 So how many people this was the first fishbowl they attended? It seemed weird, right? What a waste of time Yes It's another interesting format of conducting meetings and we wanted you to experience that Maybe some of you might want to try this at your workplace when you have important issues to be debated It's an interesting format to look at right? So it's something to think about these are all different formats that you can take back as little tools that you can try at your company So I insisted we go with this because you know there's some learning in terms of the format itself now They were interesting topics as well, which is bonus, but the core is to help understand the format Right so with that we'll try and close the conference and I hope this was a fruitful two days of your investment For you guys how many people here use the law of two feet? That's fantastic almost every single person Right Does that tell you something about the conference program? It was lousy. I had to use the law of two feet because I couldn't find the meaningful sessions Too many interesting sessions only if we could clone ourselves Well the point I was trying to get at with that question is there were quite a few people who came up and gave feedback about Specific sessions not being good and things like that and some people also appreciate it or the same people also appreciate it Certain sessions which were really good right you take any conference no matter which conference you go to they will always be a mixed Bad because when we look at we roll Relative we only think in terms of relative so when you look at a conference you have certain speakers You're going to try and map them and you're going to say well that was really good And this was bad and you know we've always try and compare them So that's going to happen which is why the law of two feet is there for you to utilize that so that you could find sessions Which are interesting now a little bit about how the sessions are selected What happens? I mean how many people are aware in terms of why these speakers came here and spoke what happened before this? How many people are aware of what is happening before we the speakers are here? voting that's a myth So there is a call for proposal that goes out there is an open submission system people go in and put submissions I don't remember the exact number, but we had around hundred or maybe over hundred Proposals that were submitted and it's an open system Which means you can see who the speaker or who's the person proposing the session There's a pretty detailed format that they fill out which talks about what is the abstract? What is the outcome? What is the outline of their session? Videos of the past sessions that they have performed slides and so forth, right? And then we rely on the community to go in and put comments You can leave comments you can ask for clarifications You know you can do that and then you can also vote for topics you can say yes I like this topic now the voting is interesting because we know people game it and the intention of putting that was so that people can game it It's a marketing tool. It helps us market the conference, right? But more importantly there are people who genuinely go put in comments and things like that and then we also have a review committee I showed the six people on the stage earlier on when I did the opening talk so the six people we had multiple calls We would go through these the proposals and we would look at the proposals And you know we would vote for them and then depending on the six people what the voting is we would pick certain sessions Right, so that's the thought process that goes behind it And and as a group of people interested in the conference you can help us make this better Right because six people can only do so much Right, but if everyone contributed in terms of asking questions asking clarifications I think it would overall improve the process it would improve it will help the people who are proposing the topics and Maybe it will motivate you to go in and put a proposal as well Right So we have called for proposals for agile India 2015 Which is our big conference that we run every year in Bangalore and that's right now up there So if you feel that you want to either add a proposal you want to contribute in terms of giving feedback to other people You want to ask clarifying questions? Please go ahead and do that You can find that on 2015 dot agile India dot or g right that's the site and from there You can find the rest of the details, but that's the thought process that happens before speakers get selected Now you can go back to the proposal You've attended certain talks right and you can go back now and you can add comments over there again It would help the speakers in terms of okay This is how I could improve quite a few people were really honest They came up and they gave feedback and I was seeing that happening with a lot of different speakers So I was really happy that that was happening now You could if you were not able to speak to someone if you were not able to give that feedback Please do go into the submission system and put in and they'll get an email the moment you put in a comment So they'll get an email or if you really actually like the session even just go and vote it up Right because next time when we're looking at the sessions we might go and look at okay What was the past session that these guys gave how much words did they get what feedback did they get so that will again Help the selection committee for the coming conferences Right the last thing I want to leave you is I'm hoping that everyone had something To learn from this conference Yes So what are you going to do about that right? What are you going to go back and do about it? As Linda points out make a small little achievable goal for yourself. Don't try and build something really ambitious I'm going to change the world after attending this conference. That's not gonna happen except for Julian For rest of us I think we need to set small goals that are achievable So I want you to think about a small goal that you will set for yourself that will help that will help you You know put into practice The things that you've learned at the conference right that is that is what I want you to leave this conference thinking about And hopefully that will help you Also, a lot of people have asked me that how do we continue this momentum now? We've had the conference. We enjoyed it, but what do we do after this? Do we wait till March? 2015 for the next conference What do you guys think create a group at this point? I'm an owner of maybe a hundred groups and A lot of them are inactive because after a while the bus dies out And I think instead of creating new groups for every conference. There is already a pretty active group on LinkedIn There's a group called agile and lean software development. I Created that group many years ago. I think it has over 75,000 members at this point And it's a fairly active group more than 300 questions are asked every single day on that group, right? So if you if you want to go participate in that that's a good starting point, right instead of spawning new new Groups, I think we can go join a group which is already fairly active I got a thank you email from LinkedIn the other day saying this is one of the most active and well-maintained groups So thank you for doing that which makes me feel good that actually we have a very good community over there So you guys could go join that right instead of waiting for the next conference Maybe if you of you could Start local user groups over here, you know it in your company Invite a few other people, you know learn from other companies what they're doing because that will help us continue this momentum Right, we don't have to wait for the next big event. We can create smaller groups We do run a small group called tech jam where we do every every alternative week We do a little session people whoever wants to present basically comes Sends an email we slot it in and then they come in present and we it's a jam Which means typically we try and have two speakers back-to-back, you know 45 minutes 45 minute sessions So that's something that we are doing. There are a lot of other companies that are doing thought works for example is doing something similar there's Sorry Yeah, that's yeah, the thought works does that there's bunch of other companies equal experts I think they run, you know sessions So there are a bunch of other companies doing that. I know the you know, do you guys are running some session as well? They use a group that you guys run the startup Yeah, I represent a group called Pune open coffee club It is basically a network of entrepreneurs would be entrepreneurs one of our pioneers chicken entrepreneurs Right someone who wants to be with entrepreneurs. So all those different kinds of people someone who wants to become entrepreneur one of the days and so Currently that group we started in 2007 and just, you know very informal kind of group and They started meeting they started inviting some people who are slightly ahead in the game now, especially in the startup game and The goal always has been to help the startup community help build people start help build better startups and You know have have some kind of ecosystem now we have grown to 14,000 plus people a lot of them are students So in a way it is slightly diluted, but we are not so much worried about it We have meetings every month. I mean we try to have meetings sometimes we don't but That's what we do. So one of those things was about agile because someone thought that agile is a good It makes sense for startups. So that's where we had a couple of agile people Agile experts come and talk about how to implement agile in software and even non-software words Hey, there are a lot of groups in Pune and you know I would encourage you guys to participate in those groups when you in future when you want to put a proposal for The big agile India conference one of the things we look at is what is your speaking experience, right? So we look at have you if you presented at any any things before so these are wonderful events where you can You know if you've not presented before you can go in and at least get started It's a small group. It gets you comfortable gets you into the practice of doing that and then you can come and present at big Conferences and it helps, you know you to share your knowledge So again some of those things I would encourage you to go look at the local communities out here If you don't find a suitable one start one right start one in your company and then maybe spread it out So again think about what you learn from this conference and how you're going to put it in practice Think about small goals you will set or small You know ideas that you have and try and join a community that would be my request, okay? Thank you again for this wonderful conference and thanks for all the people Yep, so we have access to the presentation So our request would be to all the speakers to basically go in in the submission system and basically Upload the slides over there so they can basically add the links to their presentation and We'll get the videos and then we'll also upload it over there So once that is done, we will send out an email to all the participants letting them know that the videos and the slides Right slides are outside our control. So hopefully the speakers will put it up, but we cannot force that Videos probably is under our control unless someone says no you don't you cannot upload my video the rest of it Then should go on YouTube Okay Any other questions people have Are the speakers paid no None of the speakers are paid here They some of their expenses are covered Depends on how far they're traveling and things like that. So that depends but most speakers are here volunteering Coming to share their knowledge. So thank you for that Who's come here? There are a few people I know who are not volunteers, but we push them so There are few Let's talk afterwards Yes, why do you ask that? Okay, so if you want to But we are deciding factor fair enough so we don't pay any of the speakers We think that because this is a non-profit event We try and run it in a fashion that we just want to break even whatever money comes in basically want to spend So if you do end up getting a lot of sponsorship, then we might do some little nice things for the speakers But generally that's never been the case so far As in not getting surplus sponsorship