RTE SUMMIT 3.0

Dean Leffingwell, a forty-year software industry veteran, has spent his career helping software teams achieve their goals. A renowned methodologist, author, multi-entrepreneur, consultant and executive, he has founded multiple software companies, including Scaled Agile, Inc, and Requisite, Inc., makers of RequisitePro, which was purchased by Rational Software (now IBM). He served as Vice President of Rational Software (now IBM) from 1997-2001. Later, as an independent consultant and advisor to Rally Software, he helped numerous distributed, multinational corporations implement Agile methods at scale.

He is the creator of the Scaled Agile Framework, a public-facing knowledge base of proven best practices that bring the benefits of software agility to the largest software enterprises. He currently serves as both Chief Methodologist and CEO at Scaled Agile, Inc., which he cofounded in 2011.

Ralph Hofman is one of the founding partners at BlinkLane Consulting. Ralph has 20+ years of experience helping large organizations in the areas of outsourcing, software development, IT governance and value management. Having spent the last four years mainly focusing on improving the business agility of large organizations. Ralph uses his expertise to help companies improve their ability to effectively sense and respond to internal and external changes in a swift and cost-effective manner.

Yoram Weizman has over twenty years of experience in the IT industry, taking different positions ranging from development, team lead, technical manager and DBA, quality management , Agile and Lean advocate and lately RTE in ScheduleOnce.

He has been involved in Agile and lean transformation of organizations in the past eight years on both medium and very large scale companies (SAP).

Eelco Rustenburg is certified SPCT (SAFe Program Consultant Trainer), Agile Master and is a wellknown Agilist in the community. He has written the top100 book in Holland on Scrum: “The power of Scrum”, which has been translated in 4 languages. Eelco has been at the front of the Agile community for more than 15 years now. He has helped Philips  in its transformation to Scrum and Agile, where he worked with the Agile Center of Excellence and trained more than 1000 people. Currently Eelco  accompanied an Agile/SAFe transformation at Air France KLM.

With an impressive list aimed at large businesses, (senior) management and program/project management, Eelco is renowned for his Agile workshops. He is also known for giving speeches at both company and open events. Recent events include: CIO Day in Holland, ALE2011 in Berlin, JFall in Holland diverse business events at Rabobank, Agile consortium, Nationale-Nederlanden, Essent, Achmea SAP, and XPDays(Madrid).

Eelco is an Agile management thinker, program manager for change programs and creative thought leader for Agile practices, principles and behavior. His ability to change mindsets alongside process and structure is valuable for any large change program.

Since July 2017, Eelco is the first Dutchman to be accredited as an official SPCT. This allows him to train SAFe Program Consultants (SPC4).

Kay Buring is best described as “Innovation Strategist”. He is able to develop a coherent vision and translate that vision into an executable roadmap. In the early stages of the following change initiative he will personally lead the way. He is currently involved in the development of a highly intelligent solution for the ABI (healthcare) domain.

After an extensive period of acting as a crisis manager/problem solver for large international customers he fully focussed on innovation implementation. As of 2013 the primary domain is Cyber Security. He is quickly gaining reputation as a valuable asset and bridge builder driving the crucial innovation and collaboration in the IT security domain.

Andres Jansen is senior trainer at Gladwell Academy. He specializes in metrics and performance measurement. Recent years he focused on organizational transformation, making organizations controllable, more Agile and action oriented.

Andres favors an analytical approach to problem-solving, without losing sight of pragmatic solutions. He easily adapts, secures stakeholder support and masters complex situations. Andres enthusiastic, creative and entrepreneurial attitude help him to realize ambitions. His effective communication skills make

Andres a competent presenter and sparring partner at all levels. He is currently running a part of the transformation to SAFe for ASML.

Andres is certified Scaled Agile Program Consultant and SPCT Candidate, he is qualified to teach and examine for all Scaling Agile training courses: SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Practitioner (SP), SAFe PM/PO (SPMPO), SAFe Scrum Master (SM), SAFe PM/PO (PMPO). He is also qualified to teach and examine Agile Scrum Foundation.

Silvio is a SAFe® Program Consultant, has experience in different positions ranging from Scrum Master, Product Owner, team lead to coaching teams and organisations in agile transformations. He thinks in build-measure-learn loops and understands how to deliver value to customers in fast iteration cycles. He’s very interested in modern organisational forms and their practical use in companies as well as outcome-oriented implementations. His profound knowledge and experience in the areas of distributed planning gives him the opportunity to put together optimal toolset for enhanced collaboration.

Gianfranco obtained his Professional Scrum Master certification back in 2012; since then he has applied Agile methodologies as Scrum Master in different companies and industries, generally serving multiple teams in the SAFe environment. He is currently acting as Release Train Engineer for the Twinfield product at Wolters Kluwer Tax & Administration Europe.

Gianfranco always strives to empathize with every stakeholder to thoroughly understand their deepest motivation. He is naturally inclined towards the new organizational models that are increasingly gaining ground in nowadays enterprises. His solid knowledge of several classic and innovative methodologies provides him the unique ability to coach teams and individuals along complex transformations.

Eduardo Avila Alvim is certified SPC4 (SAFe Program Consultant), being an agile expert and agility leader for the last 4 years at Amadeus, in the sunny south of France. Holding other certifications as CSM, PSM, CSPO, CSP-SM, CSP-PO he is passioned by all the different aspects and subjects around the agile world, specially on helping to scale up agile in large organizations and lean budgeting.

During the last 10 years, has been an active member of different agile communities, speaking in different events and trainer for different subjects around agility and people management in the agile world.

Initial contacts with agile started on 2004, when he first heard about a different way of work, more efficient, focused on people and customer value. Since then, he played different roles as business analyst, project manager, program manager and Scrum Master.

Currently, in Amadeus, he is very busy helping to scale up agile to enterprise level by using SAFe as the framework to achieve business objectives in an end-to-end perspective. In addition, plays the role of RTE for one ART with 130 people spread around the globe.