As the CIO he works to create a culture of creativity, curiosity and humility for the 70+ team members. As a Software Delivery Consultant, he works with companies ranging in size from startups to Fortune 100 businesses to transform their digital services from a cost center to a competitive advantage. Tim remains active in the Iowa technology community. He co-founded Agile Iowa in 2004 and has served as an organizer for the dsmAgile conference since 2014. In 2018, he co-founded DevOpsDays Des Moines and is honored to be serving as its President.

Working in the Omaha area as a Software Engineer and Product Owner, he is an experienced Agile software developer. Scott is a Co-Organizer of the Agile for Defense group in Bellevue, NE, and an advocate for Agile practices. Scott works as the Chief Product Owner for the Global Adaptive Planning project at USSTRATCOM, and is a ScrumAlliance Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM and CSP-PO), as well as a PMI-Agile Certified Professional. Scott has a MS in Computer Science from University of Nebraska, Omaha, and a BS in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

As an agile coach with Improving in Dallas, Allison enjoys enabling others to become trusted leaders for change in their organization. In her experience, applying agile methods improves delivery, strengthens relationships, and builds trust between business and IT. Allison is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, a foodie, and proud glasses wearer.

Located in Omaha, Nebraska, she has 12 years experience as a Java engineer with a focus on APIs, testing, and micro-services (before they were cool). Then to change it up, she took the plunge into Ruby in 2018. In her spare time she is an avid reader, huge Rush fan, and is attempting to work through the primary Ashtanga yoga series.

She has more than fifteen years of experience in the IT industry. Zuzi started with agile and Scrum back in 2005, when she was implementing agile methods in the USA. From that time, she has been credited with agile transformation and implementation for many companies and teams around the world. By creating and sustaining agile leadership, Zuzi believes the worlds of work and life can be made happier and more successful. Zuzi is a founder of the Czech Agile Association and the world famous AgilePrague conference. Zuzi was elected to the Scrum Alliance Board of Directors in 2017. She is an author of The Great Scrum Master: #ScrumMasterWay book.

Together with the Chief Product Owner and the exceptional staff, Melissa seeks to fulfill the Scrum Alliance's vision of transforming the world of work. Since 2001, Melissa has embraced experiences in leadership, business, and product development. Her experience with applying, consulting, coaching, and training agile values and principles spans executive teams, software teams, marketers, and educators in domains such as healthcare, public education, e-learning, security software, government agencies, and communication technology. As a consultant and as an executive, she has consistently embodied the Scrum values, and additionally holds dear her personal values of Courage, Empathy, and Creativity. Melissa is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Certified Team Coach (CTC), Certified Agile Leader 1 (CAL1), Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP), Kanban Management Professional (KMP I), and a Project Management Professional (PMP). She holds an MBA in IT Management and a B.S. in Information Technology from Western Governors University. In addition to her experience and education, Melissa possesses a deep understanding of agile values and principles, organizational change, leadership agility, and proven expertise in enabling organizations to reach their full potential. She is a regular on the speaking circuit, sharing stories and experiences about culture, sustainable pace, and supporting organizational change. She is a member of the Agile Denver Board of Directors. Melissa lives in Denver, CO, with her husband Wendell; two children, Avery and JP; and five energetic pets. They embrace agile values and principles as a family, seeking continuous improvement of their household and relationships using Scrum.

He trains and coaches people to collaborate more effectively with other people to solve complex, meaningful problems. He draws on a diverse background in software development, engineering, anthropology, and political science. Richard is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer, as well as a certified trainer of the accelerated learning method, Training from the Back of the Room. He authored the book, Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber.

She is passionately focused on facilitating high-performance software development environments. Her leadership at all levels of an organization helped lay the groundwork to shift teams from one-year product cycles to feasible, daily delivery of quality software and services. Tricia openly shares stories from her firsthand experience to inspire people to reach new heights through continuous reflection and growth. As a principle in the Agile For All team, she is dedicated to making a difference in the workplace. She is an exceptional leader, coach, mentor, facilitator, trainer, and popular speaker at national conferences.

As a foster kid, John was motivated to learn how some empowered themselves to become victors over their circumstances while others became victims of them. As the Chief Empowerment Officer of Agile Classrooms, he is pioneering Agile in schools to empower teachers and students to thrive in 21st-century learning, life, and work. His work is not only reinvigorating education, but also in the world of business, inspiring transformation through positive change. He has helped a spectrum of organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to at-risk schools, in pivoting their culture to achieve in a fast-changing, competitive world and realize their Authentic Agility. John volunteers as a life coach for students, co-leads a Nonviolent Communication Group, a Board Member for a school system, and makes insanely delicious drinking chocolates.

He has been a Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team member and has worked with companies ranging from enterprise to small start-ups. While working with many teams across many companies Jeff has found that most problems are not technology problems, but are organizational structure, process, and people problems. Jeff brings storytelling, a broad array of experience, along with a collaborative approach to teaching and speaking.

 He is the administrator of record for the school, advises students, and acquires resources to ensure student project success.Trace has a passion for transforming education and building human-centered systems that help every learner realize their full potential. Trace founded Iowa BIG with his colleague and friend, Shawn Cornally, and two courageous and forward-thinking Board of Education members. He is the administrator of record for the school, ensures BIG staff have the room necessary to exercise their professional expertise and drive the shared Iowa BIG vision forward, and enjoys engaging and interacting with the amazing kids who honor us by choosing to be a part of the learning at BIG. Trace and his wife, Kim, live on a 5 acre “ranch” with their German Shepherd, Stella, where they aspire to become “zero carbon” and grow most of their own food. They have two grown daughters, Samie, a recruiting and office coordinator with New York Life in Hiawatha and Shelby, a senior electrical engineering major at Iowa State.

He is passionate about moving organizations and people closer to agility. His first experience with "agile", Scrum specifically, was in 2005 on a global transformation team responsible for software customizations driven by a global consolidation of accounting software. He ran into typical implementation challenges and organizational impediments. Around 2012, his passion for lean, agile, and continuous improvement grew. He left his traditional business analyst and project manager roles behind and evolved into an internal change agent kickstarting an agile transformation. Now in an advising role as an external change agent across many organizations, he promotes organizational agility and positive pressure for change.

She and her team help imagine what’s possible when development teams discover and build alongside customers and employees. She has built her career by serving teams and individuals seeking to improve on the value they deliver and how they deliver it. Prior to Best Buy, Nicole coached Target’s highest-performing digital product teams while managing a crew of coaches in their Dojo. Before tackling large corporate agility, she supported software development and product discovery in small to midsize software companies, including startups. Nicole’s favorite coaching stance is that of the facilitator, and she maintains an independent practice serving clients such as large school districts, AFWERX (the innovation wing of the Air Force), the Pella Corporation, and ACT, among others. She is a practicing permaculturist and makes her home in Minneapolis, MN.

He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Iowa. Starting his career as a teacher in a rural Iowa school, he realized the need for change and began initiating unique practices. As a lifelong learner, Will has spread his innovation at conferences, workshops, and the National AP Conference. His passion for education reform guided him to administration where he now aims for systemic reform. Presently, Will develops personalized structures and programs through collaboration for the betterment of the student experience. In the No Boundaries program, an innovative learning experience for high schoolers, AGILE is an integral part of the learning process and is the mindset utilized and taught to each and every learner in the program.

This year she is co-facilitating a new student-centered, passion- and project-based venture called No Boundaries based on Iowa BIG in Cedar Rapids. This progressive model is in collaboration with two other northwest Iowa school districts and students manage projects using Modern Agile strategies. Prior to entering the classroom, Ayn worked for 9 years in the business fields of manufacturing and corporate training.

He helps organizations improve their product delivery, addressing practices from product discovery through DevOps. For the last few years he has helped multiple organizations create dojos and has lead project-to-product organizational model transformations, often combining the two. A long-time proponent of agile methods, he was first exposed to the values, principles, and practices that were eventually codified into the Extreme Programming methodology as a Smalltalk developer in the late 1990s. He’s been learning better ways of building digital products and helping organizations improve their product delivery ever since. He recently co-authored the book"Creating Your Dojo: Upskill Your Organization for Digital Evolution". The book guides organizations in how to become learning organizations through the use of immersive learning centers called dojos. He enjoys working in situations where he is able to combine his interests in learning models, organizational change, and product development. Outside of work, Dion enjoys playing and recording music, meditation, and tai chi. For more information, visit dojoandco.com.