( DEFINITELY ) Not Another Agile Conference

We never expected it to go so well. We REALLY didn't expect to be doing it again. But here we are.

Your feedback has been taken on board, and we are delighted to tell you that the (Definitely) Not Another Agile Conference will take place on 22nd April 2027 at Chester Zoo.

Yes, you read that correctly. We are holding the conference in a zoo. But expect the same laid back, attendee focused vibe you were part of last time.

We are busy working on the agenda and will be updating you regularly.

But yes, there is free parking.

The Agenda So Far:
0900 - Arrival, coffee, networking

0930 - Introduction and welcome

0945 - Paul “The Warrior Walker” Harris, The First Person to Walk Around the Entire UK... Twice!

1030 - Break & Changeover

1045 - Group Sessions Round One - These sessions will be repeated in the afternoon

Rachelle Williams 

Workshop Title: AI Built the Slides. Now Design the Human Experience.

Outline: AI can build a slide deck fast. What it can’t do is read the room. In this hands-on session, every group starts with the same AI-generated deck. Your job is to make it human. Using a set of facilitation cards built on Training from the Back of the Room’s six learning principles, 4Cs framework and facilitation tools, you’ll map the slides into a design that turns passive content into something people actually remember. Same slides. Completely different experiences.

Sathpal Singh

Talk Title: Turning anxiety into confidence - How agile leaders cultivate confidence in their teams

Outline: In today’s fast-paced, AI-driven world, teams face mounting pressures, rising expectations, and a growing sense of anxiety. We hear it all the time! But it doesn’t have to feel that way. Agile leadership offers a path to confidence by tuning into emotional signals, reframing stress, and reigniting team energy. This talk explores the confidence gap and how agile leaders can close it through real-world strategies rooted in agile values. We’ll unpack key competencies like psychological safety, adaptive leadership, and emotional intelligence - revealing how these unlock the superpower of turning anxiety into confidence. Whether you're leading a team or supporting one, discover how to cultivate a culture where people feel safe, empowered, and can truly thrive.

Carla Jarrett 

Talk Title: Shipping More, Solving Less

Outline: Growth can mask a multitude of sins. In this talk, Carla shares an honest account of how a scaling B2B SaaS product built a feature factory not through negligence, but through doing a lot of things right. A sales-led culture firing on all cylinders, a delivery team that kept getting faster, and a "roadmap" that satisfied the stakeholders. The product was growing. It was also quietly drifting. She'll walk through how speed and efficiency became the enemy of good product thinking, why the big shiny hero features kept winning the argument, and what actually turned it around. Expect candid storytelling, hard-won opinions, and something genuinely useful to take back to your team.

Tony Richards 

Workshop Title: Immunity to Change 

Workshop Outline: We all have improvements we genuinely want to make, whether that’s improving collaboration, embracing Agile, giving better feedback, or changing the way we lead. Yet despite our best intentions, many of those changes never stick. In this interactive session, Tony introduces Immunity to Change, a powerful framework developed by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey that helps uncover the hidden assumptions and competing commitments that quietly keep us doing exactly what we’ve always done. Through practical examples and guided reflection, you’ll learn why logic and motivation alone are rarely enough to create lasting change, and leave with a simple approach you can use with yourself, your teams, and the people you support.

1145 - Lunch ( Explore the zoo )

1300 - TBC - Still working on this one

1345 - Break & Changeover

1350 - Group Sessions Round Two

1450 - Break

1500 - James Enock - 

Title - TBC 

Outline: Every new tool or framework comes with the promise of better performance, and it often doesn’t deliver, because performance comes from the system these things land in. This talk looks at what really drives performance in an organisation, why Alligators are the latest test of that, and why experienced coaches are well placed to help.

1545 - Feedback and close

1600 - Final networking

1700 - Zoo closes