Main Conference Day 1 - Thursday February 27th, 2020
End of Main Conference Day 1
6:00 am - 8:00 am
FIRST MILE RUN
Let’s meet up for a run and get primed for a great day of learning!
8:00 am - 8:15 am
REGISTRATION & WOMEN IN AV BREAKFAST
Ahead of Women’s History Month, we at AutomotiveIQ wanted to recognize the extraordinary achievements from women in the automotive community.
Join us as we recognize milestones and achievements from women that have been driving the industry forward.
Nominate a leader, mentor, or friend that is leading the charge, so we can recognize their contributions to the industry. #AVWOMEN
8:15 am - 9:00 am
CHAIRPERSON’S WELCOMING REMARKS
9:00 am - 9:45 am
KEYNOTE: DEVELOPING CUSTOMIZED AGILE FRAMEWORKS TO LEVERAGE THE BEST ASPECTS OF MULTIPLE METHODS
Noah Kindler -
VP of IOV,
Canoo
- Understanding the advantages of, KanBan, Scrum and XP
- Analyzing your own organization and finding the best benefits for you
- Cultivating a model that will build agility into your organization
9:45 am - 10:15 am
HOW DIVERSITY IN THOUGHT BUILDS BETTER PRODUCTS
Vasudha Swaminathan -
Product Manager,
Stack Overflow
• Incorporating more diversity in knowledge and information sharing allows us to build products that solve more problems and reach more people
• Incorporating that into Stack Overflow’s product development
• Why collaboration is important and how you can build this culture of diverse thought in your organization
10:15 am - 11:00 am
MORNING NETWORKING AND SPEED DATING IN OUR DISCOVERY ZONE
See the cutting edge in agile tools and applications for yourself. Visit our discovery zone for demos, prototypes of the vehicles of tomorrow, and ride-and-drives testing.
Attendees will have the opportunity to join us in a speed dating challenge as we listen in at 5 minute elevator pitches from industry leaders, challenge their expertise and
learn about fast and flexible vehicle development. Hold your pre-scheduled meetings and network with colleagues during our speed dating!
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Moving for Waterfall to Agile to Enhance IT and Business Service Delivery
Lilia Eller -
Agile Project Manager,
Lippert
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Agile for Functional Safety: The Next Frontier?
Paul Liu -
Senior Manager, Functional Safety,
NVIDIA
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
Get to know your peers and discuss what you have learned in the first day. Enjoy networking with the attendees of our Autonomous Vehicles Silicon Valley Conference.
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
How is your Agile Transformation Coming Along?
Anders Wallgren -
VP, Technology Strategy,
CloudBees
2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
Challenging the belief that… Research + Highly Specialised Teams + Vehicles/Hardware != Agile
Morgan Berthold -
Program Manager,
TRI
· Researchers sometimes spend years solving the world’s most complex problems. How can the research be supported, while enabling cross functional development efforts?
· Highly specialized individuals are in a similar situation, do you really want them to slow down to learn other areas of the system that could take years to grok?
· Layer in vehicles and hardware with long lead times to the points above, and you have yourself some really interesting problems to solve with an Agile mindset!
· During this session we’ll be discussing how to transform vertical/siloed organizations through managing the overall program to leverage the benefits of the Agile and Scrum
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
CHARGING BREAK & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Let’s Play Jenga and Get to Know Each Other Better
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
KEEPING AN AGILE FLOW WHEN COMMUNICATING ACROSS GEOGRAPHICALLY DIVERSE TEAMS
Nathan Whitehead -
Agile Transformation Product Manager,
Ford Motor
- Understanding how web tools can be used to and bring communication as close to face to face as possible
- Harnessing the best communications tools for all situations
- Cultivating strategies to allow for the editing and saving of code
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
HOW TO DEVELOP SMART KPI’S AND DEADLINES FOR AGILE TEAMS AND KEEP PROJECTS ON TRACK
Scott Snyder -
Software Update Strategy Manager,
John Deere
• Understanding the various options for KPI developments under agile development
• Understanding how analytics can be harnessed to enable agile teams
• Seeing how automation and web tools can help in the generation of KPIs
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm
AWARDS CEREMONY AND RECEPTION
Join us in celebrating the successes of the mobility industry as we recognize the accomplishments in building towards a better, more flexible tomorrow! As an attendee, you
have the opportunity to nominate an individual or company that is leading the industry forward in agile development. We will recognize Social Impact Projects, Women in Agile
and Inspirational Leaders bringing the industry forward. Vote for the nominees pre-event by visiting us here. During the reception we will highlight the award recipients and
the amazing work they are doing
