Many organisations feel that implementing agile ways of working is the quantum shift they need to magically transform their organisations, but is that all it takes ? What thinking is needed for our future organisations and how do we help everyone come along for the journey ?

This panel will examine how Agile is making a difference to how agencies and organisations in Canberra, approach for digital transformation, organisational change, improvements in productivity and quality as well as organisational agility. The panel will discuss their experiences leading these changes in our industry and look at the innovation that Agile is bringing to the Canberra Community. They will also share their trails and tribulations along the way.

Finally, this panel will give you their predictions for where Agile might be happening with innovative applications of tech and application of agile principles to business organisations as well as Government. Join us as we travel forward in time – to 2020 and beyond - to have a look at the future of innovative applications of agile in Canberra and our industry.

Facilitator - Irene Zhen

Kerrie Campbell – CIO, Finders Uni

Kerrie is a Chief Information Officer with a rich experience in the higher education industry. She is passionate about introducing new continuous improvement cultures and changing the way IT works with organisations. She has experience in the university sector and also with Government, notably with the Department of Human Services. At the DHA, she managed a large team of developers, programmers and systems analysts to develop,design and maintain programs of work.

Petr Adamek - CEO Canberra Innovation Network

Petr is the CEO of the Canberra Innovation Network, a collaboration between the tertiary and research institutions in Canberra with support of the ACT Government. He is passionate about innovation ecosystems with experience in Europe and New Zealand.

Matthew Hodgson - CEO, Zen Ex Machina

Matthew Hodgson is an executive and portfolio-level agile coach. He's an ICT strategist with two decades of experience focussing on coaching executives from strategy through to execution by leveraging organisational psychology, organisational change and modern Agile, Lean, UCD and Lean UX methods.

Kristy Dam - Assistant Commissioner EST Strategy, Innovation and Information Technology Australian Taxation Office.

Other panelists - TBA

Kerrie's experience across the Goverment and Higher Education sectors, stands her in good stead to open LAST Conference Canberra 2018. She will be recounting what she has done in her career to promote good governance and management of transformations. She will talk about her Agile journey and how she found that this transformation will break your processes, your people and your finances..... but that’s OK.