Speakers

Colm O’hEocha

As founder and principle of AgileInnovation, Colm has supported large scale Agile and Kanban adoptions in global companies like Intel, HMH, AIB, Ericsson, HP and Openet as well as smaller firms such as Paddy Power, Vulcan, Openjaw and Duolog. Providing executive and team level training, coaching and consulting, Colm also speaks at international and national conferences on the interplay of agile and lean development with product and process innovation.

Fran O'Hara

Fran has over 29 years’ experience in the software industry having worked as a researcher, developer, tester, project manager, software development manager and quality management consultant. Fran specialises in pragmatic approaches to quality/testing, lean/agile, software process improvement, and associated practices. For the past 5 years, his main focus has been providing agile/lean coaching, training and support to organisations transitioning to agile.

Paul Conray

Paul is currently CTO at Square1.io, a software development company in Dublin, having most recently been Director of Product and Engineering at Daft.ie. In over 8 years at the Distilled Media Group (Daft.ie, Boards.ie, Adverts.ie and TheJournal.ie), Paul gained extensive experience leading agile transitions within some of Ireland's busiest websites. He's a big believer in continuous improvement and helping teams become more than the sum of their parts.

Jack Strong

Responsible for increasing and maintaining revenue streams for LeanKit in Europe. Lean philosophies, methods and tools are used to continuously improve value and performance for existing and potential clients. Prior to this working with NSK for 10 years, responsible for business and manufacturing system development and implementation across Europe. NSK are a global Japanese Manufacturer of Bearings and other motion and control equipment, a Tier 1 Automotive supplier to among others Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen.

Clodagh Doherty

Over her career Clodagh has worked in several Project Management roles. Clodagh joined Ocuco in January 2010 as a Senior Project Manager, became Programme Director at the end 2010 and took up the reins as Development Director also in 2011 managing Ocuco's Global De-velopment and Project Management Office. As a firm believer in the benefit of process and continual improvement Clodagh has explored in her time in Ocuco taking the best of Lean Processes and then subsequently Lean Agile processes to reduce waste, gain efficiencies and build the most successful Global Software development team in the Optics industry.

Siobhain Maughan

Siobhan is the founder of IntegratedThinking and has over 20 years experience in the software industry. As Vice President of Product Management at Openet, Siobhan was responsible for the entire portfolio of Openet's products. She was directly responsible for building a team to manage product strategic direction reflecting both external market needs and Openet’s corporate strategy. Siobhan has clearly demonstrated the ability and focus to drive and manage significant organizational change within a large, distributed software company and was key to the evolution of Product Management within Openet. Siobhan chaired the Irish Software Association's Product Management Working Group - established to promote the development of the product management discipline within the indigenous software industry in Ireland. The group is directly responsible for the establishment of the Masters and Diploma in Product Management with DIT Aungier St. With practical hands-on experience of Agile Product Management, Siobhan has spoken at many industry events on the topic. She is also a founding member of the ISA Product Management Forum – a collaborative assembly of Product Management industry peers. Siobhan’s proven technical expertise has allowed her to gain the respect of engineering teams across a number of companies and to bridge the gap between technical, commercial and marketing disciplines. She has the demonstrated ability and focus to drive and manage significant organizational change within a large, distributed software company and in her new role with IntegratedThinking provides mentorship and guidance to C-level stakeholders on the organization changes needed to drive an effective product management discipline. Since the establishment of her consultancy business in October 2013 Siobhan has been providing in-house mentoring to scaling companies such as Aspire and has delivered workshops for Enterprise Ireland.

Augusto Evangelisti

Augusto "Gus" Evangelisti is a software development professional, blogger, foosball player with great interest in people, software quality, agile and lean practices. He enjoys cooking, eating, learning and helping agile teams exceed customer expectations while having fun.

Tomás O’Flaherty

My experience has been in Construction and IT(Software delivery) In construction I managed various small-medium projects that mostly concentrated on suspended ceilings, partitions and plastering so I like to think I understand project management concerns. In IT I have strong development, tool and process experience due to a varied exposure to the implementation lifecycle.

Claudio Perrone

Claudio Perrone, aka Agile Sensei, is a well-known Lean & Agile management consultant, entrepreneur and startup strategist. He is the creative force behind A3 Thinker, a formidable set of brainstorming cards and mobile solutions for Lean problem solving. Claudio has been playing key roles in Lean & Agile transformations for global organisations as well as for some of the fastest-growing technology startups in the world. Today, he integrates Lean & Agile product development, Lean Change and Lean Startup to help his clients converge to success. Claudio is an award-winning international speaker who shares practical ideas with unique storytelling and illustration abilities.td>

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