Call for Speakers
in 174 days
InnoVAte Virginia 2024
event date
25 Oct 2024
location
Virginia Crossings Hotel and Conference Center Richmond, Virginia, United States
website
innovatevirginia.com
InnoVAte Virginia returns in 2024, bringing back the greater Richmond-area’s best Agile and Product delivery speakers for a full-day of sessions.
This year, we’re focusing on delivering value to our customers and community – not just Agile, but all aspects of discovery and delivery.
We’re anchoring our track themes around the work of Jonathan Smart – Delivering Better Value Sooner, Safer, and Happier:
- Processes and Practices (Deliver Value)
- Measuring Outcomes (Better)
- Improving How We Work (Sooner)
- Quality and Continuous Improvement (Safer)
- Focusing on Customers and Teams (Happier)
- and, InnoVAtive and Emerging Trends in Delivery
open, 28 days left
Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM
25 Mar 2024
Call closes at 11:59 PM
31 May 2024
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This year, we’re focusing on delivering value to our customers and community – not just Agile, but all aspects of discovery and delivery.
We’re anchoring our track themes around the work of Jonathan Smart – Delivering Better Value Sooner, Safer, and Happier:
- Processes and Practices (Deliver Value)
- Measuring Outcomes (Better)
- Improving How We Work (Sooner)
- Quality and Continuous Improvement (Safer)
- Focusing on Customers and Teams (Happier)
- and, InnoVAtive and Emerging Trends in Delivery
Submissions should target approximately fifty (50) minutes in length, with a preference for interactivity and ample time for audience questions. Each session should reflect a topic related to the track it’s submitted against, and speakers are encouraged to submit multiple sessions. However, please submit each session for one and only one conference track. To encourage as many speakers as possible, each speaker is limited to three (3) total submissions.
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Honorarium is provided for one (1) speaker per session, including one (1) night's stay at the venue, plus travel expenses to and from the event. Speakers who are traveling into the greater Richmond area are expected to use their best judgement to find reasonably affordable travel options. If you have questions or concerns, please contact us at innovate@agilerichmond.com before booking travel.
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103 submissions
Submitted sessions
Sharlene Gumbs
- Coping Strategies Workshop: Nurturing Resilience and Well-being
- Surviving the Age of the Knowledge Worker
- Aligning Organizational Transformation: Applying the Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model
- There's no such thing as internal customers - Embracing Product in a Dev Enablement or SRE world
- It's a zoo out there! Strategies for handling the animals in software development.
- How to Give and Recieve Effective Performance Feedback
- How to Effectively Move From Ideation to Implementation
- How to Communicate Technical Ideas to Non Technical Audiences
- New Problems and Old Eyes
- Call to Connection: Cultivating Quality Relationships with Diverse Personalities
- How Do We Know We're Done?
- The Power of Three – What are My Three (or More) Options?
- What’s It Worth? The Art of Determining and Tracking Business Value
- Diversity Drives Innovation: Building a Culture of Inclusion in Business
- From Strife to Synergy: How Conflict Can Strengthen Connection
- Beyond Bubble Baths: Self-Care Hacks for Women to Beat Business Burnout
- Leverage the Science of High Performance Teams to Advance Your Teams' Happiness and Success
- The Win-Win Communicator: A New Way for Leaders to Listen
Karl Groves
- Hidden In Plain View
- Start your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery
- Buying time and pushing back: an example of helping an org pivot.
- Keynote “Exceptional Agile Leadership Amid Change: Building Organizational Resilience from the Insid
- Leading A Culture for Innovation
- Beyond the Box: Celebrating Neurodiversity's Geometric Shape
- Neurodiversity Uncovered: Enhancing Team Dynamics
- Value is a Myth
- Award-winning and Bankrupt: The Mismanagement of a Winning Product
- The performance imperative: Why agility was never the goal.
- AI beyond the code: Master your organisational AI implementation.
- Most Expensive Design Mistakes (Ever) and how to avoid them
- Unmasking the "T" in Technical Program Manager Role
- Are quality engineers still needed in modern ages?
- Beyond Q&A: Plan and Conduct Stakeholder Interviews Like a Pro
- Manage your Processes like a Product
- What is your Agile Sound?
- Maximizing the Potential of Scrum Masters
- Lessons from Basketball: The Scrum Master as a Coaching Figure
- What the World Needs Now (Besides Flying Cars)
- Innovate to lead through innovation
- Tell Me More, We Are Listening : Creating Safe Space In A Software Engineering Team
- Welcome to the team: how to expedite onboarding process of a new team member
- Across Sea and Land: Tips To Facilitate Communication In Different Time Zones
- Crimes Against Agility
- I Don't Know My Customers...HELP!
- Awareness as a Superpower: Discover Self, Social, and Situational Awareness
- Psychological Safety: The Key to Every Team’s Success
- Code to Clarity: Communicating Technical Concepts to a Non-Technical Audience
- Alone Together: Team-Building for Remote Teams
- Magnetic Leadership: Pulling the best out of everyone
- Technical Practices for Detecting Bias in AI: Building Fair and Ethical Models
- Step-by-Step Guide: Building ETL Workflows in Microsoft Fabric
- Microsoft Fabric: All About The Data Analytics Platform
- From Burnout to Breakthrough: How a Resilient Mindset Drives Success
- Modern Project Management with Lean/Kanban
- Flight Levels: An Exiting New Approach to Enterprise Agility
- Hands On Workshop: Making strategy real with well-crafted outcomes, leading and lagging metrics
- Unleash the Rhythm and Magic of Your Life!
- Is This [Joke] Appropriate?
- Word Smatter: Exploring Semantics, Testers, and Problems
- Weighing the Cost of Intervention
- Persuasion Agility: Mastering the Art of Influence
- Leadership Transitions – But I’ve Never Done That Before?
- Feedback as a Survival Skill: 5 Steps to Improve Giving Feedback
- SQUASHING THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME: Culture, confidence and your unlimited potential
- To Be Clear
- All in the Mind - Why An Agile Mindset is a Pre-requisite for Successful Transformation
- Dojo - We Can Have Nice Things
- Meaningful Outcomes in Software Products
- Unlocking Innovation: Navigating Agile's Shadow in Software Engineering Teams
- Relationship Goals: Ignite Your Dev-Product Relationship
- Beyond Features: Cultivating Developer Community Around Your Product
- From Complexity to Clarity: Building Developer Tools Engineers Love
- Cross-Cultural Communications in Business Settings
- Cultivating empathy as a change trigger
- That’s not “real” Scrum: Managing process and measuring productivity for development teams
- Fairytale vs. Narrative: Telling stories and making decisions with data
- Building UX into Your Development Process
- Radical Transparency in Product Development
- Seven Ways To Save Your Sanity and Stop Burning your Toast
- Let's Change How Your Team Adapts to Change
- Energize Your Team's Performance – Think Like an Improv Actor
- New paths to strategic business growth using innovation and collaboration
- Product Change Leadership: Nudge your org toward better outcomes
- Product Road Maps That Suck Wayyy Less
- Using Creative Cross-Pollination to Break Through Your Challenges!
- Understanding your Walt Disney DNA
- How to Give Feedback Without Making People Cry: Cultivating a Culture of Continuous Improvement
- Happy Teams, Happy Customers: Cultivating Joy and Collaboration with Improv
- From Chaos to Cohesion: Using Improv Comedy to Enhance Leadership Skills and Team Collaboration
- "What If AI Could Make Us More Human? The path to evolving into an A.I. Leader”
- Content isn't the problem - Application is
- There is no spoon
- Metrics that Matter - Moving from Easy to Impactful
- Delighting Your Most Important Customer - Your Employees
- Call to Connection: Cultivating Quality Relationships with Diverse Personalities
- Intentional Culture: From the Inside Out
- Accelerating Delivery with Software Craft
- Cultivating JOY with Teams and Customers: The Art of Communicating Your Brand While Networking
- Unlocking Your Intrinsic Motivation
- DISCover Your Strengths
- The Health and Wellness of a Leader and Their Team
- How Empathy fuels collaboration and innovation
- Building Trust as the foundation for Collaboration, innovation and organizational success