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InnoVAte Virginia 2025
event date
21 Mar 2025
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
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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.
209 submissions
Submitted sessions
Kristen Cross
- Striking the Balance: Autonomy vs. Constraints in Self-Organizing Teams
- Morning Keynote: Building Resilient Learning Teams
- Beyond WIP: Step up your Kanban Coaching
- Incorporating GenAI in your workflow
- Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products
- Ensuring Program Success with Prioritization Strategies: From Theory to Practice
- Master Testing Requirements: Safeguard Your Product's Future Today!
- Tactics for Agile Leaders: Insights from the Game of Football
- Agile Testing: Ensuring Quality in Fast-Paced Development Environments
- Financially Revolutionizing Employment: A Master Plan for Job Seekers, Employers, & Economic Growth
- The AI Skeptic's Guide to Better BS
- Evening the Odds with Monte Carlo Project Forecasts
- Agile's Hidden Predictability Model
- Employee Mental Health: The lemon in the room
- Awareness Over Avoidance: Conscious Coping Skills for a Resilient Workforce (including you!)
Nicole Spence-Goon
- Build Innovative Teams: Create Psychological Safety
- Transform Your Testing Strategy with Property-Based Testing
- Systems thinking and Mixed Martial Arts: Using Uncommon Knowledge to Add True Value as an Agilist
- The Developer Rhapsody
- Get old, go slow, write code!
- Avoiding Test Automation Anti-Patterns: Practical Tips for Business Agility
- Unlocking the Power of Generative AI with Google Cloud GenAI
- Establishing a Culture of Feedback
- From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Making Constraints Work for You
- Hybrid is the future! Now what?!
- Appreciative Alchemy with Spextrics
- Building is a Marathon: The death of the traditional sprint
- Adopting Lean Startup Principles in Big Tech - How large tech companies can implement lean startup
- From Technical Debt to Technical Wealth: Refactoring as an Investment
- Applying the Thinking in Bets Framework to Measuring Outcomes in Big Tech
- Focus on team, achieve dream! Happy customer, success bolster!
- Maximizing our Potential as Value Contributors
- Makers & Menders - Matching Individual Working Styles with Project Needs
- Practical AI for Practical Problems: Custom Models in Resource-Constrained Environments
- Building and Maintaining Actionable Multi-team Plans
- Unlocking Agile Success Through a 4 Day Work Week
- Conflict Competent Teams: Navigating Teams Through Turbulent Times
- Embracing Neurodiversity: A Blueprint for Inclusive Teams
- Friends not Coworkers
- Your Team is Already Agile, They Just Don't Know It Yet
- Let It Flow: Using Kanban to Better Empower Scrum Teams
- Agility in Athletics
- Bad Management vs. None at all: Which is actually worse?
- Getting Innovation into your Agile
- Strategy & Planning for Agility
- Happiness Habits: Motivating Yourself & Your Teams
- You Just Might Find, You Get What You Need: How MS Became My Unlikely Success Story
- I Hope I'm Not the Smartest Person in the Room
- Please Tell Us How The Sausage Is Made
- DealBeyond the Deal: Tackling M&A Integration Head-On
- From Startup to Scale-up: Principles of Tech Extrapolation
- Leave Your Mark in the Comments
- Beyond the code: Soft skills for building a resilient tech future
- The power of Soft Skills in building High-Performing Agile Teams
- Maximizing Project Success: High-Value Partnerships
- Superpower to Success: Leading People, Teams, and Yourself in Today’s Landscape
- Middle Managers in a Big A, Big T Transformation: Stuck between a Mandate and a Mob
- Removing Repetition By Building Your Own Automation Framework
- Having a Whale Of a Good Time With Docker
- Waterfall + Iterative + Agile = ?!
- How To Build Future-Proofed Applications
- From projects to platform: a journey into the evolution of engineering organizations
- Applying the Agile Mindset to Cybersecurity
- Happy Employees, Happy Customers: Managing Stress to Improve Culture and Customer Interactions
- Harnessing the Power of AI for Continuous Improvement and Safer Systems
- Leveraging AI for Safer, Faster, and Better Value Delivery in Software Development
- Embracing Change: A Journey to Continuous Improvement
- Integrating Chat GPT 4.0 for Success Across Your Daily Life
- Are You Doing Agile Wrong? Or Are You just Smarter?
- The Warrior Mindset: Developing the Mental Tenacity to Break Through Obstacles & Limitations
- Cyber Security, Social Engineering Attacks and How To Secure Your Company
- Preventing Disaster: How To Develop a Cybersecurity Plan In 7 Simple Steps
- Happiness is Your Secret Weapon: Transformative Experiences Through Empathy and Collaboration
- Unlock the Value: A Transformation Mystery and Your Roadmap to Success
- Measuring What Matters: Uncover the True Value of Your Digital Transformation
- Team Driven Experimentation during your Retrospective
- Listen to the Crew. Agile risk management and maritime disasters
- Collaborate and Listen...Don't Stop
- Revolutionary Leader: How to lead in a world that’s set up for you to follow
- The Future of Work is Play!: Applied Improv for Teams
- The Digital Accessibility Landscape in 2024
- Personal Responsibility when Engaging with Your Diverse Workforce
- Communication with Less Confrontation – Transition How You Listen
- Boosting Psychological Safety with the SCARF Model
- Unlocking Neurodiversity: Strategies for Strengthening Team Dynamics
- Measuring Coaching Engagement Success
- Better Mental Health, Safer Social Media & Happier Communities
- Building a Future-Proof Agile Workforce: Engage and Empower Gen Z+
- Leadership Is Influence
- Evolving Excellence: Uniting Continuous Delivery and Planning Strategies
- Workplace Jazz: Creating High-Performing Agile Project Teams
- The Impact of AI on Market Research
- C.A.S.E. Method: Replace Yourself in Your Business in 120 days!
- Egoless Programming - How Keeping the Ego in check Enables us to Write Better Code
- Flirting with Failure: Managing Experimentation Risk Across the Product Lifecycle
- Choose your Own Adventure: Prioritization to Unlock Value
- Improving Your Chances of Success - Agile Transformation Outside the Echo Chamber
- Living in the Bliss Lane: A Life's Journey of Triumphs and Transformations
- Beyond Barriers: Empowering Inclusion and Resilience
- “Never Give Up: Secrets of Relentless Champions: Lessons From Those Who Did It Differently”
- Change The Script in Challenging Conversations.
- The Tsunami Arrives: Leadership in a Talent Driven World
- Planning In Uncertainty
- AI-Powered Innovations in Delivery: Exploring Emerging Trends for Success"
- Building a Culture of Intrapreneurship
- Building Blocks of a Brighter Future
- The Art of Mind Talks; Craft Your Own Reality
- 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
- 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
- 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