Keynotes
Jennifer Pahlka – Author of “Recoding America”
Jennifer is the former deputy chief technology officer of the United States and the founder of Code for America, a nonprofit that believes government can work for people in the digital age. Pahlka is the winner of a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and the author of Recoding America – Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better. The New York Times stated, “No policymaker should be given power before making his or her way through this book.”
Chris James – Chief Executive Officer, Scaled Agile, Inc.
Chris is the Chief Executive Officer of Scaled Agile, Inc., where he helps the company realize its mission of enabling global enterprises to achieve and sustain business agility with ease. He has helped to grow SAFe® into the world’s most widely used and recognized framework for business agility, with 1,000,000 trained professionals from more than 20,000 global enterprises all over the world.
Andrew Sales – Chief Methodologist, Scaled Agile, Inc.
As Chief Methodologist, Andrew is passionate about helping SAFe enterprises identify better ways of working by applying Lean, Agile, and DevOps at scale. In addition, he fulfills the role of Framework product manager, ensuring that Scaled Agile, Inc. has a clear vision, roadmap, and set of priorities for how SAFe will meet the needs of our customers. As a member of Scaled Agile’s leadership team, Andrew is responsible for defining the strategy for evolving the SAFe to support enterprises in achieving business agility.