Welcome Folks,

this is the first Global Community lead Agile Festival! And as we learn how to do this we want to explain why its not a conference so here goes..

"At our Free Agile Festival you can host, or do anything that you want at any time in February 2021. Co-badge it with us and we will advertise your event or activity on our central programme and we will keep a copy of your event or research for people that are unable to attend to make use of free in the future."

Its a simple idea, come be creative and share your passion! In our world community party!!!

We launch in the 20th of October 2020 with the aim of having a festival of activities and events in February 2021 to mark the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto. We will be a worldwide free festival so we are looking for the involvement and support of people, agile communities and agile organisations from across the globe. We aim to build bridges all kind of global bridges :-

Bridges between different agile community,

Bridges between different parts of the world,

and Bridges between communities the past and the future.

Why are we doing this? With the world in a pretty terrible financial state due to Covid, Politics, Climate Change we wanted to bring all Agilists together to build bridges and to learn from each other. There is probably no one Agile Community but many different communities, this community based festival aims to be open to all building bridges within and between communities. Having a Festival that allows us to learn, meet new people and have fun seemed like a great idea. So we started talking about it and many many people wanted to do something simple across the world online.

So here is what we are doing. We are getting a fleet of Ambassadors across the world to work locally with companies, groups and local meet-ups to host events around the world. Hosting events and activities on local languages and culturally appropriate to wherever they are happening. Perhaps planting the growth of Agile Communities around the world.

We register those events in a central programme and people can see all the events on our website and get links to book those events. That's the Global, Local events. To help the local groups and the Ambassadors we have a directory of Speakers willing to talk at events around the world. This is the Volunteer Speaker Directory and it's free to get on there. We are hoping some big names will show their Agile Community credentials and register there to be available to speak at local events around the world.

The events and activities are to be focused on he Past, Present or possible Future of Agile. All events are recorded and those recordings become part of a lasting research data set like Agile Ted Talks. In the future people can use those events to self learn and create their own learning paths. And all of that is free for everyone. We really hope that all organisations take part and unlock their creativity to put really interesting creative experiences into the programme.

Anyone can do anything as long as it's related to Agile or the Agile community. We will just be doing a light safety, code of conduct check. If we get 2000 Complaint events we will be happy to have them on the programme. So dust off all your ideas you had for conferences that did not make the cut. Why will this be awesome? The reason is because we will have the greatest, inclusivity and diversity of ideas, learnings, retros and hopefully future improvements.

Perhaps like our New Year’s Eve we can all have our own local, corporate and association Reflections and Improvements. It's really just that simple. Dream your idea, register it with us and in February 2021 we can all experience truly amazing events all around the world and have the record of all of that variety and diversity available for future learning - like TED talks.

• Everyone : Register to be up-to-date with developments and news : Register here

• Local Agilistas : Become one of the Local Ambassadors (Every country) : Apply here

• Organisations : Register and help (Come and help): Register here

• Anyone : Suggest and Host Events (Build and host your ideas): Register Register here

• AgileSpeakers : Register to speak (Share your learning): Volunteer here