
Discover the emergent practices with Industry Practitioners
This year’s Scaling Agile India (SCAIN) is going virtual!
As the Great Confucius said: “By three methods we may learn wisdom; by reflection which is noblest; by imitation which is easiest and by experience which is the bitterest.” Building on the former philosophy, the objective of our conference is to learn from each other by sharing the experience and knowledge. SCAIN 2020 will introduce two tracks; Business Agility and Emotion Agility.
This conference will be hosted by Gladwell Academy’s Agile Coach, SPCT and founder of SCAIN, Anand Murthy Raj. Expect an exciting event to catch-up and share best practices with your peers!
Virtual Experience
SCAIN 2020 will be hosted via a fully interactive virtual event platform that gives you the opportunity to attend from your home while professionally engaged with speakers and fellow attendees.
Gladwell Academy will transport you to the event using the latest in communication technology to simulate the in-person event experience. SCAIN 2020 will feature interactive polls, live Q&A’s, multiple breakout rooms, to deliver the same learning experience virtually.
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Program Dec 12 2020
Time - From | Time - To | Item | Speaker | Company | Icon or Button |
12:00 PM IST | 12:30 PM IST | Virtual Event Platform open: Register online and visit the Chatrooms | |||
12:30 PM IST | 12: 40 PM IST | Live Opening and Welcome | Anand Murthy Raj | Gladwell Academy | |
12:40 PM IST | 1:10 PM IST | Opening Keynote: Agile and Design Thinking: The Parallels and Verticals | Dr. Pavan Soni | Inflexion Point Consulting |
Time - From | Time - To | Speaker (Emotional Agility) | Subject | Company | Icon or Button |
1:10 PM IST | 1:45 PM IST | Elsy Thomas | Demystifying Emotional Agility | Hewlett-Packard | |
1:45 PM IST | 2:00 PM IST | Virtual Coffee Break Round Table session | Dealing with Emotional stress | Anand Murthy Raj | |
2:00 PM IST | 2:30 PM IST | Gaurang Vora | Leadership - Fulcrum above and beyond | LRN | |
2:30 PM IST | 3:00 PM IST | Anand Murthy Raj | Dealing with emotional voids in transformations | Gladwell Academy | |
3:00 PM IST | 3:30 PM IST | Sander Bosma | Five perfect ways to fail SAFe | The Future Group | |
3:30 PM IST | 4:00 PM IST | Virtual Coffee Break Round Table Session | Adopt an Agile approach by Videoscribe | Laurens Bonnema | |
4:00 PM IST | 4:30 PM IST | Ali Hajou | Agile Hippies will make Agile Hype | Blinklane Consulting | |
4:30 PM IST | 5:00 PM IST | Tamara Nation | Dealing with inner emotions during a SAFe transformation | Scaled Agile Inc |
Time - From | Time - To | Speaker (Business agility) | Subject | Company | Icon or Button |
1:10 PM IST | 1:45 PM IST | Sanjay Saini | Business Agility is a Myth | Agile Ways Of Working | |
1:45 PM IST | 2:00 PM IST | Virtual Coffee Break, Round Table Session | Dealing with Emotional Stress | Anand Murthy Raj | |
2:00 PM IST | 2:30 PM IST | Suraj Pujari | Bard of Rewards: Team driven rewards and recognitions | Tavisca | |
2:30 PM IST | 3:00 PM IST | Roel de Ponti | Jumping The Enterprice Agile Gap | Agility Masters | |
3:00 PM IST | 3:30 PM IST | Anuj Malik | Innovation as a Culture - Democratizing Innovation | Publicis Sapient | |
3:30 PM IST | 4:00 PM IST | Virtual Coffee Break Round Table Session | Adopt an Agile approach by Videoscribe | Laurens Bonnema | |
4:00 PM IST | 4:30 PM IST | Boris de Jong | Transformations as storytelling | Gladwell Academy | |
4:30 PM IST | 5:00 PM IST | Eelco Rustenburg | Business agility is an engineers job | Blinklane Consulting |
Time - From | Time - To | Item | Speaker | Company | Icon or Button |
5:00 PM IST | 5:30 PM IST | Closing Keynote | Tathagat Varma | Walmart Labs India | |
5:30 PM IST | 5:45 PM IST | Winner SCAIN Agilist of the year 2020 quiz | |||
5:45 PM IST | 6:00 PM IST | Thanks and Closure Note | Anand Murthy Raj | Gladwell Academy |
Speakers
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Chairman Anand Murthy Raj

SAFe Program Consultants Trainer (SPCT)
Subject
Dealing with emotional voids in transformations
What to expect
Here is what the attendees can expect from my talk
12:40 PM - 1:10 PM
dr. Pavan Soni

Innovation Evangelist and Founder, Inflexion Point Consulting
Subject
Agile and Design Thinking: The Parallels and Verticals
What to expect
- How Agile and Design Thinking overlaps
- Borrowing from best of the two to address problems elegantly
- Designing your Agile approach to be more effective
1:15 PM - 1:50 PM
Elsy Thomas

Leadership and professional skills Trainer
Subject
Demystifying Emotional Agility
What to expect
Description of the topic – World is changing faster than we anticipated and to keep up with this overwhelming change and to navigate life’s twists and turns with self-acceptance, clear-sightedness, and an open mind both at work and life requires special skill called Emotional Agility , the vehicle that helps you make the important journey between being best to Excellent and thrive in this fast changing environment and convert situations in to opportunities . Come join us in Demystifying Emotional Agility .
Time slot
Sanjay Saini

Leadership, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Professional Trainer
Subject
Business Agility is a Myth
What to expect
The talk is focused about the current state of business agility and the radical shift required in thinking and execution for getting the true benefits of business agility.
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Gaurang Vora

Top 15 Global PMO Influencer | Sr. Information Technology Professional
Subject
Leadership – Fulcrum above and beyond
What to expect
We all would be aware about Leadership but how a Leader has to be in current VUCA world is something which we will embark upon. Leadership is like Love – Mother n Son, Father n Daughter, Brother n sister and the love of leader with his team, which is an evolving journey. In the current world where knowledge is abandonedly available the Leader has to have idiosyncratic characteristic to drive the vision. Leadership that impacts is about knowing one’s strength, is about earning respect, loyality and commitment from the team, is about decisive decision making, vision, communication and above all lead with a spirit of humility. Leadership is not a easy task but those who have led in some form or other know how difficult is it to leave an engrave and reverberations that is positive and inspiring.
2:00 PM -2:30 PM
Suraj Pujari

Iteration Manager
Subject
Bard of Rewards: Team driven rewards and recognitions
What to expect
Is it possible to recognize top performers and boost team performance at the same time?
Recognizing a single team member seems to have a positive and contagious effect on all the other members in the team.
In Agile world we talk about empowering team and navigate them to become self-organized. Then why stick to management driven awards which will dilute over a period of time.
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Is it possible to recognize top performers and boost team performance at the same time?
Recognizing a single team member seems to have a positive and contagious effect on all the other members in the team.
In Agile world we talk about empowering team and navigate them to become self-organized. Then why stick to management driven awards which will dilute over a period of time.
To overcome this, every team needs to form some better practices for implementing recognition fairly and effectively. High performing organizations should follow a bottom-up approach to appreciate that the special individual contribution and award should be given by the team to the deserving team members. Organizations should become innovative, and innovation requires teamwork for the progress of fresh solutions. Team-based incentives create, as well as emphasize, the demand for collaboration across the team. Team-based reward system is more benefited where the organization has a more individualistic culture. The team-based reward will function better when the task interdependence is immense.
Takeaways:
Transparency: R & R program become more transparent Collaboration: Team feel privileged to collaborate
Trust: as the program is transparent Trust can be easily built. Innovation: Team can come up with ideas outside the technology.
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Roel de Ponti

Agile Enterprice Coach // SAFe Program Consultant
Subject
Jumping The Enterprice Agile Gap
What to expect
Here is what the attendees can expect from my talk
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sander Bosma

Agile Coach and Trainer
Subject
Five perfect ways to fail SAFe
What to expect
During my career as an Agile Coach and SAFe Program Consultant I have seen my share of misinterpretations of the Scaled Agile Framework, failed implementations, misused practices and believe it or not made some stupid mistakes myself along the way. In this talk I want to share five of these failures as a learning opportunity for all of you. Don’t expect any fancy solutions or well- thought-out strategies just plain simple experiences that will make you laugh and that you’ll remember to avoid in your own scaling journey.
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Anuj Malik

Servant Leader, Passionate SPC and Change Agent for DBT & Business Agility
Subject
Innovation as a Culture – Democratizing Innovation
What to expect
The talk on innovation as a culture will be rooted in busting the myths around innovation labs, sacred spaces for innovation are not the way teams will be able to innovate. Democratizing innovation is a way that I have spoken to team about and also created the environment for it to grow naturally within the teams.
The talk on innovation as a culture will be rooted in busting the myths around innovation labs, sacred spaces for innovation are not the way teams will be able to innovate. Democratizing innovation is a way that I have spoken to team about and also created the environment for it to grow naturally within the teams.
Innovation for so long has been considered to be the privilege of few who get the access to the ‘Innovation Lab’. This construct breaks down the aspect of freedom to innovate at scale. I believe that people align on the need for innovation only if they align on the ‘why’ of the client needs. Allowing teams to shape up a vision of tomorrow directly with the clients – without any bureaucracy. I will share a real life example on how a team changed the actions first and then behaviors in this regard.
This kind of culture is like a tidal wave , where each of the doer’s have now become thinkers. They become one of the customers using the solution and experiment with emerging technologies. Desire to change and experiment is something that connects the teams together. My endeavor is to provide an environment (a liquid network) where such a culture is enhanced, slow hunches are connected and brilliant ideas spawn up. This is not a day in life event (Hackathon), but rather a journey each one traverses over time and form a part of the team culture.
Key takeaways from the talk
1. Actions will precede the behavior change – in democratizing innovation
2. Structure and/or scaffolding is needed to support the change in initial days
3. the network effects will soon take over and the innovation engine will be unstoppable 4. this will be the true differentiator for the organization (not cost, margins)
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3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Ali Hajou

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Subject
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4:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Boris de Jong

Storyteller, Trainer
Subject
Transformations as storytelling
What to expect
“Agile transformations are stories we need to keep telling ourselves.”
The Agile transformation usually launches from a burning platform: a clear and present
danger to escape from. Time to market frustrates; competitors nip at the heels,
customers complain; workloads bring colleagues to despair.
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“Agile transformations are stories we need to keep telling ourselves.”
The Agile transformation usually launches from a burning platform: a clear and present
danger to escape from. Time to market frustrates; competitors nip at the heels,
customers complain; workloads bring colleagues to despair.
Five years into the journey however, with the low-hanging fruit more or less harvested, people
tend to forget what it was that brought them to seek the change.
Losing sight of the why, new frustrations brought on imperfections in the new ways of
working may lead to change fatigue and even a desire to return to the bad old
ways. How do you ‘keep the nightmare fresh’ to keep the dream alive?
In this workshop by master storyteller Boris de Jong, you’ll become familiar with basic
principles of modern-day storytelling to keep the fires of change burning
bright.
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Eelco Rustenburg

SAFe Program Consultants Trainer (SPCT)
Subject
Business agility is an engineers job
What to expect
Business agility is an engineers job
4:50 PM - 5:20 PM
Tathagat Varma

Head, Technology Strategy & Business Operations, and Chief of Staff
Subject
Closing Keynote
What to expect
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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Tamara Nation

Director of Product Management
Subject
Dealing with inner emotions during a SAFe transformation
What to expect
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Previous year Scaling Agile India 2019
Have a look at the list of attending companies at previous Scaling Agile India edition
American Express |
Agilitymasters |
AgileNCR |
Ascena Retail |
Abbvie |
Altimetrik |
AgileVirgin |
Bank of America |
BlinkLane Consulting |
Bosch Software Innovations |
CGI |
Capgemini |
Dell Emc |
DXC technology |
Ericsson |
Epicagility |
Fusion Hiring |
General Electric |
HCL technologies |
Infosys |
Izenbridge |
Leading Partners |
Legato health technologies |
Nissan |
Philips |
Realpage Inc. |
Siemens |
Servicenow |
Synechron Technologies |
Verizon India |
Virtusa |
ZohoSprints |