is Certified Scrum Professional and Scrum Master with many years of experience in dedicated Agile (Scrum, Kanban and XP, being TDD a practice of XP), custom tailor coaching for collocated and distributed teams, aspiring Agile Programmers, and ScrumMasters and Product Owners
David was the first Costa Rican to get training and successfully implement Scrum in the country. He has been the Scrum promoter in Costa Rica since 2007.
He is founder and board member of the Costa Rica Agile User Group. He is a Certified Scrum Professional (recognition awarded only to those that have proven seasoned experience in Scrum implementation and adoption). He is the founder of Prontitud. He is the reference speaker regarding Agile topics in national conferences..

is an Agile Activist and Coach located in Raleigh, NC.  He currently serves as the Director of Engineering at Aprimo|Teradata.  Having spent the last decade building and leading effective and efficient software development teams, Josh brings a wealth of experience in areas such as Agile adoption/implementation, team building, leadership development, attracting/hiring/retaining top-notch technologists, and software architecture.

Josh co-hosts a bi-weekly podcast with fellow Agile Methodologist, Bob Galen.  Meta-Cast, available at www.meta-cast.com, involves discussions covering Agile/Scrum, team building, management techniques, and various other items that affect everyone involved in software development.

Josh can be reached in various ways:
Podcast Website: www.meta-cast.com
Podcast Twitter: www.twitter.com/@MetaHyphenCast
Personal Twitter: www.twitter.com/@nosrednAhsoJ

With over 14 years of experience in IT, I come from software development background and I’ve worked in Agile, Scrum/XP and Kanban/Lean environments. I have been involved in co-organizing events for the Agile South Coast User Group and ScrumFest.org. I am passionate about helping teams, individuals & companies discover how to work better together and how to continue learning while delivering high quality solutions to business problems.

One of the best known agile activists in Spain. Over the last years, as the first president of Agile-Spain (organizers of two main conferences every year) and co-founder of Agilismo.es (promoters of new formulas for training professionals, like coding-dojos or backlog workshops), Jose Manuel Beas had a significant participation in the upgrowth of the Spanish agile community. He is also aware of the importance of sharing experiences, that is why he also writes technical articles in his blog and appears in podcasts, webinars and very different professional events and even has prologued the first TDD book in Spanish. His motto is "leave the knowledge where it has to be: among people". He is also helping teams by coaching and mentoring and can be found in http://jmbeas.es or as @jmbeas in Twitter.

During my career I have played the role of developer, development manager, and product manager. I have learned what development practices and processes are critical to the success of agile and how to drive that adoption process. I have learned just how critical and how difficult the Product Owner role is in enabling the business to realize the full potential agile can bring.  Learn more at http://www.developmentblock.com.

leads the Agile Software Factory (ASF) at codecentric. For more than four years, he is a certified Scrum Master. Since then he could contribute his competencies in small and large (> 300 persons), internal and external, or local and global projects as developer, scrum master or product owner. Meanwhile, he's also a Professional Developer Scrum Trainer, conducting a hands-on training for Scrum team members, which codecentric has developed together with scrum.org and in which he shares with joy the knowledge gained in the ASF. More than 15 years ago, his interest in JavaSE/EE awakened, and it never vanished since then. His focus at codecentric is the continuous improvement of the development process in the Agile Software Factory, where technical, organizational and social possibilities are the challenging, external determining factors.

is an agile coach for Elegant Agile, Inc. He is certified as a PMP with the Project Management Institute, a Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with the Scrum Alliance. Pat has been leading information technology projects and coaching agile teams for the last twelve years. Pat continues to champion agile practices and Scrum in the Upstate New York and New York City areas. He speaks at conferences, seminars and holds workshops across the Northeast and worldwide. Pat contributes articles to the ScrumAlliance.org web site, is the organizer for the Upstate New York Agile User Group, and participates in the organization and networking of regional northeast US agile groups.

owns and leads DevJam, coaching and producing products with companies of all sizes around the world. His coaching style is non-dogmatic, challenging and pragmatic. David’s maps tools to contextual needs in a way that seeds self-discovery and avoids the expert trap of simply telling people what they “should do". David works within and across each project communities, pairing on coding and testing work, design and redesigning products, and helping leadership teams pragmatically introduce lasting agility that fosters innovation and competitive advantage. When David is not coaching or teaching, he is speaking at conferences around the world and publishing to a variety of sources. His newest publication is Cutting an Agile Groove, a series of instructional videos that cover topics such as coaching, product design and planning to learn. David was given the 2009 Gordon Pask Award for his coaching contributions to the Agile Community at large.

(MSc Technology Management, CSM, CSP) hails from Dublin and has a huge passion for Technology and all things Agile. He founded Scrum Ireland (www.scrum.ie), a leading and free Social Network dedicated to Agile IT professionals across the globe. With many leading companies and individual members including Mike Cohn and Jeff Sutherland, Scrum Ireland is growing fast in the community. During the day Ciaran runs his own Agile Company , Chillistore Technologies Ltd (www.chillitech.ie) providing Agile Office Services to leading blue chip and high tech innovative start-ups. He also does some part time lecturing on Agile Project Management in his spare time and has been a guest speaker at PMI and Engineer Ireland events.

graduated Cum Laude from Chapman University with a BS Degree in Computer Information Systems.  With over 30 years’ experience in the IT Technology field, Mr. Maines has an extensive background in multiple disciplines in Technical Project Management.  Mr. Maines is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Professional (CSP).  Mr. Maines has broad experience supporting the full SDLC engineering efforts, Test & Evaluation, Formal Information Assurance Certification efforts.  Mr. Maines has held various technical and Project Management positions with a number of fortune 500 companies including Microsoft Corp, Perot Systems, Wachovia Bank NA, and Mantech Systems Engineering Corp.  Mr. Maines diverse experiences enable systematic analysis and troubleshooting of large scale technical issues and management of key business metrics.

gets a thrill out of solving problems, working with teams, and helping people learn and improve. I apply this to software development using lean and agile techniques as a process hacker, coach, analyst, tester, developer, speaker, and agile advocate. I blog at winnipegagilist.blogspot.com and work at protegra.com.

is a veteran Agile Coach in Ottawa, ON, Canada with 25 years industry experience, and a Co-founder/Consultant with Westboro Systems. He has been involved with Agile Software Development since 2000, helping private and public sector organizations from pre-funding startups to the Fortune 15 improve their software delivery process. Dave is also a co-founder of the Agile Ottawa Group, and an active writer, speaker and advocate of agile methods in Canada..

is a software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He's a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, a frequent speaker at developer conferences, an author, and a trainer. He's the co-founder of NimblePros.com, an agile software studio located in Hudson, Ohio, which builds custom software for clients with an emphasis on quality and craftsmanship..

is a leader of the Czech agile community Agile Association – AgilniAsociace.com, organizing conferences and events and sharing the agile experience all around. She works as a trainer, consultant and coach for software organizations, support them in tailoring their agile adoption processes to company culture (agile-scrum.com). She regularly speaks at international agile conferences. She is Managing Director of LOTOFIDEA.

I strive on building great software with great teams. During my career, I have found agile/lean principles and practices to be the best way to do that. So I now spend a lot of my energy training, coaching and mentoring teams to build the environments in which they can truly succeed: open, supportive environments where everyone brings their genius selves to work each day to deliver continuous value.