Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and run into some old friends:

• Cathy Tang – “stroke the ego and crack the whip”, making the leap from logistics to Scrum Master
• Rachel Slattery – Agile Australia Director and Director of Slatts Group, surprised by the large number of new attendees
• Keynotes by Emma Murray and Jez Humble
• Hayley Pepper from Sunsuper – enjoyed talk by Roger Almeida “Lessons from leading a “you build it, you run it” team” about platform teams
• Charlotte Hinton from Service Innovation Lab and organiser of AgileWelly – each year we hear similar problems and are we making traction, enjoyed talk by Sarah Taraporewalla “Complex is easy, it’s simple that’s hard“

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Craig and Tony are roaming the conference floor again at Agile Australia in Melbourne talking to more interesting people in the Australian Agile community:

• Sarah Pollard (Super Retail Group) on the talk by Margarette Purvis on “Creating a kaizen culture proves transformative for Food Bank For New York City” and Richard Weissel talk on “The Heart of Agile is in your Local Primary School” and in our organisations understanding what we need to change
• Joanne Robertson (Tatts Group) on her first Agile conference, Luke Hohmann’s “Awesome Superproblems” keynote and Innovation Games book
• Cathy Tang (Westpac) and the journey from event management to Agile and the Jennfier Frahm talk on “Enterprise agility through OCM and Agile”
• Keynotes from Steve Krug and Luke Hohmann
• Stewart Gleadow (Bilue) and the balance of design thinking, feasibility and business value in mobile development, Kate Darling robotics keynote