5 Steps to Adopting an Agile Product Mindset

A technology veteran with over two decades international experience at the intersection of business and technology innovation in both customer- and vendor-sided roles, including Product Management & Marketing, Innovation, Digital Transformation, Pre-Sales, User Experience, Consulting and Partnerships. At Brillio Tom is leading the Product Development ("PDO") Practice in the region and driving practice strategy globally. Prior to Brillio Tom had joined Salesforce as VP wherein he helped establish and build the high-growth AppExchange SaaS ecosystem in EMEA & APAC. Early in career, Tom helped launch some of the UK's first Internet and mobile banking services. Passionate about diversity in technology, Tom invests his time both in championing the EMEA/APAC tech industry and working with young/disadvantaged people to help them gain digital skills.

Paul has worked with  some of the world’s best known brands; Vodafone, BP, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Centrica, Liberty Global, Shell, Barclays Capital and Cazenove.  With over 20 years experience and over 10 years in Cloud, DevOps and Agile, Paul is now delivering the next generation of eCommerce application for the world’s largest threads manufacturer. Paul is an expert in digital transformation strategy, building new Agile / DevOps culture and creating self-organising / high trust product teams that have enabled complex, global Enterprises like Vodafone and BP deliver successful Digital Transformations.  In his talk he will share some insights from this experience and lessons learned along the way. He will also explain why adopting a Value based approach and making work visible in his opinion are the key considerations when setting out to be successful in Digital Transformation.

Deepak is a senior product manager leading Connect, the partnerships product at GoCardless. Prior to that, he was the head of product at a student engagement and analytics platform, BlikBook. BlikBook was acquired by Civitas Learning based in Austin, TX. Post acquisition, he helped bring Civitas products to the UK market. Early in his career, he worked for multiple years as an engineer in data storage systems.  He holds and MBA from London Business School and has a bachelors and masters in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani, India.

Chander Damodaran, Chief Blockchain Architect is a problem solver, evangelist focused on bringing in the right mix of business and technical competency to solve large business problems. He thrives in fuzziness and love in defining the blueprint for digital transformation with clear outcomes and elevated experience for customers. He has been at the helm of innovation and have a stronghold on the domain of Cloud computing, blockchain and apis.