 Through some of the important information you need to know about the conference so that your rest of the two days is more meaningful How many people here know me? Okay, so for those who don't know me. My name is Naresh Jain. I started the Agile movement here in India back in 2004 we've been running conferences for over 10 years now and Been part of the Agiles of a community of India running these conferences This is pictures from the last conference that we finished in February in Bangalore I'm gonna quickly run through some of the pictures What do you think these guys are doing at the conference? What's the feeling they have at the conference when they're at the conference? What do you see people doing? They're having fun So safety is important, but having fun is even more important I think one of the most important things about the conference to me is having fun learning and networking Right those three things is why we come to conferences and then we leave motivated to go back to work and do a little bit Things differently right small little improvement. So that's what I hope you will leave the conference Thinking and go back doing that Let's quickly do a small activity. This is typically we always do this just to get you started Start networking right we want you to start networking So we start the conference with a little bit of activity which will get you started which will get you one step on it So that you can then continue to the rest of the conference So what I want to do is I want you to stand up, please and then you're gonna form group Which contains Nine people with one role each so you need to find a person who plays One of those roles and you need to form a group of nine people who will have all of these roles Right try and find people from different companies people you don't know So you will make nine friends or eight friends at the end of this session right and whichever team completes first Put up your hands. I have a little price for you and we'll give it away All right, so your time starts now okay manager a developer tester architect conference speaker First and wearing black non-resident Indian All right, so you guys get a little price Nine of us right? Okay Thank you Don't worry if they just got the prices, but you guys got eight friends as well, right? So please take your seats back Was it hard to find people Yes, it is It's hard to identify their roles and that's the first trick to networking Right, how do you get started because you need to connect and people don't wear boards and walk around So we need to connect with people and we need to find interesting ways to do that But hopefully you have two days to experiment Right, it's a safe environment You can talk to people people are very happy to talk to you share their experience want to know your experience So please do that the rest of the conference Who's in the room? We have Last when I checked we had 183 people registered for this conference This is the lowest we've ever had Which is unfortunate, but this is in the ten years. This is the smallest conference. We've had ever Right, it's unfortunate, but what is really important is the people who are here Right quality is more important than quantity. We don't care so much about having thousand people here We care about having you guys who are really interested to be here. So thank you for being here right We have people from seven countries over here, which is good because we get to share different perspectives learn from different people We'll do one more quick activity. I want everyone to stand up where you are no moving around this time. I promise Everyone who has traveled more than 10 kilometers to come to this conference to keep standing and the rest of you Please sit down more than 10 kilometers stand up rest sit down more than 50 kilometers More than 100 kilometers All right, more than 500 kilometers thousand five thousand So we have people from Russia Where are you sir from? Chicago Germany Finland U.S. Those are all sitting and U.S. All right. Thank you guys for traveling all the way to the conference Let's quickly look at what the program looks like We're done with the keynote, right? There's the keynote and we right now in the welcome address We're gonna have a quick coffee break and then we're gonna split into three tracks That's track number one Right that you see there. This is the divider that's gonna be pulled up and that's gonna become track one This is gonna be track two. That's gonna be track three Right so ballroom one over there So next we have agility at scale then we have applying Gamification techniques here and then Linda's workshop over there on sorry in the third one Which is the power of retrospection and then we continue You know pretty much all if you see all of these sessions are 45 minutes long And there's a 15 minute break after each of the sessions so that you have enough time to move between the rooms And if the speakers spill over a little bit we can you know keep that buffer in so there's 45 minutes session And then 15 minutes It's your responsibility to make sure the speaker finishes on time I'm serious Right because we want this program to start on time and end on time We don't want to keep the bad Indian timing reputation, right? We want to we want to run as per the clock We want to keep the time so if you see the speaker is 45 minutes in and the time is up speed to stand up and thank the speaker and leave That will keep everyone moving at the same time All right, it's not rude because that's been told to the speakers They know that they have 45 minutes and they need to finish sometimes we can give a few minutes buffer But you know if this if you see the speaker is not gonna finish in the next half an hour Which does happen sometimes then you need to just stand up thank the speaker and leave How many people will support me with that? Excellent, thank you because it'll help all of us, you know stay on time All right, so that's still the lunch and then post lunch we have a few more sessions We have some lightning talks. I'm gonna talk about that We have a keynote to end the day and then we have a panel as well And then there is dinner here and we're gonna run till 10 10 30 till people drop dead Tomorrow we're gonna be doing an agile coach camp so agile coach camp is a place where so Debra Hartman and I started the agile coach camp in 2007 the idea was that we would go to a lot of conferences and we would mostly hang out Because we didn't find anything interesting in the sessions. It's the same old Sings that speakers are speaking over and over again. So, you know, this was the case in some of the conferences I'm not saying all conferences, but some conferences we felt that we are not really pushing the envelope We are not really talking about certain hard problems that we have and it's not possible for a conference to cover every topic Everyone wants to do so the open space format, which is the coach camp is an idea where people can go put up topics a Group of people who are interested in the topics will gather around it's a little bit more structured But it is very free flowing and you get to you know talk your topic get to listen to other people It's not a one-way conversation. It is a group discussion. It's a group brainstorming. It's a group activity All right, so tomorrow we have agile coach camp, which will be in track, too This is actually the picture from the very first coach camp that me and Debra Hartman ran You can see some really interesting big names in there We have lightning talks, which is going to happen in track, too Post lunch and the idea with lightning talks is we have a lot of good people who have bright ideas But we could not get them on the program So we give five minutes and each person gets five minutes to come and you know present the topic This is typically one way. It's a pretty fast five minutes, you know Deliver whatever you have as a lightning and then you can discuss post that So the idea to do the lightning talk today is it's going to generate some ideas Which can then be carried over into the coach camp tomorrow All right, so I think we have a volunteer who's going to be running the lightning talk And you know just show up over there if you have something to share and then we'll just form a queue And people will get five minutes to present each And it's a very unstructured free-flowing five minutes per person kind of a thing The most important thing and I think we started doing this back in 2004 2005 and people said I was insane The law of two feet this actually comes from You know open spaces, but the law of two feet how many people are aware of the law of two feet Some people who attended the open spaces or agile India conferences before one of the things we tell people is You are investing two days of your valuable time here. It's very important, right? And Sometimes you might go into a session You might have some expectation, but the speaker might not you know might be talking on slightly different topics Or it might not exactly match what you were looking for those things can happen, right? So don't sit there and curse yourself for choosing that topic That's the worst thing you can do Right don't sit there and just curse yourself for choosing a topic that didn't add value to you Please get up Use your two feet. That's the law of two feet Please use your two feet and take yourself to a place where you can either contribute value or get value Right. So at the end of the day if you come back saying you know what I just wasted the entire day I didn't learn anything too bad Right because you didn't exercise the law of two feet We've done this before and people are not sure they feel it's rude to get up and walk away. It's disrespectful No, it's not Because your time is extremely valuable and you need to find a session where you will get value If you don't find any session where you don't you are not getting value You there are three sessions running. Hopefully you will find one of them You know that suits your need if you don't find anything. What do you do? There is space. There is a big open space outside, right? Just go out there hang out There will be other people who have similar thoughts, right? So it will be good to meet up with people. It's not the end of the world Right. So please use the law of two feet all speakers know that it is not disrespectful to stand up But just make sure you don't disturb everyone when you leave, right? Don't pass comments when you leave out. Oh, gosh stupid So be respectful That's important, but you know take your law of two feet use your law of two feet and find yourself a place where you will add value or Contribute value or get value, right? Pretty much done Does everyone have the Wi-Fi password Give a minute to write it down. You can take a picture All caps Think we have on some tables. They have left those things, but it's just easier to put it up here All right, we got that down Quickly like to thank the team that has helped us put this conference together These are the people who've been working on this conference for six plus months trying to put the program together We had I think 128 Submissions that came in and we have to go through each submission review the submission talk to the speakers Review what they have done So there is a fairly rigorous process that we go through over six months to find the speakers that we have Selected over here, right? So it's a pretty rigorous process and this team is who's helped us put this program together So if you find them here at the conference, you will see some of them not everyone I know double was here. I know Anand is here. Are you guys here? Anand is there Double might be busy doing the registration outside. So this is a all volunteer run conference So it's all bunch of people wall entering from different companies trying to put this conference together So if you see them, please do thank them for helping us put this conference together I do like to thank these three organizations which supported us with this conference You know almost a month ago. We had maybe hundred registrations and we said wow This is this is strange. We've never had that we announced conferences and they get sold out But maybe we miss certain things we didn't do certain things we then tied up with these three organizations and they helped us Do some spreading the word of mouth in Pune. So please you thank these three organizations if you find them here I know one gentleman is here from the Pune open coffee club. So thank you for helping us When you did the sign up you all filled in the t-shirt. So a bunch of people asked Where is the t-shirt you asked us the t-shirt size? Well, I'm sorry. We don't have t-shirts We didn't get any funds to be able to provide the t-shirt so we've not be able to do t-shirts But hopefully in the next conference we will you know give you two t-shirts As I said, this is a non-profit voluntary run conferences We just try to make sure whatever money we get and we try and balance that out So there are certain things we do try to cut out to just balance it out You've all got oh my batches left But you all get those badges in which you have three little coupons, right? We need those coupons when you go for lunch So you give the coupon and then you can have lunch that will help us keep the count of how many people had lunch And then the hotel would charge us based on that, right? So please keep those coupons and bring them tomorrow as well because you will need those coupons There's one lunch coupon for tomorrow as well. All right We have a reception dinner tonight, which is going to be in the same place 730 onwards so that there's a coupon for that as well. Okay, and That's pretty much it. I'm going to shut up now And I'll let you guys have a quick coffee break and then we'll get started in another eight minutes All right. Thank you again