Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse
AI changes who does the work, who reviews it, who is accountable. Keynotes & hands-on workshops.
Brussels, Belgium
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Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse speaks and runs workshops on two connected topics: AI leadership — governance, collaboration models, and the organisational redesign that AI demands — and agentic software development — agents in the delivery workflow, structured methods like BMAD, quality gates, and what it changes about roles and reviews.
His claim: AI changes who does the work, who reviews it, and who is accountable — and most organisations have redesigned none of the three. His sessions give leaders and product development teams the models to make that redesign explicit: The 3 Collaboration Models, Your Agent Architecture Is Your Org Chart, Delegate / Redesign / Protect, and the AI Strategy Canvas.
He builds AI agent systems himself — today he is building again, full circle: agentic software engineering and product development. He doesn't claim to be the expert; the field is too new and moves too fast. What he brings is what twenty years of navigating complexity taught him, everything he learns from building, and the willingness to say what doesn't work yet.
Sessions are never pure slide talks: every one has a story, a live element, and puts the room to work — grounded in ten years of facilitation with Liberating Structures and Training from the Back of the Room. Recent stages: Agile2025 Denver, the Dutch AI Conference Amsterdam, and AI Summit Brussels — on a decade of European and US conference stages. Behind it: twenty years as a consultant through nearly every seat in the product development chain, and the highest international training and coaching credentials (CST & CEC, Scrum Alliance).
All sessions available in English and Dutch. Speaker kit, room requirements, and copy-ready program descriptions: value-first.be
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Leading When Agents Do the Work
One day through the full ladder: understand what AI changes about value and trust, apply the 3 Collaboration Models and the AI Strategy Canvas to your own organization, and make your first redesign decisions with Delegate / Redesign / Protect. For leadership teams and executives. No laptops needed — this is decision work, not tool work.
Participants can:
Map one of their own AI initiatives on the AI Strategy Canvas.
Choose a collaboration model per workflow, matched to risk profile.
Leave with three explicit redesign decisions, each with an owner.
For leadership teams; come with one real AI initiative in mind.
Agentic Development, Hands-On
From first agent to governed workflow in one day, using the open-source BMAD method. Set up agents in agile roles, run a real story through the workflow, hit the failure modes, and add the quality gates that catch them. For developers, architects, and tech leads. Bring a laptop; leave with a running setup and your governance choices documented.
Participants can:
Configure an agent workflow with roles and hand-offs.
Identify where the workflow fails without human review, and place quality gates there.
Take home a working configuration plus a decision log.
Laptop with terminal access required; basic development experience assumed.
Designing Agents for Your Value Stream
Cross-functional teams bring their own value stream as working material and leave with a concrete agent design canvas. Design workshop, no laptops — the hands-on coding counterpart is Agentic Development, Hands-On. Together they work as a two-day track.
Participants can:
Map their own value stream as the basis for agent design.
Deliver a completed agent design canvas for one concrete step.
Explicitly lock down governance choices (who checks what).
Come as a team if you can; bring knowledge of one real value stream.
When the Metrics Go Up and the Team Goes Quiet
AI tools speed up delivery while quietly eroding candor, ownership, and trust — the conditions teams actually run on. Three erosion patterns already visible in real teams, and the values check that catches them before they become irreversible.
Participants can:
Name the tension between AI-driven speed and team trust in your own context.
Apply a values check to a running AI initiative.
Formulate three concrete agreements that protect psychological safety around AI use.
Agile2025, Denver (earlier version under the title "AI Harmony").
AI Development Governance: The 3 Collaboration Models
Three concrete models for human-AI collaboration in software delivery — who decides, who reviews, who ships — and what AI changes about team collaboration. Includes a live hands-on demo using the open-source BMAD method, showing AI agents organized in agile roles. Leaders leave knowing which model fits which risk profile.
This session is about choosing the governance model — its design counterpart is Your Agent Architecture Is Your Org Chart.
Participants can:
Distinguish the three models and map them to risk profiles.
Determine, for their own delivery process, who decides, who reviews, and who ships.
Explain what an agent-structured workflow (à la BMAD) changes about roles.
Your Agent Architecture Is Your Org Chart
Conway's Law applied to AI agents: your agent design will mirror your organizational design, whether you plan it or not. Patterns from Lean, Agile, and consent-based decision making.
This session is about designing the agent system — its governance counterpart is The 3 Collaboration Models. They can be programmed together or separately.
Participants can:
Explain how organizational design seeps into agent design (Conway's Law).
Apply two design patterns from adaptive ways of working to an agent architecture.
Recognize the risks of agent structures that copy existing silos.
The Work That Remains
When AI does the building — what is left for the team? Participants build the Delegate / Redesign / Protect model themselves through structured exercises.
Participants can:
Apply the Delegate / Redesign / Protect distinction to their own workload.
Identify which team work deserves protection and why.
Formulate one redesign experiment for their team.
No preparation needed.
Also available as a half-day pre-conference workshop — the extended version, applied in depth to participants' own workload (max 24).
Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse
AI changes who does the work, who reviews it, who is accountable. Keynotes & hands-on workshops.
Brussels, Belgium
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