Bring your biggest issues and challenges to the Agile Leadership Network Summit where you can draw on the knowledge and experiences of Summit leaders and your fellow managers who may have already faced and solved some of your issues. You’ll hear what’s working—and not working—and have the opportunity to share your experiences and successes.

The Agile Leadership Network Summit is a unique opportunity to engage in a dynamic mix of learning, sharing, and exploring. Accomplished agile leaders will share their expertise—both successes and failures—and lead exploration into what makes agile grow and thrive.

During the Welcome Reception on Thursday evening, share your agile leadership and adoption issues. Then Friday, gain new perspectives in sessions with industry leaders and share ideas in highly interactive Think Tank sessions, where you’ll work together in small groups to discuss these challenges and brainstorm solutions.

The Agile Leadership Network Summit will help you to:

Connect and engage with agile leaders
Build your network of leaders in multiple industries
Share your experiences with others
Develop a personal career development plan
Brainstorm possibilities for the future

Register at http://www.sqe.com/AgileDevPracticesWest/Summit/Default.aspx

Visit www.thepathtoagility.com for more information and registration links.

Registration will begin on *Friday, April 6th at 9am* for the 3rd annual “The Path to Agility” conference, presented by the Central Ohio Agile Association(COHAA), central Ohio’s fastest growing organization for Agile professionals. This day-long event will be held on *Thursday, May 24th* at the Arena Grand Theatre in Columbus, Ohio. We again expect a sellout crowd, so please be sure to register to guarantee your spot!

We are extremely excited to add to this year’s conference “The Path to Craftsmanship”! Agile methods often cover how we communicate, how we organize our work, and how we track progress. They unfortunately fall short of telling us how we should actually write software that can both meet our users’ needs today and be easily extended to meet their needs in the future. The software craftsmanship movement has emerged to help developers focus on the key principles and practices that improve their ability to write code.

We are fortunate to welcome national and regional leaders of the Craftsmanship movement to Columbus, Ohio for a single day conference, completely focused on improving our software craftsmanship. This will be held on *Wednesday, May 23rd*.

We are finalizing the session schedule, but already have a fantastic lineup of international, national, and regional speakers (alphabetical order):

Jurgen Appelo
Christopher Avery
Israel Gat
Ellen Gottesdiener
Chet Hendrickson
Ron Jeffries
Brandon Keepers
Michael Mah
Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
Joe O’Brien
Ken Schwaber

Please visit www.thepathtoagility.com for additional information.

Please note that the full session lineup will be updated over the next two weeks.

The Attend link and registration site will be live on *Friday at 9am EST*.

To review previous year content (presentations, videos, and pictures), go to the Past Years section of the site.

We look forward to seeing everyone again this year!

The COHAA Leadership Team

Cincinnati Day of Agile
May 19 2012
8 AM – 6 PM

Miami University Voice of America Learning Center
7847 VOA Park Drive
West Chester, Ohio 45069

Deadline for submissions: 4/15/2012

You are invited to participate as a speaker at the Day of Agile conferences in Cincinnati, Ohio on May 19, 2012. The conference is a regional, multitrack, practitioner conference focusing on educating those new to agile while bringing together intermediate and advanced practitioners. In previous years this conferences has attracted over 300 people. This year the conference will be held at Miami University’s Voice of America Learning Center in West Chester, Ohio.

This is your chance to showcase your ideas and deepen relationships with other agile enthusiasts. A variety of presentation levels from beginner to advanced will be selected on topics related to practicing agile software development. The formats are open and can include workshops, exercises, open spaces, or lectures. Presentations are limited to 1 hour. Sales presentations will not be considered. All speakers will have conference fees waived.

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Location Link:
http://www.regionals.muohio.edu/voalc/

Call for Speakers Link:
http://dayofagile.org/cincinnati/call-for-speakers

Conference Information Link:
http://dayofagile.org/cincinnati

For more information, contact:
Jonathan Mills
Jonathanfmills@gmail.com
816-447-7405

This presentation is about personal branding and community awareness. In this talk, Ben will share with you his philosophy about taking control of your career and share with you the wide array of resources available to you to build your career. Those attending will come away with practical and actionable insights to help you build your professional skills and networks.

Event Info:

April 11th, 2012 at 10:30 am

The Conference Center at OCLC
6600 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH

About out speaker:

Ben is an unabashed Columbus technology advocate and has been recognized as a Computerworld Premier 100 leader. As the founder of TechLifeOhio and the curator of Columbus Startup Digest he has unique insights as to the resources, networks, and talents in our backyard. To learn more check out his LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/benblanquera

They will be awarding a $500 Apple gift card to a lucky attendee. Ben Blanquera, education, networking, lunch and possibly an iPad3 – it looks to be a great event! Please register at http://www.atp-ohio.org/docs/meetings/April%202012%20Mtg.pdf

This event will be $10.00 for ATP members; $20.00 for non-members. For more information about ATP, please see our website at http://www.atp-ohio.org/

Are you an Agile BA with a great story to share?

“The Call for Speakers” brochure is now available for the Columbus Chapter of the IIBA’s BAPDD on September 14th.

Great presenters on a range of topics are needed. If you or someone you know would like to present on yours or a clients experiences contact the IIBA chapter by emailing speakers@columbusoh.iiba.org and they’ll send you a brochure!