiors, Taj Hotel Mary Wharmby, Head of Design Transformation, BBVA Deepa Bachu, Co-Founder & CEO, Pensaar Poornima Girish, General Manager – Digital Development, Shell Sujitha Karnad, CEO, Sekai Solutions Facilitated by Teresa Brazen, Senior Director of Professional Education, Cooper