A review of how the challenges of all space missions, especially EDL missions, requires a design mind set to maximize efficiency, minimize mass, and make the impossible possible.

Dr. Sengupta will touch on how space technology and design philosophy can serve to mitigate climate change here at home.

Today, there is no dispute that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) should be a business priority. Significant results call out its impact on employee engagement, experience, connection, trust, performance and enabling inclusive organizational culture. 

From its inception, Thoughtworks' approach to DEI has been fundamental to our values, culture, vision, community and business strategy. We understood early on that the true value of DEI can only be realized if it’s integrated within all aspects of the business, across functions and specifically within teams. 

Thoughtworks has been an early adopter of agile software development and Extreme Programming (XP). As leaders in this space and an organization whose very foundation is built on the pillars of DEI, Thoughtworks has benefitted from years of following a unified approach of integrating Agility, XP and DEI principles into our software teams, thus bringing the best of these together. 

In this talk we will share our learnings, success stories and perspectives of integrating DEI with an organisations Business Agility journey and why this is much needed in the changing landscape of our businesses today. 

This may sound a little outdated but I designed this workshop during COVID times to engage stakeholders better by using User Stories more efficiently. The idea of the workshop is to help people move away from the notion that User Stories are merely a As a .. I want .. so that writing template to a full fledged way of engaging with every stakeholder involved during a product's lifecycle. The topics covered include myth busters around user stories, 3 amigos, specs by examples, BDD, ATDD, Zero defect policies, etc.

The deployment pipeline is a central idea in Continuous Delivery. It represents the channel through which ideas inside your business flow to the outside world so that they can be delivered to your users in the form of working software. First steps in creating a working deployment pipeline are very rewarding. They help to improve the quality of the software that you create and usually lead to happier users. 

Innovation is risky. That’s why successful innovators validate their ideas before building them. 

And the best way to validate your product idea is to test the right prototype on the right early customers. 

In this high-impact workshop for product leaders and entrepreneurs, you’ll learn how to turn your ideas into a product that people come back to, again and again, with a proven system that takes the guesswork out of product discovery. 

During the workshop, you’ll put together a rapid innovation playbook to help your team:

• Zero in on product/market fit by talking to the right early customers 

• Boost engagement with a skill-building habit loop

• Save time by testing your product with no-code storyboards

This workshop will teach you advanced techniques that power the biggest hit games & products of our time - & dramatically increase your odds of success.

Have you ever wondered how genre-defining games & products come to life?

After working on Rock Band, The Sims, Netflix, ebay, Ultima Online, & Covet Fashion… I learned something surprising. 

These breakthrough hits did NOT start off by going after a large TAM (total addressable market). 

Instead, they focused on capturing a narrow “beachhead” of eager customers & grew from there. 

And contrary to what I expected - these high-retention hits did NOT start off with polished onboarding, or fleshed-out mastery systems. 

Instead, they started with a stripped-down “core habit loop” that gives people a reason to return - & once that’s working, they tune the loop to deliver a better experience as someone becomes more skilled.   

So… how exactly do you build & tune a Sticky Loop that drives retention?

And how do high-need Superfans help you iterate fast & find product/market fit? 

In this tactical workshop, you’ll learn how to

• use behavioral signals & “struggling moments” to identify your Superfans 
• create sustained engagement in your product by designing Sticky Loops
• drive adoption & retention with research-based habit-stacking

This workshop includes in-depth examples from Rock Band, The Sims & Replika.ai. 

If you want to build retention & accelerate product/market fit, this is for you!

Most of the world’s largest organisations are attempting an enterprise Agility transformation but not all are succeeding. One recent study shows that 75% of all Agile transformations fail. This makes us wonder if the Agile values and principles from the 20-year-old Agile Manifesto is still conducive to today’s new ways of working? 

We need to recognise that while new technologies bring some consolation for overcoming the challenges of new ways of working, the real secret to success is hidden in the mindset and cultural shift. Leaders who focus on providing psychological safety in a modern workforce culture are helping their employees be the best versions of themselves, both physically and mentally. 

Drawing upon more than a decade of Agile transformation experiences in multiple organisations across nine countries, Dipesh will share real-life case studies and insights in this highly interactive session to provide clear guidelines, organised around seven key areas that will be useful for leaders and organisations wanting to unleash the full potential of their Agile teams. Be inspired by knowing what serves to catalyse and nourish a modern workforce culture – and what does the opposite.