Craig Cockburn (“coburn”) started his career as a software engineer before progressing into test management, project management and programme management. During this time he wrote the UK’s first guide to getting online, is credited with inventing an early browser and appears on the credits for HTML. A early adopter of remote working, Craig wrote a research paper on this practice in the early 1990s. He was Programme manager on a delivery for Southwark council which won IT Project of the Year from the British Computer Society and worked across the UK, Scottish and Northern Irish public sectors, including close collaboration with strategic communications in Downing Street.
During the last 10 years, Craig has specialised more on helping clients with agile delivery and transformations in the public and private sectors with a particular emphasis on banking and finance. During this time Craig has completed a diploma in digital leadership with distinction, obtained multiple certifications in enterprise agile and received an acknowledgement in Agendashift by Mike Burrows. He is a Chartered Fellow of both the British Computer Society and Chartered Management Institute.
Craig is based in Edinburgh, Scotland and has recently spoken at a number of conferences and events including Agile Tour London, Lean Agile Exchange and Coaching Agile Journeys on visualising strategy in a complex landscape and innovative learning practices.
Geetha Ramachandran is an Agile Coach, Change Management Practitioner and a professional Personal & Business Coach accredited with the ICF. As a Leadership Transformation Coach, Geetha is qualified to run The Leadership Circle, a global profiling tool for leaders. With an engineering background, as an Agile Coach, Geetha focusses on the people & process dynamics aspects of building teams. Geetha received a “Made a Difference” award for team transformation and “The Telegraph Woman of the Year” award for her organisational transformation efforts. She is the Founder and Director of Powerfully Human Coaching & Consultancy Ltd.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/geetharamachandran/
Twitter : @geetha_ramachan
Richard is a lean-agile transformation specialist, preferring to build continual learning organisations, leading IT and business agility transformations that are aligned to both organisational and cultural needs, rather than impose any specific framework or a fixed scope transformation.
His personal lean-agile journey started in the early 1990’s with lean improvements and subsequently built on that with various agile and scaled agile frameworks, systems thinking, theory of constraints, Agendashift partner etc.
Whilst having this wide spread of knowledge over many years, he loves being a practitioner, especially as a culture hack, passionate about people and their ways of working, whilst comfortable working strategically with executive and senior management or creating and improving development teams.
His role for the Agile20reflect is primarily as an Advisor, using his broad experience to take a wide view rather than delving deeply into any circle. He is also active in the Risk Circle, again taking a pro-active approach to building resilience and robustness.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-cornelius/
Twitter : @agile_cornelii
Oana likes to call herself an Agile Leadership DJ mixing whatever practices help people share ownership and become proud of their outcomes.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/oanajuncu/
Twitter : @ojuncu
Sath is a passionate, energetic and people-oriented technology and agile leader. He believes in the power of coaching and mentoring, and is an avid visual practitioner.
Having amassed over 20 years of industry experience with international clients and global brands. He has moved from hands-on engineering roles into management and leadership positions spanning both the public and private sectors. At present Sath is leading initiatives to build engineering capability and enhance culture in the finance sector.
Sath is a Chartered IT Practitioner (CITP), Chartered Manager (CMgr) and Fellow of the Learning & Performance Institute (FLPI). He undertakes a number of additional voluntary roles and is currently a BCS Agile committee member, Organiser at The Future of Work Scotland meetup and sits on the board of CMI Scotland. He also holds PSM, PSK and PSPO Agile certifications, and a diploma in Digital Marketing.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathpal/
Twitter : @sathpal
A passionate agilist, community builder, and an agile leader. With about 13+ years of experience in Information Technology, I played several key roles as Agile Coach, Agile Transformation Leader, Tech Evangelist, Development Manager, Project Manager, Enterprise Architect, Team Lead, Scrum Master, Mentor and Speaker. Able to wear different hats over the years, I always thrive to drive change culture parallel to the adoption of Agile mindset through Organization change expertise, excellent facilitation, conflict resolution.
I enjoy Scrum to solve complex problems (not only in Software but also in other domains) and Coaching to help people excel by unlocking their potentials. I love reading, writing, public speaking, and have a healthy discussion about coaching, Agile and Scrum. My consulting experience spans across a plethora of mission-critical Software development, Digital Transformation, Agile Transformation, and modernization projects for Federal Government agencies in Bahrain & KSA (iGA, TRA, SLRB, ELM, HRDF), Government-sponsored enterprise, Financial and IT organizations, Corporate and Retail Banks (Ithmaar Bank, Riyadh Bank, Meem Bank, Bank AlBilad).
I love to volunteer, share knowledge and help grow the agile community. I am currently hosting a weekly agile pro bono cohort in GCC to help promote agile practices and build a local agile community in gulf region. I am also an active member of Pakistan Agile Scrum Exchange (PASE). I love coaching and am aspiring to become a ICF accredited professional coach in near future.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/muhammad-jamil/
Karl Smith is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a member by invitation of BCS ELITE (Effective Leadership in IT) the CIO & CTO group and European CIO Association. He mainly works as an interim consultant, CIO, CTO, CDO or CXO but also joins companies on a permanent bases to deliver the digital transformation or organisational change they are seeking.
He has been involved in Human Centred Design since 1989 and an Agile practitioner since 2004 involved in supporting both business agility and technology adoption of Agile in context of specific organisations. Including Enterprise Agile Portfolio management and an extension of SAFe towards Customer Journey Target Operating Models focused on Idea to Value for Outcome based Transformations.
He has always been fascinated by how technology can augment the lives of humans;
“My desire was not to build things that humans already do but to find out how technology could evolve our human experience.”
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlsmith2/
Twitter : @UserExperienceU
