Arie van Bennekum

Arie is a pragmatic who embeds his pragmatism in structure, discipline and common sense. He has done this from his very early days in the healthcare and the military forces up to where he is today.

This eventually led to being one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto and expert in the area of Agile Project Management, team facilitation, Agile techniques and user involvement.

Over the years Arie has become an expert in international Agile transformations. He has developed models for organizational competencies, the transformation process, coaching types and other topics which facilitate an Agile transformation, a not so easy job. He has created a team around him of highly skilled Agilists with various profiles from technical development coaches to psychologists to support the human and organizational aspects of the transformation.

Believe in his team, facilitating them to reach for their best combined with client and end user involvement has his focus when he speaks, presents, demonstrates and lectures about Agile as thought leader of Wemanity, as chair of the Agile Consortium International, lecturer at Universities and presents at conferences.

9:00 - 9:45

29th of October Day 2 - Main Track

Keynote: Agile Today

n 2020 the world changed in a very disruptive way, now what? Many companies struggle. People can’t come to the office or maybe a little, depending on where you are in the world. Business models and options change quicker than you can imagine or disappear at all.
What about Agile in this era?
As one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, Arie van Bennekum will share not only his vision but also what he did with his teams to be able to bring sustainable change for his clients.