Agile + DevOps USA 2024 - Leadership Summit Sessions

Thursday, October 17

Jeff Payne
Coveros
SMT1

Reception and Summit Kickoff: As a Leader, What Is Keeping You Up at Night?

Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Kickoff the Agile + DevOps Leadership Summit with a reception and some networking.

Friday, October 18

Jeff Payne
Coveros
SMT2

Summit Welcome - Opening Remarks

Friday, October 18, 2024 - 8:30am to 8:45am

After enjoying the Summit breakfast starting at 8:00 AM, join your moderator Jeff Payne as we kick off the Agile + DevOps Leadership Summit for 2024.

Sudeep Kesh
S&P Global Ratings
SMT3

Navigating Transformational Change

Friday, October 18, 2024 - 8:45am to 9:45am

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), organizations are faced with critical decisions on how to invest their limited resources into AI solutions wisely. This talk introduces a framework that serves as a strategic guide for organizations aiming to optimize the value derived from their AI investments. The framework is structured to assist decision-makers in thinking through the most effective approaches for navigating transformational change. Given the current desire of almost every organization to aggressively adopt AI capabilities, this presentation will...

Jeff Payne
Coveros
SMT4

Summit Lean Coffee: Leadership Secrets from the Room

Friday, October 18, 2024 - 10:00am to 11:00am

While everyone has their own approach to leadership, we all have our go-to tips and tricks that can help others lead teams, organizations, and ourselves. These may be techniques for motivating staff, growing team skills, managing senior executives, or finding the right people for your organization.

During this collaborative lean coffee session, Jeffery Payne will facilitate a discussion to elicit and discuss those leadership secrets used effectively by Summit participants. Using a lean coffee meeting format, participants will choose which aspects of leadership to discuss, vote on...

Jeff Payne
Coveros
SMT5

Think Tank Discussion Parts I, II, III, and Wrap-Up

Friday, October 18, 2024 - 11:15am to 3:00pm

Think Tank Discussion Part I: Problem Definitions | 11:15 AMJoin with your peers in an engaging and highly interactive session to discuss the issues that affect you most. Using answers to the question “As a Leader, What is Keeping You Up at Night?” posed at Thursday’s evening reception, participants will form small groups to work on finding solutions to pressing leadership & management issues. Discussions will review identified issues, barriers to change, and focus on innovative strategies and practical next steps. At the end of the think tank, all feedback will be collected and posted...