GOTO Amsterdam (June 17-19, 2015) is a vendor independent international software development conference with more that 50 top speakers and 500 attendees. The conference covers topics such as AngularJS, Disruption, Docker, Drones, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Microservices & Scrum.

Presentation: "Changing the World"

Track: Scrum / Time: Thursday 13:20 - 14:10 / Location: Graanbeurszaal

Agile practices have fundamentally changed the way products are created and business is done across the planet. NASA, SpaceX, John Deere, Tesla, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, banks, manufacturers, defense, pharmaceuticals, the list goes on. There is almost no industry untouched by this new way of working.

The most important role that Scrum might play though, is not in the workplace, it is in the world. In this talk JJ Sutherland, Chief Content Officer of Scrum Inc. and co-author of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, will share examples of where Scrum is having some of its greatest impacts: the Arab Spring, educating our children, fighting poverty in rural Africa, and changing the social contract on how we govern ourselves.

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JJ Sutherland, Chief Content Officer of Scrum Inc.

JJ Sutherland

Biography: JJ Sutherland

JJ is the Chief Content Officer of Scrum Inc. and the co-author, with Jeff Sutherland, of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. He helms Scrum Inc.'s mission driven content practice through books, papers, articles, and online. His work, through content, consulting, training, and public appearances, is to spread Agile knowledge and practice.

For much of the last fifteen years JJ spent most of his time covering wars, natural disasters, and revolutions for National Public Radio across the planet.. He ran NPR's coverage of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Libya, was Baghdad Bureau Chief from 2004-2011, reported from Afghanistan and Lebanon, and served as Pentagon Correspondent. When not in war zones, JJ reported directly to senior management as a trouble shooter. He founded NPR's West Coast HQ, started three new news magazines, ran the online newsroom, produced every show at the network, and brought NPR into the social media age as NPR's first blogger.. His work has been recognized with multiple Overseas Press Club, Peabody, DuPont, and Edward R. Murrow awards.

Twitter: @jjsutherland