Name: David J. Anderson

Trainer: Introduction to Kanban

Bio: David is author of books Agile Management for Software Engineering and KANBAN. He leads a management consulting firm focused on improving performance of technology companies. He has many years management experience leading teams on agile software development projects. David was a founder of the agile movement through his involvement in the creation of Feature Driven Development. He was also a founder of the APLN, a non-profit dedicated to improving management and leadership in technology companies. Recently David has been focusing his attention on business agility and enterprise scale agile software transitions through a synergy of the CMMI model for organizational maturity with Agile and Lean methods.

Name: Robert Batusek

Trainer: Continuous Integration

Bio: Robert is an experienced software developer and Agile coach. He has held several positions from software development, architecture, and project management to people management during his professional carrier.He applied agile development methods in several companies.

Currently, he is affiliated with the Y Soft Corporation, where he acts as a development methodology specialist and an Agile coach. He also specializes in continuous integration and automated testing.He is an active member of Agilia and an organizer of Agilia bi-monthly meetings in Brno. He also consults and trains individuals and companies in association with Aguarra. He regularly moderates meetings and workshops and applies games, group work and other workshop techniques in his daily job.Robert holds the following degrees and certifications: MSc. in computer science, PhD in computer science, Certified Scrum Master. He went through the number trainings in the field of project management, risk management, claim management, etc.

Name: Tomas Lembacher

Trainer: Agile Test Driven Development

Bio: Tomáš started with programming more than 15 years ago in the C language moving up to C + +, C # and Java, and finally ended with PHP. Tomáš successfully led a team of programmers who gradually adopted techniques such as: proper coding, unit testing, continuous integration techniques and more. And shares his experience and knowledge for Aguarra in Test Driven Development. In is free time he’s passionate about sports and developing software applications.

Name: Bent Myllerup, CSC

Trainer: Agile Coaching

Bio: Bent’s professional life is a strong blend of being Product Owner at TC Electronic, the agile coach for the companies in TC Group and the principal coach at Agile Coaching DK. Bent has the honor of being the first European Certified Scrum Coach [CSC], which is combined with a classic PMP certification from Project Management Institute and a Systemic Coach certification from the Attractor Systemic Institute in Denmark. He also holds a Bachelor in Electronic Engineering. Bents mission: „Bringing agility into embedded product development and professional coaching into the agile world“. He is also the co-initiator of the Danish Scrum User Group, named Scrum Forum. Bent has been acting as trainer for several years. His signature presentation: “How to create the high-performance environment” has been presented at the Scrum User Groups in Phoenix – Arizona, Atlanta – Georgia and Berlin among others. Bent is experienced in implementing Scrum as an internal and external coach, training Project Managers in agile approaches and doing team-building and individual coaching sessions.

Name: Valeri Souchkov

Trainer: Creative Problem Solving, Management of Systematic Innovation - TRIZ

Bio: Valeri is internationally acknowledged innovation and TRIZ expert and trainer certified by G. Altshuller (TRIZ founder). Valeri is pioneer promoter of TRIZ and Systematic Innovation in Western Europe, USA, and Asia. Since 1989 he trained more than 5.000 people in TRIZ and Systematic Innovation worldwide and participated on more than 100 innovation projects in various areas. He has trained and facilitated projects in many organizations including Capgemini, DSM, DuPont, LG Electronic, Posco, Philips and Siemens. He has created first open TRIZ course and regularly provides it since 1992. He is author of more than 70 publications on TRIZ, systematic innovation and IT support for innovation and also one of designers of modern TRIZ and techniques of systematic innovation. Valeri is co-founder of Invention Machine Corporation and also founder and board member of European Associaction for TRIZ (www.etria.net). Since 2003 he managers ICT T&C and organizes courses on TRIZ and systematic innovation at University of Twent, Netherlands.

Name: Michal Vallo, MBA, CSP, founder of Aguarra

Trainer: Scrum and Agile Methodologies, Organization Change and Management Consulting

Bio: Michal is the founder and managing director of Aguarra. As seasoned agile coach and trainer he focuses on organizational development of technology driven companies and exploitation of creative potential of specialized teams in technology based companies of all sizes, including Fortune 500. He has trained or provided consulting to more than 300 people from several countries including Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Sweden. His ultimate drive and goal is to transform and customize techniques of agile methodologies in software development (e.g. SCRUM) and make them suitable and available to management and team members to pursuit efficiency and innovation. He is also the founder of not-for-profit body Agilia, which promotes agile methodologies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and provides the regional platform for meetings of the agile community.