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Welcome to

THE NEXT BIG THING

#APGI2019 Conference

20th April 2019 | Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Pune

The Conference

a day of Thought Experiments & Real Experiences 
20th April 2019

First time was a charm, second was an experience, third's going to change the way you think about agility. #APGI2018 saw 250+ participants, 48 sessions, and 58 speakers; #APGI2019 aims to address a different monster. 

At APGI, we believe in bringing understanding through experience. We understand that though perfection is not attainable, if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence and we strive hard to exceed expectations every time. The APGI conference aims to bring about Agile awareness and bring concurring people together.

 

Explore, discuss and learn about the key variants of Agile from the experts and catch the Agile pioneers in action.

The Conference
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240

Participants

3

Tracks

23

Sessions
Speakers & Panelists

30

Takeaway for Participants:
 
  • Gain insight into the changing world agility with leaders from around the globe

  • Loads of goodies to be won in competitions during the conference

  • Complimentary food and beverages at Pune's finest

  • Networking with industry experts and various activities to present your expertise

  • A chance to become part of the most active & self-organised Agile community - APGI

  • 8 SEUs by Scrum Alliance which can be used as a part of its continuous learning programmes

  • 8 PDUs to be earned (on demand)

  • Free - Six Sigma - Training & Certification by AgileWaters (on demand)

About APGI

What is APGI?

The aim of this group is to focus on & share Technical Practices used across organizations which help build agility in teams & also make best practices visible.

In the era of agility, swift, faster-paced development, “APGI” is looking for people who share a common mindset, practices, goals, and interests. This group provides a stage or a platform for:

 

  • Knowledge Sharing: Technical & Process oriented best practices of Agile and Lean .
     

  • Geek'o'meter: Awaken the technocrat in you. Specially focused Technical Best Practices sharing and help to implement it.
     

  • Expert's Hive: Expert solutions on core concepts, challenges & problems at hand which are blockers in agility.
     

  • Help'n' grow: contribute to the Agile community & spread the Scrum word and initiatives and help them get knowledge and certified.
     

  • Recognition: We also intend to felicitate the good work put up by individuals in the area of work which helps agility in teams.

About APGI

Schedule

20th April 2019

08:30

Registrations

30 mins​

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09:00

Welcome Address by APGI Founder Vijay Wade

Grand Maratha | 15 mins

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09:20

Tathagat Verma - Outside-in Agility

Grand Maratha | Keynote | 30 mins 

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09:55

Priya Tandon - Not so Agile

Grand Maratha | Keynote | 30 mins

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10:25

Coffee / Tea Break

30 mins

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10:55

Rucha Kapare - Including & Unleashing everyone with Liberating Structures

Grand Maratha 1 | Enterprise Agility & Mindset | 30 mins

Ashutosh Bhatawadekar - Agile antidotes for killing Agile anti-patterns

Grand Maratha 2 | Agility Case Studies | 30 mins

Vinod Marothy & Prashant Bhinganiya - An Evolution of DevOps - An Organization Enabler

Peshwa 1 | Technical Agility | 30 mins

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11:30

Sandeep Bhavsar - Mind the Mindset

Grand Maratha 1 | Enterprise Agility & Mindset | 30 mins

Peeyush R - Indian Army : Agility & Flexibility in Rigidity

Grand Maratha 2 | Agility Case Studies | 30 mins

Sharmila Patwardhan - Product thinking in legacy systems for development teams ! Is it even neded?

Peshwa 1 | Technical Agility | 30 mins

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12:05

Srinivas Chillara - "Failing to succeed?" Or, not even succeeding to fail?

Grand Maratha 1 | Enterprise Agility & Mindset | 30 mins

Vinay Baijal & Manjunath M S Rao - Siemens Agile & QM Transformation Case Study

Grand Maratha 2 | Agility Case Studies | 30 mins

Naval Thakur - How to achieve Enterprise wide Agility technology tool-stack

Peshwa 1 | Technical Agility | 30 mins

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12:35

Lunch Break

60 mins

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13:35

Sanjay Saini - HR: Enabler or Impediment in Agile Transformation

Grand Maratha 1 | Enterprise Agility & Mindset | 30 mins

Santosh Kotnis - Agile Implementation : An Executive Leadership Perspective

Grand Maratha 2 | Agility Case Studies | 30 mins

Ashutosh Bhatnagar - Re-imagining future : A peek into Mixed Reality (Holo Lens)

Peshwa 1 | Technical Agility | 30 mins

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14:10

Nilesh Kulkarni - Enterprise Agility with #NoFrameworks

Grand Maratha 1 | Enterprise Agility & Mindset | 30 mins

Mayuresh Athalekar - Agile Maturity Assessment : A Vision Centic Approach

Grand Maratha 2 | Agility Case Studies | 30 mins

Vinaya Murlidharan & Carol Mathrani - Pay off your Tech Debt, rebuild your credit

Peshwa 1 | Technical Agility | 30 mins

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14:45

Vishal Prasad - SLICE : The Experimentation Mindset

Grand Maratha 1 | Enterprise Agility & Mindset | 30 mins

Yogesh Jayawant & Dhiren Shah - Introspecting Culture of your Organization

Grand Maratha 2 | Agility Case Studies | 30 mins

Paritosh Belekar & Kartik Natarajan - A Journey : Technical to Product Leadership

Peshwa 1 | Technical Agility | 30 mins

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15:15

Coffee / Tea Break

30 mins

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15:45

Jeff Lopez-Stuit - Leading through Being and Making : How India Can Help Improve Global Agility

Grand Maratha | Keynote | 30 mins

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16:20

Industry Leaders from Siemens, Tieto, Schlumberger, zCon, and more

Grand Maratha | Panel Discussion | 40 mins

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17:05

Open Space

Grand Maratha | 35 mins

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17:45

Retrospective, Event Winners Announcement, Vote of Thanks

15 mins

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All Day Long

Schedule

Speakers

Proud to bring inspirational speakers from across the globe.

Tathagat Verma

Tathagat Verma

Keynote Country Manager NerdWallet Bengaluru - India

Priya Tandon

Priya Tandon

Keynote Head of Healthcare Welfare Education Tieto Pune - India

Jeff Lopez

Jeff Lopez

Keynote Founder Improvement School Greater Seattle Area

Ashutosh Bhatawadekar

Ashutosh Bhatawadekar

Case Study Enterprise Agile Coach Confidential Pune - India

Vinod Kumar

Vinod Kumar

Talk Consultant Medline Industries, Inc. Pune - India

Rucha Kapare

Rucha Kapare

Talk Lead Business Analyst Springer Nature Pune - India

Sharmila Patwardhan

Sharmila Patwardhan

Talk Agile Coach Zensar Pune - India

Prashant Bhinganiya

Prashant Bhinganiya

Talk Consultant Medline Industries, Inc. Pune - India

Sandeep Bhavsar

Sandeep Bhavsar

Talk Agile Coach EdgeVerve Pune - India

Peeyush Paul

Peeyush Paul

Case Study Major Indian Army Pune - India

Vinaya Murlidharan

Vinaya Murlidharan

Talk Enterprise Agile Coach Fiserv Pune - India

Naval Thakur

Naval Thakur

Talk DevOps Automation Lead Schlumberger Pune - India

Carol Mathrani

Carol Mathrani

Talk Agile Coach Fiserv Pune - India

Srinivas Chillara

Srinivas Chillara

Talk Founder, Managing Partner SwanSpeed Consulting Pune - India

Vinay Baijal

Vinay Baijal

Case Study Head of Agile Practices Siemens Pune - India

Manjunatha M S Rao

Manjunatha M S Rao

Case Study Business Transformation Enabler Siemens Bengaluru - India

Sanjay Saini

Sanjay Saini

Talk Professional Scrum Trainer Scrum.org Gurugram - India

Santosh Kotnis

Santosh Kotnis

Case Study Business Leader Self-employed Pune - India

Ashutosh Bhatnagar

Ashutosh Bhatnagar

Talk Product Development Manager Tieto Pune - India

Nilesh Kulkarni

Nilesh Kulkarni

Talk Enterprise Agile Coach ThoughtWorks Pune - India

Mayuresh Athalekar

Mayuresh Athalekar

Case Study Program Manager ADP Pune - India

Yogesh Jayawant

Yogesh Jayawant

Case Study Product Development Manager Tieto Pune - India

Dhiren Shah

Dhiren Shah

Case Study Product Development Manager Tieto Pune - India

Kartik Natarajan

Kartik Natarajan

Talk Product Architect Siemens Pune - India

Paritosh Belekar

Paritosh Belekar

Talk Product Owner Siemens Pune - India

Vishal Prasad

Vishal Prasad

Talk Lead Consultant ThoughtWorks Pune - India

Vikram Deshpande

Vikram Deshpande

Panel Talk Sub Segment Head Siemens Pune - India

Shrikant Tamhane

Shrikant Tamhane

Panel Talk Delivery Manager Schlumberger Pune - India

Nikhil Mokashi

Nikhil Mokashi

Panel Talk Sub Segment Head Siemens Pune - India

Speakers

Sponsors

Title Sponsor

Title Sponsor

AgileWaters is a team of knowledgeable and expert trainers & Coaches in the field of Agile Scrum, Lean, Kanban, TDD, DevOps & Six Sigma. They have practical experience of these subjects and also possess skills of expert trainers and coaches. AgileWaters also have a wide portfolio of Certifications on Kanban, Scrum, DevOps, Six Sigma, ITIL, and PMP. ​Contact: Support@AgileWaters.com More details available at: www.AgileWaters.com

Platinum Sponsor

Platinum Sponsor

Schlumberger is a leading provider of oilfield services, focusing on innovative technologies for reservoir characterization, drilling, and production. We are in the business of helping our customers find and produce oil and gas in ways that demonstrate respect for both people and the environment, since 1927.

Gold Sponsor

Gold Sponsor

Tieto aims to become customers’ first choice for business renewal as the leading Nordic software and services company. In a rapidly changing world, every bit of information can be used to provide new value. Tieto aims to capture the significant opportunities of the data-driven world and turn them into lifelong value for people, business and society.

Gold Sponsor

Gold Sponsor

With a focus on electrification, automation and digitalization, Siemens India stands for engineering excellence, innovation, and reliability. As one of the world’s biggest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a pioneer in infrastructure and energy solutions, as well as automation and software for industry. The company is also a leader in medical imaging equipment, laboratory diagnostics, and clinical IT.

Silver Sponsor

Silver Sponsor

Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, founded Scrum.org in 2009 as a global organisation, dedicating himself to improving the profession of software delivery. Based on the principles of Scrum and the Agile Manifesto, Scrum.org provides comprehensive training, assessments and certifications to improve the profession of software delivery.

Silver Sponsor

Silver Sponsor

We provide premium training for different roles and services - Scrum Master, Product Owner, Development Team, Leadership, Kanban, Scaling Scrum. The trainings are not limited to software but there are so many non-software organizations who have been benefited by adopting the Agile ways of working. Our mantra is – Live Integrity, Think Customer, Ignite Passion, Take Accountability, Promote Innovation and Achieve Greatness.

Silver Sponsor

Silver Sponsor

Agile Alliance is a nonprofit organization committed to supporting people who explore and apply Agile values, principles, and practices to make building software solutions more effective, humane, and sustainable. Our membership consists of a thriving and diverse community of people who shares those interests. Our membership and staff enable the Alliance to provide a global set of resources, events, and communities to help people reach their full potential and deliver innovative solutions.

Event Sponsor

Event Sponsor

zCon Solutions is a 13 Years Young IT Services company headquartered in Pune. We partner with our global customers by crafting quality ‘technovative’ solutions, which add value and facilitate their success. zCon's expertise in Product Life-Cycle development, has provided us the opportunity to work with more than 130 Global customers. Currently we are 140+ developer team and are growing multi-fold YOY basis.

Media Partner

Media Partner

Pingala Software is a product development company who also provides technical consulting and training. We try to bridge the gap between technology and society through our product. Apart from product development, we help organizations to adopt DevOps and Agile Technical Practices. We believe in Hands-On Learning and so all our courses are designed with full of hands-on sessions and perfectly balanced with short and comprehensive theory session.

Venue

Volunteers

Sriharsha

Sriharsha

Wipro

Supriya

Supriya

Hitachi Vantara

Ramanathan

Ramanathan

Renault Nissan

Aditya

Aditya

JPMorgan Chase

Venkat

Venkat

ValueMomentum

Navneet

Navneet

Aventri

Uday

Uday

Cybage

Rahul

Rahul

HSBC

Sunil

Sunil

Eternus

Prudhvi

Prudhvi

Siemens

Tulshiram

Tulshiram

Wipro

Pratik

Pratik

Allscripts

Vijay

Vijay

AgileWaters

Volunteers
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