Engineering Leadership & Product Events in Europe

AI feels like a completely new world—but if you've led Agile teams through uncertainty, competing priorities, and rapid change, you've been preparing for this longer than you think.
The tools are changing at an astonishing pace. The leadership challenges aren't.
The same enduring tensions that have shaped great teams for decades are now arriving faster, with more information, more automation, and less time to decide:

• Autonomy ↔ Alignment
• Speed ↔ Quality
• Trust ↔ Verification
• Structure ↔ Flexibility
• Humans ↔ Tools

AI doesn't replace these leadership tensions—it compresses the time available to recognize and navigate them.
Name the tension, and you can navigate it.
Mistake every AI challenge for something unprecedented, and it's easy to rent expensive solutions from people who discovered the problem last month.
This session isn't about chasing the latest AI trend. It's about building the judgment to recognize what's actually happening beneath the surface, so you can lead with confidence no matter which new tool appears next.

During this interactive session , you'll

Challenge a common assumption. We'll begin with a simple premise: AI may change the speed of our work, but the fundamental tensions of leading and creating remain remarkably consistent.
Work through real scenarios. In small groups, you'll compare two situations—one unmistakably "AI-era" and one from an earlier period of software development. As you work through each, you'll discover that while the technology has changed, the leadership challenge often hasn't.
Identify the underlying patterns. Together we'll compare observations, uncover recurring tensions, and discuss why experienced leaders often recognize these situations long before they recognize the latest technology trend.
Apply the framework to your own work. Bring a current challenge from your team or organization. You'll use the framework to identify the underlying tension, discuss it with peers, and leave with new perspectives and practical next steps.
Leave with tools you can use immediately. We'll wrap up by sharing key insights, recommended resources, and concrete actions you can apply the next time a "new" AI challenge appears.

Join us for an engaging evening of discussion, practical exercises, and shared learning as we explore how experienced Agile leaders can bring their hard-earned judgment into the age of AI.

About your speaker:
Christopher Vestal is an Agile Practitioner, Product Coach, and emerging "AI maker" focused on helping people and teams navigate complexity and turn ideas into meaningful outcomes. His work combines pragmatic agile approaches with hands-on experimentation in agentic software and orchestration. He actively uncovers better ways to work, learn, and create with AI, and helps others build the confidence and capability to do the same. Christopher has applied Product Development and Service Design approaches across E-Retail, Entertainment, Public Safety, Telecommunications, Energy, and Financial Services.

Master prioritization, capacity planning, portfolio Kanban, Lean budgeting, governance, and value stream mapping to manage agile portfolios

Group Discounts:

• Save 10% when registering 3 or more participants
• Save 15% when registering 10 or more participants

About This Course

• Duration: 1 Full Day (8 Hours)
• Delivery Mode: Classroom (In-Person)
• Language: English
• Credits: 8 PDUs / Training Hours
• Certification: Course Completion Certificate
• Refreshments: Lunch, snacks, and beverages provided

Course Overview

This practical 1 Day training provides the skills needed to manage portfolios in agile environments. You will explore prioritization frameworks, capacity planning methods, portfolio Kanban, Lean budgeting principles, and agile governance rules. The course also covers value stream mapping to align strategy with execution and ensure continuous delivery of value. Through real-world examples, hands-on exercises, and agile decision-making techniques, you will learn how to optimize portfolio flow, respond quickly to change, and build alignment across teams and stakeholders.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Manage portfolios effectively within agile environments
• Apply prioritization frameworks for value-driven decisions
• Use capacity planning and flow-based resource allocation
• Implement portfolio Kanban for visibility and speed
• Apply Lean budgeting for flexible funding
• Strengthen governance while enabling agility
• Map value streams to improve alignment and outcomes

Target Audience

• Agile leaders
• Project managers
• Product owners
• PMO professionals
• Scrum masters transitioning to portfolio roles

Why Choose This Course?

This course is designed by an expert in agile transformation, portfolio governance, and Lean-Agile delivery frameworks. You gain practical tools, templates, prioritization models, Kanban structures, and real-world examples used in modern agile organizations. The training focuses on actionable skills, not theory.

©2026 Academy for Pros. This content is protected by copyright law. Copy or Reproduction without permission is prohibited.

Want to train your entire team?
We provide tailored in-house programs for PMOs, agile teams, leadership groups, and enterprise transformation units. Sessions can be customized to your frameworks—SAFe, Scrum@Scale, LeSS, or hybrid environments. Training can be conducted on-site with examples from your actual portfolio challenges.

📧 Contact us today to schedule a customized in-house session: contact@academyforpros.com

Master prioritization, capacity planning, portfolio Kanban, Lean budgeting, governance, and value stream mapping to manage agile portfolios

Group Discounts:

• Save 10% when registering 3 or more participants
• Save 15% when registering 10 or more participants

About This Course

• Duration: 1 Full Day (8 Hours)
• Delivery Mode: Classroom (In-Person)
• Language: English
• Credits: 8 PDUs / Training Hours
• Certification: Course Completion Certificate
• Refreshments: Lunch, snacks, and beverages provided

Course Overview

This practical 1 Day training provides the skills needed to manage portfolios in agile environments. You will explore prioritization frameworks, capacity planning methods, portfolio Kanban, Lean budgeting principles, and agile governance rules. The course also covers value stream mapping to align strategy with execution and ensure continuous delivery of value. Through real-world examples, hands-on exercises, and agile decision-making techniques, you will learn how to optimize portfolio flow, respond quickly to change, and build alignment across teams and stakeholders.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Manage portfolios effectively within agile environments
• Apply prioritization frameworks for value-driven decisions
• Use capacity planning and flow-based resource allocation
• Implement portfolio Kanban for visibility and speed
• Apply Lean budgeting for flexible funding
• Strengthen governance while enabling agility
• Map value streams to improve alignment and outcomes

Target Audience

• Agile leaders
• Project managers
• Product owners
• PMO professionals
• Scrum masters transitioning to portfolio roles

Why Choose This Course?

This course is designed by an expert in agile transformation, portfolio governance, and Lean-Agile delivery frameworks. You gain practical tools, templates, prioritization models, Kanban structures, and real-world examples used in modern agile organizations. The training focuses on actionable skills, not theory.

©2026 Academy for Pros. This content is protected by copyright law. Copy or Reproduction without permission is prohibited.

Want to train your entire team?
We provide tailored in-house programs for PMOs, agile teams, leadership groups, and enterprise transformation units. Sessions can be customized to your frameworks—SAFe, Scrum@Scale, LeSS, or hybrid environments. Training can be conducted on-site with examples from your actual portfolio challenges.

📧 Contact us today to schedule a customized in-house session: contact@academyforpros.com

Join us for an interactive workshop & usability testing focused on enhancing your negotiation skills by facilitating structured, successful and engaging meetings.

Learn how to create a collaborative environment, foster creativity, and manage group dynamics effectively.

This session will cover best practices in workshop facilitation, including
analysing your prefered conflict style, dealing with group dynamics while Navigating Difficult Conversations.

We're reading Unlearning Silence by Elaine Lin Hering.
We plan to read and discuss through chapter 5 at our meeting August 6th, and continue or conclude our discussion August 20th. We'll have a third session in September if needed, or start our next book (see below) at that meeting. We're agile, we take more (or less) time as appropriate.

(The Zoom link is visible right after you register. The link to the Miro discussion board will be posted in the Zoom chat once the meeting is underway.)

And if you want to get a jump on our next selection, it's Remote: Office Not Required by David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried, and Rebecca Lowman. Do you have a book to recommend? Please submit this form, so our program committee can consider it.

if you'd like to be on the program (book selection) committee, please contact david.wight@agileaustin.org .

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Remote Process

Our process is in flux -- we're experimenting with new moderation and recording techniques, so please be on time and please be patient. And expect a call for participation -- we want this to be your book club.

Discussion Notes

for this and all our books may be found here. Notes are open to comment by anyone (please do!) and you'll also find how to get REIMBURSEMENT for books and the READING LIST for possible future books. (Discussion notes may or may not be taken in future -- we're experimenting to see what's valuable.)

About Book Club

We meet most months the 1st and 3rd Thursdays, so you can put that in your calendar. When and if we resume physical meetings we'll feed you, and if you participate in most of the sessions, we'll even reimburse you for the book, so save that receipt.

We have not recorded Book Club sessions in the past, but that could change:

Recording Disclosure

"AgileAustin has the right to record any hosted event which includes, but is not limited to, Special Interest Groups (SIGs), Monthly Meetings, Conferences, and special events. By registering for, or attending an Agile Austin hosted event, you are giving AgileAustin consent to record and post recorded content containing your image, voice and name at a minimum, online. For remote events, you have the option to turn off your camera, mute your microphone and hide your name."
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Join us for an upcoming in-person Lean Coffee meetup. Lean Coffee is a lightly-structured meeting format where the attendees create the agenda.

Bring your management challenges; whether you're managing people, products, processes or beyond, and solve them together with peers from a diverse set of backgrounds.

This event is great for anybody trying to create better ways of working and wants to share with + learn from others trying to do the same.

Master prioritization, capacity planning, portfolio Kanban, Lean budgeting, governance, and value stream mapping to manage agile portfolios

Group Discounts:

• Save 10% when registering 3 or more participants
• Save 15% when registering 10 or more participants

About This Course

• Duration: 1 Full Day (8 Hours)
• Delivery Mode: Classroom (In-Person)
• Language: English
• Credits: 8 PDUs / Training Hours
• Certification: Course Completion Certificate
• Refreshments: Lunch, snacks, and beverages provided

Course Overview

This practical 1 Day training provides the skills needed to manage portfolios in agile environments. You will explore prioritization frameworks, capacity planning methods, portfolio Kanban, Lean budgeting principles, and agile governance rules. The course also covers value stream mapping to align strategy with execution and ensure continuous delivery of value. Through real-world examples, hands-on exercises, and agile decision-making techniques, you will learn how to optimize portfolio flow, respond quickly to change, and build alignment across teams and stakeholders.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Manage portfolios effectively within agile environments
• Apply prioritization frameworks for value-driven decisions
• Use capacity planning and flow-based resource allocation
• Implement portfolio Kanban for visibility and speed
• Apply Lean budgeting for flexible funding
• Strengthen governance while enabling agility
• Map value streams to improve alignment and outcomes

Target Audience

• Agile leaders
• Project managers
• Product owners
• PMO professionals
• Scrum masters transitioning to portfolio roles

Why Choose This Course?

This course is designed by an expert in agile transformation, portfolio governance, and Lean-Agile delivery frameworks. You gain practical tools, templates, prioritization models, Kanban structures, and real-world examples used in modern agile organizations. The training focuses on actionable skills, not theory.

©2026 Academy for Pros. This content is protected by copyright law. Copy or Reproduction without permission is prohibited.

Want to train your entire team?
We provide tailored in-house programs for PMOs, agile teams, leadership groups, and enterprise transformation units. Sessions can be customized to your frameworks—SAFe, Scrum@Scale, LeSS, or hybrid environments. Training can be conducted on-site with examples from your actual portfolio challenges.

📧 Contact us today to schedule a customized in-house session: contact@academyforpros.com

We need to understand Velocity and Story Points better. And Ai.

They help build toward success.
They give us feedback.
They enable us to commit to the right amount (more often).
They make the game fun.

In this one-hour webinar we try to discuss the basics of Velocity and Story Points.

Let's discuss. Bring your questions.
We'll discuss what we can cover in 60 minutes.

---Discussion Leader---

Joe Little is an Agile Trainer (CST) and coach. He has been delivering courses and webinars for years, and now delivers many courses and workshops online, including the CSM, CSPO, and A-CSM courses and the ARP workshops. Find more information here.

Please register for FREE on this page. See the Register button above right. Contact us if you have any questions.

For those unfamiliar with LeanCoffee: it's a moderated discussion format where we talk about the topics that get voted on by the participants. This makes for varying topics.
Overall, Lean Coffee provides a flexible and democratic way for groups to engage in meaningful conversation.

We try to start at 19:30 with an intro round and start gathering topics you want to talk about straight after. Coming late is ok, but just know that you typically won't have a say in what gets talked about.

When you come for the first time, you’ll usually find the host, Nicky, there early, with a Lean Coffee sign on the table — and often in the company of two dogs.

Please complete your registration on LUMA https://luma.com/7ruymtxd to be able to attend (every RSVP counts as it increases our drinks budget, so RSVP even if you're not sure if you can make it 🙏 ), see event location and get free food/drinks ⬅️

To all the Product Managers, Founders, Product Designers, Engineers and other interested product-minded individuals out there! 📣

• 🗺️ LOCATION WON'T BE SHARED ON MEETUP, IT WILL BE SHARED VIA LUMA: The specific location details are typically shared 1-2 days before the event start time via email from Luma to all registered attendees.
• ​The Friends of Lenny’s Newsletter community is for anyone building product, driving growth, or looking to uplevel their product career. The community includes 10,000+ PMs, founders, growth leaders, and builders. Join us at LennysNewsletter.com.

Connect with Organizers on LinkedIn:

• Gabriela Naumnik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielanaumnik/
• Nina Underova: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninaunderova/

LeadDev Edinburgh meetup

🎟 Please RSVP BELOW! 🎟
Join us for our next LeadDev meet-up on August 18th and enjoy an evening of networking and talks.

Date: Tuesday, 18th August
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Location: Skyscanner, 15 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9EN

Spaces are limited - you must RSVP to attend. We hope to see you there!

⏰ SCHEDULE ⏰
18:00 - Arrival, networking and refreshments
18:45 - Welcome from our host
18:50 - Talk 1 - TBD
19:15 - Talk 2 - TBD
19:40 - Break
20:00 - Talk 3 - TBD
20:20 - Wrap & Networking
20:45 - Close

🎤 SPEAKERS 🎤
TBD

🔹 CODE OF CONDUCT 🔹
As with our conferences, LeadDev Meetups are a safe and inclusive event for all. By attending, you agree to our code of conduct.

🔸 SLACK COMMUNITY 🔸
You can also join our Slack workspace to keep up with everything in our Edinburgh community. Join the channel #edinburgh.

🙏🏻 THANK YOU 🙏🏻
Thank you to our Edinburgh meet-up partner Skyscanner.

Empower teams and drive success digitally. Build skills to coach, collaborate, and lead confidently in today’s connected environment.

Group Discounts:

• Save 10% when registering 3 or more participants
• Save 15% when registering 10 or more participants

For more information on venue address, reach out to "contact@academyforpros.com"

• Duration: 1 Full Day (8 Hours)
• Delivery Mode: Classroom (In-Person)
• Language: English
• Credits: 8 PDUs / Training Hours
• Certification: Course Completion Certificate
• Refreshments: Lunch, snacks, and beverages provided

This Executive & Team Digital Coaching course is designed to equip today’s leaders and teams with the skills required to lead and collaborate effectively in a digital-first world. Through real-world insights, interactive techniques, and coaching frameworks, you’ll learn to foster digital mindsets, improve hybrid teamwork, embrace change, and drive organizational transformation. Ideal for leaders ready to inspire high-performance in evolving environments, this course offers practical strategies for sustained success in the digital age.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Embrace and model key principles of digital leadership
• Develop a growth-oriented mindset for digital transformation
• Coach and empower high-performing_virtual_ and hybrid teams
• Foster collaboration and agility using modern tools
• Lead confidently through change, uncertainty, and disruption

• Senior executives
• Emerging leaders
• Managers
• Teams

Why Choose This Course?

In a rapidly evolving business landscape, the ability to lead digitally-savvy, remote, and hybrid teams is no longer optional—it's essential. This course is the perfect fit if you're looking to improve how you lead, coach, and collaborate in a digital-first environment. With interactive learning, real-world cases, and guided practice, you’ll gain tools to drive performance, inspire innovation, and foster a culture of continuous growth. Choose this course to be future-ready and lead with confidence in a connected world.

©2026 Academy for Pros. This content is protected by copyright law. Copy or Reproduction without permission is prohibited.

Looking to transform leadership within your organization?

We offer tailored in-house training sessions that adapt to your business objectives, culture, and team dynamics. Want to empower your executives or boost synergy in your hybrid teams? Our customized workshops provide the exact skills and coaching strategies you need for long-term success.

📧 Contact us today to schedule a customized in-house session: contact@academyforpros.com

AgilePDX in conjunction with the Portland PMI chapter provides a forum for Agile Project Managers, Agile Facilitators, and Scrum Masters to gather online once a month and discuss all things project, program, and portfolio related. Please join us for a Lean Coffee style event facilitated by experienced Agile PM's and instructors in the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner prep program.

You'll be dialing in from your desktop with your favorite early morning brew. Please join with your camera on. The Zoom URL will be provided to confirmed attendees. Feel free to post questions to this meetup prior to the event.

We welcome divergent opinions and experience reports. Bring your challenges for groups feedback and support.

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From building a highly available multi-AZ cloud in Switzerland to embedding quality into agile product delivery: two practical talks, experienced speakers, and plenty of networking opportunity. We are very much looking forward to the last DevOps Meetup Zurich of 2026.
Here's what's planned for the evening:
17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival and first drinks
18:00 - 18:45 - How We Build a Multi-AZ Cloud in Switzerland by Matthieu Robin & Mattia Eleuteri
18:45 - 19:30 - Embedding Quality Process in Agile Product Delivery by Geetanjali Bhat
19:30 - 20:30 - Networking, Open Space & More drinks*

How We Build a Multi-AZ Cloud in Switzerland
As a cloud provider, we spent significant time finding a solution to build a multi-AZ IaaS offering. Our goals were to find the best orchestrator, a very high availability system, and a fully secure setup for our customers. We will talk about our journey through different solutions and how we ended up with an Open-Source based stack, with Kubernetes at the core of our IaaS to deliver high availability, security, and resilience.

Matthieu Robin
CEO @ Hidora
Matthieu Robin is a passionate entrepreneur and staunch advocate of DevOps culture. As the CEO of Hidora, he leads companies in adopting cloud and DevOps solutions. He also serves as a volunteer firefighter, showcasing his commitment to community service. Matthieu founded the DevOps Geneva Meetup and DevOpsDays Geneva, fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing within the DevOps community. He teaches at the Haute Ecole de Gestion, where he instructs the "Service Industrialization" course, sharing his expertise to inspire the next generation of business leaders.

Mattia Eleuteri
Cloud Native Enthusiast @ Hidora
Mattia has been at Hidora for 5 years, starting with monitoring and Elasticsearch. Today, he leads the journey to build a multi-AZ cloud in Switzerland, using Kubernetes as the core of the IaaS to deliver high availability, security, and resilience to Hidora's customers.

Embedding Quality Process in Agile Product Delivery
Quality is said to be built in when using agile delivery approaches, thanks to early and ongoing testing without the formal techniques used in traditional approaches. In interlinked projects, however, applying dedicated quality management processes and techniques helps teams consistently deliver fit-for-purpose agile products. Implementing these techniques has defined a new direction in multiple agile projects. In this session, you will learn how to define quality process techniques within an agile framework, and how to apply them across multiple projects, including scrum-of-scrum setups.

Geetanjali Bhat
Process Solution Specialist
Geetanjali is a dedicated quality specialist focused on quality process implementation across agile environments. She is a certified Project Manager (PMP) and Scrum Master (CSM) with strong expertise in QA management using Agile and SDLC methodologies across domains such as CRM, life sciences, and web applications. She has successfully scaled Scrum into multiple agile teams as a Scrum of Scrum Master. Having worked for product companies like Dell and Microsoft, she has led teams delivering quality software and regularly speaks at conferences on bridging quality challenges in agile project implementations.

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Catering Sponsor: DevOpsDays Zürich https://www.devopsdays.ch/
• Location Sponsor: Digicomp https://www.digicomp.ch/

* contact us min. 3 days prior to the event if you prefer a vegan option.

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