Keynotes
Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman, known as the "Pragmatic Manager," provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps organizational leaders see problems and risks in their product development so they can remove impediments.
Johanna is the author of nine books, including The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management, and Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People
She is currently writing a book about agile and lean program management. She writes columns for Stickyminds.com and projectmanagment.com, and writes two blogs on her web site, jrothman.com, as well as a blog on createadaptablelife.com.
Kevlin Henney
Kevlin is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process.
He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites. He is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, and editor of the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.
He lives in Bristol and online.
David Evans
David Evans is an experienced agile consultant, coach and trainer with over 25 years of IT experience. A thought-leader in the field of agile quality, he has provided training and consultancy for clients worldwide.
A regular speaker at events and conferences across Europe, David was voted Best Keynote Speaker at Agile Testing Days 2013. He is co-author (with Gojko Adzic) of the best-selling book 50 Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories, was a contributor to the book More Agile Testing, and has also had several papers published in international IT journals.
He currently lives and works in the UK, where he is a partner in Neuri Consulting LLP.