
Agile Symposium 2024 - Speakers
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Experienced Advisory professional with a proven track record in hands-on delivering excellence and driving strategic enterprise transformation. With extensive background in the information technology and services industry, I have developed exceptional skills in People Management, Financial Services sector, Agile Leadership, Strategic Leadership, and Development Management.
Amol Pradhan
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Craig is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience in Account Management, Project and Program Management, and leading Agile transformations across various sectors. With a strong focus on customer and delivery, Craig has the expertise and leadership skills to build and lead teams that achieve successful outcomes.
Craig has consulted, coached, and trained over 45 organizations across Australia and New Zealand, including leading some of the largest Agile transformations in Australia. His passion for Agile principles and practices drives him to meet the ever-changing needs of today’s markets.
Craig’s extensive experience enables him to adopt pragmatic ways of working to meet organizational goals while fostering a culture that embraces change.
Craig Brown
Keynote Speaker

Sanjiv Augustine is the Founder and CEO of LitheSpeed, a world-leading agile training and consulting company; and an industry-leading agile, lean, and digital transformation expert. He was a co-founder of the PMI Agile Community of Practice (CoP) and the Agile Leadership Network (ALN). He is the author of the books "Managing Agile Projects," "Scaling Agile" and "From PMO to VMO." Sanjiv presents regularly at several agile conferences and project management events.
Sanjiv Augustine
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Aina Alive is an experienced Agile Coach and a Business Consultant currently contracting with Sun Life (Canada), a Founder & CEO at Bee Agile Tutoring and a CEO & VP of Marketing at The PMO Community.
Aina is a much-in-demand speaker and has presented at more than 100 conferences worldwide. At some of the events, she was invited as a keynote. Her topics are Agile, Project Management, P3O, Negotiation, People Management, and Soft Skills. A guest instructor at NASA in 2022 & 2023 with topics on Conflict Resolution & Negotiation and Facilitation Techniques.
Aina Aliieva (Alive)
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Over the last 40+ years Shane has been a practitioner and leader of developers, testers, trainers, project managers and business analysts, helping teams to deliver results that align with overall business objectives.
He spent nearly five years with ICAgile as the Director of Agile Learning Programs and then Director of Community Development. Before joining ICAgile he spent 15 years as a professional trainer, coach and consultant specialising in Agile practices, business analysis, project management, requirements, testing and methodologies for SoftEd in Australia, New Zealand and around the world.
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He is co-author of the books #noprojects - a culture of continuous value, available on Amazon and from InfoQ and The Rock Crusher – a flow-based model for backlog management, available from IIBA Press and on Amazon.
Shane Hastie
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Amol Pradhan
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Craig Brown
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Sanjiv Augustine
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Aina Aliieva (Alive)
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Shane Hastie
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