

Agenda.
SEACON is taking place across two dates, both of which focus on the same 6 themes,
Each track is broadcast 4 times throughout the day.
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Strategy and Leadership
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Customer Value
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Culture
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People
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Ways of Working
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DevOps
This year is going to be a mixture of recorded tracks along with live content including meet the speakers, round tables, and the sponsor expo.
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It is taking place on 2 dates featuring the same keynotes on both days alongside talks from a number of different focus organisations.
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The focus organisations for the 12th of November are GSK and Nationwide Building Society
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On the 20th November, we have JP Morgan, VWFS UK and Deutsche Bank
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We also have meet the speaker sessions, sponsor talks and round tables.
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Session broadcast talks
On Leading Yourself - with personal authenticity
Date
12th Nov
20th Nov
Mina Bostrom Nakicenovic
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Leadership is not only about leading others but also about leading yourself. As it is important for a successful organisation to have clearly defined vision, mission and core values and to stick to them, the same should also be said for successful leadership.
Strategy and Leadership
Mapping
Date
12th Nov
20th Nov
Simon Wardley
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Simon Wardley explains how he became interested in Mapping, the benefits his style of mapping provides along with examples of how they have helped organisations make and/or save millions.
Strategy and Leadership
Customer-obsessed and product-focused – creating a climate where product management can thrive
Date
12th Nov
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Sameer Gohil
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Enterprise level transformation within a large corporate can be difficult, but with a compelling vision, the right environment and supporting processes it is possible to bring product transformation to life . Balancing transformation with delivery through making changing the way we work become part of the work we do.
Strategy and Leadership
Strategy and Leadership
Leadership for Agility
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20th Nov
Christian Metzner
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In this talk, Christian will focus on the importance of servant leadership, enterprise-wide collaboration, integrity, diversity and psychological safety. All are critical in order to support business agility and successful strategy
Strategy and Leadership
Leadership to the people! Creating alignment through Strategy and Excellence
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20th Nov
Philippe Guenet
Manal Koujan
Many organisations have adopted Agile ways-of-working, but their management remain at the epicentre of decisions and having to organise and coordinate the work.
Strategy and Leadership
The Art of Bureaucracy and Business Value
Date
12th Nov
20th Nov
Mark Schwartz
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This talk will touch on the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead.
Customer Value
Combining Agile Thinking with deep data expertise to deliver value; A data and analytics journey
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12th Nov
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Hannah Tipney
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Discovering, developing and making therapies of value for patients is both rewarding and incredibly hard. At GSK we are working to transform our pipeline through the development and application of advanced analytics, data science and visualisation.
Customer Value
Lessons Learned Becoming a Product-Centric Organizations
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20th Nov
Toby Sinclair
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You’ll leave this talk with some key principles to apply within your own organisation
Customer Value
Connecting Customer Value with Strategic Vision
Date
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20th Nov
Martha Ferez
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Customer centricity is about providing a value proposition which delivers a positive experience to build trust and loyalty. In most cases, that results in an increased profit and employee engagement. However, with evolving technologies, competitors and regulations, what once comprised a positive experience, can quickly become obsolete.
Customer Value
Networks, Serendipity and the flow of ideas
Date
12th Nov
20th Nov
Emily Webber
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There is power in networks and the connections between people. Organisations where ideas can freely flow between people, are more successful, smarter and more innovative than ones where knowledge lives in silos.
Culture
How has HR got it so wrong?
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12th Nov
20th Nov
Kim Atherton
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A recent Forbes article quoted the depressing fact that 70% of us are unhappy at work. Yet more and more organisations are placing emphasis on the role of HR, with a higher number of CHROs sitting on boards than ever before. So what is going wrong?
People
Technology's easy, Culture is hard
Date
12th Nov
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Richard James
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11 Reflections on tackling the cultural elephant
Two years on from talking about ‘Tech is easy, Culture is hard’, Richard reflects on Nationwide’s and his own ongoing learnings.Culture
Agile Cultural Change - One Superhero at a Time
Date
12th Nov
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Simon Owen
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Enterprise Cultural Change is HARD! Digital Transformation is pretty tricky too! A corporate ambition, strategy and direction is key but how do we also effectively engage the rest of the organisation at all levels to make it real, understandable, and inspire and excite people to be part of, drive, and embed, the change?
Culture
How we have embraced the principles of agility: the intent of learning organisations and the power of communities
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20th Nov
David Leach
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In this talk I will be exploring how we have embraced the principles of agility, the intent of learning organisations and the power of communities to embody our guiding principles. Shaping a more empowered, data driven and decisive culture alongside ever improving processes and with ever increasing delegated decision making.
Culture
Discovering and Growing Culture
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20th Nov
Terrie Wilson
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Organizational Culture can grow and change in positive ways starting by first understanding the current state, then taking proactive and engaging steps to intentionally evolve culture to fit the organization’s vision and belief structure.
Culture
Reflections: Moments of serendipity
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Manal Koujan
Philippe Guenet
Reflections on growing a culture in a large organisation
Culture
Forever employable: how to ensure your career stays as agile as your work
Date
12th Nov
20th Nov
Jeff Gothelf
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In this talk becoming forever employable. Jeff shares his story of how the ideas behind agility, product thinking, design thinking, lean UX can be applied to professional development and our career growth and we are building a reality where opportunities continue to find us.
People
Turning Theory into Action: Building High Performing Teams via Psychological Safety at GSK
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12th Nov
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Terry Brown
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Talking about Psychological Safety has become ubiquitous. You cannot attend a meeting without hearing someone refer to it. In some organisations, it's at risk of becoming weaponised - if we talk about it enough, we don't have to actually put in the hard work.
People
Customer Value
TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More
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20th Nov
Bianca Sias
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After this session, you will have a new approach to partnering to build a stronger team.
People
SWARMing part III: achieving agility at scale
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12th Nov
20th Nov
Anna Urbaniak
Daniel Terhorst-North
Business agility is no longer a luxury. In today’s market, companies that can’t adapt quickly to changing circumstances simply won’t survive. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how quickly the entire enterprise context can change.
Ways of Working
Leading for Better Value Safer Sooner Happier
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12th Nov
20th Nov
Jon Smart
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Leadership will make it or break it.
Culture is the biggest lever to delivering Better Value Sooner Safer Happier.Ways of Working
Driving enterprise change: Delivering a skills transformation at pace
Date
12th Nov
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Kate Llewellyn
Paul Sarjeant
Smart risk taking is becoming increasingly important for effective enterprise transformation. A key component is ensuring organisations have the understanding of how to drive key decisions with data and quantitative thinking. Harnesssing the power of the data & analytics (D&A) community through agile ways of working can accelerate this change.
Ways of Working
Somewhere between concept and context, lies confusion
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12th Nov
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Ellie Taylor
Samantha O’Neill
Somewhere between concept and context, lies confusion. We’ll be sharing our approach to evolving Ways of Working at Nationwide, how we’re demystifying business agility for teams and our key levers for success.
Ways of Working
Outcomes and high-performing teams matter more than ever
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20th Nov
Andy Sime
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In this talk, we will explore why outcomes and high-performing teams matter more than ever to support the drive towards business agility and ultimately, keeping the customer at the heart of everything we do.
Ways of Working
How OKRs helped reduce our lead time
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20th Nov
Carissa Dean
Gabrielle Chester
Every dev team has a dream. A dream to be a high performing team delivering quality code at speed. A dream to be flexible, to meet user requirements and not get weighed down in technical debt. In this workshop, we will share with you our 5 key takeaways from the OKRS framework which helped us meet our dream to write better code in a shorter amount of time.
Ways of Working
Dev Sec Ops more of the same - back to the roots
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12th Nov
20th Nov
Patrick Debois
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Once so often it makes sense to repeat the basics: Using the CAMS acronym Patrick Debois will explain how devsecops is build upon the core tenets of devops, requires the same mindset and approach and ultimately forms a consistent feedback channel for the business on overcoming yet another bottleneck: security. Coming to a mature devops organisation near you, sooner rather then later.
DevOps
Transforming a 200 year old enterprise towards fast feedback loops
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12th Nov
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Ryan Tomlinson
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In this war story I will talk about our journey and approach to transforming how our product and platform teams significantly increased flow, reduced handoffs and shortened feedback loops whilst increasing quality, security and compliance.
DevOps
CASE STUDY: Illustration of the VWFS UK Cloud
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20th Nov
David Rundle
Sam Tomkinson
This presentation provides an illustration of the VWFS UK Cloud platform, its reason for life and how we are looking to solve the issues we experience. The presentation will also include a short demo to showcase the platform’s capability
DevOps
DevOps & SRE: Maximizing Our Human Potential
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20th Nov
Jason Piskiel
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DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering: how they are different, how they are the same, and why they matter from the perspective continuous improvement and respect for people.
DevOps
What's the Business Case for DevOps?
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20th Nov
Carola Volkman
Mike Kellett
Any organisational transformation requires a business case and, in these times, the business case needs to be compelling.
DevOps
The Three Cs: Covid, Cloud, and Change - The Wicked Problem of Covid and Sensemaking with Agile
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12th Nov
20th Nov
Toby Corballis
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In this talk, Toby Corballis discusses how and why leaders can use Agile for sensemaking during unprecedented times of high uncertainty.
Lunchtime talk
Measure outcomes and deliver secure experiences your customer's trust
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12th Nov
20th Nov
Rob Vanstone
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Lunchtime talks
Lunchtime Talks
Schedule
Session broadcast 1
7:00 - 9.00 am
Broadcast talks from our focus organizations and thought leaders across 6 Tracks
Each track is broadcast 4 times throughout the day. See sessions below for talk lineup.
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Strategy and Leadership
Customer Value
Culture
People
Ways of Working
DevOps
Visit the Expo
9.00- 10.00
Join our live sponsor expos. Visit their booths to have 1 on one chats
Digital.io
eSynergy
Stackoverflow Teams
AWA - Adventures with agile
Session broadcast 2
10.00 - 12.00
Broadcast talks from our focus organizations and thought leaders across of 6 Tracks
Strategy and Leadership
Customer Value
Culture
People
Ways of Working
DevOps
Meet the speakers
12.00 - 12.30
Join the speakers in a live session to discuss talks and ask questions
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Meet the speakers from customer value, people and strategy and leadership tracks
Sponsor expos
12.30- 13.30
Join our live sponsor expos in talks and Q&A sessions. Visit their booths to have 1 on on chats
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Don't miss our talks from
Digital.io
eSynergy
Stackoverflow Teams
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Round Tables
13.00 - 13.30
Join our live round tables. Round tables will be group open sessions based around a proposed theme.
These are open sessions to connect and learn from fellow attendees. Each table will have proposed topics on them to lead the discussions.
Session broadcast 3
14.00- 16.00
Broadcast talks from our focus organizations and thought leaders across of 6 Tracks
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Strategy and Leadership
Customer Value
Culture
People
Ways of Working
DevOps
Meet the speakers
16.00 - 16.30
Join the speakers in a live session to discuss talks and ask questions
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Join our speakers from our culture, DevOps and ways of working tracks
Session Broadcast 4
17.00 - 19.00
Broadcast talks from our focus organizations and thought leaders across of 6 Tracks
Strategy and Leadership
Customer Value
Culture
People
Ways of Working
DevOps
Seacon closing
20.00
Seacon closing