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AgileSherpas is the leading provider of Agile transformation services built exclusively for marketing teams. We help organizations boost efficiency, collaboration, and speed-to-market through customized Agile training, hands-on coaching, and expert consulting. Whether you're starting your Agile journey or scaling success, our team of marketing agility pioneers is here to help.

Agile Hive is the easiest way to implement SAFe in Jira. As a fully integrated SAFe solution for Jira, your teams, ARTs, solution trains, and portfolios can do everything from PI Planning to execution and even reporting in one fully integrated SAFe solution.

Nooga empowers organizations to scale Agile development with confidence by embedding strategic planning, risk, and incident management directly into the tools your teams already use. Built for the SAFe community, Nooga integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Azure DevOps—with Atlassian Jira support on the roadmap—enhancing collaboration across teams and portfolios without adding complexity. Our solutions help organizations estimate, plan, and visualize work while proactively managing risks and compliance. From AI-powered risk identification and automated compliance to real-time, cross-project visibility, Nooga bridges the gap between speed and control—enabling faster, safer, and more aligned delivery at scale.Learn more at www.nooga.net

Enterprises face disruption on all fronts. In response, they must embrace constant and rapid change. How? Through continuous transformation of the way they work to address emerging threats, maximizing value from new opportunities, and achieving competitive advantage. Together, Atlassian and Accenture holistically combine people, practices, and technology with the transformation insights and capabilities needed to guide and support organizations through every stage of their enterprise transformation journey. The outcomes? Higher returns from technology investments, better experiences for employees and customers, and new business value.

Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 91,500 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2023 reported revenue is $14.3 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company that provides business, clinical, and IT services for their clients as they seek to transform and execute strategies that will drive exceptional outcomes.  Leveraging over 30 years of success, they focus on three main areas: technology solutions, clinical solutions, and financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions. Eliassen Group prides itself on its purpose to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Empowering over 10 million learners globally, upGrad-KnowledgeHut leverages advanced technology, world-class faculty, and industry partnerships to bring impactful online learning. Our mission? To redefine professional growth by making quality education accessible to everyone.

Planisware is a global leader in software solutions for Project Portfolio Management (PPM), designed to support product development, engineering, and IT business processes. For nearly three decades, Planisware has been empowering organizations to achieve strategic and innovative excellence, make confident business decisions, and maximize portfolio value. Today, over 1,000 companies worldwide rely on Planisware to effectively manage their projects, resources, and portfolios. Planisware Enterprise and Planisware Orchestra are consistently recognized as leading PPM solutions by industry analysts, underscoring Planisware’s reputation as a trusted partner in driving portfolio success.

Lucid offers a leading visual collaboration suite that helps teams see and build the future from idea to reality. With its products—Lucidchart, Lucidspark, and Lucidscale—teams can align around a shared vision, clarify complexity, and collaborate visually, no matter where they're located.

NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of IT and business services. We help clients transform through business and technology consulting, industry and digital solutions, applications development and management, managed edge-to-cloud infrastructure services, BPO, systems integration and global data centers. We are committed to our clients’ long-term success and combine global reach with local client service in over 80 countries.

Comparative Agility is the world's largest agility assessment platform, fueling data-driven continuous improvement strategies at multiple organizational levels through knowledge and domain-specific intelligence.Our mission is to help our clients continuously improve their business performance through relevant data and actionable insight.

At ICON Agility, we revolutionize how organizations adapt and thrive by merging cutting-edge AI capabilities with adaptive agile development strategies designed to be both scalable and sustainable. We empower teams to innovate boldly, streamline operations, and deliver tangible results that drive long-term growth. Our expertise in managing complex, high-stakes initiatives ensures we can tackle your toughest challenges head-on. But we don't stop at technical mastery—our seasoned consultants are skilled communicators and relationship builders, with the soft skills to connect, inspire, and collaborate across all levels of your organization, from executives to frontline teams.

TecVeris is a boutique consulting firm specializing in enterprise agility, transformation strategy, and agile tooling enablement. Since 2011, we’ve helped organizations improve delivery performance and business outcomes through model-driven assessments, value stream alignment, and lean-agile implementations. Unlike traditional agile consultancies, TecVeris uses an economics-focused diagnostic approach that uncovers root causes of bottlenecks and informs tailored roadmaps. We are a Scaled Agile (SAFe) Gold Partner and Atlassian Gold Solution Partner, offering expertise across SAFe implementations, IT service management, and enterprise tooling. Our services span agile coaching, leadership enablement, and Atlassian configuration and managed services. Clients—from high-growth tech firms to Fortune 500 companies—rely on TecVeris for outcome-driven agility, delivery support, and lasting transformation. Powered by data and focused on business value, TecVeris helps companies scale what works.

About Apptio, an IBM company Apptio, an IBM company, is the leading provider of Technology Business Management (TBM) SaaS applications. With AI-powered insights based on billions in managed technology spend, we're a pioneer in the TBM practice areas of IT Financial Management, FinOps, and Strategic Portfolio Management and a founding member of the TBM Council. Apptio solutions enable cost management and optimization from on-premises infrastructure and applications to hybrid cloud. With full transparency into technology spend and greater data-driven intelligence from operational and financial data, business leaders are empowered to deliver more value from all their strategic technology investments. For more information, please visit www.apptio.com.

Planview is the leading end-to-end platform for Strategic Portfolio Management(SPM) and Digital Product Development (DPD), enabling organizations to plan and deliver large-scale digital transformation initiatives. Planview empowers organizations to improve time-to-market and predictability, increase efficiency to unlock capacity, and ensure their most strategic product and project initiatives deliver the desired business outcomes. Our connected platform of solutions underpins the business and digital transformations of more than 4,500 customers and 2.7 million users globally, including 59 of the Fortune 100.

Cprime uniquely bridges Agile methodology and artificial intelligence, empowering organizations to become truly AI-native while maintaining Agile excellence. Where others offer either traditional Agile coaching or AI implementation separately, Cprime delivers seamless integration—providing frameworks, expertise, and guidance to leverage AI within proven Agile practices. Our approach combines Agile transformation experience with strategic AI enablement, creating adaptive organizations that develop and improve AI-powered solutions using established principles. With 300+ coaches, 180+ Scrum Masters & RTEs, and 250+ engineers, Cprime's integrated consulting and Learning solutions help organizations orchestrate people, processes, and technology to deliver measurable outcomes. As a SAFe Gold SPCT Partner with 50+ Agile certification courses, Cprime is your guide to becoming an AI-native enterprise.

ValueOps® by Broadcom is the industry’s only complete solution for end-to-end value stream management - built to drive digital transformation by bringing visibility, alignment, and efficiency to the value stream lifecycle. The seamless convergence of Clarity®, Rally®, ConnectALL®, and Insights in one platform empowers leaders at every level to plan, fund, manage, track, and optimize their work efforts. ValueOps offers the capabilities and metrics to meet the needs of everyone in the value stream – synchronizing them to align strategy, investments, people, and work across the enterprise. With ValueOps, customers can save hundreds of millions of dollars, improve efficiency, and deliver exceptional customer value.